Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-08-19
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS.

between our commission and the BTU
ish cabinet Is premature.
Samuel Blair, one of the wealthiest
residents of Chattanooga, committed
suicide by cutting his throat.
1t is reported from Chicago that n
b,p combination has been formed TO
control the distilled spirits trade
DR.. Frederick de Forest Allen, pro
fessor OF classical philology In Harvard
university, died from paralysis.
There Is said to be little doubt that
The citizens uniun will nominate Seth
Low for mayor Of greater New YORK.
Trustees of the Brooklyn bridge
voted In favor OF permitting street
cars to cross the bridge to New YORK
Senator McEnery, the protection
der. ocrat of Louisiana, was given re-
ccption To indorse his course In con
gress,
Second Lieutenant Morford OF the
third infantry will be court-martlaled
upon charges Of failure to pay MS
debts.
William Elmer Rockwell, we'll
known baseball player and manager,
died In San Francisco of meningitis
aged A.
New York customs officials are un-
able to agree over the duty to be
levied on silk ribbons under the new
tariff law.
Davidson Brothers, leaf tobacco
dealers In New York, have made an
assignment, the amount involved being
about $l25.O00.
K high German i Official says there
will be no tariff war with the United
States bee luse his country Ia too weak
to wage one.
Two persons were killed and eleven
injured by tho wreck OF the Kansas
Pacific fast flyer train forty miles east
OF Denver
The liberty bell will be taken from
Philadelphia to tho Tennessee exposi-
ton and will be received with elabo-
ratio exercises.
Dexter Abraham, student In II Vir.
ginia academy, was stabbed near the
heart In n fight with boys ut New
Rochelle. N. Y.
A legal contest for the $30,0O0,O 900
estate OF the late Joseph q. Richard
son has been started In New York
by rival heirs.
Secretary of State Sherman's two
weeks vacation at Amagansett, Long
Island, Is ended and he has returned
to Washington.
hn RaHuipu
pany. with an authorized capital stock
OF $40.0O0,000. was Incorporated mt
Trenton, N. j.
A New York Judge has annulled the
marriage between Francis w. Brown
of Washington, ID. c.. and Miss Madge
Dean, an actress
Mckinley will give Spain not longer
than six months 1t Is limited mt the
state department In which to end the
war In Cuba.
Jack Williams, white, was lynched
near Brush Creek, KY, and George
Turner, colored, near Spring I'M. Ala,
tor felonious assaults.
Outsiders lave been sending liquor
to the strikers in the Pittsburg dis
trict, and the labor leaders are max
ing efforts to stop It.
Mrs. Lillian Reynolds sued Guy Roy~
nolds. Fayerweathcr heir, for dis
solution of their marriage on the
ground Of hlgamy,
The cause of the trolley collision Mt
Niagara Fails, in which eleven were
hurt, Is said to be due to the careless
ness Of a switchman.
II IL reported In New York that $.
II. Galloway, president of the Nickel
Plate railroad. will be appointed pres
ident of the Lake Shore.
Express companies doing business In
Texas obtained IN injunction restrain
Ing the Texas railway commission
from enforcing Its now tariff
Henry Smith, carriage painter in
Berlin, Worcester county, has inner
tod n fortune of $4,000 by the death
of his father In Now York,
William Collier, an insane theolo-
gica student, who said he wanted to
Kill Rev. DIR. Edward Everett Hale, has
been arrested in Rhode Island.
A decision has been rendered In New
York In favor Of the heirs IN the con
test for the 100000 900 estate OF the
late William J. King of Newport, X. l.
Many life and accident insurance
companies have instructed their agents
not to take risks on persons who are
going to the Klondyke gold fields
a group of Cuban insurgents re-
Gently succeeded in getting by the fort
garrison and appeared in tho town Of
Santa Clara. The invaders looted
several stores before they were driven
out.
Tho treasury department has been
notified by the Spanish minister or n
probable shipment of arms from
Bridgeport. Conn, to the Cuban insur-
gents.
One million and n half men work In
the coal mines OF the world. OF these
Great Britain has h35,000 United
States, 100000; Germany, 2S6,o0o; Bel
GUM, 100000; Russia, $4,000. The