Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-08-26
ELEGRAMs LIN DRllF.
AT HOME.

Senator George OIL mississippi uled.
President Mckinley. fayors another
pan-American congress.
Sylvanus Johnson, colored, was con-
yicted of rape at Key West, Fla, and
sentenced to be hanged.
In at least one judicial district OF
South Dakota the democrats VIII cut
loose from the populists.
w. b. Felts was deferred In making
his leap from the summit OF Pixies
Peak. A snowstorm ragged.
Four tanners died at Falls Greek,
Pa, from anthrax, communicated by
hides imported from China.
Senator McLaurin Of South Carolina
tainted during q heated political dis
cussion with Governor Evans.
A stowaWay on the English ship
Mary l.. Burrell was 80 brutally beaten
that he died In Quebec hospital.
Manufacturers of Georgia pine lum-
Der are stated to have formed com
bnation which will advance prices.
Archbishop Keane, late rector OF the
Catholic university at Washington, d.
o. arrived In New York from Rome.
Edison's process for separating iron
ore from rock and dirt will be put
into operation at West Portal, N. J.
An alliance has been concluded be-
tween the League of American Wheel
men and the Amateur Athletic union.
Two thousand Klondyke seekers are
yainly waiting ut Dyea and Skaguay
for q chance to cross the Chilkoot
pass.
Right Rev. William Walsham
How, ID. d., Protestant Bishop OF
Wakefield, Is dead. He was born in
1923.
Mrs. Minnie W. -ner Is in a Brooklyn
hospital dangerously Ill Of blood
poisoning, caused by the bite OF p
mosquito.
Howard Fisher OF Philadelphia died
ut Ashbury Park, N. j.. from being
struck by wagon shaft while riding
bicycle.
A locomotive at the government
works at Tybee island, near Savannah,
fell through n trestle and killed sew
eral people.
This government will do what 1t can
In the way of excluding anarchists who,
driven from Europe, are expected to
come here.
Hides OF American cattle slaughtered
abroad are dutiable at 15 per cent. ad
valorem on being returned to the
United States.
Soth Low, president OF Columbia col
lege, has decided to accept the nomln-
alton OF the citizens union for mayor
OF greater New York.
Governor Griggs OF New Jersey has
declined TO be Il candidate for the
United States senate because he cannot
afford II.
Two men and two ladies' were de-
tanned for three nights and four days
by storm In the crater OF Mount
Tacoma.
Ex-soldlers who seek reinstatement
In the treasury department are COM
PEELED to demonstrate their fitness by
an examination.
Firemen with stream OF hose pre-
vented mob ut lronwood, Mich,
from throwing an incendiary into the
blaze he had created.
Two thousand workmen engaged In
repairing Chicago's public school build
ngs struck because OF the employment
At non-union men.
The National Hay association ut
Plttsburg provided an arbitration
uoard to settle disputes between buy
erS and shippers,
Four suspected murderers escaped
death At tho hands of mob ut Central
City, Col, by hiding from bullets be-
hind tho mattresses OF their cells.
-iot grew out OF the removal of
'he Modern Woodmen headquarters
rom Fulton, H., to Rock Island,
Numerous men were badly hurt.
Joseph Daniels, colored, was con-
yicted In Philadelphia of abducting
tr,m Baltimore Sallie Johnson, who
~ under Is years Of age.
The steamer Mexico, returning from
Alaska, was sunk by running on a
rock. Old miners are said to DO turn
ing back from Klondyke because they
fear famine. Arrangements are being
rade for Il postal service by dog
sledges. Two more steamers sailed
from San Francisco with prospectors.
The New York and Cleveland Gas
Coal company obtained ut Pittsburg u
temporary injunction restraining the
striking miners from encamping near
its property. Plans are being con-
sidered to extend the strike into CEN
trail Pennsylvania. Labor leaders say
they will meet at Monongah, w. Va,
In defiance OF injunctions. Mines In
the Wheeling district are all closed
down
The Illinois legislature at its last
session passed an act to prohibit the
publication or circulation OF false
advertising matter, prescribing Il pen
atty for any person. firm or corporation
spnSat innn11y ulynri iSinp goods nr