Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1896-10-29

! court at CINCINNATI dnd was sent 10 the
Ohio penitentiary for seventeen months
and heavily fined.
! New York society Is discussing the
marriage of Miss Katherine Van Cort.
/ landt, member Of one Of the old
/ Knickerbocner families, TO John Mat
thews and English c0achman who was
employed by her father.
Rev. John w. Milan and his wife OF
Indianapolis have beer declared in
! sane. Mrs. Milam's condition Is due
to illness, and her husbands mind was
! broken down by intense study and
worry over her failing health.
According to the Now York IIeraId's
correspondent at CadiZ, Spain, If Spain
has not put down the instruction in
Cuba by March ! next 1t is the inten-
ton OF the government to give up, the
struggle and to let the island go.
The house Of j. S. Miller, farmer
living four miles north Of Linden
wash :, was destroyed by fire and six
children were burned to death. An
other child, and man named Frank
Boise were seriously burned.
In collision be,wCeE n trolley car
OF the Lehigh Traction line and loco
motive of the Delaware, Susquehanna
and Schuylkill Railroad, at IIazClton,
Pa, Jefferson Kirschner, VIM. Staple
ton and David J. Williams were killed.
David Pearl, Il mulatto, was shot
and Killed at Pondtown, Pa, by Iiar-
N, InI, IniIalI,up
Pearls companion was seriously
wounded. 1t was IA nelghborhood
row.
A large quantity of dynamite store d
in the Dayton Conl and Iron COmpany's
supplyhouse was blown into spllnters
No one was killed. The explosion was
Of incrndinry origin. Tho loss will eX-
coed $40 1000, and Othar damages in the
city are heavy.
The county workhorsr prisoners at
work near Soddy, Tenn, mutihled and
2S of them made "a rush on the guards,
who opncd fire on them with shotguns
wounding half Of the men, all negroes
seriously and queIling all except four
who made taeir escape.
When the Pacific coast steamship
Oriznba reached the mouth Of the
livcr CrIiaca. in the state Of Sinaloa,
Mexico, the little mining town Of Al
tata, which had stood there on the
OriHaba'B last trip, was gone. 1t
had been wiped out by a storm,
Az the amman meeting Of the Pull
man Car company over $27OOO,O00 OF
capital stock was represented. The
total revenue during the last year was
1924 1852 and the totai disbursements
81 50G,975, leaving II surplus for the
year, of 81 Gi7 4O7. or the diBburso-
ments, S2.S8o,OO0 was paid out In divi-
dCndR.
Tho corner stone of the soldiers
monument which Ia being erected in
the national cemetery at Knoxville
Tenn. was laid. Tho ceremony was
with martial ponp. Department
Commander IT,. H. Case of Chattaroo-
ga. oniclatcd and was assisted by Gen
cral G.. r. Thurston Of Nashville and
Captain William Rule,
Obituary At Alto, Ind, William
Harrison Finch, 7i.-At Warrington,
Ind, DR.. Il. ID. Hanna. Al Bay city,
Mich, james Shoarar, 70. At Gaena,
M, Mrs, Oswald iG Ryan of Chicago
Al Germantown, Ill. Hermann Wob-
be, 81. At Bloomington, H., Mrs.
Belle, Il. Robinson, AZ At GAINESVILLE,
Wis, Isaac Farnswortlt, 60
The Illinois \ M. G. A. state con
ventlon nj Sterling, elected these Of
hcers; Willis s. llerrich Chicago, pres
ident; lIlroy Gait Of Sterling, Profcs-
sor S. w. parr of urbana, w, $.
Hopes of Summer, vice president; A.,
G. Bridgcman, MattDon, secretary John
Il. McKinnic, Norma and NJ. y
Jones, Aurora assistant secretaries,
Tho London Daily News says: The
Vatican, although In favor of Mckin-
ley, disappUycs Of Archbishop lreland's
letter because 1t openly mikes religion
With politics, whi,n the Vatican de
sircs to keep scp1rata III the United
States. 1t IL probable that instructions
will he sent to Mig Mart.nclli concern
ing the attitude of the Catholic clergy
IllHtt MltHitl Iillhblt llHHNllul
minister of ways and communication
OF Russia, arrived in ptttsburg and
spent the day inspecting the Home
stead and Edgar Thomson steel plants
of Carnegie, the Westinghouse air
brake, electric and machine works,
aud the automatic block and intorlocll-
ing signals Of the PENNSYLVANIA Rail
road company
The International TypC graphical
Union elected these officers: President.
William b. Prescott of Toronto, Ont,
reelected; secretary treasurer. John W.
Brentwood OF DouvNr: first vice proSi-
duct Theodore Perry of Nashville,
Tenn second vilc president, George
W. Williams of Boston; third vice pres
ident. Hugo Miller of Indianapolis, re-
elected \ nine hour Dor law resolu-
ton was adopted,
The fifteenth annual convention OF
the National Funeral Directors associ-
alton came to cloSo N Boston, when
the following officers were elected,