Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-03-25
NEWS OF TES WORLD.
DOMESTIC MATTERS.

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SAiley of Texas for speaker.
The Northwest had an almost unpre-
oedented mid-March snowfall
Former United States Senator Joseph
N. Dolph died at Portland, Ore.
Captain John Mangin, commanding
he Yonkers, N. Y, police, died, aged
- years.
The latest estimate OF Increased reve-
Tue under the new tariff bill IL $7O,-
100000.
MahIon s. Frost, leading promoter
OF water gas. Is dead In Chicago.
Emperor william has a bad abscess.
He walks with cane and Is growing
stout.
Prince Bismarck In the Hamburger
lachrIchten continues to oppose German
Intervention In the Cretan imboglio.
A bill to encourage the beet sugar In
lustry was introduced In the New York
legislature.
The st. Paul (Minn) Plow company
assigned Assets said to be 100000,
liabilities heavy.
Six new professorships were created
at the meeting OF the trustees OF Cornell
university, at Ithaca, N. Y.
The democratic state convention or
Rhode Island nominated Daniel T.
Church for governor.
The populist measures providing for
jhe Initiative and referendum were de-
lcated In the Kansas legislature
The practical restoration OF the Nc
kinley wool rates Ia decided upon by
he ways and means committee.
Arthur Johnson tried ut Red Wing
" completely In the Wyoming (Mnn)
Duble murder, was acquitted.
Funeral .ervices over the remains OF
MRS. Henry Ward Beecher were held
In Plymouth church, Brooklyn.
Fires at Atlantic City caused about
$4,000 damage to the Seabright hotel
ond $1,000 to the Grand Union.
Rev. John Plnasse, prominent Pa
cific coast Jesuit, died at the Sacred
Heart Novitate, Mt Los Galos, Cal.
Gov. Daniel w. Jones Of Arkansas will
call nm extra session OF the Legislature
" that state to pass appropriation bills.
John 10. Sullivan the murderer OF
Mrs. butcher and her young son Harris,
September 10, was hanged at Dorchester.
N. b.
The st. Louis conference OF the Meth
odist Episcopal church voted In favor
Of admitting women to the general con-
ference
Statistics compiled ut Topeka show
that the mortgage Indebtedness Of Kan
sas has decreased AZ per cent since Jan
uary /, 1870.
DIR. w. II. Lpscomb and Guy Jack
we're indicted at Meridian, Miss. on the
charge OF numbering G. r. Stuart to get
insurance money.
Rev. Il. J. Oldknow MillIngton Of
Newark, N. j., has confessed to the
ieacons OF his church that he eloped
with Mrs. Dorothy Dlckerson,
The democratic city convention Of
Chicago nominated Carer n, lIarrl-
eon for mayor. He Ia n SIN OF the
late cx-Mayor Carter Harrison.
Tho case against ex-Clly Clerk IIaney
Of Minneapolis was dismissed and the
court ordered the arrest Of Aid Drew
on the charge of perjury or larceny.
General Land Commissioner Iamo-
:euX may be summarIly removed for
having given out an advance copy OF
his ruling In the Chicago lake front
case.
Howard G. Benham, Of Batavia, N,
T., charged with poisoning his rich
young wife, was Indicted. A lawyer
who In also n physician chemist, magi
clan. author and lecturer will help him.
The Mexican government has granted
valuable concession to st. Louis capt.
tafists. under which they acquirc.control
Of 100000 acres OF coffee and sugar
lands In Vera Cruz valued at $500 900.
The California supremA court has
maintained the constltutlonality OF the
San Francisco civic ordinance prohibit
ing pool selling by denying the applca-
ZION Of John Glynn for writ OF habeas
corpus.
Arthur Mayhem was olectrocuted at
Sing Sing prison for the murder OF
stephen Powell. He said he died in
Loccnt and that the murder was COM
mitted by John Wayne and George Al
fred.
The house at Lincoln, Neb.. passed,
without the emergency clause. Wooster's
bin prescribing what shall be legal
tender In Nebraska. This bill Is intend.
ed to prevent the insertion OF the gold
clause " contracts, notes or mort
cages.
General Frederick Solomon, who en-
tered the civil war rs captain in the
fifth Missouri cavalry and came out with
the brevet OF major general, has died
at Salt Lake City. He has been survey
or general OF Utah under the last three
administrations.
Vice Chancellor Reed, at Trenton, N.
j., dismissed the suit brought in the
name OF the 'ttorneygeneral OF that
state to RESTRAIN the American Tobacco
company from transactlng It's business
in n manner prejudicial to the COM
claimants and injurious to the people
OF New Jersey"
The California Mortgage Loan and
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