Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-01-20
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
DOMESTIC.


Caleb +. Davis, pioneer merchan
OF Keokuk, Iowa, is dead.
A thousand South Dakotans VIII 9
10 the Klondike in the spring,
J. II. Blumenthal q Sons, clothlers
of Montreal. have assigned. Liabilities
S150,000.
Ex-Congressman Mark S. Brewer 0
Michigan was offered place on IN
interstate commerce commission.
William Carson, the millionaire lum
herman, died, aged so years, at Ea
Claire.
The trial OF Charles l.. Draper 10
the murder OF Charles l.. Hastings ma
begun at Jacksonville, III.
II Ia stated that in Chicago that 10
seph Letter has not sold his S,75O,0O
bushels OF wheat, as reported.
Manager Julian maintains that fltz
simmons will not meet Corbett unit
the latter has met Maher.
Edward Hartford, one OF the dele
gates from tho British trades unlol
congress, held recently at Nashville
The remains OF Mrs. j. G. Aver
who recently died at Paris, Will d.
buried MT New York.
Henry Craemer has been sentenced
to be hanged at Seattle, Wash, Marcf
25, for the murder OF Mrs. Philippe
Mueller and her child.
Chance l.. Harris, aged &C. one OF the
Oldest newspaper men in the west ana
a veteran OF the war OF the rebellion
died suddenly at Butte, Mont
A cyclone at Morganfield, KY, caused
the death Of City Marshal Harvey Sci
lers and wrecked number OF build
ipgs.
At q meeting Of the free silver re.
publicans of the Kansas state COM
mittee resolutions were agreed on
condemnlng Secretary Cages finan-
cial policy.
The manager OF one Boston theater
has announced his intention OF enforc-
Ing the ordinance compelling women
TO remove their hats and bonnets.
An English syndicate Is said to have
secured options on all but one OF the
American glass manufacturing plants
east OF the Alleghenies.
Isaac Beck, the Muncle, Ind. agent
OF the American Express Company,
Respondent over businesses troubles and
overwork, committed suicide.
The Nebraska supreme court has rem
dered decision affirming the peniten-
tiary sentence OF 20 years imposed on
sx-State Treasurer BARLEY. convicted
OF embezzling s735,000.
Henry Collier Mix, a Chicago student
at Harvard and Miss Maude Evelyn
Shaw eloped from Cambridge and were
married mt Buffalo.
Captain John MeCullagh, who has
been connected with the New YORK pO-
nee force for 2S years, has been made
chief OF the greater New York police
The Storrs lecturer In the Yale law
school course this year will be EX-
Postmaster General William i. Will
sen, president OF the Washington and
Lee University OF Virginia.
Louis Richards, George Washington
and Foxli Morris, colored, were hanged
In st. Charles. parish, Louisiana.
Richards confessed that he had killed
eleven persons,
Spain Ia reported as having asked
the United States to establish n pro
tectorate over Cuba and perhaps an.
mex II.
Tho president nominated Charles
Page Bryan of Illinois to be minister
to China, and Owen l.. w. Smith Of
North Carolina to be minister to li
IBERIA.
Secretary Sherman Is quoted M say.
ing that Russia and France will prob.
ably take possession of Chinese ports
but that the United States does not
desire port In China.
Alfred l.. Abbott. who has charge o.
the Salvation Army barracks, OF
Dleeckor street, New York, was
charged with homicide in causing tht
death of George w. Curran.
Two mon were killed and score o.
others injured by the collapse of an lie,
house being constructed for Armour 4
Co. at Whttmore lake, near Ann Arhor
Mich.
Major Bittinger the United States
consul general In Canada, has beef
blackballed for membership In the st
James Club, Montreals swell socla
organization.
John ONeil. Jr., who, like Durrant
was convicted of murder ON circum'
stantial evidence, WAS hanged vt Green
field Mass. He, too, protested his In
nocence to the last.
Two warehouses OF the Farmers
Union Milling company, at Stockton
Cal, were burned. destroying l0,OOl
tons OF wheat and causing u loss o
more than 100000.
Major Robert llatton, fourteenth In
fantry, and Miss Minnie Anderson
third daughter of Colonel I, Nj. Amber
son, commander mt Vancouver Bar
racks, Wash. were married.
Governor Black, In his annual mes
sage to the Legislature at Albany. W!
drunkenness has decreased to