Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-11-04
TELhGlsAMS In BRIEF.
DOMESTIC.

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James X. Taylor OF Pennsylvania.
was appointed supervising architect OF
the treasury.
The new Congressional Library will
be thrown open to the public on NO
vember l.
The Iowa supreme court calls the
making OF speculative grain contracts
gambling.
Catholic societies will make public
demonstration In Brooklyn against
profanity.
The president has appointed Medical
Director w. X. Van Reypen surgeon
general OF the navy.
The centennial of the frigate Con
stitution, "Old Ironsides," was OBJ
served In Boston.
Henry Ives Cobb OF Chicago has
been selected as architect of the new
Pennsylvania capitol
w. G. Hitchcock Il Co., OF New York.
silk dealers, made an assignment with
liabilities over $l,000,OOO.
John Watts Kearney, Jr., son Of
Gen. Kealney, was ndjudged an habit
ual drunkard I'm New York.
The ordnance bureau has completed
500 big guns for the navy and has l69
In process OF manufacture.
An epidemic of diphtheria prevails
among Russians at Eureka, $. d., and
practically every case IL fatal,
Nicholas Engel, who was we'll known
among baseball men and actors In
many cities, died In New York.
John Lemke, who was shot and rob
bed in Minneapolis, died after indenti.
flying Moshik as his nssailant.
Philip D. Armour, the Chicago mil
lionare, Is II very early riser, and is
at $3.50 o'clock.
Serious trouble between the British
and French governments is threaten
ed over conflicting claims In the Da-
honey Hlnterland, West Africa
Secretary Of War Alger issued an
order establishing military reserya-
ton on st. Michael island Alaska.
Tho American Missionary Assoc
alton. In session nj Minneapolis, re-
elected President Merrill E. Gates
The domestic and international
money orders issued during the last
fiscal year amounted to $1SS.07 ,05G.
benjamin r. Hunt, aged 81 years,
and Mrs. Julia Ann Sherman. aged
30, were married nj WATERFOWL, N. Y.
Distinguished astronomers held a
conference ut the dedication OF the
Yerkos telescope ut williams Bay, Wis
David McIane, aged SO. and his wife,
Catherine, aged 90, signed an agree
ment OF separation In Chester county,
Pa.
The doors of the Edgerton, Wis.
Bank were closed. Tho announcement
Is made that dcpositors viii be paid In
full. Cashier &. l.. Burnham gambled
In wheat.
schooner was wrecked off the
coast of California and thirteen sal
lors drowned,
Tho treaty negotiated between the
Dawes commission and tho Creek In
dams has been projected by tho Creek
council.
eNN''t"lf Va 'hi ilNhi1uIy bdBVI 1T "
recent cabinet meeting, proposed new
designs for the paper money of the
government.
EX- Postmaster General Wanamnker,
In u letter to q trade convention In
Now York declared himself In favor of
heaper biography.
A letter from Alaska states that
there have been six suLc. des, three
hangings and eleven killings on the
White pass nail.
Secretary of the Navy Long Will
urge congress to increase the persbnnel
OF the navy by 100 officers. 1900 en-
listed men and 500 apprentices.
A Bismarck woman sued the wife of
Justice Bartholomew. Of the North Da-
kota supreme court, charging aliena-
tion of her husbands affections.
Warrants were issued FOR the arrest
o. state Auditor Mayhem, eX-Ailltor
Hippo and eX-Clork Anderson of South
Dakota ON charges of omho22lom IN,
Tho onthousos OF tho West Tenn
essce Asylum for the Insane at Bolt
var, were destroyed by fire, damage
$4,000, The main building escaped
In his annual report General Miles,
commanding the army, recommends
that congress authorize two more
regiments of artillery and five of in
fantry.
The national convention of tho
Church Of Disciples. which have been
meeting ut indianapolis. decided to
hold their next meetings mt Chatta-
nooga, Tenn.
Edward Il. Ferguson. sheriff of Lee
nawee county, Mich, was fined $3.50
by Recorder Con- of New York for
permitting II prisoner to escape from
his custody.
James Rice, former secretary of
state for Colorado. is held in Now York
on n charge OF retaining the collections
Of an insurance company of which he
was an agent.
Funeral services over the remains