Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-04-08
TELEGRAMS In BRIEF.
DOMESTIC.


The United Press collapsed utterly.
A cyclone with loss of life occurred
In Texas
Governor Holcomb OF Nebraska,
signed the bill appropriating 100000
tor the trans Mississippi exposition
DR.. Theodore Burr, who was
coworker with John Ericsson in de-
signing the monitor, died in Detroit
The Kentucky court Of appeals de-
cided that the banks Of the state must
be taxed under the ad valorem system.
The supreme court OF New York has
decided that man cannot recover an
sGeegemt mt ring given TO girl under
age.
Three ,nen were killed and ten were
injured by an explosion OF nitro
glycer'ne at the Reapuno chemical
works.
A bill to form new state out Of
New York City, To be known as Man
hatten, is before the New York legis-
lature.
Recently the night freight out OF
Waterville, Me-, conveyed hearse on
fiat car to Portland. Near Mon
mouth, as the brakeman was going
over the train, he discovered the feet
Of a tramp protruding from the hearse
and the man himself, sound asleep.
Andrew d. White B said TO have ac-
cepted the German embassy, while
Cherlemagne Tower will be minister
TO Austria.
William Ingless, under arrest In
Cleveland for incendlarlsm. has con-
fessed to having set fire TO 40 build
inH In Detroit
Charles +. Blake, ex-president OF the
Iowa National Bank, and the Ottum-
wa Industrial Exchange. is dead. He
was "A years Of age.
Mrs. Marie p. Storey, first wife of
Wilbur +. Storey, formerly proprle-
tor OF the Chicago Times. lis dead In
Florence, Italy.
rhe New Jersey Methodist Episco-
pal conference voted against admit
ting women as delegates TO the gen
eral conference.
The mississippi river continues to
fall slightly ut Memphis and many
rredlct that the worst Of the flood sit
uation has passed.
A statue of the late Commodore"
Vanderbilt, of New York. will be UNI
yelled Oh the campus OF Vanderbilt
University, Nashville, Tena
Elizabeth Paulsonf aged IL years,
died In Chicago from fright caused by
seeing In her room shadow which
she thought was man.
party OF Dunkard coloasts from
Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania
and other states will go to North
Dakota this week as settlers.
Anton M Chrlstinson, Of Rldgeway,
Mich, was arrested In New York chorg-
ed with having swindled the Ridgeway
Creamery company out OF $4,000,
Mrs. Emma Moss Booth Tucker, the
wife of Frederick Dooth-Tucker, Of
the salvation Army, formally declared
her intention to become "A citizen of
the United States,
ht uui allVSANh ~
Chicago for forgery. Is the son of the
late John Miner formerly cashier of
the Farmers and Merchants Bank,
of Los Angeles Cal.
Governor Ellerbe committed TO life
Imprisonment the sentence of Dan G.
Murphy who was convicted OF muir
dering County Treasurer Copes Of
0rangeburg, S. &,
The Iowa house passed an act max
ing 1t crime for ten or more persons
to so together without means, depend
ing on people for support, after the
style OF Coxey's army
Another ballot for the United States
Senator WAS taken by the Kentucky
Legislature, DIR. w, G. Hunter, repub-
liean, receiving 67 votes. two fewer
than are necessary to elect.
The Clemen Toy Company, of Gin
cinnati, assigned, Assets, $4,000;
liabilities, $4,000 The company had
previously confessed Judgment to two
creditors amounting TO $4,000,
Rev Dr., c, Swallow, editor of the
Pennsylvania Methodist, was con-
ylcted at Harrisburg, Pa, OF criminal
~ lIneling Capt John G. Delaney,
state superintendent of public build
ings and grounds.
The post office al Geneva, n. ",
was entered by burglars. who blew
open the safe and obtained $1,000 In
cash, besides stamps and other yalu-
ables. This is the second time the
Office has been robbed in two years,
Charles Eliot, son Of President Eliot
of Harvard college and partner of
Frederick Law Olmstead, the land
scape 1ardner Of the Columbian eX-
position and the Boston Park system,
died at his home in Brooklinc, Mass,
aged So years
The first of the cuts in freight and
passenger rates expected TO result
from the United States supreme
courts recent decision In the Trans
Missouri Freight Association case