Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-03-11

20 into receivers hands.
Charles Brown, colored, was lynched
at Soddy, Tenn, for attempted felonious
assault Of Miss Lille Walker.
The Bank Of Lithonia, q branch OF the
Union Loan and Trust company OF At
tanta, made an assignment.
The Venezuelan boundary commits
sion's work is finished and Its report
made. It Is decisive Of nothing.
Ten thousand New York cloakmakers
expecting to be refused an increase OF
wages, are preparing to strike
Wisconsins supreme court decided
mat the compulsory vaccination rule OF
The state board OF health is invalid.
DR.. Fridtjof hansen, the Arctic ex-
plorer, will make lecture tour Of the
United States in the fall OF the present
year.
The number OF persons In Claiborne
La, who are destitute as the result of
result OF the drought there is estimated
at 1000.
Col. J. II. Estill, owner OF the Savan-
nah News was married In Chattanooga
TO Miss Maud Hill of that city.
John Corwln, the United States navy
paymaster who Ia accused OF embezz.
ling government funds, was arrested In
Chicago.
The safe OF the Albany railway COM
pany, in their main Office In Albany,
was broken into by thieves and
$4,000 stolen.
Fire at Fort Wayne destroyed the
hardware store OF Morgan & Co., and
several adjoining buildings. Loss,
$125,000,
The democratic state convention OF
Rhode Island doesn't want gold or silver
mentioned In the state convention to be
held March 10.
It transpires that Carl Jonas OF Wis
consin, who died while consul at Gre
field, Germany, over year ago, COM
mitted suicide.
The Kansas legislature has passed
the Harris bill authority to fix rates.
with power to enforce decisions by man
damus proceedings.
The Missouri legislature has passed a
law which prohibits any person from
solemnizing marriages who is not
citizen OF the United States.
The Colorado supreme court has sus-
tanned the recently adopted civic ordin-
snce prohibiting pool selling and taxi
ing commissions on racing bets.
A clause was inserted In the sundry
civil bill nullif, ing the presidents for
est reserve order as regards South Da-
kota and other western states
Senator Mitchell has written stating
his willingness to withdraw from the
Oregon senatorial contest In order that
a republican senator may be elected
Judge Long was renominated by the
republicans in Detroit for the supreme
court, and A. ]. Cocker, OF Adrian, for
regent OF tho university of Michigan.
A mass-meeting was held at Dead
wood, 8. d., to protest against President
Cleveland's action In establishing n
forestry reservation In the Black Hills.
Dubois announced In the senate that
the silver republicans will never CO.
operate with the republicans so long as
the latter adhere to the gold standard.
The colored Knights Templar com
manderlos of the United States have
organized n grand commandery In st,
Louis Thirty States were represented.
The grand jury Of Clay county, Mo,
voted unanimously to return lndict-
ments against VIII Foley, charging him
with the murder of his mother and
sister.
Robert Wilson and Stanley Miller.
two Red Lodge, Mont, gamblers, shot
each other In n quarrel over money
Wilson is dead and Miller cannot re-
cover,
While Samuel Caro-, Boston jeweler,
vas at dinner, leaving boy and two
iou:neymen IN the store, three men
got away with gold settings valued at
$780,
Jefferson county, Mo-. had Its first
double execution, the death penalty be-
,ng paid by Robert Cox for assault and
another negro, known as Crazy Jim"
for murder.
Tho committee of the Colorado legis-
lature, which was appointed to invest-
gate the Leadville strike, made a report
recommending that the strike be settled
by arbitration.
Henry NJ. Kline, formerly paying
teller OF the Farmers National bank of
Lebanon, Pa. was sentenced in Phila-
delphia to five years imprisonment for
embezzlement.
Several suits for alleged libel were
brought at Harrisburg against Rev. DR..
S. G. Swallow, editor of the Pennsyl-
vanian Methodist. for charges of cor
fnption made against state officers.
The Venezuelan consul at st, Louis
Is authority for the statement that the
Illinois Central Is considering the estah-
lishment of steamship line between
New Orleans and Venezuelan ports.
Colonel Salmon Algernon Granger, n
member of the staff Of the late Governor
Lu2on b. Morris. of Connecticut COM
mitted suicide at Winsted. Conn. hy