Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-12-02
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senger rates heavily.
The battleship Iowa Is pronounced
the best OF her class In the world.
II is announced the presidents an
nual message will be a very long one
A centenarian was married to a
widow OF nearly eighty In ST. Joseph,
Mo.
The late Cyrus w. Fields Andre
monument Is advertised for sale for
taxes.
The national grange, which has been
meeting at Harrisburg, Pa, ended its
sessions.
J. Herman Bosler, one OF the lead
ing men In Pennsylvania. died at his
home In Carlisle.
Three members Of the Superior town
BOARD were arrested, charged with
election frauds.
Football: Yale 6, Princeton O..
pennsylvania Is, Harvard 6. Wiscon-
Gin 0, Alumni q.
The man for whose murder Frank
Noyak is being tried in Iowa ID re-
Horted alive at Seattle.
A locomotive engineer and his fire.
men on an Alabama railway fought
till the fireman was killed.
Three thousand sheep and many
cattle have been burned to death by
prairie fires In Texas.
Mrs. Coudot, widow OF one Of the
men lynched In North Dakota. Will
sue the county for $4,000.
The National Hotel Keepers Asso-
citation proposes insuring It's members
against check swindlers.
President Mckinley 10 said to have
committed himself In favor of the
policy of autonomy for Cuba.
George A. Bergman, Chicago's miss
Ing bridegroom, was found In Milwau-
kee He had been on u lark.
Senator Chandler thinks congress
will pass more stringent immigration
bill than the present one.
Senator Fairbanks Is preparing an
immigration BILL which he will pre-
sent to the senate ut an early day.
The Georgia senate passed the bill
making Illegal in that state games OF
football TO which admission Is charged
The indianapolis committee thinks
congress will adopt the plan to be re-
ported by the monetary commission,
William b. Smith OF Maryland, has
been appointed postollico inspector OF
tho Washington division OF that office.
Edward Rosennod, who arrived
from Now York recently, was arrested
al San Francisco on several charges OF
forgery.
A Detroit Clergyman Is In hot water
because he invited Emma Goldman to
give an anarchistic lecture In his
church.
Canadian Pacific directors are said
To be Interested In what promises to
be tho greatest mining company ever
organized.
The agreement on immigrant rates
represents the most fur reaching com
bination over yet made between rail-
road and steamship companies.
Mayor Gleason OF Long Island City
caused tho dismissal of the grand jury
which has been investigating his do
irgs,
Since the present administration
came into oillce. March A last, twenty
released In Cubu.
Miller, the ex-school teacher and
escaped Nebraska convict was sen
fenced to Ave years ut saltwater for
grand larceny.
Tho thirteenth annual meeting of
the Unitarian conference of the middle
states and Canada In Now York closed
It's labors.
Ex- Representative Baker Of New
Hampshire claims that the house will
repeal the civilization law at the com
Ing session Of congress.
Two men lost their lives In u street
oueN ut Waco, Tex, the trouble grow
Ing out of the mobblng OF Editor
Brann of the lconoclast.
A snowslido ON the Noblenno Noun
lain range, near Sannon, Alaska,
buried Joseph McGihbons, whose par
ents reside in Oakland Cal
The Interstate commerce commission
decided for the defendant in tho case
Of the Omaha Commercial club against
'lo Northwestern road
For the brutal murder OF his para
monr, Vinie Bell, George Winston
alias "Devip Winston, colored, was
hanged at Paducah, Ky
About 80 persons were injured by
the wrecking Of train on the Kansas
City, Fort Scott and Memphis railroad
near Willford, Ark
The pardon OF the Competitor pris-
ohels IN Havana was the elimination
Of Spanish Minister De l.ome's efforts
In their behalf.
Tho secretary of agriculture offers
rewards for contributions OF articles
from experts that may be accepted on
The cultivation of tobacco.
The Anchor Line steamer Bluff City