Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-12-09

Detective Deveraux of Chicago las
gone to Montreal for the purpose of
obtaining the extradition Of Fortier.
accused OF cinbezzllng $4,000 from
Shaw, Mccoy & Co., of Chicago.
The widow OF Arthur Forbes, alias
Blanther, Texas suicide, says she Is
sure her husband committed the MUIR
Ter of which Theodore Durrant has
been convicted in San Francisco.
Attorney e. J. Toban, who was
being brought to Chicago for trial on
a charge of conspiracy to defraud,
leaped from a passenger train near
Logansport, Ind, and escaped.
Rev. Theodore F. Clifton has re-
signed the pastorate OF Trinity Con-
gregational church, in Chicago, to be-
come western secretary OF the Con-
gregatioral Educational society.
An airship, In which 1t Is proposed
to make trip to the Klondike region,
is being constructed by the Atlantic
and Pacific Aerial navigation corl-
pany.
Aretas Blood, one of the foremost
manufacturers Of New hampshire, is
dead, aged 81 years. Mr. Blood was
owner OF the cotton mills at Columbia,
s. G.
William j. Bryan has given TO the
Missouri state university $3.50, which
Is to be annually used In awarding
al. ha he
OF government.
A fire at Temerkat, suburb OF Oak
land, Cal, completely destroyed
the church and school of the
Sacred Heart. the clergy house and all
the adjoining buildings.
Il. IL. Rochester, treasurer OF the
Western Union Telegraph company,
died suddenly In Englewood, N. j.,
from heart disease. He was 46 years
old.
II Is reported that Congressman
Quigg, president OF the republican
county committee, will be one Of the
police commissioners OF greater New
YORK.
The marriage OF Miss Aline O'Don-
nell of Baltimore to Viscount Sayre
of Paris has been indefinitely post
poned on account OF the illness OF the
young lady.
1t is reported that the verdict of the
court-martial ut Fort Sheridan, Chi.
cago, which has been trying Capt.
Leonard A. Lowering, is that the cap
tain be reprimanded for ill-treating
Private Charles Hammond.
The BIacklisted Association of
America has been organized to raise
funds to prosecute the cases Of men
who are refused work because they
cannot show a clearance from their
last employer.
Colonel George Butte, N prominent
mining man of Telluride, Col, Is
missing and his friends believe he was
murdered as he had large sum of
money when he left that camp.
A prairie fire Is sweeping over the
country south Of Clayton. N. M. The
course of the fire Is through the great
cattle range belt and for over 200
miles there Ia no barrier In its path.
Thousands Of sheep are In danger.
Madison G. Stookey, OF Belleyllle,
H., Deputy district internal revenue
collector and one of the best-known
men In southern Illinois, was found
dead under trestle a mile beyond
Columbia, ILL.,.
Canada's postmaster general an
hounces that after Jan. the rate of
postage on letters from Canada to all
parts of the British Empire win be
reduced to cents an ounce.
Tho prosecution In the trial OF Mar
tin Thorn, on the charge of numbering
William Guldensuppe. rested its case
without having called Mrs. Augusta
Mack to tho witness-stand.
Sheriff Lamy has seized the plant Of
tho Martin Gibson Manufacturing
company on an execution secured by
the Peoples bank on note for ST, 53S.
The plant Is one of the largest de-
voted to bicycle making In Buffalo.
The United States consul ut Wood
stock, Now Brunswick. reports that
since the Dingley tariff went into Of,
feet trade relations between that part
of Canada and the United States have
been at standstill.
Congressman Dolliver OF Iowa, a
strong opponent OF the ciyil-service
system, says the policy OF the repub-
Leans In congress regarding the civil
service will be determined In u party
caucus.
Joseph Decker, on trial for murder
In the first degree for killing William
Gardner at Plattekill, N. Y. June
10, was found guilty OF murder In the
second degree and was sentenced to
imprisonment for life.
The jury at Sevieryille, In the case
against Pleas Wynne and Catlett Typ
ton, charged with the murder of Will
lam Whaley and wife, In that county,
last December, brought in u verdict,
conSicting Wynne and acquitting
Typton.
A Buffalo Creek Railway company S
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