Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-11-16

broken weeks ago in New York, is i'm.
proving and was wheeled about the
hospital.
John Dawson of Knoxville, Iowa
shot his wife and then killed himself
The couple had been separated through
jealousy.
/ Mrs. Jeffries, mother Of the champion
pugilist, prayed that he might be led
to quit the prize-ring and become a
preacher.
Francis p. Devices died in Washing
ton. He was an assistant attorney
general of the United States from 1886
to 1893.
Dr. Sem performed a successful op-
GRAFTON in Chicago on DR.. Samuel Esch
of Sparta and there Is likelihood of
Dr. Esch's recovery.
Frederick Hardy Jr., art student and
son of a Tennessee millionaire was
found murdered In New York for his
money.
Rev. Andrew Ten Brook, who was
American consul to Munich, Germany,
rum lOOU W loUG, utcu III bCtl VII d6tu
| SO years.
The European nations, 1t Is believed
in Washington, will gladly welcome
the cooperation of the United States
in China.
Amos T. Allen was elected to con-
gress from first Maine district by 1850
majority. r. B. Reeds plurality was
5,525 in 1898.
The burial place, in Paris, of Paul
Jones. the naval hero Of the American
Revolution, is said to have been def
nitely located,
The steamer Humboll arrived at
Seattle with forty Klondikers, who left
Dawson City Oct. 10. Yukon navigation
closed Oct. 20.
The entire sophomore class of Capt.
tai university, near Columbus, o., has
been suspended for visiting that city
against orders.
Professor A. V. Quesada has filed
with the state department claim for
loss of property in Cuba during the
war with Spain.
Ten of the thirteen Coer d'Alene
miners on trial in Idaho were con-
vcted of conspiracy and the others
are acquitted
Franklin W. Spear, formerly general
ticket agent of the Chicago, Mllwau-
kee and st. Paul railroad, Is dead at
Milwaukee, aged S3.
The next annual meeting of the Wo-
mems Foreign Missionary Society of
the Methodist church will be held at,
Worcester, Mass.
A Wisconsin court decided that the
consent of property-owners is neces-
sary for the erection Of telephone
wires in highways.
A company Is to be organized to use
a process whereby tin can be manu-
featured in seventeen minutes; six
days now being required,
Naval tests of the Marconi wireless
telegraphy at sea were successful up to
30 miles. At thirty-six miles the mes
sages became unreadable.
Ex-Governor Joseph w. Fifer ac
cording to Washington dispatch, will
be appointed member of the inter-
state commerce commission.
Helen Gould asks the Spanish war
veterans to assist the women in their
crusade to prevent the seating of Con-
gresham elect Roberts of Utah.
A dispatch from ST. Petersburg says:
M Csciffers, the Russian chess player,
who taught Tischigorin, has become
insane and has been taken to an asy-
lum.
Steamer Clutch arrives at Vancouver
with 100 passengers from Dawson and
Atlin. The output of the latter dis
trict is estimated at $l,250, 900.
Fire damaged property of the Ameri-
can Wire and Steel company, Chicago
nearly 100000. Eleven men are miss
ing and may have persisted.
At Wheeling, w. Va, many Balti-
more and Ohio employees are going into
volutary bankruptcy Tor sums as low
as 500, to prevent attachment suits.
Stephen Lowe of Decatur, ILL.,, was
fatally stabbed by George Smith,
nfOlHtE Oh IuCcT onlllll, WHO WAS
hanged in Decatur in 1896 for murder.
Recent developments indicate that
the new telephone project in which the
Whitney syndicate is interested may
become formidable rival OF the Bell
company.
DR.. Horatio Bryant Of independence,
Ia, who has just died at the age of 90
years leaves an extensive estate to
public institutions, rs he has no living
relatives.
The George Washington Memorial
Association Is endeavorng to procure
a general observance Of Dec. ! proximo,
the Tooth anniversary of Washington's
death,
There will be reunion of the Dewey
family at the Waldorf Astoria New
York, in January or February. Ad-
miral Dewey h $ been requested to fix
the date.
Rolla j. Gucrin, a Kansas City, Mo-,
! huckster, was shot and killed by Will