Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-11-18
NEWS or THE WORLD.
DOMESTIC.

$4,000 mile tandem ride.
Richard Croker went to Virginia
hot springs for ten days rest.
Senator Wolcott has arrived from
Europe but has nothing to say
A passenger train In New Mexico
was robbed, wrecked and burned.
Fire destroyed property at West DO
YER, N. H., of the value OF S6O,o0o.
The steamer Idaho foundered on
Lake Erie and 10 sailors were drown
cd.
-Four persons were killed and seven
teen injured in train wreck In VIZ
GINA i,
A milk trust has been formed ana
prices In greater New York VIII be
raised.
Oscar Hammerstein, tt New York
theatrical manager, made an assign
menr.
Governor Johnston of Alabama
raised the yellow fever quarantine IN
that state.
The backbone Of the Yellow Jack
epidemic has been broken by Jack
Frost.
Mrs. Ellsworth, OF Bayonne. N. d.
lost jewel bag containing gems
worth $4,000.
A man and woman were married IN
= lions den in Boston while 1900 peo-
pie looked on. $780,.
The sale OF New York horse show
boxes brought only $4,000. Two years
ago $4,000 was realized.
Major Cardenas Of the Cuban army,
who was wounded In battle, Is In New
York for medical treatment.
An escaped convict from Nebraska
lived two years In cellar under
school house near Mankato.
Negotiations for an arbitration
treaty with Great Britain will probably
be renewed ut an early day.
James Ii. Eckels, comptroller oil the
currency, has accepted the presidency
OF u national bank In Chicago
A London paper expresses the opin-
ion that President Mckinley Will de-
eide In favor of war with Spain.
There was an increase of $3.50 pen-
sioners during the past year, the total
number ut present being 976,0l4.
Tho net proceeds OF the government
from the sale OF the Union Paciilc
Railroad amount to $53,S0S,S55.
The president has ordered u court
natal to try Captain Lowering for an
alleged assault on Private Hammond.
The president has selected / W,
Mondell OF Wyoming as assistant COM
missioner of the general land office.
John Needing. shoemaker, was
shot and fatally wounded by robber
while asleep In his house at Detroit.
Joseph A. lasigl, former Turkish
consul-general at Boston, was con-
victed Of the embezzlement of $220.OOO.
The Portland (Ore.) chamber of
commerce has undertaken to send n
relief expedition to the Yukon miners
John w. Fertig, tried at Menomonie,
Wis, for killing Robert Spaulding,
was convicted OF murder In the first
degree.
CITY and federal officials were ar
rested In Philadelphia, charged with
Issuing fraudulent naturalization pa
pers for u consideration.
The Indiana supreme court decided
that the act under which tho Indian
apolls board Of park commissioners
was created Is unconstitutional.
Under instructions from the navy de-
partment work OH all the war vessels
at tho Brooklyn navy yard Is being
pushed forward as rapidly rs possible,
The Willimantic, Conn, Linen COM
pany las put to work IN all depart
ments tho full force OF hands on full
time schedule OF sixty hours week,
Cecilc Guimaaes, aged 10, pretty
and the child OF wealthy parents Mt
East Orange, N. j., shot herself dead
after petty quarrel with her father,
Mrs. Wallace, Il rich Chicago widow,
offered TO adopt Evange1n Cossio
Cisneros, who recently escaped from Il
Cuban prison, and make her her heir.
A preliminary move has been made
toward prosecuting the Retail Coal
Dealers association of San Francisco
under the provisions of an antitrust
law.
The insistence of British cabinet
officials that England must have Il
bigger army has aroused suspicion
that they fear war with the United
States.
The enemies of the civil-sorvice sys-
tom are polling the republican mem
bers of the house of representatives
with view TO making II fight for It's
repeal.
The Georgia house OF representa-
tlves voted In favor of the bill to make
Jefferson Davis birthday legal holt
day In that state and to forbid football
playing.
Miss Amelia Hamilton McAluster,
niece of the late Ward McAllister, the
New York society leader, Is engaged
TO marry Richard Stockton, u New
York lawyer.
The government will pay the West
ern Union Telegraph company $685.
500, the amount of debt alleged to