Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-08-25

J ne receipts lTOlu luLeFHdl revenue
for the past fiscal year amounted TO
$170, 1863, 5l9, an increase compared
with the previous fiscal year OF $24,-
249,9 25.
A dispatch from Chattanooga says
that Secretary OF State Day on his
| resignation from the cabinet, will be
made United States judge for the sixth
circuit.
Policeman Henry c. Hawley, OF
New York, while in a fit Of drunken
rage, shot his son four years old, and
Ills daughter, six years old. He the
shot himself.
The Red Cross Society has sent t
Surgeon-General Sternberg $1,000
which will be used for the purchas
Of delicacies for SEX and wounde
soldiers.
Express companies will be compelled
TO atIiX revenue stamp to the bill Of
lading or other evidence of receip
given for packages Of money to be
transported.
Annie Gertrude Davidson, a hand
some young woman of excellent fam
lily, took her life with carboic acid in
the apartments of DR.. Louis Stern, Jr.
in New York.
The greatest gas well which has
been developed in New York State,
and probably the largest in the world
was struck in an old we'll Saturday y
BaldWinsville.
The West Indian weather service of
the government was inaugurated and
the Washington Office received reports
from six of the ten observation sta
tons established there.
The Catholic Total Abstinence
Union, in session at Boston, voted
thanks to General Shafter for his eff
forts in behalf of temperance among
the soldiers at Santiago.
Theodore Roosevelt sent brief
and disappointing note to political
friends who wanted him to become n
candidate for the republican nomina
ton for governor of New York.
Alexander G. Quarter, in whose
name the titles of most of John Pet
tits properties valued at $5,000,000,
stand, is former convict and served
term in the West Virginia peniten-
tiary.
President Dole will continue to eX-
ercise the functions of chief executive
of Hawaii until congress receives the
report of the commission and enaCts a
statute for the government Of the is
land.
-Four masked men held up tn
west bound train on the Santa Fo Pa
cihc at Grant, N. NJ, so miles west OF
Albuquerque. An armed guard pre-
vented them from robbing the express
car.
Great preparations are being made
at Lake Hopatcong, N. j., to receive
family, is expected to be the guest of
the Country club the last week in Au-
gust.
The navy department has decided to
open bids for three new battIeships
on September /. Contracts will be
awarded, II the builders will guarantee
eighteen knots speed with the navy
departments design.
The vacancy in the weather bureau
at Washington, caused by the deaf
Of Professor Morrill,, has been filled by
the promotion Of II. G Fankenaeld,
now on duty at St. Louis. He will
be national foreCaster in the service.
The remains of Captain w. d.
put off the train at Cincinnati, in
stead of those of Mrs. Elizabeth Win
kleman. The mistake was not dis
covered until the casket was about to
be lowered into the grave.
Every precaution is being taken by
both the war and treasury depart
ments to prevent the introduction Of
yellow fever. In case any of the
troops from Santiago arriving at Mon
tauk point should have yellow fever,
they will be Immediately isolated.
The decision of the commissioner Of
internal revenue that bank checks
drawn in this country on Il foreign
bank or banker are subject TO a tax
OF cents on each check, instead of
4 cents on each $t00. will prevent
what promised to be monopoly of
foreign exchange business by the Can
adam banks which have branches in
New York.
Wm Sanders, Dennis Ricard, Manse
Castle, Rilla Weaver and Susie Jacobs
were lynched at Clarendon, Ark, for
the murder of John L. Orr. The
murdered mans widow, who was ac-
Cuscd OF completely in the crime
committed suicide IN Jail. she was a
Miss Mable Barker of Chippewa Falls.
Orr carried $4,000 life Insurance. He
was an ex-actor. At Caldwell, Ohio.
Mayor Archer explains that his CORE
spondence with Lorilla +. Weaver,
, who proves to be Mrs. Orr was
merely bit of fun.
FOREIGN.