Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-02-25
CELEGRAMS IN BRIEF.
HOME MATTERS.

Rockefeller and the Merritts are re
ported to have settled their differ
ences.
American railroad plans In China
are nullifed by LII Hung Chang
downfall.
Major w. B. Biddle OF Laporte, Ind.
has been appointed Judge Of the cir
cult court.
President Roswell G. Miller OF the
Chicago, Milwaukee and ST. Paul rail-
road ID seriously LII.
Duestrow, the St. Louis millionaire
murderer, was hanged Tuesday FOL
the murder Of his wife and child while
drunk.
A number OF Chicago householders
are getting free Illuminating gas az
a result of the intense competition be-
tween companies.
A bill providing for separate rail-
road coaches for the white and col
ored races passed the South Carolina
house of representatives.
The New York health board will
have detectives on street and elevated
railway cars In that city to arrest
those who spit on the floor.
The Merchant Tailors' National ok
change, which Is In session at Cleve-
land, Ohio, decided to hold It's next
convention at Richmond, Va.
The fancy dress ball given my Mr..
and Mrs. Bradley Martin at the Wal
dorf, New York city, fully equaled
the expectations OF It's splendor
John. @. Dancy, a prominent North
Carolina colored politician, says that
no IS to be appointed recorder Of
deeGs for the District OF Columbia,
The Lancaster, Ohio, medical In
stitute was destroyed by fire. DR..
Simon OF Jackson, W. Va, a patient
for the Kelley treatment, persisted
William Fl. Barnes was arrested in
Brooklyn on q charge of embezzling
$4,000 from the Cudahy Packing
company. OF which he was local cash
Ter
The comptroller OF tho currency has
given authority for the organization
Jamestown, Pa, with q capital Of
OF tho Cambria National bank of
100000.
Andrew Sauer, ex-cashier of the
Defiance. Ohio, Savings bank, has
been acquitted OF the charge of max
ing false report of the banks con-
dition.
William Sanford Lawton, &c years
Old. Of the Arm Of IAwton Il Foote
attorneys. OF New York, committed
suicide In Chicago.
Representative Sayers says the ex-
pendltures Of the present congress
will break tho record and Will BIO In
excess of $1.O4O,OOO.0O0.
Benjamin Brazelle, a ST. Louis
scientist and Inventor, claims to have
discovered the key to electricity and
the transmutatlon Of clay into gold,
silver and iron.
Richard l.. Sharp, president of the
keystone lumber mills, committed
suicide ut st. Louis because he be-
lieved himself suffering from an In
durable malady.
Rev. DR.. Isaac 8. Hopkins has re-
signed ms pastor OF the First Metho-
dist church, Atlanta 1t Is said that
President Mckinley may appoint him
minister to Greece.
John d. Rockefeller Of New York,
has promised TO contribute $250,000
toward paying off the total indebted
ness of the Baptist Foreign and Home
missionary societies.
Linn Boyd Porter (Albert Ross), the
novelist of Cambridge, Mass, has sue
cumbed to melancholia and nervous
prostratlon and Ia confined In q pri-
vate santarium
Rev. Edward Hunting Rudd, late OF
the Presbyterian church at Albion, N.
Y, has been called to the assistant
passionate of DR., Parkhuwt's church
In New York city.
Alderman Thomas ] OMalley and
John Santry, who have been on trial
for the murder Of Gus Colliandor. an
slectlon Judge In 1894 were acquitted
by a Chicago jury.
1t was learned In New York that a
recent meeting Of the leaders of tho
American Protective association of
that city was decided definitely to dis
band tho organization,
Capt Phllo N McGifiln, who com
nnanded the Chinese battle-ship Chen
Yuen In the hattie of the Yalu river.
shot himself dead In New York while
insane from wounds.
Tho efficacy of an Oklahoma decree
Of divorce to suspend the operation
Of an ante-dating decree of a New
York court carrying alimony Is to be
tested In New York
At the annual meeting Of the IL
lnois Steel company President Gates
said the company sold 33 per cent.
OF all the steel rails used in the Uni
ted States last year
II Is reported In the west that a
number of actors and actresses have
organized a rebellion against the So
called trust which controls theaters
IN the principal cities.
John c, Sheehan, the acting leader
OF Tammany. announces that Ii Rich