Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-02-11

San Juan district of Colorado.
Lieut.. Gov. Woodruff visited Canton
to urge the claims OF Gen Woodford to
cabinet position, but found that there
is little likelihood OF New York getting
a place in McKinleys official family.
Private Frederick Clinton OF the
United States army was frozen to death
in the streets OF Whitestone, l.. l. Clin-
ton was to have quit the army In a
few days after ten years service
Willard Cotton, As years old, Of Cleye-
land, shot and almost instantly killed
bis wife, Clarisso, aged 81, ana shot
himself in the head, dying IN short
time. The couple had quarreled.
James r. Hawkins, proprietor Of the
Il. F.. Hawkins Iron Works, bridge
builders in Springfield, Mass, has made
q voluntary petition in insolvency.
Liabilities, 100000; assets about the
same.
AdoIph Meyer pleaded guilty in New
York to setting fire at night, two weeks
ago, to an East One Hundred and
Thirteenth street tenement house He
was sentenced to twenty years in state
prison.
Walter d. Valentine and William +,
Fender, who were convicted few
days ago of running bucket shops in
New York city, were yesterday SEN
fenced to serve six months in the pen
itentiary.
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years OF age, died as the result OF In
juries received while running corn
shelter. The ny-wheel of the engine
burst. His father had his right arm
broken.
Thirty-scVen persons were overcome
by gas which escaped fr0ln a leak in
the main in the Palace hotel, n cheap
lodging-house In Boston, and Jcrre
Cronln and John Harrington had mar
row escapes.
Omaha, Neb.--Joscph Collins was
stabbed by Charles Mellen, an eX-con-
vict, and died The weapon was q
small penknifc, and the wound was
only half an inch deep. The murderer
The criminal libel suit brought at
Fargo by States Attorney Miller
against Mrs. Teresa Dean Of Chicago
has been dismissed, the preliminary
hearing showing that the prosecution
had no case.
DR. VIM. b. Burt, one of the foremost
auth >rltlos Of the homeopathic school
of medicine IN this country, died in
Chicago as the result of an apopIectlc
stroke, aged G5. He was born in
Brunswick Ont, In 1891,
A motion for q rehearing In the case
of Millionaire Arthu Ducstrow, con
victod of the murder of his wife aud
child and sentenced to hang, has been
filed in Division No. | Of the supreme
court ut Jefferson City.
John Cochran was arrested at Frank
lin, Ind, as the murderer Of Frank Red
mond of the fire department, while es-
Gaping arrest for attempted murder and
robbery, and was taken to indianapolis
and held for further investigation.
\ posse Of police officers attempted
10 arrest William Carter. notorious
desperate Of Chattanooga, for shoot
ing Police Captain |. G. Russell. He
opened fire, which was returned, and
he FELL pierced by twelve bullets
Charles Grigsby, n convict in the
at Columbus. Ohio, made
n rope of his pantaloons and escaped
by scaling the walls He had been sent
mp for a year for burglary and would
have been released in five months,
Mrs, Amelia u. Post, one of the lead.
ing woman sulrraglsts of Wyoming, is
dead. 1t was mainly through M
Posts influence that the first Terrific
rial Legislature of Wyoming passed II
law granting women suffrage IN 1869.
The suffering among the poor seems
to he on the increase. The Salvation
Army sheltered 1900 Friday night,
and all the charitable organizations
were bosieged About seven thousand
men found work shoveling and cartine
snow.
New York With view of avoiding
the danger of the introduction OF bu-
bonnie plague IN this country, the health
authorities will have all mails from
bombay and other plague infected
ports subjected to thorough -rumiga-
ton
Knoxville, Tenn Tho Wautauga
bank of Johnson City was closed. and
its cashier, l., Il. St, John named as
trustee. The liabilities are $4,000;
assets, $4,000 Loss of depositors and
had collections are the cause Of the
trouble
DIR. Edward Barstow of Williams col
lego, Massachusetts. has been elected
assistant professor of chemistry at the
Kansas state university, to take the
place of Professor Edward G. Franklin.
who has been granted years leave
of absence
William Porter, aged Il, captain
of the Chattanooga, Tenn, fire de-
partment, committed suicide by shoot
ing. Temporary insanity resulting
from blow / The head received some
years ago - given as the cause He
was unmarried,
Consul General Lee has made an
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