Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-12-16

| ris OF washington TO be Drlgadler gen
eral OF the militia Of the district OF
Columbia to succeed the late General
Ordway.
Fire In Waupaca damaged the brick
store building owned by w. G. Lord
and occupied by Peter Hoist as q
grocery and w. P. Talbot as a notion
store.
Senator Elkins announced that the
reports that he would oppose Attorney
| General McKenna's confirmation as a
Justice Of the supreme court were err
roneous.
The wife of the sheriff in Honlton,
MaIue, left her husband and children
to elope with q tramp prisoner. She
had nursed him through an Illness
while in Jail.
The steamer Egyptian, bound from
Cleveland for Milwaukee, with car
20 of coal, burned to the waters edge
in Lake Huron off Sturgeon Point.
The crew was rescued.
| William Kern has made confession
at Waterloo, Ia, in which he alleges
that he was led by his sweetheart,
Delliah FAILS, to assist in the murder
of his father
Owing 10 adverse popular feeling, 1t
Is probable that most Of the street
railway and gas franchises granted by
New York and Brooklyn aldermen
will fail of final approval.
The secretary of state has issued his
| warrant for the surrender to the Ger
man authorities Of George Steinheuer,
who is charged with murder commit
ted in Pingsdorff, Prussia.
Two masked robbers entered the
heme Of John Hartong, farmer, 80
years old, in Green township, Ohio,
and after torturing him into insensi-
bility, secured $500.
The North Carolina democratic state
committee, at meeting at Raleigh, re-
affirmed the Chicago platform and de-
clared that William J. Bryan us the
great leader Of the party"
Philip Hodge, who while a fugitive
from justice in Oklahoma, saved many
lives In the flood there, Is how on trial
at Valdosta, Ga, on the charge Of muir
derlng his uncle, Samuel Hodge.
Secretary Gage said that In the an
nual estimates he would send to con-
gress he would name $20,000000 as
the amount Of the treasury deficit for
the fiscal year ending June go 1898.
A. e. Sibley, merchant OF Sheffield,
Iowa. was shot dead while robbing
neighboring store. The safe in his
private apartments contained plumber
of every description.
Bishop Capers, OF South Carolina,
has fixed December 10 as day upon
which the Protestant Episcopal clergy
Of the state are to preach against the
crime of murder.
The subcommittee OF the 1898 Cen
tennlal association. under whose aus
pieces the pilgrimage TO Ireland next
July will be made, reports 1000 names
of New Workers. who will go.
ID. N. Dickinson, who professed to
represent medical institution OF
Pittsburg, Pa, was convicted in court
at Butte, Mont, of swindling and SEN
fenced to two years In the penitentiary.
Adolphus Hadley Sutherland, the
1S-year-old youth who shot and killed
Sarah Wren In Brooklyn, March 20,
vas sentenced to be electrocuted the
week beginning January 10.
Representative Dingley, the chair
man of the House ways and means
committee, says currency legislation
cannot be expected from the free sill
YER majority In the senate.
Chlcago's council has passed the
Joint ordinance for elevatlng twelve
miles OF the tracks of the Chicago &
Northwestern and Chicago, Milwaukee
and St Paul Railway companies at
cost of $3,200.000
Judge e, G. Whiting, ex-state sena-
tor, and one of the pioneers of the
1lawkeye state, is dead at Sioux City
at tho age of 76 In 1885 he ran for
governor of Iowa on the democratic
ticket.
The Northern Pacific and Great
Northern are said to be In the Union
Pacitlc's combination, which Is deter
mined to crowd Huntington to the
wall, and these properties. 1t is ru-
mored, will be consolidated.
The government having already paid
claims amounting to $3.50, 900 for
overtime work by letting carriers and
being liable for nearly 81 100000 more
n rule has been made laying liable 10
dismissal any carrier who works over
eight hours II day.
The coast and geodetic survey has
prepared, and will soon publish. a new
map which will cover practically the
entire length of the Yukon river and
most of Its tributaries, including the
klondike. The scale is 20 miles to the
inch.
"A suburban population OF fully 90
600 will be added to Kansas City as a
result of special election. BY n
majority OF over two to one the voters
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