Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-07-29
TELEGRAMS IN BRIEF.
DOMESTIC.

TWO IdTRc ISDSl f'iio 80 -
mountains, near Duchess Junctioh
n. Y. bursted and caused loss o
several lives.
Emauel Rich, member OF one o
the largest dry goods and furniture
6rms IN the south, committed suicld'
at his home in Atlanta.
A Judgment for $4oS,427 was ORDERED
against John Y. McKane, former gu
ocrvisor OF Grayescnd, N. Y, for money
received and not accounted for.
AT Seattle. the Alaska Development
company has been organized TO de'
velop tho coal and oil fields recentl!
discovered in southeastern Alaska.
The North Carolina Railroad com
mission has decided against the propo'
sition to reduce the rates and increase
the taxes on tho railw--s In that state
The New York Bankers association
adopted resolutions demanding thai
congress take action on the currency
question and recommending retirement
of all government paper.
In New York a consolidation OF gas
companies is believed to be impending
A party Of Russians well supplied
with capital arrived en- route TO Mis-
souri, where they will settle.
K. l.. Reade, a Yale alumnus and
lawyer, once reported worth million,
IA insane. His wife wac Josie Mans
field. the woman on whose account
Edward s. Stokes killed James Fish,
Jr.
A college for Catholic women Is TO
be established In Washington under
che auspices Of the Catholic university
There Is excitement on the Biz
mingham stock exchange. owing to the
belief there Ia Il coILer In cycling
tubing. There has been heavy ad'
vance in prices and everal spectators
Rave boon badly plnched.
officials of the Coal Miners associa-
ton have issued bulletin showing
the extent of the strike and predicting
a coal famine.
II. Barring Powell, who IL wealthy, at
tempted suicide In the Broad Street
Station on the Pennsylvania railroad
In Philadelphia.
August Huer Il Son, Chicago, dealers
cabinet hardware, made IN assign
ment to Charles V. Wohlhut. Assets
S35, 900; liabilities. 100000. Poor col
lections and general business depros-
sion are said to have caused the failure.
Ex-Queen Liluokalani has not yet
decided when she will leave New York.
She has taken her first ride on an
elevated train, and she expects to visit
tho stock exchange and the aquarium
soon. She secs few visitors at her
rooms In the hotel.
George b. Oswald has been clerk Of
the circuit court for Washington
county, Maryland, for "a years and has
never been absent from his Office ex-
cept en- duty md never for longer than
day until last week, whom he was In
Baltimore for four days as II witness
In tho federal court.
In u Jealous rage Frank w, Phel-
IN OF st. Louis fatally wounded Kittie
M. Wadsworth IN Chicago, and then
killed himself. Phelan Ia said to have
been a travelling representative of tho
American Railway League and well
known in railroad Cit les.
Coal miners at Fairmont and Mo
nongah, W. Va, generally show no de-
sire to join the strike. II Is recognized
by the Pittsburg miners that unless
the supply Of coal from West Virginia
can he stopped II serious handicap to-
sented.
II Is announced that Senator Has
.hrough OF North Dakota and Miss
Chapman OF Washington, Will be mar
ried in New York city August 20. The
senator Ia Il widower, his wife having
died two years or more ago, Miss
Chapman and he became acquainted
six weeks ago.
Mrs. Elizabeth Walker, widow of
Icaac L. Walker, ono of the first two
United Stl tea senators In Wisconsin,
and Il former resident OF Milwaukee,
died at the home of her daughter, Mrs,
#. II. Parsons, In Lake Mills, at an
advanced age The immediate cause
of her death was \ fall the day before,
Services were held In Lake Mills and
her remains were placed by the side
of her husband In Forest Hcmo, Mil
waukee The two first United States
senators elected In Wisconsin after tho
admission Of the state to tho union
were Mr.. Walker and Henry Dodge,
who were both elected June s. lSaS.
Charles nrcher Of st. Louis shot and
killed Bertha Hinicke three years ago,
He tried to XIII himself, but the bull
let only caused slight skull frac-
ture. He was tried and found guilty
and sentenced to be hanged, when 1t
was discovered that he had become In
sane. He was sont to Fulton asylum
and Is there now. He would probably
have remained there but for the re-
markable discovery of the asylum sur
geon that the now bone over the skull
fracture grew inward, pressing upon
the brain, unsettling the reason. This
extra skull growth will be removed
and tho asylum surgeon has notified
the governor that when tho wound