Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1896-02-13


claimed for Professor Roentgens re-
markable method of photographing in
visible objects by means of cathode
rays.
Jack Mulckey, stage robber and
notorious cX-cCnvict, was captured in
Spokane, Wash, Mulchey and his
PARTNER, lanes ! ate, held up the stage
r'nning from Tampa to Silver City.
IDAHO, las; October, getting about
$4,000.
Otto Won Lossberry, formerly of Ger
many, having declared his intention of
becoming an American citizen, but not
yet eligible for complete citizenship,
found that he could obtain passports
to enable him to travel abroad neither
from Germany nor the United States.
! AT Superior, Wis, the La Belle
Wagon works, now in the hands of the
assignee, has declared 40 per cent
dividend to creditors, making 60 per
cent Of all claims that can be liquidated
at once. The affairs of the wagon com
pany are in a fair way to be straight
ened out some time next May.
Business men throughout the country
speak hopefully of the outlook for the
spring season. There Is a unanimous
demand that congress enact sound
financial legislation. President Cleve-
land is criticised by some for his Vene-
Zuelan message, which struck q blow
at commerce.
The urgency deficiency bill was re-
ported to the senate. 1t increases by
81 ,509,G64 the total appropriation for
deficiencies over the amount appropri-
ated by the house bill, the total being
$5,930,667.
At dance the other evening in Ku-
liu, N. d., two cowboys imbibed too
freely of fire water When wild with
drink they drew their bowie knives
and commenced to slash the assembled
party After cleaning out the crowd
the cowboys amused themselves by
making kndling wood of the organ
Richard Carp, Charles Larson and
liver Jensen, alleged thieves from St
Paul and Minneapolis, who have been
giving the Milwaukee police no end Of
trouble, have been arrested. The police
say that since their arrival in town
! two weeks ago, they have committed
some burglary every day.
There was recorded at the Pawtucket
Or. ID city hall the assignment of
lEason l.. Slocum, treasurer and general
manager of the Rhode Island time
register company, to Eugene b. Crock
er. No statement Is made. SlOcum is
known all over New England as paten-
tee of an auxiliary fire-alarm system,
! Cadet appointments to West Point
have been issued to James p. Robinson
Ottawa, Kan, Roy Campbell (alter-
nate, Hutchinson, Kan; George A.
Autenrieth, Clayton Mo-: Chester l..
Harvey (alternate) st. Louis, and Her
man w, Albery, Columbus, Ohio.
A favorable report will be made to
the house on the bill providing for a
commission to treat with the Shoshone
and hammock Indians to so modify their
treaty rights as to prevent conflict
with Montana's game laws, which pres
ont condition caused the recent dis
turbances at Jackson's' Hole.
Rhode Island authorities have dis
covered that the new law requiring all
persons performing the marriage cere-
mony to register yearly is Identical
with one enacted seventy years ago,
which has long been a dead letter. The
authorities state there has not been
legal marriage in Rhode Island for
fifty years and will apply to the legs-
lature to have the acts OF all un-
licensed clergymen made valid.
Obituary: At New York, George p.
Bliss, the banker, eighty.-At Washing
ton Lieutenant Commander Robert +.
Carmody, u. s. NJ, retired. AT Bloom
ington, ILL.,, Ransom Campbell, seventy
four-At Kalamazoo, Mich, DR.. J. NJ.
Waldron, thirty Ska Charles City,
ILL.,, S. HARDWOOD At LeXingt0 on, ILL.,.
Miss Margaret A. Stickler.
At Webster City, Iowa, Bentley and
Barheart, proprietors Of a local restau-
rant, have been arrested for selling hop
ale, temperance drink manufactured
by St Louis brewer Hop ale has
been sold in all temperance towns in
the state. and guarantee that il an
arrest was made the st. Louis brewers
would pay all the expenses of a trial.
IT, NJ. Hughes, superintendent of the
northern Iowa division OF the North
western. has gone to San Diego, Cal,
for his health In his absence, Assist
ant superintendent r. II. Ashton will
he acting superintendent and w. II.
Graves, who has been chief train dis
patchcr at Winona for many years, has
been appointed acting assistant super
tntcndcnt.
Fire at Philadelphia destroyed the
Haseltino building on Chestnut street
and the adjoining structure of the
Baptist Publication society and the
American Baptist Historical society
Routillier & Co.'S dry goods store and
the Hotel Lafayette were damaged, The
total loss 10 cStima tpI NJ So O0O OtO