Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-04-06

to the priesthood In the Protestant
Episcopal church by Bishop Potter.
Frank Ainsworth, who attempted
to hold up a Burlington express at
Whitehall, H., in June, and killed En-
gineer Fred Dempsey, has been SEN
fenced to 40 years in the penitentiary
The Compressed Gas Capsule COM
pany filed articles OF incorporation in
Newark, n. ]. The capital is $4,000
900. The company will manufacture
compressed and liquefied gases into
capsules.
Our minister to China Is instructed
to protest against any encroachment
upon the American possession at
Shanghai, and to demand for the
United States the same advantages
that may be accorded to any other ma
| ton.
Our minister to China has been in
structed to protest against any en-
croachment upon the American pos
session at Shanghai, and to demand
for the United States the same advan-
tages that may be accorded TO any
other nation.
An erroneous report was sent out
from New York stating that ex-Sec-
rotary Sherman was dead. Later a
dispatch was received from Santiago
contradicting the first report and an
nouncing that the condition OF Mr.
Sherman was improving.
| Ambassador Won Holleben of Ger
many had conference with Secretary
Hay in regard to the situation in Sa
moa The German government Is dis
posed to stand by it's representative
there, while Admiral Kautz sustains
Chief Justice Chambers.
Dr. Charles Corey shot and killed
his wife at Tacoma while the two
were asleep. Corey was Ill, and his
story of the affair Is that he was la
boring under nightmare. He awoke
with start to find himself sitting in
bed with a smoking revolver In his
hand. His wife was dead.
| In bunch OF street sweepings In
front of the Auditorium hotel, Chicago,
August Lipke, sweeper, found a $500
diamond. He showed 1t to park po-
| liceman, and the officer remembered
that r. II. Southgate Of the hotel had
lost gem. Mr.. Southgate identified
the stone and gave Lipke 500.
The bodies of Lonnie Lane, aged 90
and Miss Glennie Sauls, Ia, both of
well-known families, have been found
near Kingston, N. c. 1t is believed
Lane shot Miss Sauls and then killed
himself. His attentions to the young
girl were not acceptable to her parents
and he had been forbidden to visit her.
George Bidwell, the elder of the
two brothers who gained worldwide
notorlety by defrauding the Bank of
England out of $5,000000 in 1872 by
forged securities, died in a lodging
house at Butte, Mont, Of pneumonia
after two weeks illness. He was
81 years old The other brother died
weeks before. -
Joe willard, the actor who eloped
with Miss Aiken, niece of ex-Congress-
man s. M. Stephenson, two years ago,
Is again In Menomlnee at the head of
his own company. Mr.. Willard has
been an actor for ten years, and it was
in May and June of 1897 that he cap
tlvated one of Menominees prettest
and most popular society girls. The
people are generally bitter over his re-
turn and violence is talked of unless
he gets out.
| Rev. Henry Lewis Richardson, tenn
porary pastor OF the Congregational
church of Racine, Is the defendant in
a divorce suit and his wife, the plant
| IT, Is a resident of Mllwaukee-Mrs.
Anna Elizabeth Mathews Richardson,
daughter of Rev. Sharburne s. Ma
thews, the retiring pastor of the Han
over Street Congregational church.
The plaintiff and the defendant are
extensively known in Milwaukee. Mrs
Richardson alleges that she was mar
ried in Milwaukee, June s, 1898, and
that she and her husband separated
Dec, /. 1898. She charges brutal
treatment, Their only child lived but
n week.