Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-08-19
ent into Office. Six white employees
OF the office resigned.

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located shoulder, the result OF being
thrown from horse.
Mayor Gleason of Long Island City,
N. Y, revoked permit issued TO
railroad company to lay tracks on the
ground that the work was being done
by other than local laborers.
The favorable crop reports, combined
with the failure Of the crops in other
countries, formed such convincing
bull argument that there was n rush
TO buy all kinds OF stocks.
The Tilden mine, at Bessemer, Mich,
tas closed down, throwing out $50
men Indefinitely. The officials say
there is no sale for ore. The nine
Is a Rockefeller propert
White women who went on a strike
at the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills,
Atlanta, because of the employment
of colored women there, won victory
the colored women being withdrawn.
At Mount Sterling. KY. Isaac Semi
shot and instantly killed Thomas Ken
dial. They were partners in business
ana each weighed over 300 POUNDS.
jealousy Is supposed to have been the
cause.
Thomas II. Lynch of Wichita, kas.
has Just returned from Ireland. where
he succeeded in establishing his claim
to an estate valued ut 100000. which
has been in the family for IL cen
turtles.
t,..l, hA tll
Cotton Mills. Atlanta. which was sup
posed to be settled. broke out afresh
when President Elsas refused to sign
an agreement presented by the en-
ployes
While asleep mosquito crawlcd in
TO the mouth OF Alexander Seuserling
of New York and bit him on the in
side of his upper lip, with the result
that his condition Is pronounced Sc
rious.
Seyenty-hve thousand men and
women have been made idle by the
failure of the government to provide
revenue stamps for the cigarette out
put In accordance with the Dingley
bill
II. c. Landon has resigned as chief
engineer of the Chicago, Peoria and
st. Louis railroad to accept Il similar
position with the New York and OF
tawa railroad, with headquarter at
Cornwall, Canada.
The commercial ratio between gold
and silver Is 1856 to |. and director OF
h. lat thtnlsH
metal will decline to 40 cents an ounce
In n few months. Some western silver
mines may shut down.
It Is said on high authority that
United States Senator German Will IN
d short time announce that he Will
not be II candidate for reelection and
that at the conclusion of his term he
will retire from politics.
The differences between II number
of large Chicago printing and book
binding firms and their employees have
Gen settled by the state board of ar
bltratlon in favor Of the latter, Both
sides Will abide by the decision.
Miss Clara Hall, aged 10 years, and
Miss Lena Herrlck. aged Is years,
prominent society girls of Grand Rap
ids, were drowned while bathing ut
Ottawa Beach, summer resort on
Lake Michigan near Grand Rapids
The glucose plant of the American
Preservers' company, at Davenport,
Iowa, has been sold to the glucose
trust for 100000 This acquisition
viii give the trust control Of n major
Ity Of the eight plants throughout the
country.
Twenty thousand visitors saw New
ports naval fetc. Ia the afternoon
there was n parade of sailors and
marines. In the evening beautifully
Illuminated boats wound around Goat
island amid the barking Of cannon and
the detonatiCn of bombs
-. Clinton, Ind, Hugh White, coal
miner, on u BANTER. made the pcrilous
leap from tho summit of the railroad
bridge to the water 100 feet below
After tho leap he swan 100 feet In
his heavy clothing, climbed to the
top of the bridge again and repeated
his feat.
Ottumwa, Iowa, was the scene of a
terrible thunder and hail storm. The
Rock Island passenger train, Chicago
bound, was stopped by the storm.
Hallstones OF such quantities and size
rolled on tho track In the cuts that the
train was brought to stop. Every
window In the train was broken.
Dan McTaggart, ex-state senator
from Montgomery county, Kas., and
prominent rs n republican politician,
was shot and killed ut McTaggart's
II Ill, near Liberty, by Henry Sheesey,
lessee OF the mill. Mc1aggart's "a
year-old son was also shot In the arm.
Sheesley was arrested The shooting
was an outgrowth Of law suit
The Memphis and Charleston pas
songer train, No s, was wrecked near
Stratton. Ala. by misplaced switch.
The mail and baggage cars were over
turned and badly damaged. Sam
ID, Wis. baggage master, had two ribs
broken and received internal injuries,
believed to be fatal. Major 4, Martin,
| nSstal clerk was badly cut and