Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-01-14

vile was slightly wounded. Peter Gill
lam did the shooting. All are white
and respectable families. Gillum has
not been captured.
The Dawes Indian commission will
reopen negotiations with the five civ
ilIzed tribes early IN January. The
Cherokees will be the first nation
treated with, and the commission cx-
poets to secure AN agreement with all
the tribes by the 1st Of February.
The religious society known as Dun
kards Is endeavoring to purchase the
entire region comprised within Brown
county, in Indiana, TO which It's mem
bers will emigrate to establish a gov
eminent Of their own according TO
their peculiar notions.
County Treasurer Jarnigan OF
Austin, Texas, shot himself fatally.
He admitted that he was short $4,000.
The Crompton block, a large five
story brick 1uildng in Worcester,
Mass, was totally damaged by fire.
Tho loss is more than $4,000,
G. D. Carpenter, a bookkeeper for
the Home Sewing Machine company's
agency in st. Louis, and G. A. Wey-
rick, local draughtsman, have been
found dead in room in a local hotel.
Investigation showed that they died
from an overdose of some narcotic.
Thieves entered the store of j. n.
Roberts, at Artesla, Miss, and killed
John Roberts, n brother OF the pro-
pretor who slept in the store. Mr..
Roberts, from window, saw Two men,
and fired Then he went for assist
aEce Just after he left the house he
was shot.
Two men were shot and two police
men received n nearly fatal beating
In saloon riot on Waterloo street,
Grand Rapids Mich. The officers en-
tered the place, suspeuting that the law
was being violated in keeping open,
and Immediately they were attacked
by an angry crowa.
Aldermen George A. Durham OF Min
neapolis was ar'raigned In the district
court and pleaded not guilty to an
indictment for bribery. He is charged
with demanding bride of $4,000 from
the Halvorsen & Richards Company,
firm of contractors, which bid on the
excavations OF the new reservoir.
Joe Adkins, a member OF the French
faction OF French Eversole feud fame,
has been convicted at Barbourville,
KY, and given a life sentence for the
murder IF Judge Isaiah Combs at Haz-
ard, Perry county, Ky. The murder
was the last OF long series OF homi-
cides resulting from the feud,
Mrs. Kate Taylor, widow OF Admiral
William Roger Taylor, United States
navy, died In Washington. Mrs. Tay-
lor was born April 90, 1916, being a
native of Massachusetts, Her father
was Colonel Walter Hastings of Bos-
ton, and her family was we'll known
throughout New England
Tho sheriff In New York received an
attachment for $6S75 against the Bank
of Minnesota of St Paul in favor of
Mary H. Semplo on IN assigned claim
of G. ". Oakley 4 Co, western bankers.
Mr. and Mrs. John W. Hinton pre-
scented the Protestant Home for the
Aged at Milwaukee with $4,000 to
erect II Ilro-proof memorial structure
to be called tho "FranciS Hinton ad-
dition to the Protestant Home for the
Aged" In memory of their son, who
died In Paris year ago.
ny an explosion AT the Monitor coal
mine, six miles from West BAY city,
Mich, Fred Casper, n miner. was
killed and three others were seriously
injured, They had gone into a new
entry against orders and as soon as
they entered their lamps lgnited the
gas with which the entry was filled.
John Kennedy was arrested In Kan
aas City, Mo, charged with being the
leader of the gang OF bandits who held
up and robbed Il Chicago and Alton
train In Blue Cut the night of Deccm-
ber 3D. Kennedy refuses to give any
information. He has been committed
to Jail,
ellis Bernard, who belonged near
Montreal, was found dead In his room
at tho Directory hotel In Albany. N. Y,
apoploxy, rs he had had two previous
attacks. He was In Albany visiting
his children, who attend school there
He was n man of means.
Tho reports from Washington that
secretary Francis would soon declare
the Wichita, I<iowa and Comanche In
dian lands open for settlement has
caused CONSERVATION among the cattle
men Of oklahoma. and tney will try
to prevent early action, In the mean
time many companies are being formed
to secure the best lands.
The case OF the United States VS..
the Union Pacific railway has been dis-
missed by Judge Hallet, in the United
States district court at Denver. This
action was brought by the government
on behalf OF 1900 people for the pur-
pose OF clearing titles to land pur-
chased from the railroad secured by
the government grants.
obituary: AT Philadelphia. PROBES