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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1896-02-20
BUSINESS TROUBLES.

II. M. Smith e. Co., manufacturing
jewellers of New York, have assigned,
with preferences for $l4,4l0
Leyens Il Dillon, wholesale liquor
dealers of Dubuque, Iowa, have as
signed
Elkanah Whitman, farmer Of Clay
township, Indiana, has assigned with
liabilities of $14 900 and assets Of $4,000.
Borland a. Feldman, dry goods deal
erB at Mason CITY and Sheffield, Iowa,
have given mortgage aggregating
$40 900 to protect creditors.
Trap Brothers, proprietors Of two
department stores at Quincy, H., were
closed under chattcl mortgages. Liza
bilties about 500, 900, assets $4,000
The Bartlett Hardware company, Of
Freeport H.. has confessed another
Judgment In favor of G. O. Goldman and
d, B Schultz, OF Freeport for $4,000
Wood d Robinson, lumber dealers in
New York have assigned to Andrew NJ
lInderhill, with preferences for 50, 403
Assets and liabilities about $40, 900
each.
George G. Cartwright, hardware
dealer ut Earlville, H., has assigned,
with liabilities of S. 800 and assets of
81, 200. His shortage as clerk OF the
Modern Woodmen has been made good,
J. II. Anderson n fruit dealer Of San
jose, CAL has failed, with liabilities OF
$l2G,0eO The Chicago Fruit Transpor-
ia 10 tn l,, II
to the extent of 5000 The assets are
lands, heavily mortgagcd.
jacob Vogel & Sons, pork packers of
Cincinnati, Ohio, have made an assign
ment. Assets are $75 900, liabilities I'M
known. Tho failure was caused by the
downfall of London house to which
10 900 cases of lard had just been
shipped.
James McDougal q Co., wholesale
clothicrs In Montreal, are In financial
difficulties. Liabilities $78, 600. cstimat-
ed assets $45 500 The assets include
book debts Of $35 900 of which $4,000
In estimated as worthless.
a receiver has been appointed for tho
Baltimore Condensed Milk company
and the York Canning company, of
York, Pa, mt the instance of the Fort
Stnnwix National bank, of New York.
The liabilities are $l02 900; assets, $40,
900,
The South Australian railways, 1t Is
said, have perfected system Of sup
plying current for lighting their cars
by means of n dynamo run from the
car axle, In the day time this dynamo
stores up energy In accumulation cells,
to make the light which Is used in tho
train, at night The arrangement n
said to work satisfactorily
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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1896-02-20

MIX may be steriIized. says the
Scientific American by passing through
1t an alternating electric current,
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1896-02-20

The crew numbered twelve men and
all were to occupy the cabin, which
measured only thirteen feet square.
The suits provided for the crew could
not be penetrated by water.
1t was Nansen's plan to get into the
slow northern current which is known
to flow off the Siberian coast. With
and food and fuel enough to support
life he thought the current would sure
ly carry him into the immediate vicin-
ity of the pole within three or four
years.
Dr. Fridtjof hansen is distin-
guished scientist of Norway and an en-
thusiastiC believer in the possibility of
reaching the north pole. He is about
80 years of age. He entered the Uni
versity of Christiania in 1880 and two
years later went on a sealing trip to
Denmark straits on the east coast of
Greenland in the Viking Later, IN
1882, Nansen was appointed curator of
the museum at Bergen, which position
hc retained until 1000, MHSH he leu u
small expedition of six men to Green
land crossing the southern part OF that
portion of the globe. 1t was probably
during this trip that Nansen conceived
the plan OF making an effort to reach
the north pole in a vessel constructed
specially for such an undertaking. In
any case, after his return to Norway
Nansen took the preliminary steps to-
wards fitting out his expedition and
the Fran was planned and constructed.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1896-02-20

be perpetual, and 1t is reported that
Baron Cromer, the British consul gen
eral in Egypt, will replace him.
II is stated that the blue book on
Venezuela, shortly to be issued, is ar
ranged In two divisions The first Is
reported to be a narrative and sum
mary to the British case, and the sec
ond is described as being the full evil
dence upon which the British claims
rest.
Considerable comment has been
caused by the appointment OF Ii Hung
Chang to represent China at the
cars coronation, especially as 1t Is
connected, by rumor at least, with the
reported Russo China alliance.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1896-02-20

London, Feb. 14.-Last April the
Paris Figaro circulated a rumor that
Nansen had found the north pole; that
1t is situated on a chain of mountains
and that he planted the Norwegian flag
there The story was then generally
discredited. Last September advices
were received here from Danish trad
ing station on the east coast of Green
land that a ship, supposed to be Dr.
Nansen's, was sighted at The end of
July fast in the ice. December 9Th
last Il dispatch from Christiana, Nor
way, stated that Nansens wife had re-
ceiVed letter by carrier pigeon, re-
porting the expedition as doing well.
AS Nansen took no carrier pigeon that
report was evidently incorrect Last
August Nansen sent a dispatch from
Varde, reporting that he was about to
sail into Kara sea. Last March re-
port from Hammerfest, Norway, was
received, dated February a. saying
that balloon had been seen moving in
Il southerly direction in the neighb1r-
hood Of Langfejord and it was thought
that it was possible that it was carry
ing dispatches from hansen.
1t is pointed out here in we'll i'll
formed circles that ii he news of DR..
Nansen's return turns out to be cor
rect it indicates that the explorer has
made his way back 10 New Siberia
from the Arctic regions and is there
awaiting favorable conditions before
commencing the homeward journey.
kouchnarcf, the man mentioned in
the dispatch from lrkutsk, Siberia, as
the agent of Nansen who received the
information that the explorer had
found the pole and is returning, is Dr.
Nansen's dog supplier He resides
near the mouth of the Lena river.
People in that locality pay frequent
visits to New Siberia and may in this
manner have brought the news to
kouchnaref.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1896-02-20
FICTION STRANGER THAN TRUTH

Thtle Is now living at Plymouth an
old man, named William Lawson, who
has had Il remarkable career Mention
is made of the fact that he is the father
of the Captain Lawson who wrote a
vClN successful book, some years ago
published Ivy Chapman & Hall, entitled
"Wanderings in New Guinea" This
book had remarkable history.
II was really a skit on Stanleys
Travels in Africa" the secondary idea
of the author being that it would serve
as an interesting book of adventure for
boys. There was hardly a spot in the
civilized world from which Captain
Lawson did not receive congratulations
upon his work, People took it quite
seriously. Among others Professor
Goldsmith OF Berlin wrote for extracts.
DR.. Ferrara. who accompanied the
Prince of Wales in India. asked to be
allawCd to use an extract from 1t, con-
tanning an account of a tiger fight for
publication in one of his own books.
Sir John Lubbock, who was at the head
of the Royal society at the time, wrote
to him and asked him to go to London
and give lecture on his travels. None
of these eminent people was aware
that what Captain Lawson had written
was, in fact, n very fine work of fic-
ton, and that he knew no more from
personal experience about New Guinea
than they did themselves. Western
Weekly Mirror.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1896-02-20

Washington, Feb. Is. The agricul-
tural appropriation bin occupied the
attention of the house. A great deal of
criticism Of Secretary Morton was in
dulgcd in both sides of the political
aisle, but as on Saturday no one arose
to his defense, AT last Mr.. Pearson
Tep., ~ ca asked If there was no mem
Der, democrat, populist or republican,
who would raise his voice in defense.
HIS question was greeted with Il chorus
of aces" from all sides of the house.
The omission in the bill of provision
for chief clerk of the bureau of ami
mal industry at salary OF $1,000,
which woo made upon the Secrctary's
situation that the secretary
wanted to legislate out Of Office
p. IT, l4yRle IA free silver democrat
from Missouri, the present incumbent,
who was appointed on the recommen-
dation Of the Missouri renators, and
1t was intimated that Secretary Nor
tons action was an attempt to retail
ate upon Vest for the latter's attack
on him in the senate two weeks ago
The amendment pending when the
house adjourned was the one making
mandatory the execution of the provi-
sion In the bill for the distribution of
seed 1t is understood that Mr.. Couz-
ms rep, Iowa., will today offer an
amendment directing the secretary of
the treasury to withhold the payment
of Secretary Mortons salary until this
provision is executed. An amendment
appropriating $42,3G0 for new edi-
ton of the horse book" was adopted
Before the bill was taken up the sen
ate amendments to the urgent de-
ilciency bill We're non-concurred in
Mr. Dnl2ell, from the committee on
ways and means, reported a resolution
of inquiry, calling on the secretary of
the treasury for an exhaustive report
relative to the sale of bonds under the
resumption net between the two Pc
RODS between 1879 and March |, 1898
and between the latter date and Janu-
airy |, 1896, Mr.. Washington offered
an amendment, calling upon the sccre-
tary for detailed information as to the
manner in which bonds had been sold
between 1873 and 1893. After n de-
bate Washington's amendment was de-
fcatod and the resolution adopted.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1896-02-20

The tendency in the stock market is
downward
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1896-02-20
GUARANTY OF PEACE
POWER A BETTER PROTECTION
THAN PRAYER
GORDONS PATRIOTIC POINT
Morton Continues to Catch Fits-The
Whole Lower House Against Him
Not Voice Raised in His Defense
--Ddlzel Demands Information
About Bond Sales.

Washington, Feb. 18.In the senate
the military academy appropriation bill
was taken up. Mr.. Villas dem, Wis.,
offered an amendment increasing the
Lumber of cadet appointments by two
at large from each state, an aggregate
OF ninety. This was supported by
Messrs. Villas, Hawley, Elkins and
Proctor. Mr. Gordon dem, Ga) spoke
eloquently of the need OF citizen sol
diery," and in this connection urged
that the recent rumbles of war should
warn the country TO be ready. The
people are hoping and praying for
peace between this country and Great
Britain, but this will be more effective,
he said, if it was backed by power.
The amendment was not disposed of.
Mr. Davis rep, Minn.) spoke in support
of his resolution enunciating the pol
icy of the United States on the Mon
roe doctrine.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1896-02-20

DR.. hansen started out to reach the
north pole. His expedition was prob
ably the best equipped for that purpose
that ever sailed. His ship, the Fran,
was built for the purpose. Her sides
were thirty inches thick, solid mass
of pitch pine, oak and gre enheart, ce-
mented together by pitch. She was
cross beamed and staunched every
where so that she was supposed to be
absolutely invulnerable TO outside
pressure, She was l2S feet long and OF
GOO tons displacement. Her breadth
was unusual, one-third her length. Her
sides sloped gradually round from the
bulwarks to the keel. BY this round
ed build it was calculated the pressure
of the foes would lift her up on the
ice instead of crushing her. SO
rounded was her bottom that her keel
was imbedded in the ship herself, thus
leaving no projection for the ice to nip.
BY an ingenious device, her rudder and
screw could be raised into a kind of
inverted wen and protected from the
ice. She carried 500 tons OF coal for
the engines, but it was the intention to
use steam only in emergencies and de-
pend generally on sail power.
Petroleum stoves We're taken for
heating and cooking with nine years
supply of petroleum and six years
supply of food. The foods over sixty
tons were compressed-the milk veg
etables and soups powdered and the
butter condensed in tins. Cocoa was
carried in much larger quantity than
coffe OF tea
In the equipment was small bal
loon made of raw silk The balloon
was to be filled with hydrogen, kept
compressed i'll steel storage cylinders,
and intended to be used on clear days
in searching for game, and, maybe, for
the pole.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1896-02-20
FOREIGN POLITICS
EVENTFUL EPOCH IN OLD WORLD
DIPLOMACY.
GERMANS GLARE AT J. BULL

Reichstag and People Solid for the
Maintenance OF the Statu QUO In
South Africa England Obtains EV-
idence of Russian Intrigue in Both
Orient and Levant
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1896-02-20
POLE FOUND AT LAST
SENSATIONAL REPORT ABOUT
NANSEN REACHES EUROPE.
ARCTIC VOYAGE A SUCCESS

The Specific Fact Is Stated That the
Pole Is in Mountainous Region
and That the Audacious Explorer Is
on His Way Back to Civiliza-
ton.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-08-13
INVESTIGATING TEXAS FEVER.
Australian Experts Delighted with
Uncle Sarn,s Country.

WASHINGTON. D. c., Aug. 13, 1886.
Dr. ]. S. Hunt and William Collins, repre-
senting the Queensland Government, who
have been in the city Investigating the
workings of the Bureau of Animal IN
d1lstry, Agricultural Department, espeei-
ally in connection with the so-calIed Texas
fever, will go from here to Texas to
pursue the inquiry. Dr. Hunt said, be-
fore leaving, that he and his colleague
had been treated with great courtesy by
the Department officials, every facility
being extended to them.
Queensland said he, ''or rather the
northern part of it in which / live, is a
great cattle and sheep country, and we
want to learn all that You have acquired
over mere in the way of keeping disease
from our herds. There has been little
fever among our cattle, but not enough to
cause serious alarm. l don't know just
how many sheep we have but the num-
ber will run into the millions. With us
a sheep is valuable only for his wool, be-
ing almost worthless for food Tie small
nnerino is the sort that abounds in
O1laaYlsIaI,d
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-08-13

3 NEW YORK. Aug. 10, 1sss-Rounds-
man of Police Michael Keating disappear
ed mysteriously while on duty in the
upper part Of the city yesterday. He was
found dead in a woods near RiverdaIe
avenue this morning From the condition
N whicn the body was found it is be-
lieved he was murdered Two ex-poHce-
men named respectively Van zandt and
Morrison recently dismissed from the
force on Keating's complaint, and who
are said to have threatened Keating, 5
life, are suspected
Van zandt yesterday rode up to the
police station on Keating' $ horse and said
that it had been found wandering about
fiaerless on Riverdale avenue. He sub
sequently told conflicting stories about
the finding of the horse.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-08-13
INES" COE 5 CHEZ

NEW YORK. Aug. Is, 1Sss-The good
VIII, plant, franchises, trade marks, copy
rights, assets and effects of the New York
Times Publishing Company were sold
at public auction at the New York Real
Estate Salesrooms today
Spencer Trask, chairman of the Reor-
ganization Committee which represents
all the creditors and nearly all of the
stoclNholders of the Times was the
only bidder. The paper was knocked
down to him for $4,000 and the value Of
the book accounts. which amount to 1853, =
Q9e The sale was merely a legal proceed
sure t 70 vest the new company with the
TITLES. fae new company Will probably
1ake possession on Monday when it IS
expected the courts will confirm the sale.
"A "A Adolph s Ocils, of Chattanooga.
Will pc publisher and general mana ger.
uisser the new Organization, and Mr..
S,ilafies 9,,i Il Miller will continue as editor
sigle new org2nizatfon has a million dol
lar stock and helf milton dollars of
AT the sale.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-08-13
FATALLY BURNED.
Mrs. Thomas Lights Her Fire
With Kerosene Her
PIueky Conduct.


Mrs George Thomas, of No. 240 South
street, lit a fire with kerosene this morn
ing. She is now in the City Hospital in
a dying condition as a consequence of the
burns she sustained.
Mrs Thomas saturated quantity of
wood and paper with oil ana applied a
match. Flames shot out of the lower
part of the CRATE and set fire to the light
wrapper in which Mrs. Thomas was
dressed. The next instant she was en-
veloped in flames. She endeavored to ex-
tinguish them, but not succeeding ran to
window and called for help While
standing at the window lace curtains
caught on fire and in a few minutes the
interior of the room was ablaze. The
pluclxy woman ren4ained in the house and
battled with the flames until her burns
became so painful that she fed madly into
the street. She was at once surrounded
by neighbors, who succeeded in extin-
gushing her burning clothing
In an unconscious condition Mrs
Thomas was Acarried to the house of a
friend and medical assistance summoned
Al the suggestion of a physician she was
taken in all haste to the City Hospital
w niie the unfortunate woman was being
cared car Tor the fire in the house had spread
ana threatened to destroy it. An alarm
was sent IN. Firemen responded quickly
and extinguished the flames after about
500 damage had been done.
AT the hospital it was found that Mrs
THOMAS had been terribly burned about
the legs and breast. Her lips were shock
ingty burned and it is feared she in
haied flames, The fingers of her left
hand were so badly burned that the bones
We're exposed. Very little hope is enter
tanned for her recovery.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-08-13
HlLLAIS PASSES AWAY
Last and Greatest Of the Pre-
Raphaelite Group Of
Painters.
Bv Cobls TO The Unftcf5 pros.


LONDON, Aug. 13, 1Ssa-Sir John Mil
lais, the distinguished painter, President
OF the Royal Academy, died at $40 o'clock
this afternoon. On May 10 last he UNDER
went the operation of tracheotomy for the
relief of cancer of the throat aud never
fully rallied from its effects, which i'm
mediately caused his death
Sir John Everett MiIlais was born at
Southampton in 1929 The family Of Mil
lais has held for centuries a place among
the lesser landlords in the Island OF &Jer-
sey Where the name doubtless existed
long prior to the Norman conquest Of
England. At the early age Of nine he
began his art education in Mr. Sess' Ac-
ademy and two years iafer he
became student at the Royal Ac-
adeny, where he gained the principal
prizes for drawing He gained his first
medal at the Society of Arts when only
nine Pizarro seizing the inca of Peru, z
his first exhibited picture. was at the
Academy in 1S4s followed by .Dunstanl,s s
E1nissaries seizsng Queen Elgiva," and a
colossal cartoon of tlle Westminster Hall
competition. sThe Widows Mite in 1871.
and the picture, of The Tribe of Benz
Jdlnin selz.ng the Daughters of Shiloh.
at the British Institution IN 1S4S. Keats
isabella was the subject Of his
pencil IN lS49. While student In the
Academy,s schools, his tastes had tacftly
rebelled against the routine conventions
OF academic. teaching, and. strengthened
in that feeling by such specimens Of
early Italian art as fell in their wav he
and his friends, William Holman Hunt
and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, resolved to
study nature as it appeared in ssthe an
tique. = These views were afterwards
adopted by Charles Collins and other
younger painters.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-08-13
BOILER BLEW Up.
Marvellous Escape Of Work.
men in a Tile Yard
Two Killed.

LOUISVILLE, Ohio, Aug. 10, 1sse.-At
three o'clock this morning all Louisville
was shaken and a few moments later
almost panic stricken when it became
known that the extensive tile and brick
works. one of the most extensive indu-
tries in the town, was total wreck from
boiler explosion. The wreck caught
iire, adding terror to the effects of the
shock from the concussion. A first re-
port was that number of employees had
been killed outright and that there were
not is little short of miraculous. All have
been accounted for
uriah Johnson, engineer, and Lee She'll
man were fatally injured Both reside
in Louisville and have families
The badly Injured are:-Sheridan Lee,
William Sefong. James Graisey and John
Bufoniet All received serious, but not
necessarily fatal injuries.
number Of other employees were more
or less cut and bruised The damage to
the plant will amount to SO, 600, Oh which
there is no Insurance. The cause of the
explosion has not xet been ascertained,
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-08-13
HORRORS OF TIE EAST.
The NIohammedan Rebellion in
Kansu-Formosan CrueIties Denied.

Kamsu-FormosanC CrueIaies Denied.
VAN COUVER, B. c., Aug. 49, 1885,
Special correspondent of the United AS
sociated Presses
TOXIC. Aug, g. 1Ss6.-F'ield Marshal
Yamagata has returned from his mis-
sion to Russia, where he represented the
Emperor at the coronation. His health
is impaired and he looks greatly emaci-
ated When asked. if ne mad been coolly
freated in Russia, he emphatically de-
NED rle5...l tne sia allegation He was greasly
Of Ii Hung Chang, he said he Was almost
fdolized m Russia, but his ignorance Of
Russian hosts in embarrassing situations
Japanese Surgeon Murata, who went Off
claiiy to Cuba some months ago, ehas
Of the Spanish government hospital at
Havana. He estimate the status of
Spanish surgery very low and the nursing
as sloveilay and negligent, the wounded
soldiers being roughly treated by the
surgeon and nurses. The latter appear
TO be laboreIss with dirty limbs and bad
manners. He cannot, he says bring him
self to describe all he saw
The Mohadnmedan rebellion in Kansu
seems to be developing much larger pro-
portions. The general in-cflief of the
imperial forces has apparently commands
to carry on a war determination. In the
affected @ district, in one place, he slew
o.Uu0 trades people and sold their wives
and female children This IS expected to
provoke terrible resistance, in which
AIohammedans across the borders in Rus
sia are expected to tae a hand
With reference to the outbreak of the
ilastrrection in Formosa and cruelty on
the part of the Japanese civil and military
the Niche Nichi Sh.nbun oharacterizes
the reports of cruelt5es a $ reckless fables.
fase ealumnies and deserving no atten-
tiofl
The Yokohama Bicycle Works has re-
eeived an order from America for one
hundred bicycles. Those who affect the
bicycle in Japan are employees of mer-
camille and banking corporations, young
Persons and school teachers. The opinion
of Japanese medical experts is averse to
the use Of the bicycle by either sex.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-08-13
THE YUKON BOUNDARY.

OTTAWA, Ont, Aug. 49, 1S96.-Tn con-
nection with the newspaper report that
a large slice of the Yukon district, CON
tanning valuable mines, had recently been
appropriated by Canada. the Deputy Min
lister of the Interior states that the
boundary line on the Yukon River was
run by Surveyor Ogilvie two years ago
and its accuracy has since been verified
by American surveyors. In one case at
the crossing of Forty Mile Creek. a diff
ference of only six feet was discovered.
At the crossing of the Yukon River there
was difference of 800 feet. but in order
to avoid disputes this was allowed to the
Amarirans