Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1896-12-17
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
DOMESTIC MATTDRS.

Bishop Perry, or tne protestant EplS-
copal diocese of Iowa Is very sick.
Amasa Ely, a civil engineer, shot and
killed himself at his home In Phila-
delphia.
The official vote of Massachusetts
shows a plurality OF 1926 for Nc
Kinley.
Chicago Matthew Mears, Chicago
pioneer and lumber king, died, aged 81
years.
BY tn first OF the year every -four
mill In st Louis will be running full
blast.
Leila Farrell, in her day we'll
known buresque actress, died In New
York.
Boiling republican senators are out
In the cold In Washington and may
stay there.
The municipal election at Atlanta,
Ga, resulted In the reelection Of Mayor
Collier.
Arbuckle Brothers Of New York Wiil
Ill is announced, build an independent
sugar refinery.
The loss to property from the Wis
consin floods ,ar Chippewa Falls Is es
timated at 100000
The date for the national monetary
conference Mt Indianapolis has bee
changed TO January H.
rhe assignment OF the wholesale
clothing firm OF Whlten Burdett & Co.
OF Boston Ii announced.
Hlghbinders murdered ut New Rich
mond, (Wis) Chinaman.
Numerous Irregularities develop In
the official count in Dakota Bryan 8
majority Is apparently 1872.
Steps have been taken In the west
toward consolidation Of the Memo
mite and Amish denominations
The California Fruit Growers ASSOC
citation Will recommend to congress II
tariff schedule for foreign fruits.
At an auction sale In Boston "a prny-
er-book which Benjamin Franklin
helped TO edit was sold for 81 $50
The report Ii denied that Miss Edith
Lyman Collins of New York will marry
her guardian, Chauncey M. Dopew.
Stories Of rank fraud circulate In
connection with the FitZsmons- Sharky
fight, Needham of st. Paul Is involved.
George &c. Gall, a Now Orleans jew
eler, was Bwinded out Of $40, 900 worth
Of diamonds by three unknown ltal-
ians.
Sound-moncy democrats of New York
arc perfecting their organization and
intend opposing Tammany at next To-
cal election
~ H. Sobh }rn the actor, was mar
ried In Philadelphia to Virginia
Harmed, the former leading lady Of
his company.
Mail advlces received in Washington
from British Guiana state that the high
court has appropriated an additional
10000 for military defense.
Judge Dander In the Supreme Court
in Boston yesterday appointed Alfred
IL. Chandler temporary receiver OF the
Arena Publishing Company.
Expert crackHnen Llaw the big safe
open In the jewellery store Of II, Ilirch-
borg in Omaha, and got away with
$5 1000 in diamonds and cash.
Rev benjamin rappan ID. d., ok
y Csident of the Bangor Theological
Il, minary. died in South Norrldgewock,
Me. He was 81 years of age,
II Is positively stated that ms n result
of conferences held ut Canton, Ohio.
CT alrmnn Mark Hanna has been of
fcred the treasury portfolio.
William T.. Coutts. 40 years old.
druggist and exPostnasler at Reols-
VILE, nine miles west Of Greencastlc,
Ind. was shot by tramp robbcrs.
New York authorities have notified
the telegraph and telephone companies
Of the city to put their overhead wires
under ground or remove them.
The executive committee of the
Union OF American Hebrew congrcga-
tions elected julius F'rciborg of Gin
cinnnti, president Of the union.
The purchase OF the Newfoundland
railway by the government will bring
the public debt up to $4,000 900, which
is sos per head of the population,
Fred w, Hodge, the proprietor OF the
Perryville quarry company at Perry
willie, N. Y, was blown to pieces by an
explosion of dynamite and nitrogelotin.
Prof, Alexander Hamilton Phillips,
professor Of chemistry AT Princeton
University, and Miss Mabel llnrriottc
Knight were married in New York.
Mrs. Eliza IL Cummings, q wealthy
woman of lllllsbnro Ohio, while de-
mented, Jumped from the sixth story OF
q New York hotel and was instantly
Killed
An extensive Chinese secret society
with membership in tho United states
and other countries, seeks the over.
throw of the emperor Of China and form
n republic.
a New York expert. with the aid of
the y ray, penetrated the skull of a
man and discovered the location Of n
bullet which was fire into his head
three years ago.
Mrs. Sarah T.. Mink, national presi-
dent of the woman's auxiliary of the
Grand Army Of the Republic. died ut
her home In Watcrtuwn, y. ". yester-
day, aged 80 years.