Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1896-05-28

Osman Latrobe, Stewart Janney and
DR.. Smith McKim, three well-known
Baltimore society men, have gone 10
Cuba to accept commissions If high
rank in the army of the insurgents.
Among the passengers on the steam
ship China is special commission
from the mikado Of japan to study the
workings Of electrical power and tele-
pbone systems in the United States.
Obituary: At Centerville, Iowa, Will
liam Bradley.-At New York, DR.. Ed
ward j. Forster.-At Birmingham, Ala,
Major Solomon Palmer, Sat Kan
sas City, Mo, Rev. William Sewell, s8.
By a decision of the board of ex-
aminers of the patent office the Mer.
genthaler typesetting machine will
now have formidable opposition in a
machine patented by Joseph G. Fowler.
The New York democratic state COM
mittee met and fixed June "a as the
date and Saratoga as the place for the
state convention to elect four dele
gates large to the national conven-
ton.
DR.. Eliza NJ Mosher, of Brooklyn
and former Vassar professor has ac-
copied the position of associate dean OF
the arts and literature of the univer
sity of Michigan. She will teach ply
siology.
/ The split caused in the Congrega-
tional churches of New York and
/ Brooklyn by the Beecher trial was
healed when the New York and Brook
/ Ign conferences joined the Manhattan
conference.
The building committee for the St.
Croix county asylum Is having good
deal of trouble to get is plans within
the appropriation. Tho modified plans
Of the architects are stu fully $4,000
above the allowance.
/ James Winfred, of Anderson, Ind,
I has sued Oscar Jacobs, a grocer, charg
ing him with alternating Mrs. Wnfred S
affections and placing the loss at $40
600. Winfred's wife, meanwhile, has
sued him for divorce.
The Chicago, Kalamazoo and Sagl-
nav Railroad company has applied 20
the circuit court for permission to con
denim property needed for right Of way
I to extend it's line to connect with the
Crank Trunk railroad.
The president has appointed Ernest
Man, of Florida, to be consul IF the
United States at Bergen, Norway, and
Robert Ransom, of North Carolina, to
be second secretary of the legation OF
the United States to Mexico.
The University club of New York
will buy and build on Fifth avenue and
Fifty-tourth street Told st. Luke's nos
ptaD. The club house will cost $780,
600. The membership Is now 200,
], 200 residents; waiting list Of 500.
Boys at an old stone quarry near Eau
Claire found the dead body of Louis
Loss stage carpenter of local opera
house, aged 40 and father of six chill
drcn. He lad been missing since Fri
day. He had hung himself to a tree.
| The body of the man who jumped
New York Central railroad at Harlem
was identified as that of Charles Van
derman. 46, of the Vandcrman heating
and plumbing company e Tillmantic,
| CT.
! st. Dominick'S Catholic church in
IIolmesburg, a suburb of Philadelphia,
was destroyed by fire. The loss IS
$50, 600 and the insurance $4,000. The
fire was caused by a Waterman drop
/ ping II lighted match on carpet in
the church.
The battleship Oregon, on its trial
trip at Santa Barbara, made world
breaking record of 1913 knots an hour
and will get bonus of $4,000. The
machinery ran smoothly from start
to finish and there was not the slight
est accident
Austin pusley, a negro, and John
Prola, white, for minor oitenses, were
whipped by the Choetaw Indian Sher-
III at South McAlester. l. T. TO add
TO their agony, the wounds left by the
hickory switches were saturated with
salt water
| | WO ldl lntfS lIOll lldlIc NuuutN, MO,
Engaged in duel to the death With
pocket IL ives in a saloon. John Horn
hicltle was 50 badly stabbed that lie
died within few minutes. Stone
Steward was frightfully wounded. and
probably will die
Destructive storms are reported in
oklahoma. Minnesota. Wisconsin and
Missouri Houses We're blown down,
railroad tracks washed out and grow
ing crops damaged. There were
rumors of loss of human life. but they
wcr" not confirmed
sunday 1900 people assembled in
! Minneapolis to celebrate a triple event
the international singing tournament
the unwilling of Jacob Eieldes statue
20 Ole Bull and to pay n tribute to the
memory of the sculptor, who died Just
after finishing this work.
AT bloomington, H., eX-Alderman
stephen Samson, /. At indianapolis,