Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-02-03

when goes into effect at once Is:
First class, $50; second class, $35 tn
rate on freight Is advanced from
$40 to $13 on freight per ton.
At New Haven, Conn, Edward Duff
aged 40, a mechanic, shot and killed
his wife and mother-in-law, Ma. :
Maher, after trying to induce his wife
to live with him again.
| According to DR.. BrudenshaW, Hett.
Green, the richest woman In America
posed as a poverty-stricken individual
IN New York in order to receive free
medical treatment at dispensary.
The insurance order Of the Lady
Maccabees of the World met In con-
yention at Milwaukee. The Dement'S
paid by the order up to Sept. J. 1884,
amounted to $2l2,15O.
The state department has ordered
George II. Murphy, clerk IN the CON
sular bureau at Washington, 10 &c
TO Colon and take charge OF the con
sulate there, made vacant by the
death of Consul Ashby.
Secretary OF the Navy Long ap-
peared before the senate committee
on naval affairs and recommended
that he be permitted to enter 1nUo u
contract with private firms TO supply
armor for the Illinois, Alabama ana
Wisconsin at $500 ton.
The most severe snowstorm expert
onced this winter set in Saturday The
storm was general throughout Iowa,
Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, ONO
and Missouri In Iowa the heaviest
snowfall Is recorded, the average be-
ing sixteen inches.
| Congessmen acquainted with IN
views OF the administration on the
Cuban question say that Spain Will De
given time for fair trial or her plan
of autonomy. Precautions have Deeh
taken to protect American interests IN
the event OF sudden uprising.
The second week of the big cotton
mill strike opened at the principal
centers with both sides apparently as
determined to hold out as at the In
aug,iration of the contest No at
tempt was made to open the gates OF
the big corporation mills at New Bed
ford, Blddeford or Lewiston.
Christian science has found u large
field in Batavia, ILL.,, recently, and the
churches have felt called upon to de-
vote considerable attention to 1t. 1t
has been denounced and lately tracts
Of Ilan1nn-
ology, general denunciation Of
Christian science. have been cir
culated.
CommissiJre Evans of the pension
department expresses the opinion
that 1t would be proper for post
masters to refer letters In reference TO
pension cases addressed to them to
the nearest special examiner or to the
commissioners Of pensions, II the ad-
dress of the examiner Is not known
Rev. DR.. John Hall OF New York
City, yielding to the wishes OF his
congregation, has decided to with
draw his resignation of his passionate.
Mrs. Anna Wollert. who murdered
her stepdaughter In Algonquin, Ill.,,
and confessed the crime, has been
sentenced to life Imprisonment.
M. J. Cramer, S. II. D., LII. D..
former minister to Denmark and
Switzerland, and brother-in-law Of
General u. s. Grant. died suddenly at
Isle, Pa. OF neuralgia of the
heart, aged 65 years. For the last
six months he had been professor ut
Dickinson College.
President Mckinley was guest at
the banquet of the National Associa
ton of Manufacturers Mt New York
Thursday evening, and made n speech.
Rev. A. Il. Smith, II Methodist pas
tor of Defiance. Ohio, has promulgated
u decree that the women in his con-
grcgation must wear no more high
hats when they are listening to his
sermons,
During the past As hours II vessels,
carrying In tho aggregate more than
600 900 feet of lumber, have passed
IN through the golden gate, San Fran
cisco. This arrival OF SO many lum-
Der laden vessels Is due wholly to the
unprecedented demand for tonnage to
engage IN the Alaska trade.
AZ Omaha n section of floor ut the
Cudahy packing plant fell, carrying
down several workmen. J. Novak was
killed. Chris Montgomery sustatno
II broken jaw and other bad bruises,
and Mike ODay received bad scalp
wound. The wall supporting the Noon
had been weakened by repairs in pr
gress.
President Burt of the Union Pacific
secured an option on forty acres of
land in Omaha, which Ia to be laid
out in railway yards, When COM
pleted. the transfer and switching
business Of the company which is now
and has hitherto been done IN Coun-
| ell Bluffs, will all be done In Omaha
This means the practical abandonment
of the extensive yards and property
in Council Bluffs.