Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-05-13
TELEGKAMS In BRIEF.
DOMESTIC.

tablishing Touring and corn mill In
Selma, Ala.
Gen. Miles has sailed from New York
on the steamer st. Paul to see the
Turkish bother.
Strikes are in progress In New YORK,
Newark, N. j., Chicago and Milwaukee
The food is recedng rapidly In the
neighborhood of Memphis.
Thirty thousand persons were presen.
ut the opening of the Tennessee Cen
.nllai exposition at Nashville.
Frank Martin was held for court In
New York on a charge OF biting OH a
piece Of Thomas J. Lanes nose.
Alfred Solomon, Jew, aged ~ years,
was killed by st. Paul train at Por-
tage, Wis, His home was In Brooklyn.
AZ Freepoit, ILL.,, Charles Waterman,
an early settler, while temporarily In
sane. drowned himself In Pecatonlca
river.
William Drayfall, wealthy farmer
of Gilberts, Ill.,, was killed by Nortn-
western passenger. His team was also
killed.
The Joseph Calm clothing company
and the SWafford Brothers dry good
company, both In Kansas city, have
failed.
The Wisconsin Beet Sugar company,
which has just completed a pllt. u
Menomonee Falls, Is In the HAMS Il
an assignee.
There was recently killed In Wyoming
one az the largest mountain lions ever
seen In that state. 1t was almost nine
feet long.
Residents of Jefferson street, Topeka,
have been victims Of II trained dog
which stole their newspapers anu LOOK
them to IT'D master
John N0lin, his two little daughters
and stranger were drowned IN Inc
river above Gal.atin, Tenn, by the over
turning OF a sklff
While walking on the Baltimore ~
Ohio railway tracks Benjamin shepard
and Martin Riaer, farmers, were killed
nelr Martinsburg, W. va.
Rev. DR.. Walker, who is conducting
4 revival are ong the oolored people ~
Atlanta, Is known throughout Georgia
as "the black Sturgeon"
Dean Hutchlns of the law depart
ment has been offered tho acting presi-
dency of the university OF Michigan
during President AnSell's absence.
A cherry tree In Dayton, Ore, which
was recently blown down by storm
bore a ton of fruit in one season. 1t
was set out over forty-ilve years ago
\ strike Is imminent among the
miners employed by the Tennessee
Coal Iron and Rairoad company, ow'
Ing to n proposed reduction OF wages
Virchand t. Ghnndl, learned Hin"
doc of Bombay, India, ls In this country
lacturtng on hypnotlsm, mesmerlsm
and magnetism from the llindoo point
of view
A man named Lawrence, conlldch-
tial servant of Mrs. Arthur II. Blair,
has disappeared and with him dia-
monds to the value Of $4,000 and $1,000
In money.
Winter has been so long IN some Of
tho Washington state valleys that 1t Is
said that no hay will be left by the
time tho spring crops are In, an UNI
usual condition.
Farming operations In the vicinity
Of Bismarck N, d., will probably be
very much retarded this spring. NJ the
winter has been the most severe In
fifteen years.
RE banking house of j. D. Wheeler
and To, In Manltou and Aspen, CO..
have gone tc tho wall. The assets ere
estimated at about 100000 and liza
bilties $4,000.
Peter c. Burke, So years old, pc
lessor OF philosophy at the Georgetown
Law School, Washington, y. c. ccm-
mltted suicide in New iN.N holc'
py lnhaling Illuminating gas.
Alderman Powers has tremendous
scheme to buy the street railroads of
Chicago for $76,O00,000. Reformer
Hanlan says It Is an attempt to divert
attention from the Humphrey bills,
Ono hundred pen and ink drawings
Dy the late George Du Maurier, which
belong to his estate, have just arrived
In New York from London. they {
tho originals OF single illustrations In
Punch
Rev. DR.. Henry Collin Minton Stuart,
professor of theology in the San Fran
cisco Theological seminary, Is men
toned as likely to be elected moderator
OF the coming Presbyterian general
assembly.
AT Norfolk Va, Il plant has been os-
tablished with capacity for Ave tons Of
peanuts daily, for the manufacture of
peanut OIL peanut -four and stock feed,
the estimated combined yield represent
ing more thaA $40o day.
A 5-year-old son of Landon Under
man living near La Grange, Ind, was
burned to death while attempting to
kindle y fire with coal oil. This is
the third death caused by coal oil in
this family within The last year.
Albert q. Porter. eX-eovernor of In
diana and minister to Italy under Har-
rison, died ut his home In Indianapolis,
aged "a. The immediate cause Of
death was paresis, though he was con-
nncI Ia hts NOON, tho nnni two ynopg