Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-08-17


play The Children OF the Ghetto.
Friends of the late Ex-Governor
Flower are collecting funds for a mon
ument to him in WATERFOWL N. Y.
In New York Miss Emma L. Jones
sued her brother, Banker w. II. Jones,
for $25, 900 for false Imprisonment.
The United States military post at
Dyea was destroyed by fire, Stores of
the value OF IS, 900 were destroyed.
Among the callers upon President
Mckinley at Lake Champlain was Mr..
McKinley's brother, Abner Mckinley.
Governor Bradley Of Kentucky has
issued statement telling why he has
been unable to quell the feuds In Clay
county.
A trolley car ran off a trestle near
Bridgeport, Conn, and fell 40 fees.
Thirty-six people were killed and many
Others hurt.
An important arrest has been made
in connection with the dynamite ex-
plosion in Cleveland due to the street
railway strike.
President Mckinley has closed the
deal for the famous Mckinley cot
tage" at Canton, Ohio. The consider
alton was $4,000
Officers and cadets at West Point
deny that race persecution has had
anything to do with recent designations
of young Hebrews.
The boat-house and steam yacht
Moltonia belonging to A. e. Knopn of
New York, were burned at Kingston,
Ont. Loss $4,000.
Colonel Azor Smith Marvin, for
many years president Of the Marvin
Safo company, Is dead at his home In
Brooklyn, aged "A years.
A hot fight is developing in Boston
as to whether Miss Jewett shall or
shall not take the Baker family from
Charleston to Boston.
Rev. George W. Pepper, the widely
known army chaplain, minister, public
sneaker and politician, died at Cleve-
land. He was 6G years old.
Canadian Premier Laurier changed
his mind about visiting Lake Cham
plain and will not go, as he does not
wish to meet President Mckinley.
:. tornado with the velocity OF eli Shty
miles an hour and n width OF three
blocks passed through Elizabeth, n, d.
doing damage estimated at $4,000.
Commissioner Peck has been re-
quested to give the Christian Endeavor
society space for n building Of its own
al hn nvpNoitton In Ia rio
The executive committee OF the
Maryland republican state central COM
mltteo have fixed upon September 6 as
tho date for holding the state conven-
tiOn.
Elwood Haynes and e. L. Apperson
arrived In New York, having made n
trip from Kokomo, Ind, to New York
on an automobile, 1850 miles In 20
days.
Vice President Hobart left Long
Branch for Lake Champlain. where he
win visit President Mckinley. He will
remain with tho president for two
weeks.
The compositors and stereotypers of
the New York Sun, 100 In number, who
went on strike, are still out. The
press and composing rooms are in
darkness.
At Dunsmuir Cal, Henry Brown. n
mill sawyer, shot his wife, and then
shot himself, both expiring immedi-
ately. Mrs. Brown had left her hus-
band a year ago.
The passenger steamer City OF Grand
Rapids, with 200 persons on board
sprung n leak while bound from So1th
Haven for Milwaukee and narrowly es-
capped laundering
| Fourth Assistant Postmaster Gen
oral Bristow left Washington for Yer
mont to become the guest OF Senator
Proctor at the latter's shooting box In
the Green mountains.
| Eight hundred New York city en-
ployees, most OF whom belong to
Tamnany hall, will lose their posi-
flons. They have not taken civil
service examinations.
At Cleveland John Schoenthal, a
striking conductor. ia under arrest
charged with placing dynamite or.
street car tracks and attempting to
blow up Big Consolidated cars,
Al Colorado Springs William Borden
shot and fatally wounded Miss Mabel
MCKenna on the street because she re-
fused to marry him. Borden shot him
self through the head, and died.
Trusts have Increased the cost of
living Is per cent. within the last year.
The treasury department will issue
10000. 600 in $50 gold certificates to
aid the fall movements of crops.
Judge Thomas In the United States
district court in New York signed an
order dischargng Francis I, Walton
better known aa "Plunger' Walton, rs
Il bankrupt on the report OF n referee,
Tho Ma2ct committee served sub
pocnas ON the members Of the New
York municipal council and said the
legislature would ho appealed to &c
abolish the council IA useless body
Harry |" Griawold, who was serving
u life sentence at Joliet for the murder