Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-12-30
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
DOMESTIC.

n. G.. Barker is dead, OF brights ais
ense.
Lead Leland, aged 65, one OF the
:, mily of famous hotel men Is dead III
New York city.
Adam McGraft, colored rag-pieker'
while intoxicated, froze TO oeath ~
Cedar Rapids. a..
Patrick Murphy, a pioneer retlaen'
O. rem ,scal, Cal, was murdered ny dill
unknown assassin.
George sheehan, a peddler, shot ms
" fe in cheap lodging house IN Cih-
TPnnati and then shot himself.
| While out hunting near Flora, IND,
Gichard Soules accidentally shot anu
7 killed his brother, Willis Soules.
The Lettis- Fletcher company gro
Gerry store at Marshalltown, Ia, was
completely destroyed by hre. LOSS
$4,000.
One man was killed, one fatally IN
iured and q number OF others sl1ghtiy
iurt by the bursting Of fly wheel In,
Pittsburg.
Mrs, Darlington Booth Of the Volun-
reers OF America, who Is being treated
at the Presbyterian hospital IN new
York City for an allment In the region
OF the heart, is much better
A st. Louis grand jury has returned
an indictment charging Daily, the ex-
puglist, with murder in the first de-
gree. DAILY shot and killed Lulu
Clark.
James Greiner, proprietor OF Pull
man hotel at Duryea, Penn, shot ana
killed his step-daughter. Caroline Sha-
fer In quarrel over money matters
Greiper ia an ex-member OF the legis-
ture.
A colored boy named Decker shot
and mortally wounded Marshal Muir
ply of Patoka, Ind, who was trying to
arrest him. He escaped. He will be
lynched II captured.
At Ely, MINI, Anton Bernie, an Aus
TRAN, was murdered by one OF his as
sociates under the name OF Frank
Permitz, alias Frank Hogar. The muir
der was committed during Il drunken
quarrel.
Notices of a 10 per cent reduction In
wages on Jan, ! have been posted In
the Amory and Stark and Jefferson
cotton mills In Manchester, Mass. The
Amoskeag mills, employing 5000,
posted similar notices last week,
The extensive establishment OF
Crook, Horner g. Co., dealers In plumb
ers', machinists' and millers' supplies,
In Baltimore was partially destroyed
by fire, entaillng n loss of about $780,
900 to stock and building.
by u decision of the Illinois supreme
court nearly 800 appointees OF Mayor
Harrison OF Chicago lose their jobs and
must stand n competitive examination,
which any citizen may enter to re7
gain them.
The schooner Anne and Mary, Capt,
John Sgsworth, which sailed from
Gloucester, Mass, on n hand lining
trip to George bank Oct. /. has been
given up for lost She carried an OK
ceptionally good crew of thirteen men.
Theodore Durrant says: 81 will
never be hanged. / know that help IL
coming once more, as 1t has always
come to me before in my extremity"
This statement has caused revival of !
the opinion that he will commit sui
eide II possible,
j. Hanway, stockholders agent of |
,,he National Bank of North Dakota, |
A. Fargo, has been arrested ON
charge OF misappropriation Of funds,
He recently submitted his final report |
III agent and shortage OF $4,000 was
found.
North Texas has just suffered the
worst snow and sleet storm in many
years. Dallas was completely isolated
for over "a hours and communication
with the outside world Is only partly
resumed There ia probably n heavy
loss OF stock.
George Gardner, member Of the law
Arm of Gardner and Taylor, is dead OF |
heart failure, ut Grand Rapids Wis. |
He was leading counsel for tho state |
In the Lord and Emery murder trial
a. Wausau, where he completed an ad-
dress to the jury just previous to re-
turning to his home.
The Auditorium, the finest play house
west OF Chicago, and the Auditorium
hotel In Kansas City were Quilted by
fire. Total loss, 100000; insurance
only $4,000. Owing to the high rate
or insurance many policies were al
lowed to lapse
lsom Lawson, the 1S-year-old boy
who murdered his father In Brush
Creek, was given a lifo sentence In the
penttentiary Lawson killed his par
ent, who was minister, by striking
him on the head with hoe, because
his father had corrected him for some
misdemeanor.
Seaman Philip r. Carter, who on
June 80 last killed with n bayonet his
shipmate and superior officer, Thomas
II. kenney, on board the battleshlp
Indiana ut the Brooklyn navy yard,
has been convicted of murder In the