Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-01-28

Goulds will provided that If any o.
his children shall marry without con.
sent of majority of the executors ant
trustees then the share allotted to such
child shall be reduced one-half
DIR. Elliot OF Harvard in his address
before the Ohio society in New York
highly eulogized President Cleveland
His reference to "jingoism" brought
Senator Hawley to his feel with the
expressed hope that nothing personal
was intended. The senator was ap.
plauded by the guests who had shown
some dissatisfaction with Eliot's pre-
vious remarks about Cleveland.
Timothy b. Blackstone, president OF
the Chicago and Alton railroad com.
pany, has endowed his native town OF
Brandford Conn, with public library
that will prove an enduring monu.
ment, not only to his own liberality
but to the memory OF his father, the
famous Captain James Blackstone
who served his country during the wal
OF 1912.
Arrangements to enter into active
competition with the Western Union
Telegraph company b. operation
Of an extensive telegraph service in all
the northern states east Of the Mis-
souri, river are said to be under way by
the American Bell Telephone company
Rev Ross Stevenson, professor of
church history at Mccormick Theologi-
cal seminary, will probably be the sue
cessor of DR.. Burrows in the First
Presbyterian church Of Chicago DR..
Barrows some time ago resigned to go
to India to deliver the Haskell lec' =
ureS
One hundred idle men from the min
ing locations west of Hurley came into
town and demanded of the authorities
that they be given employment or some
financial assistance by which they may
protect their families from cold may
hunger Many of them claim to have
been without work from five to TEN
months The situation Is getting
desperate.
Half a dozen persons were seriously
hurt in wreck on the Toledo, Peoria
and Western road, near LaIIarpe, H.,
caused by a broken rail, The injured
were i. IT, Heifner Of Cuba, w. II.
Hipslcy of Canton, Felix Meyers Of
Sciota, A. Peterson Of Farmer City, En-
gineer John Samson of Peoria, Express
man II. A Smith OF Forrest and James
Soules Of Peoria.
Rev. DR.. Cyrus Hamlin has issued a
reply to the structures on the mission
aries in Turkey made by r. Hopkinson
Smith, the artist. DR.. Hamlin denies
that the Armenians have organized for
purposes Of war, and quotes James
Bryce to the effect that the American
minister to Turkey might well have
put some pressure on the sultan in
favor of the Christians, but he proved
unequal to the occasion.
Mrs. C. G. Pinckney Norris of Phil
adelphia has eloped with II. Cavalier
Smith, and they are now on their way
to Japan. Mrs. Norris Is one of the
best known women in the fashionable
set, and is the mother of two children.
while Mr.. Smith is equally we'll known,
both in the society and club worlds,
and Is the father of five children.
The illinois G. Wisconsin Lumber
Co. made an assignment. Most Of the
assets Of the company, which are
at 100000, consists of pro-
perty in Wisconsin. Assets are placed
a. 100000. The company operates mm-
Der yards at Riverside and Kensington.
The failure was precipitated by two
banks Mt Merrill, Wis, attaching the
lumber yards there.
Gov Drake of Iowa will probably
not be renominated He has become
very unpopular because of his attitude
towards his daughter. He refused his
consent to her marriage with George
on the grounds that he was
poor. The young people eloped. They
were forgiven and offered financial aid,
which was refused by Sturdivant.
Gov. Drake was angered and dis
charged his daughter from position
she held in the capitol.