Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1896-03-05

Neal for circuit judge.
The Massachusetts democrats will
hold their convention to elect dele
gates to the national convention at
! Chicago in Boston April n.
The RcY. Dwight Br I'd, y. D.. Of
Detroit, Mich has been "a ed to the
pastorate of the First Cong cgatiOnal
church of Crcston, Iowa.
! At Livingston, Mont, during
drunken brawI John Burns ruck Dan
lei O'ConncIl on Me head with the
fat of an ax and killed him.
/ Marinette was shaken for the second
time this winter, The effect Is like an
earthquake 1t is thought the expansion
of Green Bay ice explains it.
John Waldron, an actor 43 years old
known in dramatic circles as paul
Allen" died ut Bellevue hospital, New
York, in the alcohol ward.
The president has refused to pardon
Louis Redwinc, who was sentenced in
Georgia to six years imprisonment fer
embc2zling national bank funds.
At Elk River, Mimi, a satchcl con-
tanning n new born babe was found
on the platform Of the Northern Pa
rnc depot. The babe was dead
At Mount Pleasant, Iowa, politics In
the municipal campaign has been lost
sight Of, the fight being over whether
the city shall buy the gas works.
Resolutions were adopted favOrng
arbit ration between the United States
and Great Britain at general re-
igous meeting Of Yale university.
Mrs. II. Brown Cullen, Of Columbus,
WIS, has commenced divorce proceed
ings against her husband, Thomas NJ.
Cullen, charging lnhuman treatment.
William Walters surrendered himself
to Sheriff Burr ut Los Angeles Cal,
saying he killed Paul Maddox in Tus-
caloosa county, Alabama, in April, 1890.
Three masked robbers entered the
Market street bank in San Francisco,
drove the cashier and bookkcepcr into
u vauIt and escaped with $500 in coin.
In Nashville, Il. II. Campbell, OK
clerk of the United States court was
shot and killed by his son, Robert.
Young Campbell was mentally un-
sound.
Private Iams, who was drummcd out
Of camp at Homestead in 1892 for
cheering when ". G. Frick was shot,
was probably fatally wounded in Bal
timorc.
The two bodies seized by the Des
Moines, Iowa police while they were
being taken to the Medical college,
were stolen from graves in an Omaha
cemetery.
lIanford Wcinor Edison, instructor of
rhetoric and clocutlon Mt Williams col
legc, has become insane lie Is the son
of Rev Ianford A. Edison of Indiana
polls.
Berthe Spencer, eleven years old,
confessos to having set several of the
inccndiary fires which have kept the
Cambridge. Mass, tlrcmcn busy the
past month.
Mrs. James Toner, wife Of the editor
of the Kaukauna Sun, died at St
Mary's hospital in Oshkosh as the re-
suit of an operation Burial will occur
at ManitOwoC.
George Maxwell John Xerby and
Samuel Maxwell, employed ut the
works Of the Consumers gas company
in Wikcsbarrc, Pa, were su(rocatcd by
escaping gas,
IIlldreth, Bristol, Plato and IIb-
bard. the boys arrested for wreckng
n passenger train near Rome, N. Y,
In November, were indicted for muir
der In the first degree.
Charles II. Race, of Chicago, ex-
cashier of the burlington O[an) Ma
tional bank, is on trial at Fort Scott,
Kan, charged with cmbc2zling $4,000
of tho banks funds
The funeral of II. Crunston Potter
took place at Tacoma, Wash. The re-
mains will be shipped TO New York.
Mr.. Potter was BROTHER of James
Brown Potter of Now York,
Clarence Murphy. he teller OF the
Salem lMusa) Savings bank, pleaded
not guilty 10 an indictment cnumorat-
INK ~ counts VI tllDtEHltlltll. l Ht
total of the amount Is $l7 ,Gi5>
The superior court ut Waterbury,
Conn, Brought In n true bin for muir
der In the second degree against ED
ward A, Parsons Of Prospect who shot
Irving J. buckley last month.
Amos lIuttcrlield, IS years old. COM
mission merchant Of Chicago, and re-
putcd to be worth 100000, committed
suicide by cutting his throat. He
lived in miserable room
Indications are that the striking
wcavCrs Of the York corporation who
went out twelve days ago, throwing
l600 other operatives out of employ
mcnt will so back to work
Jacob Miller, marshal Of West Car
rollton, Ohio, has been sentenced to
one year in the pouitontiary for shoot
ing hicNClist who was riding on the
village sidewalks last summer.
Samuel ~ Davis. first vico- president
Of the Columbus, Hooking VALLEY 4 To-
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