Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-03-17
DOM ESTIC.
The gold reserve is $167 1917 557

The gold reserve is $167,947 557.
Lnetgert has arrived at the Joliet
prison.
Richard Croker goes to Europe In
April.
Chicago May wheat. $1.06; silver,
54c.
Kid Mccoy won his fight over
Burley in two rounds.
The Hawaiian annexation treaty
may be ratified after all.
The International American bank
is to be established.
Yale will meet Harvard this year
| Nov. 10 for football honors.
Deacon William Kaldanea, aged 81,
Is dead at Grand Rapids, Mich.
A new issue OF the counterfeit w
treasury note has been discovered
| The American Express company's
building In Chicago was destroyed by
fire.
Nearly the entire business portion Of
Watersmeet, Mich, was destroyed by
fire.
Colonel J. G. Van Duser, editor and
war veteran, Is dead at Escanaba,
aged "A.
| February's bank clearings were
greater in amount than for any
previous February.
General William s. Rosecrans Ii
critically Ill with nervous prostra-
ton at Los Angeles.
Five children of Mr.. and Mrs. Jules
Bonner were burned to death near
Livingston. Ala.
VIM. M. Singerly, proprietor OF the
Philadelphia Record, who died re-
Gently, left no will.
Il. w. Mortimer OF Minneapolis
was elected commander OF the Min
nesota G. A. II.
Frederick Moore, who had murdered
Thomas Anderson. was shot to death
by mob at Senatobla, Miss.
James Fl. Carpenter, inventor of the
Carpenter projectile, Ia dead at Read
ing, Pm He waa 81 years old
Six persons were injured In q
collision between trolley car and 4
gravel train near Atlantic City.
One woman was suffocated and
three children fatally burned In ten
ement house fire at Pittsburg.
Adrian Braun, convict in Sing
Sing prison, murdered his wife, who
was paying him visit
Judge Charles 10. Vanderburgh, for
mer Justice of the state supreme court.
died in Minneapolis.
The government abandoned Its
Klondike relief expedition on the
ground that 1t Is not needed.
Tho Wisconsin supreme court de-
cided that insurance companies must
pay back license fees.
The McCleary subcommittee will re.
port n complete currency reform bill
to the main committee.
Frank James, the noted eX-bandit,
Is dangerously Ill with pneumonia at
his home In st. Louis.
| Rules to suppress rowdyism among
baseball players were adopted by the
National league magnates.
Exhibits are beginning to arrive for
the trans-M lssissippi exposition, which
will begin at Omaha June 1.
II Is estimated that the output of
ore from the Gogebic range next sum-
mer will be from 100000 to 2,700,-
600 tons.
At East Cambridge, Mass. Lorenzo
Harnes was hanged. He murdered
for money Jonn Dean, u farmer rs
years old.
1t Is claimed that Mrs. Mcclellan
Brown of Cincinnati, and not the late
Miss Frances Willard founded the w .
G. T. U.
Two miners returning from the
Klondike with 100000 are reported to
have been frozen to death at Tagsh.
Northwest Territory.
The combination Of all steel wire.
rod and nail companies Is reported to
have been contaminated, The capital
stock is $4,000,
United States Senator Mills has
withdrawn from the race for re-elec-
ton. This leaves the field TO Cover
nor G. A. Culberson.
Edward +. Cragin OF Chicago is In
New York organizing a syndicate OF
capitalists for the construction OF the
Nicaraguan canal.
Tho schooner Spaodwell, from
Marco, Fla, for Key West. capsized
Is miles from the latter port and nine
persons were drowned
In four-handed duel in Fulton
county. Ky, between farmers over 4
lawsuit. one was killed and the
other three seriously hurt.
A deal is said to be working. led
by ]. G. Greenhut. for a new whisky
trust, to embrace finally all the spirit
manufacturing plants In the country
Lawyer Harry S. Scovel and three
other persons We're arraigned al
Camden, n. j., on the charge OF at