Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-10-27
DOMESTIC.


The national baseball season ended
and Boston again has the pennant.
Miss Beatrix Hoyt again wins the
woman's golf championship OF Ameri
ca,
New Workers. are after Nicaragua
charter for new company to build
canal.
Twelve hundred Joliet convicts
asked Dwight L. Moody to pray for
them.
Students OF Dartmouth College
have unanimously voted to abolis
hazing.
Mimas Lowe, aged 70, a prominen
pioneer citizen of Columbus, Ind, Is
dead.
The next triennial conclave OF
knights Templar will be held at
Lol isyille.
II. ID. Fulton of the Fulton Coal
company In Chicago was held up In his
/ Office by three negroes and robbed of
$500.
At Lexington Ecstacy broke the two
ycare- old pacing record by second
and u half.
Reuben Pribble, the oldest man In
| Douglas county, Is dead at Arcola, LII
aged so.
Five men were killed and eleven In
jured by an explosion in colliery ut
Coaldale, Pa.
Durham j. Livingston, one of the
oldest residents Of Bloomington, Ill
IL dead, aged 70.
Reuben II. Lloyd Of San Francisco
was chosen grand master OF the
knights Templar.
National democrats will continue
| their organization for the purpose oil
| lighting free silver.
Tablet In memory of Gen. Clinton,
first governor OF New York state, was
unveiled ut Kingston.
Mrs. Samuel Il. Colgate of New
York and the earl OF Stanford of Eng
land are to be married.
Ex-Secretary Sherman's wife, who
suffered stroke of paralysis, Is re-
ported slightly improved.
Chicago's peace jubilee was held,
Mex iney being there, en- route home
ITOW ouluUH anu iLouip'
At Anderson, Ind, a wife showed
queer contempt for her better half, by
burning her husband In eilgy.
Miss Elizabeth Stephenson, who vii
christen the battleship Wisconsin. ar
rived In New York from France.
An earthquake shock at Visalia,
Cal, shook up the nerves and the
| ,,p nnnnla nf thut TitV
Mrs. Nancy Geer wife of /. T..
Geer, governor reject of Oregon, died
at Omaha from u disease of the heart.
In fight at Virden, H., caused by
bringing negroes from Alabama to
take the places Of white strikers In
mines, nine were killed and ut least
eighteen wounded.
Democratic nominations for supreme
court justiCeship in New York city
are EX-Justice George =. Andrews,
General Sessions Judge James Fitzger-
aid and David Leventritt.
Warden G.. l.. Miller, of Prairie du
CHEN, arrested two Dubuque fisher
men Thursday and burned a seine
and boat valued ut $780, The fisher
men were fined $25 and costs.
Colonel w. II. Robertson of the first
national guard of South Carolina, has
been suspended from the service. He
had pawned seven Springfield rifles be-
longing to his regiment,
Leighton Lee, II prominent Phtla
delphia contractor. fell from an ele-
waited train In Chicago and Is now IN
city hospital suffering from injuries
which may result in his death.
Mrs. Dudley Nj. Steele Is dying at
Omaha with bullet In her brain, and
her husband has been arrested on sus-
picion OF firing the shot. He claims
that his wiIe committed suicide.
Gen. John b, Gordon of Georgia
asked the New York police to search
for his son, Major Frank Gordon. who
arrived from Porto Rico on the trans
port OLDHAM and who cannot be found.
The receipts under the new tariff
law for the past three months have
amounted to $iS,o00,0oo, or 100000
more than the highest receipts 70
any similar period in the past eight
years
Ex-Tax Collector Reough of lol-
yoke, Mass, in whose books an appar-
ent deficiency of $llS,000 was discov
cred, has returned to Holyoke. He
denies having misappropriated any
funds.
Howard Gould was married to Viola
Katherine Clemmons mt the Holland
House, New York, without the sane
ton of his brothers and sisters, and by
the terms of his fathers will loses
$0,000,000.
Tho schooner Churchill, of Chicago,
laden with iron ore from Lake Super
Tor, fouudered in the middle of Lake
Michigan OF Waukegan. The cap
tain and one Of the sailors were
drowned.
The house of deputies OF the Episco-
pal general convention was engaged In
an elaborate debate ON Or. Hunting
| tons plan for church unity. The
house of bishops rearranged the mis-
sionary jurisdictions.
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