Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-11-03

d. A. Twyman, the colored post
master at Junta, Va, has been forced
to resign because the white residents
boycotted the office.
Texas was visited by severe storm,
which, among other things, blew
freight cars in the path OF an express
and caused wreck.
The round house OF the Canada
Eastern railroad at Gibson, N. b., and
four locomotives have been destroyed
by fire. Loss 100000.
The Japanese government has ap-
pointed Intaro Komura, vice minister
of foreign affairs, minister of Japan
to the United States.
Leech Lake Indians petitioned the
government to be allowed to continue
ead-and-down timber as their sole
means of livelihood.
John Kennedy, of the District of
Columbia, was appointed a member
Of the industrial commission in place
Of Sargent, resigned.
Capt Gabriel Reynaud of the
French army is in New York arrang-
ing for a carrier pigeon service from
transatlantic steamships.
ID. G. Bower a. Co., big dry goods
| firm of Lisbon Ohio, has assigned, as
result of the suspension of the First
National Bank of that city.
Mrs Margaret Folsom Westhall,
who says she is cousin of Mrs.
Grover Cleveland, Is in Yonkers
n. Y, prison charged with theft.
A majority of the members of the
industrial commission believe no at
tempt should be made to gather labor
statistics from original sources.
Miss Minifred Lavinia McCaull,
daughter of the late John A. McCaull,
the theatrical manager was married
to Frank M. Holahan, of New York.
The yellow fever has so far abated
that the state of Mississippi has
abated the quarantine. Cool weather
has removed fears of further epidemic.
The largest steamship launched in
Asiatic water has just been floated at
Nagask, Japan. She Is the Hitachi
Maru, and her displacement Is 1860
tons.
According to the report OF the d.
rector Of the mint the worlds produc-
ton of gold in 1897 was $237 ,504, 800,
Of which the United States produced
$57 1861, 900.
President Gilman in an address at
Princeton said that the problems left
by the war are graVer than the war
itself. Mr.. Cleveland was an atten-
tive listener.
by an explosion in the mixing
room of the Judson dynamite and
powder works, North Berkeley, Cal,
two men were killed and the build
ing totally wrecked.
Justice Cox of Washington sustained
the action Of Secretary of the Treas
ury Gage, who refused to award bonds
to subscribers whose names had been
used by a syndicate.
The Episcopal General Convention
decided to extend the missionary work
Of the church to the territory ac-
CURED by the United States and also
| w h'hlAoy III ttHli lIhy
During the last quarter the north
ern half of Germany has exported to
America $ll,247, $3.50 of merchandise,
an Increase OF $3,ol0,S35, compared
with the same period of 1897
John Mccain Of Clinton, Iowa, was
attacked with hemorrhage from the
nose. Doctors were unable to check
the flow of blood, and he died. He was
n years old and we'll known.
The Boston Fruit company's steam
er Beverly arrived, having on board
| Naval Constructor Richmond p. Hob
son, who is en- route to Philadelphia
to participate in the peace jubilee.
Coroner Brown has the bodies Of
two men, apparently 30 and as years
old, at McGillis, N. Y, Morgue, await
ing identification. The bodies were
found floating close to shore fourteen
miles down the river and are thought
to be those Of canal workmen drowned
In Galoup's Rapids last week.
The postotlice department has ar
ranged with the postal department of
Japan for the indirect exchange of
money orders between this country
and Korea on and after Jan. l. 1899
David English of Jerseyyille, H.,
has given himself up to the police
in st. Louis, saying his conscience
troubles him because he is a bigamist,
He says he has married four women.
Chieagos peace jubilee ended with
Il banquet, at which speeches were
made by President Mckinley, Sec
rotary Gage, Generals Miles and
Shafter. Prof. Cyrus Northrop and
others.
The public examination in bank
ruptcy in London on L. d. Nc
Conkey, former railroad contractor
of New York, disclosed that his liza
hilities were S476,425 and that he had
no assets.
At the closing session of the Ma
tional Prison congress w. r. Nc
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