Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1896-12-31
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sixty-one ducks.
A New York Judge rules that Nortl
Dakota divorce Is not vail Tho
former state.
New York-Receivers have beer
named for the Bayarian Star Brewing
company
The National Wool Growers associa'
tion adopted IL resolution demanding
protection.
Charles II. Crisp was elected to con
gress TO succeed his father, the late
ex-Speaker Crisp.
Key West The iilibuster, Three
Friends, got away from the United
States warships,
New York Fire at Elizabeth, N. j.,
destroyed twenty buildings, entadling
"a loss of 100000.
Paris-Paul Augnste Arena, The
French lltemteur, Is dead. He was
born In 1876.
A receiver has been appointed for
the Columbus and Hooking coal and
iron company.
The official returns OF West Virginia
were: Mckinley 105,368; Bryan a.
$50; Palmer CTS; lowering 1,2l6.
The daughter Of Gov. Drake OF Iowa,
1t IL discovered, was secretly married
nearly two months ago
The American Federation of Labor
changed Its headquarters from Indian
apolig TO Washington.
Ashland, Ala.-A tough gang muir
dered Editor John j. thornton in the
presence OF his mother.
Martha Elizabeth and Charlotte Will
Dor were burned to death In fire Mt
their home near Newport, X. |.
Charges Of fraud and bribery nave
been made against number OF the
city officials of Minneapolis.
Tho Chicago city council has passed
an ordinance providing for four-cent
fares on street railways.
Signor Pietro Fermuti, who was a
celebrated opera singer twenty yehrs
ago, died In New York hospital
Pierre s. D.-The vote gives Bryan
plurality OF 1873 over Mckinley. Both
republican congressman are defeated.
Louis +. Schultz. n well-known
yIolinist, founder and manager OF the
Detroit philharmonic club, died in De
troit.
New York Miss Edith Collins,
Chauncoy NJ Depews ward, IL engaged
to Count Chaykowski Of the Turkish
embassy nj Rome.
A cnve-in- OF tho subway In Hay
market square. Boston, occurred short
ly before noon yesterday. One man
was killed and several injured
Tho murderer Of George Bromley of
Barron, Wis, In supposed to have boon
discovered in the person OF an Italian
now In tho Wisconsin state prison.
Joseph X. Hubbard, u builder ut 1919
Gilmore street. Baltimore, made an
assignment. The assignoes gave bond
for 100000, indicating assets Of half
that sum.
The schedules in the assignment of
Clapp a. Co., bankers and brokers mt
35 Wall street, show liabilities 500, =
300; nominal assets, $3ii,502 actual
assets. $4,000.
Tho Timothy Dry Goods and Carpet
company Of Chattanooga Tenn, made
an assignment. Liabilities, 100000.
Disagreement among stockholders Ia
given as the cause
The American Federation of Labor,
IN convention at Cincinnati, adopted
resolutions nsltlng the president and
congress- TO recognize the Cuban insur-
gents us belligerents.
Postmaster l.. l.. lletch of Newport,
Ky, was dismissed from his office ana
his place was taken by his brothers
who are his bondsmon. lie played the
rlcos and Is Sc, 900 short.
A warrant for tho arrest of Frank
G. Miles, the detaulting treasurer of the
BOSTON Safe Deposit and Trust Co
Boston, on the charge of embczzlemont
OF SIC, 600, has been issued
The Detroit college of medicine. q
fonr-story brick structure located on
fNl'''h' Hhi't't i''NlNlN' WIS bht''u ny
ilro yesterday. The loss Is SIS, 900
partly covered by insurance
Princeton. N j. Princeton football
team shows receipts, $3l,7S7; cNpendi
lures, $lI04S; balance, $lA,739, Prince
ton y share of the Harvard game profit
were $lO.277; Snle game Sli. loo
Andrew Carnegie and john u Rock
oteller have united for the manufacture
of steel products, Rockefeller own
the Iron Mountain mines, and Caincgl
the largest steel mills in America.
Fire nearly destroyed the dry good
stock of Donald, Converse \ Maynard
IN Kingston, n V, valued al ST.. 90
and insured for $500 The Pitts IA
2nar, adjoining suffered much damag,
Mrs. Julia NJ. Steward, frmrrly .
Denver, has brought suit to recover
dover interest in the s., 600 600 estat
of the late William ellis, one Of Tia
best known of Kansas City's pioneers
Jackson. Mich. Louis lteydlaur WI
acquitted by jury of the crime ,
numbering his sweetheart, limm
Moeckel Tho dcfcnsc was tomrorar
insanity 0t the time Of the commissio