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

A daughter Of A. j. Grant OF Fari-
bault was droWne-.
Seventeen people were drowned by
a cloudburst in Tennessee.
Fire at Fresno, CAL, destroyed abou
100000 worth of property.
DR.. James b. Angel, ex-minister to
Turkey, started home,
A dangerous gang Of counterfeiters
is arrested in Detroit, Mich.
A peace jubilee will be held at the
Omaha exposition Oct. 10 to II.
The democratic state convention
will be held at Syracuse Sept. %.
The sheriff Of Buffalo threatens to
stop the Corbett-McCoy prize fight.
GOV. +. A. Briggs OF North Dakota
died at Bismarck of consumption.
The will OF the late Julia ID. De
Forest, OF New York, bequeathes near
ly her entire fortune to Catholic
charities.
Major A. M. Hosford IL dead at
Geneseo, Ill. lie was Is years old.
The Francis Scott Key monument
was dedicated at Frederick, Md.
A costly collision occurred on the
Northwestern near Milwaukee.
Serious trouble Is expected in the
Choctaw nation, Indian Territory.
Florida republicans held conven-
ton and nominated u state ticket.
Poison from a black stocking, her
mother thought, killed Jessie Devine.
Twenty thousand acres Of grain
were destroyed by hail in North Da-
kota.
A city marshal and two bandits
werG killed in fight at Kokomo,
Col.
Governor Black OF N. Y. it IL said
has decided not to decline renomina-
ton.
The corner stone Of the new Penn
sylvania capital was laid at Harris
burg.
Ambassador Hay or Whitelaw Reid
are mentioned as Secretary Day
successor.
A stampede to Pine creek occurre
Mt Juneau and other Southeastern
Alaska points.
A complete customs tariff for Cub
has been adopted and will go into
immediate effect.
The estate Of the late Adolph Sutro,
ex-mayor of San Francisco Is apprals-
ed ut $2,S49,572.
The value of IRON and steel manu-
features exported in the past fiscal
year was $70,3G7 527.
New York and Chicago capitalists
Incorporated $5000,000 lager beer
trust in New Jersey.
Twenty thousand window glass
workers will return to work next week
mt an advance In wage.
The floods in tho Scloto, Ohio, val
ley have covered 1000 acres, causing
u loss of over 100000.
Diego de Vlvo, one Of tho best
known lmpresarios in the United
States, Is dead In New York.
President Mckinley appointed Lieut.
Iiohson's father, a democrat, post
master at Greensboro, Ala.
Three men are dead and II woman
dying as the result of shooting
ARRAY at Central City, s. ID.
The United States commissioner to
the Paris Exposition has received
many applications for space,
Colonel John Atkinson, prominent
Irish American of Detroit, Mich, died
suddenly of neuralgia of the heart
Indians report that the river steamer
Jessie was lost, with Is passengers
aboard, in Kuskowin river, Alaska,
Passengers from Alaska arriving
at Port Townsend, Wash, say there
arc $4,000 idle mon In Dawson City.
EX-Congressman Alex. Campbell,
who was known as the father of thu
sreenbackors, died at La Sale, Ill.
The commissioner of internal rev
onue has prepared regulations for the
collection of the tax on mixed flour.
The Garment Workers National
association, In session at Cincinnati,
elected Edward Sabine, of Syracuse
N, Y, president.
Charles Frohman, the thcatrica
manager, has secured the rights
Canon Doyle's dramatization of Sher-
lock Holmes
Maria Flinn OF New York, commit
ted suicide by drowning at Watch llill,
Il. l., to save her honor, Her assault
unit was arrested,
one hundred and four blind and
destitute persons were given 500 in
gold each as their annual bounty from
the city of brooklyn,
Two Dover (Del) women die
from the effects Of poisoned candy
supposed TO have been sent to one Of
them from San Francisco.
The tea tax for July amounted
$299,9iS, The estimates Of the treas
ury department are that the tax will
yield $4,000 900 year.
In fight between officers and ne
gro gamblers in Georgia, five a tn
negroes were killed and three others
are mortally wounded.
Or. George +. Baker, Of the geolog-
zeal survey. will so to the Philippines
to make IN examination of the min
eral deposits OF the Islands.
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