Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-01-06
TELEGRAMS In BRIEF.
DOMESTIC.

Cen. Russell A. Alger, secretary .
war, is quito III. A., p.,,,rg+o,
Booth Is somewhat improved
Milwaukee socialists have nominal
al Charles A. Ruess for mayor.
Secretary Of War A)ger ID critically
Ill of grippe with typhoid symptoms.
Fitzsimmons' second installment o.
rrof,ta from the veriscope pictures
was $4,000. A.
Nicola Tesla claims TO have ais
covered a plan to use energy general
Cd In the sun.
At Charlestown, W. Va, the whole
sale grocery house Of Hubbard o. Co..
burned. Loss, 100000.
At Appleton, Wis, Ewald kuehne,
we'll known wholesale meat dealer
was killed I'm a runaway.
u. @. Wall says that he would ho'
accept the democratic nomination foI
mayor OF Milwaukee.
Kathryn Kidder the weil-khoWh
tragedienne, Is lying Ill at the nome
of friends In st. Louis.
The latest reports from Dawson Clty'
Alaska are to the effect that there III
no danger OF starvation there.
Thirteen thousand dollars has been
subscribed for the Henry George
memorial fund at New York.
The warehouse OF Jacob Streyer, IN
Fayette county, Penn, burned
Streyer and his wife were cremated.
Chauncey M. Depew denies the
story that George Vanderbilt 1ntends
to abandon "Biltmore," his estate IN
North Carolina.
Edward J. Radcliffe, the actor who
was found guilty OF assault IN the
third degree for striking his wife, was
sentenced to six months In the new
York penltentinry.
At Fond du Lac, Wis, o passenger
train on the Northwestern railway
ran into an open switch. -Four cars
were wrecked and several persons In
jured.
The British Hosiery company of
Thornton II. l., will remove Its busi-
ness to Nashville, Tenn, owing To the
present depressed condition OF cotton
manufacturing.
In st. Louis Marcus Nassauar shot
his sweetheart Miss Katie Dosenbach,
daughter OF the ex-sherff, and then
blew out his own brains. The young
lady declined to marry him.
Colonel John Lambert, vice presi"
dent and mant ger of tho Consolidated
Steel and Wire company, has just pre-
scented the city of Joliet. ILL.,, with $780,
600 for q library building.
kid" Mccoy has challenged Bob
FHzslmmons for finish fight for the
middle weight championship OF the
world. FItzslmmons refuses to notice
the challenge.
William II. GriAiths, charged with
having swlndled Richard j. Bowes,
president of the Denver Mining OK
change out OF $4,000, Nov. 20, 1892,
has been arrested.
A. p. Swineford, ex-governor OF
Alaska, will 80 to Alaska early next
year to take charge OF the interests In
that section of tho United Mines com
pany OF New York
The supreme court of California mas
refused the appeal of Durrant for Il
writ OF probable cause. This wipes
away Durrants last hope for a further
delay of execution.
Adlai II. Stevenson. former vice
president OF the United States. has ac-
cepted the position of western counsel
Of the North American Trust company
OF New York with II membership IN the
board of directors.
ltzig lapko. who sailed under the
name of Max lapko. and who Is want
cd In Russia for the embe22lement Of
$780, was arrested in New York city
as he landed from the steamer EtruriI
from Liverpool.
The United States court has just
decided that the state and county an
thorities of North Dakota have no right
to tax lands embraced In the govern
mont land grant to the Northern Pa
ciiic railroad,
"Auntie" Julie Moore, for thirty
years the only colored member OF
tho Plymouth church. and II frient
and beneficiary OF Henry Ward
Beecher, died Christmas day III
Brooklyn.
Miss Clara Shields. who was to hay,
visited President and Mrs. Mckinley
Mt tho white house within few days
was dangerously burned at her HON,
in Canton, o. Her dress caught fire
from an open CRATE,
Captain William G. Oldreivo ha!
planned to walk across the Atlanti,
Ocean with his sea going shoes, start
ing from Boston July 4. Captain
William A. Andrews will aecompan.
him In new fourteen-foot sail boat
John Howard OF Iowa, was held III