Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1896-05-07


Standard, of Sterling, Ill.
Representative Miles, OF Maryland
has been made member OF the judi
ciary committee, vice Representative
Boatner, Cf Louisiana, unseated.
William Ordway Partridge's eques
.rian statue of General Grant was un'
relied in Brooklyn In the presence Of
a large concourse Of citizens.
Willard Avis and Robert James, or
trial at Warrensburg, Mo-, for the muir
der of Star Route Carrier James
Evans, have been acquitted.
1t Is reported that the STEAMSHIP
Howard Cassard is about to sail foi
Cuban waters with arms and ammunl'
ton in aid of the insurgents.
The work of rebuilding Cripple
Creek Colo, Is going forward rapidly
The first Of the new buildings ready fol
business was a dance hall,
The spring session Of the National
Academy OF Sciences closed in Wash.
ington. The Academy will meet IN
New York on November II.
NJ. j. Merwin has discovered strong
flow of gas from $50 foot we'll on his
farm near st. Jocph, Mich. The well
viii be driven deeper at once.
julius r. Sebastian, of Lansing
Mich, travelling salesman for the Ault-
man Harvester company, has been ar
rested on q charge OF embczzling 5000.
Goyza s. Perhacs, a Brooklyn artis',
has painted a picture representing Coz.
IL gcrsoll standing at the brink OF lla-
des looking at the torments Of the lost.
Four hundred acres OF land In the
gulf Of Georgia, state Of Washington,
have been set apart for coast defenses
and proclaimed military reservation.
Charles Price, one Of the best known
miners in the Black Hills, has been
appointed superintendent Of South
African mine at a salary of 50 900 per
year.
]. H. Stewart Of Council Bluffs, Iowa,
was stricken with paralysis while at
tending meeting Of the wholesale
groccrs at that city from which he
died.
Details are published Of the two tor
pcdo. boats being built by Ilerreshoff
for the government, which are cX-
pcotcd to make twcntysiX knots an
hour.
Tho democratic state central commit
tee OF Idaho has decided to hold the
state convention ut POcatCll0 June 16
to elect delegates to the Chicago con
vcntlon.
At Anthony, Kan, Charles Clark has
been acquitted of completely In the
murder of Charles a, ROdman. The
widow of the murdered man has been
put on trial.
The commission to treat with the
Usage Indians for the sale of their
lands has accomplished nothing. II. y.
German, nephew OF the senator, is a
member of It,
An armed mob broke into the Jail
ut McMinnvIllc, Tenn, took Victor and
William lIillos, char gcd with the muir
der of Carroll Marten, and hanged
them 10 n tree
Tho Colorado and Wyoming depart
mont of the Grand Army of the Repub-
lie adopted a resolution consuming
President Cleveland for his policy in
regard to pensions.
Edward |. Fraser, by his own con
fessIon a matrimonial swindlcr. was
In New York through the cr-
forts of his latest victim, whom he had
robbed and deserted
Samuel Miller Of Cedar Rapids.
Iowa, whose wife had commenced sui
for divorce. abducted their child from
Its mother on the street aud she has
been unable to find It,
Representatives Money, Of Mississip-
pl. and Hail Of Missouri engaged in Il
desperate fight In u capitol committee.
room, Knives were drawn, but the
men were separated.
Tho Pennsylvania republican con
vontlon declared for Senator Quay for
the presidential nomination. 4 reso-
tuition favoring Mckinley for second
choice was voted down.
The Nena2ur Ian commission has
finally decided to send II representative
to examine tho archives in the Hague.
The report of the commission will not
hc made before December l.
Rev. rmohy ]. Ice, Of Newark,
who recently accused Rev. Dr. y. Par
l,er Morgan of plagiarism, is himself
accused of plagiarism ny Rev. Dryden
W Phelps, of old Mystic. Conn.
John Robson, OF Wlnona, has in
Stituted IN action against the Mssis-
sipp River logging company TO re-
cover SlG6,0OO for breach of contract
to drive logs down the Chippewa
Mrs. Hester Stewart, of Cobleskill,
now IN the New York Tomhs ON a
charge ot larceny, Is a mystery. She
IA educated and refined and has inNu.
cntial friends nj work in her behalf
Robert Chiffon, chief Of the United
States consular bureau has gone t0
Mexico to inspect our Consulatcs there