Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-09-15
TELEGRAMS In BRIEF.
DOMESTIC TICKS


Secretary Alger has ordered an In
We tigation at Camp Wikoh
The fire which swept Owosso, Mich,
destroyed property valued at $21S,Ooo.
General Shafter has succeeded Gen
eral Wheeler in command OF camp
Wikoff.
Two children were murdered near
Charleston, w. Va, and thrown into
a deep pool OF water.
The damage from the recent storm
which swept Savannah, Ga, Is now
estimated at 100000.
Howard Gould has sent check Tor
$1,000 to the Seveaty-first New YORK
regiment.
A shortage is reported In the ac-
counts OF the county treasurer at
Crookston, MINI.
The latest estimate is that the wheat
crop, while the largest on record, VIII
not equal the expectations.
A special invitation Is sent to Lady
Henry Somerset for the w. G. T. u.
convention at st. Paul.
A heavy windstorm struck Terre
Haute, Ind, doing great damage to
property. No one was hurt.
Thomas f. Bayard Is critically Ill
ut Dedham, Mass, his condition hay
Ing changed for the worse.
Capt c.. d. Sigsbee has been de-
tached from the st, Paul and assigned
to the command OF the Texas.
Chaplain Mcintyre, of the battl ship
Oregon, Ia TO be courtmartialed for
critcsing Admiral Sampson.
Miss Winnie Davis, who Is crlti-
cally III at Narragansett Pier, r.. L.,
shows no marked Improvement.
Tho Society OF the Army OF the
Potomac, in session at Niagara Falls
elected Gen. Orland Smith president
A passenger train struck q trolley
car rear Cohoes, N. Y, killing eighteen
people and fatally injuring ten others
Mr.. James s. 7. Stranahan, long
known as the first citizen of Brook
lvn, died at Saratoga, aged ninety
years.
It is again reported that a syndi-
cate ls being formed to control the
oyster beds and fisheries of the United
States.
Assistant Naval Constructor Eobson
will return to Annapolis and take
charge OF the course In naval archi-
lecture.
In Mlngo county, West Virginia,
james Spaudlng, u constable, shot
and killed his brother-in-law, William
Maynard.
Three persons In New York were
poisoned by whisky which was sent
TO them through the mails One will
probably die
A loss OF 100000 was occasloned by
the burning Of the plant of the Hamp-
ton Manufacturing company near Bay
City, Mich.
Frank George and Mabel Ferguson
Of Brooklyn were drowned by the up
setting OF row boat GEAR Norton's
Island, Conn.
The people OF Brooklyn will give u
reception TO tho men of the cruiser
Brooklyn, and each man will be pre-
scented with medal.
Major Russell Thorpe, one OF the
prominent figures of the western
country, was killed near Lush, Wyo,
In a runaway accident.
Ex-Secretary Sherman has made It
known that II the republicans OF Ohio
should nominate him for governor he
would stand by the party
The democrats elected their state
ticket In Arkansas with the usual ma
jorlty and the republicans carried Yer
mont by n decreased majority.
Unless his regim, nj can go to Cuba
William j, Bryan has signiGed his In
tention OF resigning his command to
take part In the fall campaign.
Secretary Alg,r is pleased over tho
result Of the presidents visit to Camp
WikCif. lie says the conditions of
the place were found to be all right.
Rev. DR., Peyton II. Iloge of Will
mington, N c., will probably be the
successor of DR. John Hall rs pastor
of the Fifth avenue church, New
York.
Three p,rsons were killed In the
wreck OF the Chicago Limited" train.
on the New York, Ontario and West
orn Railroad at Ingalls, Crossing, Ntw
York
While fishing in Rock river William
,arnell fell into the tiume, was car
ried over the dam at Indianford, Wis,
and drowned. He was 40 yeats OF age
and leaves family.
TIE mid road populsts at their COY
vention at Cincinnati nominated
Wharton Barker of Pennsylvania for
president and lgnatius Donnelly of
Minnesota for vice president
Miss Margaret Chandler, the wealthy
New York girl who went to Porto
Rico to Nurse the sick, is herself in
critical condition In the hospita,
which she established there.
The National Dental association IN
session at Omaha, elected Dr. II, j
Burkhard, Of Batavia, \. ", president
and DR. b. Holly Smith nf Ral imor