Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-12-08

formed Presbyterian church is in as
sion for the purpose of trying about
twenty members who are alleged to
have voted at the presidential election
of 1896 in violation of the church law,
which prohibits voting.
i In the Standard Oil company con-
tempt case James Corrigan testified
that in 1896 he transferred to joan
r. Rockefeller $500 Standard Uil
Trust certificates at $16S each. He
claims they were worth $500 each and
that Mr.. Rockefeller withheld the in
formation from him.
According to Consul General Gowdy
at Paris there are no laws or regula-
tions which prohibit the Importation
of live hogs into France from the
United States, but the importation of
live cattle, such as cows, bulls or
steers, from the latter country, is alb
sulutely prohibited.
At st. Louis, William f. H. Schroe-
DER wealthy retired real estate deaf
err. aged 50 years. reported to Chief of
Police Campbell that his wife, aged
30, whom he married eighteen months
ago, had left home and taken with her
money and valuable papers, mostly
notes, valued at 1900.
The firm of Colburn, Fuller & Co.,
boot and shoe manufacturers of 8os-
ton and Derry, N. H., one of the old
est and most prominent boot and shoe
firms in New England, made volun-
tary assignment. The liabilities are
100000. The amount of assets is not
known.
The will of the late Edward Austin
of Boston bequeaths 81 100000 to pub
lie uses. Harvard college will receive
100000, the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology 100000, Radcliffe COL
lege $4,000, Roanoke college 10000
and the 'iuskegee, Ala, Normal and
Industrial School 100000
Arthur A. Brown, shipping clerk for
the Albion lumber company, is dead at
San Francisco from the effects of @.
blow with club, inflicted by Albert
Bierworth, proprietor of the Globe
lodging house, on Howard street.
Bierworth, who is under arrest, claims
that Brown, who was intoxicated, Gre
ated disturbance.
In the boxing match before the.
Lenox Athletic club in New York be-
tween Corbett and Sharkey, Jas
]. Corbetts seconds rushed
into the ring in the ninth round, thus
committing a technical foul, and
Sharkey was declared the winner by
the referee. Sharkey had the better
of the fight on its merits.
The souvenir committee appointed
by the people of Olympia, Washington,
have made arrangements for the puI-
chase Of a commemorative tablet as
the most suitable memorial for Rear
Admiral Dewey's flagship, the Olyrn-
pia. The tablet selected Is five feet
high and three feet wide in the mar
rowest place, and will be placed on the
forward turret between the two S-ineh
guns.
Charles c. Rickerson Of Chicago,
who has had a number of aliases. was
arrested by a deputy United States
marshal from Chicago at the gate of
kthe prison at Auburn, N. Y. upon his
release from that institution after
having completed a sentence of ten
months for sending obscene literature
through the mails. He will be taken
to Chicago for trial on the same
charge.
Attorney Gerritt Ten Brock, for
himself and associates, has sued John
w. Gates of Chicago and Ebert H
Gary for s1,S75,000 damages. The
petitioners say they had nearly com
pleted arrangements for a wire COM
bine when the defendants formed
company of their own and carried out
the original scheme, shutting out the
plaintiffs, who now sue for alleged
damages.