Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-08-11

state bankruptcy laws.
Martin Thorn, convicted OF MUIR
dering William Guldensuppe in New
-, York said: 81 am ready to die, and
! in the electric chair Monday.
Liliuokalani, ex-queen of the Haw-
/ allan Islands, is reported to be suf-
! fering with cancer OF the neck
! which will cause her death.
/ Agostino Giallovenizi, banker in
! the section OF New York known as
/ Little Italy," left for Italy owing
/ $1,000 to small depositors.
Five men were killed and others
injured at the Hercules Powder
Works, Cal, by an explosion, be-
! lieved to have been purposely caused
Police Captain Sheehan Of New
! York has ordered his men to arrest
women without wheels wearing alb
breviated bicycle skirts on the
/ streets.
Lieut.. Hobson presided at an ell
, tertainment held at the Metropolitan
opera-bouse in aid Of the Soldiers
and Sailors Families Protective
association.
Federal Judge Hanford OF Tacoma
has decided that an insurance policy
does cot lapse because of non-pay-
, ments until the holder has been duly
notified.
| A schooner passing the scene of
, the La Bourgogne disaster found
fully a hundred bodies floating, and
, took from some of them articles for
+ Identification.
The commissioner of internal rev.
, enue has issued a circular interpret
/ Ing the section Of the war revenue
act imposing a tax Oh medicinal
preparations.
| Joseph Banigan, the well-known
rubber goods manufacturer and for
mer president of the United States
! Rubber company, died at his home
in Providence, II. !.
Robert Maclay, president of the
Knickerbocker Trust company and
F, ex-president Of the New York board
OF education, died at Elberon, N. j.,
Of blood poisoning.
A fast mail train from Charleston
, on the Atlantic Coast line was
wrecked near Columbia. The en-
gineer was badly injured and fifteen
passengers cut or bruised
The Dingley law imposing tax
on all personal effects in excess OF
500 valuation brought in by pas
sengers from abroad has resulted In
large increase in the revenue.
The populist party of the Jackson
vile, H., senatorial district nomi-
mated Ashall Duff of Pearl, Pike
county, for the legislature, and A. c.
Wood of Macoupin county for con
gress.
The French embassy has directed
the attention of the state depart
ment to the Seizure of the French
merchant steamer Rodriguez, and
has requested the immediate release
Of the steamer.
John Henry Myers, secretary Of
the wrecked building and loan asso-
citation of Milwaukee, has turned
over all of his property to the direc
tors of the concern for the benefit of
the stockholders.
Fred Bader of Cincinnati was
chosen president Of the United States
League Of Local Building and Loan
Associations. julius Stern of Chi
cage was appointed member Of the
executive committee.
The Baroness Won Puttkammer,
wife of Baron Franz Won Puttkam-
mer, nephew of Prince Bismarck,
died suddenly at his home in New
York only two days before the end
Of Bismarck himself.
Christine Setback, widow Of
Michael j. Setback, late police in
spector Of Chicago was awarded
pension of $l,125 year by the police
pension board. This sum is one-half
the salary al police captain.
The Count of Turin, nephew of
King Humbert, is said to have fallen
in love with young woman at New
port, who is young and beautiful but
poor. Consequently the counts ex-
tended visit at the resort.
Charles II. Galusha, adjutant-gen-
eral of the Nevada national guard, is
dead ut the German hospital In San
Francisco as a result of a surgical
operation, He was native of
New York, aged 53 years.
Hamilton Odell, as referee, has rem
dered Il decree vacating the assess
ment of the Manhattan Elevated
Railway company for 1894, If the
decree Is sustained by the courts
the city will lose $2,000,000 in taxes.
President Mckinley aud Secretary
Long will recommend to congress,
, when 1t convenes in December, an
important increase of the navy,
namely, the construction Of three
! battleships and three armored
cruisers.
Prof. Il. b. Andrews, in an address
at the Monona Lake assembly pre-
dicted European war very SOON and
said that the United States would be
drawn into 1t, though he favored this
! 1t,