Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-01-12

| injured, none OF whom Will de.
At Trinidad, Col. the east-bound
California Limited, No. 4, on the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, was
wrecked, presumably by spreading
rails. Twelve we're injured.
The electric railroad known as the
Los Angeles and Pasadena Railroad
company operating between Los An
geles and Altadena, has passed into
the possession of the Southern Pacific
company, the purchase price being
100000.
Plans for the new navy may be
blocked by lack Of facilities, big ship
| builders having notified the navy de-
partment that their yards are now
being pushed to their capacity.
The New York police have dis
covered no clue as to the murderer OF
Mrs. Kate J. Adams, who was killed
! by taking cyanide Of potassium
| which was in a bromo settler bottle.
In San Francisco Judge CofSy has
granted Mrs. Jane l.. Stanford an or
der for the final distribution of the
estate OF her late husband Senator
| Leland Stanford. Legacies amounting
to $5,l55,000 have been paid.
Three hundred arrests were made
for drunkenness in Brooklyn new
years morning. Ninety men and one
woman all of them battered wrecks
were before one magistrate in bunch
After months of negotiation the an
thracite coal roads have again decided
to renew the coal trust" and advance
prices. This advance took effect Jan.
/, and will amount to Is cents ton.
At Paulding, o., domestic incom-
patabillty caused Charles A. Brewer
ex-postmaster, to shoot and kill his
wife, and then blow out his own
brains.
President Snow, of the Mormon
church. asserts that polygamous mar
rIages ceased in Utah In 1890 and that
the church is not Interested in the
Roberts case.
Eight business houses were de-
stroyed and six stores damaged by n
fire which started In Defrancis' mil
lnery establishment ut Oberlin. The
losses is $4,000.
Frank j. Gould, the youngest son
OF Jay Gould, who reached his ma
jorty only a few weeks age, has pur
chased a seat in the New York stock
exchange for 100000.
At Easton, Pa, Judge Howard b.
Reeder, son Of Andrew II. Reeder,
noted governor of Kansas during the
anti-slaYery controversy before the
civil war, Is dead, aged 55.
Among the candidates for Senator
Morrill's seat are Ex-Governor WIllam
P. Dillingham;, Ex-Governor c. S. Page,
G. S. Prouty, Judge Henry G, Idle and
Congressman w. w. Prouty.
Senator Hanna has received II lrttN
threatening him with death il he
pushed the dIsbarment proceedings
against Judge Dellcnbaueh and State
Senator Burke of Cleveland.
An army medical board has been
directed to consider the best method
Of sterilizlng water for troops in the
field and to report the result Of its
as possible to the secretary of war.
At Kansas City James Brown, coli
ored, was hanged for the murder 81
Henry Prather. also n negro. The
killing occurred In April 1896, Brown
shooting Prathcr Ia quarrel over
a woman.
The Nicaragua canal commission
lavors the Lull route across the
isthumus in preference to the Mari
time company's route, and estimates
the cost of canal on that line at
Sl25 900, 900.
Commission General Peck has an
nounced the appointment OF Alexander
| $. Cupehart, Of Ohio as director of the
department of liberal arts and cheml-
cal industries in the American exhibit
at the Paris exposition.
crank Weir, OF Cincinnati SOL
dior, struck his only son Frank, aged
II. on the head with a hammer and
crushed the skull. Weir had been
drinking heavily and had even robbed
the child's bank to procure whisky.
W. plobhS, lol illl W -lNt NcdlS ~
resident Of Red Wing, is dead. He was
stakeholder In several manufactur-
ing establishments and director OF
the Goodhue County bank. He was
born in Lorraine county o.. in 1926.
At CIncinanti Judge Smith granted
Il divorce to Anna Norton Hartdegen,
n we'll known soprano singer. in her
suit against Adolph llartdegen. OF
llassel, Germany, formerly a leading
'cellist In Theodore Thomas orchcs-
trn.
A letter from Judge Nathan Goff
says that he - not and does not in
tend to be candidate before the
coming West Virginia legislature for
l'nited States senator The leading
republican candidates are, therefore,
Governor Atkinson and N. b. Scott.
Prominent Boston interests are
forming combination Of all tele-
phone companies In the United States
who are opposed to the Bell company,
1t is understood that the new combi-
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