Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-04-07

$3OO OF property.
The Iowa republican state commit
tee has decided to hold the next state
convention at Dubuque, Sept. l.
Commander Eugene ID. f. Herald,
U. $. NJ, IN command OF ships at the
naval academy, died suddenly of
Bright's disease.
New York theatrical managers are
reviving the project Of combining
their advertising to the newspapers.
Two robbers held up train IN Cali
drove off with registered mail pouch.
Rev. Dr. John Hall, pastor Of the
Fifth Avenue Presbyterian church,
suffering from nervous prostration, Is
better.
AT Altoona, Pa, James w. Buchanan,
a grand nephew of the late exPresi-
dent Buchanan, was run down by "a,
train and killed.
New York's state legislature passed
a primary election law requiring the
! use of regular election machinery in
all large cities.
Thomas Il. Watson has declined the
populists nomination tor governor OF
Geo gia and announces that he Is out
OF politics for good.
| The floods In the Ohio river and
Its many tributaries receded because
rain stopped, but the damage to prop
erty Is estimated In the millions.
The secretary OF the interior has
sent to the house an estimate calling
Tor appropriations of over 100000
to meet deficiency In the pension
funds.
The funeral OF the late General
Wheelock q. VeaZey, formerly inter
state commerce commissioners and
one OF the heroes OF the late war,
took place in Washington.
Mrs. Jane Winchester, widow Of the
founder aud proprietor OF the Win
chester Repeating Arms Co., Is dead.
she was u years of age. Her estate
is estimated at $4O00O,000
Councilman Louis j. Walker of
Philadelphia admitted on the wit
ness stand that he had taken $500 for
favorable report on an ordinance
leasing the city waterworks.
The Philadelphia council has drop
ped the Investigation Of bribing
charges In connection with the pas
sage OF the city water lease bill and
the matter is now In the hands OF the
district attorney.
A sealing steamer arrived ut Bay
dc Verde with the bodies Of rs OF AZ
men who had persisted on ice-iloes
while hunting seals. Fifty-fve men
were 30 badly frost-bitten that they
probably have 10 have their limbs
amputated.
Nine former city officials OF Brook
lya were indicted for corruption and
conspiracy. the amount involved be-
ihg about $4,000 of the city water
departments funds, said to have
been taken by means of fraudulent
contracts.
The suicide Of Cashier Hopkins, OF
the Peoples Bank, Philadelphia, re-
suited In the banks doors being
AioaSd, uhu ~ wan IitlL Will
out authority he had loaned 100000
to the Guarantor's Finance company.
which made an assignment later.
An agreement has oeen reached by
the eonierees ON the Alaska land bill
to insert provision allowing Can
adian miners the same rights In
Alaska as are given by the Canadian
government to the American miners
Canadians will not have to be natur-
allied to take mines IN Alaska.
At a special meeting Of the Boston
chamber of commerce resolutions
were unanimously adopted commend
Ing President Mckinley for his at
titude In the present crisis and for
his efforts to avert war. and express
ing confidence and pride In the ability
and moderation of the Secretary of
the Navy.
William A. Lamon, n merchant, G..
w. Gaines, agent OF tho Missouri,
Kansas and Texas Railroad aud La
ton Sarp, n section hand, all OF Gibsol
Station, |. r., have been indicted by
the federal grand jury ut Waggoner.
|. H., for numbering Il. ID. Chalmers
aud his wife who We're killed by the
mob near Wybark.