Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-01-26

Arrangements have been completed
for a congress Of railway employees 70
be held in Chicago, Feb. IS. under the
auspices Of ';hc Railway and Telegraph
Employees Political League.
At Baltimore Eugene Higgins. a
democratic politician who never
missed a national or state convention
and was known all over the country
died of pneumonia, aged 81
At Charleston, w, Va, cX-Secreta.y
OF States VIM. e Chiffon has paid
Attorney General Rucker about $4,000,
the balance due from him to the state
on his shortage of over $22 900
Justice Brewer Of the United Sta es
supreme court sailed FOR Liverpool
His visit is in connection with a meet
ing OF the Venezuelan boundary com
mission, Of which he Is a member.
Three commissioners have arrived
in New York from Glasgow They are
going to Washington to try to secure
the cooperation Of the president in
the exposition proposed to be held in
their city in 1901.
At Vicksburg, Miss, Capt Nc
Michael Carbine, of New Orleans, a
steamboat man, well known from st.
Paul to New Orleans, died Carbinc
was So years of age, and had been on
the river for 81 years.
Oliver Sumner Teal caused sensa-
ton at New York in the divorce pro-
ceedings brought by his wife when he
threatened to thrash Lawyer A. w.
Seaman, Mrs. Teall's counsel, If he
dared to mention to him the name Of
any woman.
Frank G.. Rheuhart u prominent
democratic politician, for seven years
auditor of Franklin county, Ohio, and
Interested in the Westbote Printing
company and Rheinharts bank. died
! from Bright's disease. lie was 45
years Of age.
Marcus c. Hawley, Il prominent New
! York business man IL dead of nervous
prostration, aged 65 years He was
president of the Hawley Bros. Hard
ware company of New York and San
Francisco and until recently president
OF the Shreveport & Huston railway.
| Favorable report has been made to
the senate on bill providing for two
revenue cutters on the great lakes to
replace the Algonquin, Onondaga and
| Gresham, which were ordered to the
| Atlantic coast during the Spanish
war. The cost Is fixed at $lG5000
each.
Representatives Of all the com
panies operating steamers between
Puget Sound and Southwestern Alas
kan ports met and agreed on uni
form passenger and freight rate. The
passenger rate to Skaguay and Dyea
was raised from $40 first class and
So second class to $25 and SIS respect
lively.
At Plttsburg thieves Stole six rar@
gold coins from the Carnegie museum
while the attention Of the guard was
distracted by two women. One Of The
| coins Is u ''romwell broad guinea, one
Of Che five known to exist and almost
above price. 1t Is feared the thieves
In their ignorance have melted the
coins for the gold
There are 1,2SS, 1863 telephones in use
in the world, the service covering
SOB 400 miles, The number of in
struments in the United States is
placed at 772,G27, while Germany has
only l5l,101; Great Britain and Ire
land, G9,6l5; sweden, $500 Canada,
81, 500; Switzerland 2S,S46; France,
2T736; Norway, 20,67S
At Philadelphia Judge Arnold, in
the common pleas court, in suit
brougm to determine whether the
shipper OF the Adams Express Co,
should pay for the war revenue stamp
to be attached to bills Of lading for
express packages, decided in favor Of
the express company and that the
shipper must pay for the stamp,
Rt. Rev William Il, McLaurin, bish-
op Of the Episcopal diocese Of Chicago,
will he unable to accept the appoint
ment Of special delegate for the church
to Porto Rico. which was conferred
upon him recently by Il commission Sc
lectrd by the general convention Al
Now York. Pressing church duties
prevent the bishop from entering upon
| the work.
John WilkeTson, who gained a repu-
tation throughout the west as a
square" gambler In the days when the
big gambling house was Il feature OF
every far western city, and whose
marble hall" was border day attrac-
ton IN ansas City. is dead of pneu
mona. The fortune which Wilker-
son acquired as a gambler he lost in
later years rs "A race-couTse book
maker.
Speaker Reed has received from
Ponce, Porto Rico, a petition from the
! American colony on the island setting
! forth the dangerous fluctuations in the
currency, and asking the early retire
ment of Porto Rican currency and the
substitution OF United States legal
! tender money: also stating that the
tariff enforced by the military author
| tiles IS causing great detriment to
trade and asking that all trade be-
| tween the United States and Porto