Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-02-10
rELEGkAMS In BRIEF.
DOMESTIC.

LcnoBe county, Ark. :,
At Bangor, Me-, ex-Gov. H. NJ
Plaisted is dying. -.
Secretary Gage asks authority W
coin more silver.
Letter claims to own all the surplus
wheat.
Omaha gets the eighth franchise Tor
the western baseball league.
A sarcopnagus for Mrs U. s. Grant
was placed in the generals toih1'
All claims in the Klondike region
are reported TO have been taken up
The church of st. John Baptiste at
Montreal was burned. Loss, $zoo,ooo.
Hugh Bonner was appointed chlef Oh
Tho ere2ter New York fire department
The Ohio river has fallen over loo'
and all danger OF flood is passed.
A conference OF prohibitionists, IN
Guiding prominent men from many
states. was held ut Cincinnati.
Plans are well under way for estab-
fishing an Abraham Lincoln Memorial
University In Cumberland Cap, Tenn
Fire In the Jones block at Oregon,
III caused "a loss OF $4,000, practically
co gered by insurance.
A new surety company, backed ny
the Deutsche bank OF Berlin, Is 10 DC
started In New York.
In The New York assembly bill
Was introduced making the Issuing OF
trading stamps u mlsdemeanor
Justice Mckenna took his seat AZ a
member of the United States supreme
vourt.
Col. TON" Ochiltree. upon whom
surgical operation was recently per-
formed, Is recovering rapidly.
Comptroller Dawes selected George
II. Earle, Jr., as receiver for the Chest
nut Street National bank. Philadelphia.
Rev. Conrad Kuhl died ut his home
In Shipman, Macoupin county, H., OF
old age, aged n years.
Redmond Cleary, u well-known grain
commission merchant and pioneer OF
Ct. Louis, 10 dead.
The exports OF wheat An 1897 aggre-
gated 100 ,909.32S bushels, and OF corn
1S9,127. $50 bushels
Negotiations are progressing for "a
reciprocity treaty between the United
States and Spain, Porto Rico and Cuba.
At Rutland, VT, Mrs. Julia j. 9
Dorr, the well-known author and poet,
In critically Ill.
Attorney General Monnett OF Ohio.
reopened war on the Standard OH
trust.
At Valley View, KY. there are re-
ports OF Mrs. General Cassius M. Clay's
misbehavior with Willie Bryant.
At Milwaukee Chief OF Police JAMS
sen has decided to put stop to all
boxing contests.
An examination Of the duplicate GER
tifcates OF discharge shows 10000
Veterans who have not asked pensions
Nebraska farmers refuse to raise
sugar beets this year because manu-
facturers want to deduct 81 per ton In
tho event that Hawaii Is annexed.
Hoboken policemen captured three
highwaymen and recovered nearly $500
which had been stolen from AN aged
barge captain, Joseph Lamonnon.
William IL. Watson, the student of
the New York trade school, who shot
and killed Joseph Miller, fellow stu
dent, was exonerated.
John ID. Long, secretary of the navy,
was yesterday unanimously elected
president of the Massachusetts Total
Abstinence society.
The republican members OF the
house banking committee decided to
meet three times u week and begin
work on u currency reform measure.
Anthony Rainetaux Dyett, aged "A,
who introduced the Saturday half
holiday movement in New York, died
at his home in Plainiield, N. j.
Elwood Evans. the oldest practicing
lawyer in Washington. dropped dead
from heart disease on the street Mt Ia
coma. lie was 20 years OF age.
Steps have been taken which insure
the consolidation Of the New York
Central and Lake Shore railroads un-
der one management.
1t has been found that from ST. ,000.-
wv w FSO,VNViNNu III uhpuiu luANp uiN
aue the new city of New York from
the boroughs which compose 1t.
The sureties OF llaugen, the default
Ing city treasurer of Minneapolis, have
been released from their $3.50, 900 bonds
for 100000
The OhlC law which says the sum of
$4,000 may be collected from a county
by friends of Il person lynched therein
has been declared unconstitutional.
The high price of hops last year has
greatly encouraged the hop growers In
California. and there will be u consid-
able increase In the acreage
The fortineatuns appropriation bill
carries $i.lii,9l2, as against estimate,
made by the war department Of 3d..
s7S,57l.
Coal operators will shortly advance
the price Of their product 2Nc ton as
n result Of the interstate Joint confer.
ence oil operators and miners.
At New Haven, Conn. Frederick