Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-09-01
TELEGRAMS IN BRIEF.
DOMESTIC.

Several persons were killed and
many injured in railroad collision at
Sharon, Mass.
Cant. Gen. Blanco declares himself
,ncapacitated to carry out the peace
conditions in Cuba.
Henry Rosengarten committed sui
eide because expelled from the Har-
lem Socialist Club.
Rev. DR.. Edward Augustus Bradley
died in New York while watching
the naval parade.
Samuel Gompers addressed the
Foreign Policy conference In oppo-
sition to Imperialism.
Gen. Shafter has left Santiago for
home.
Carterville, H., suffered loss Of
$4,000 by fire.
u The merit system IN to DO tried
n the West Virginia penitentiary.
Peace uegot atoms have made real
estate boom in New York.
John Hay, retiring American am
bassador, has sailed from London for
New York on the Teutonic.
Gen. Wheeler says only 70 OF
1000 sick soldiers at Montauk Point
are without hope of recovery.
Our troops in the Philippines arc
homesick and Disguised, and hope we
will not keep the Islands.
Ex-Pres ident Cleyeland's po~ r-boy
farm has been opened. Hundreds OF
boys have applied for admission.
Gen. Miles has left Porto Rico for
the United States. Gen. Brooke IL
now ia command OF the island.
The total gold output of Black
Hills mines f.r the last twelve
months IL estimated at $8.000,000.
War department officials are at
work on a plan reorganization OF the
staff OF the army on modern lines.
TIE French Line steamship La Nor
mandie took the first mail from New
York to Spain since the war began.
1t is reported that John r. Mclean,
proprietor Of the Cincinnati Enquirer,
10 to succeed Alger as secretary OF
war.
Diplomats Ia Madrid think we might
gain much by openly defining our
position on the Cuban debt and the
Philippines
County democratic conventions re-
Gently held In Ohio indicate that the
democrats OF that state are still for
free silver.
DR.. Sem says Inconsistencies and
fevers had q worse effect than bullets
among the troops that invaded Cuba
and Porto Rico.
Fighting Bob Evans. captain of
the battleship Iowa, ID III with ty-
phoid malaria, ut the Roosevelt hos
pital In New York
Old Glory was raised over Hawaii
Aug IL, the day the peace proto-
col was signed and the day before
Manila SUR 0ndered
The body Ut woman, seemingly a
New Yorker. who had been robbed
and murdered. was taken out OF the
bay at Nahant, Mass.
Archbishop Ireland has had several
conferences with President Mckinley
In regard TO Catholic interests in
Cuba and p rto Rico.
Chairman Hull, Of the house mill
tary committee, thinks the regular
army on Il peace 1oollng should be
Increased to 100000 men.
Eighteen thousand tons of coal
were shipped from Newport News last
week r the British admiralty CON
signed to various coaling staff us.
The transport Arizona. with Con
eral Merriam and staff and about
1900 troops, sailed for Manila via
Honolulu frOm San Francisco,
Mrs. Jessie Line ln~Beckwith, Rob
ert Lincoln daughter, has given
birth to daughter She eloped from
Chicago to Milwaukee last fail.
AGmiral Sampson called on Me
kinley NJ inlay, and spent So minutes
IN discussion Of the Cuban commits
sion's plans, and other matters
Joseph Castellanos, detained In
Fort Mcpherson on suspicion Of be-
Ing a Spanish spy was on his re
lease pursued and injured by mob
Lieut. Hobson, on behalf of the
citizens Of Galyest u, presented to
@ orGe Il. Ph lips, one of the Merri-
mac heroes, now on the Iowa, Il gold
watch.
The American transports Peru and
Puebla, having on b ard Generals
Otis and Hughes and rec endorsements
for General Merritt, have arrived at
Manila.
President Mckinley has decided to
retain Luzon and to demand that
Spain shall no, dispose OF The other
Philippine islands to any foreign
nation,
Sampson and Schley's victorilus
fee, passed in review up the Hudson
river amid the greatest popular de-
monstration In the history of New
York city.
A special from Richmond predicts
remarkably warm contest for the