Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1896-06-25
TELEGRAMS In BRIEF.
DOMESTIC MATTERS.

Europe.
In New York the engagement oil Cor
nelius Vanderbilt Jr., 20 MISS Grace
Wilson is announced.
4. e. Beebe of st. Joseph was nom
mated for congress in the fourth Mlchl'
gan district by the populists
John Wilde, IL years old, had both
feet amputated while climbing between
moving cars at Lebanon, Ind.
A fire in j. b. Harrington's plumbing
store at Pana damaged the building
$500 and destroyed hose cart
William c. Whitney, instead OF be
Ing at the Chicago convention In July,
will be at the Yale-Hen1ey regatta
Lizzie DAILY, the soubrette, Is now
Mrs. Samuel l.. Tuck, the wife or Il
wealthy New York manufacturer.
A new woman at Pittsburg knocked
her husband down bccausc the dinner
did not suit her. She was fined $40.
Louis Devin, arrested in Chicago for
forging checks in st. Joseph, Mich, mas
been bound over to the circuit court,
Lewis Vanskiver, who killed TWO
men during the WaterW0rks riot last
fall, was acquitted at Wapakoneta, o.
Tho body of Carl Unger. who com
mitted suicide at Des PLANES, H., has
been shipped TO his father in Clifton,
N. Y.
Frank fucker of Greensburg, while
hunting, fell from u fence and dis
charged his gun, producing fatal
wounds
John r. Best, wealthy lumber
dealer, committed suicide at his home,
In St. Louis, by cutting his throat with
q razor.
Lily Harrison OF Canton, H., at
tempted suicide because her sweetheart
escorted another girl home from
church.
The work of the greater New York
commission Is delayed by the Illness OF
Andrew II. Green. one OF the commits
E:oners
Tho Venezuelan government Will os-
tabllsh u permanent exhibition of
American goods In several cities In the
republic.
Seven tramps were bathing In the
Ilftl ~ Nhi ~ w, IlI'p NiiNi
one OF them, negro, II years OF age,
were drowned.
Striking miners In Sullivan county
Indiana, have been notified to vacnte
the property In order that now men
may be housed.
Two large barns. with their contents
the property of w. b. Beckett OF
Grocnsbrug. Ind, were destroyed by
fire LOSS 100000.
Suspension of drilling In the Ohio oil
fields has caused tho Standard company
to advance North Lima oil to Ga cents
and South Lima and Indiana oil to 50
cents II barreIl.
Jesse White, convicted of the murder
of Miss Hester curtis, ut Lafayette,
Ind, last December, has been sentenced
to prison for HE.
The body OF an unknown man. about
80 years of ago and II laborcr. was
found In the G'and Calumet river at
Hammond, Ind,
Mrs Jennie Ferguson, aged 2G years,
of Scdalin, Mo, who had been deserted
by her husband committed suicide by
taking morphine.
The Venezuelan boundary commits
sion held its regular meeting and CON
sidcrcd a number of important com
mnniCatiOns.
negro tramp, aged r., while bath
Ing In tine kAsna9kia river nj Carlyle,
ILL.,, was drowned. Ills namo Is not
known The body was recovered
Fire destroyed the American morse
exchange ut New York last night a
hundred carriages and lG5 horses were
burned. Loss. 100000.
George Delong, Benton llnrhor
Mich. berry picker. has fallen heir to
$1,000 by the death of an uncle IN the
St Louis cyclone.
Colonel Dudley, a prominent business
man, was thrown from carriage in
Joliet, H., and had u leg broken In
three places.
Burglars have been raiding resi-
den"es In Lincoln. H., for some weeks
past, They robbed state Attorney
King of $l5
Philip II. Carey, head of the Carey
Asbestos Manufacturing company, OF
Cincinnati, and very wealthy com
mtttcd suicide by drowning.
The collapse Of massive wagon
platform ut Mishawalia, Ind. KILLED
Nellie Perkins instantly ana seriously
injured two other persons,
The fact that only two ships bearing
the American flag were seen In BARGE
Iona last year Is brought out by a cor,
respondent Of n marine paper MS TX
planning the impudcncc Of the mob IL
that city toward the United States con.
sui during the recent anti American
riots
The first train over the MeGrogor dt
vision Of the Chicago Milwaukee, 0nt
ST, Paul road since the big storm o
three weeks ago was run
Michael SraWnosR WAS killed ant
several other workmen injured Ivy tn,
explosion Of $50 cans of dynamite rca
lohnstoWn, pa, yesterday.