Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-08-10
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President Zelaya OF Nicaragua, mas
gone to meet General Terencio Sierra,
president of Honduras, in the gulf
of Conehagua, on the coast OF Saliva
dor, with the object of making an Of
fensive and defensive treaty between
Nicaragua and Honduras.
The story of a collision on the river
Volga between a cargo steamer and
passenger steamer, which was said to
| have resulted in the drowning OF l55
persons, was an exaggerated version OF
collision that occurred July Is, when
few persons were drowned.
Official reports show that the condl-
ton of winter wheat is very good in
nine departments of France, good in
sixty-seven, fair in eight and bad in
one department. Spring wheat Is
very good in four departments, good
in thirty and fair in thirteen.
General Ulysse Heureaux, president
of the Dominican Republic, was
assassinated at Moca, Santo Domingo,
by Ramon Caceros, who succeeded In
making his escape. Vice President
General Wenceslao Figuereom i'm
mediately assumed the direction of
affairs.
A truce is said to have been arranged
between Secretary Alger and the adj
ministration by the terms OF which
the secretary will not criticise Presi
dent Mckinley and the latter will
maintain a neutral position in the
Michigan senatorial contest.
Three Mormon elders who have been
preaching their peculiar doctrines in
Jasper county, Georgia. for the last
two weeks are missing, and the suppo-
ston is that they have been roughly
| handled by a mob that forced them
bodily from the house where they were
stopping.
/ Samuel D. Ketchum, the train rob-
Der recently arrested at Cimarron, in
Mex, is dead at the penitentiary, OF
| blood poisoning, resulting from the
wound in the arm he received in the
fight with the sheriff's posse. He re-
| fused to make a statement, although
he was dying
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George Crabtree, from whom she has
separated, and the custody, is in Jail
at Carmi, Ill.,, having confessed the
murder of her brother and the at
tempted Wurder of her father and step
mother and a neighbor, an old man,
by poisoning,
Mrs. Lucy Parsons, widow of the
Chicago anarchist testified that her
| son, August, was insane. The young
man answered all questions intelll-
gently and claimed his mother was
trying to place him in an asylum to
get possession of his property. He was
finally committed to the asylum.
The people of Florence, S. c., are
indignant over the appointment of
negro postmaster. He is Rev. ]. e.
Wilson, first appointed by President
Harrison and was reappointed by Pres
ident Mckinley last year, but the ap
pointment was held up until a short
time ago.
The American Glass company sent
out its circulars announcing to the
trade an advance of per cent in the
price of glass, to take effect Aug. |.
The last advance in prices was made
| June 90, which. including the present
| increase makes the advance in the
price of glass since the opening about
| 80 per cent.
Mrs. Emiline Ludington of Chicago
has commenced suit at Milwaukee for
| 100000 against James e. Patton
claiming that he, as one of the exc
cutors Of the estate of the late Gov
ernor Harrison Ludlngton, concealed
from her the true condition of the es-
tate. Mrs Emilne Ludington is the
widow of the governor, and was his
second wife
A close estimate places the amount
of gold brought down by the steamer
st. Paul, which arrived from ST.
| Michael at something over 100000, of
which half belongs to the Alaska
Commercial company, the rest being
divided among a number of mining
men. The largest amount in the pos
session of any one person is $4,000,
| WHICH, NlNhlltu W Jollh lIoohs
Warrants are out for the arrest of
ex-Deputy United States Marshal
Keim, of Beatrice, Neb., on the charge
Of extorton. 1t is charged that he
collected money from liquor dealers
under threat of arrest for violation Of
! the revenue law. When the charges
were first made some months ago
| United States Marshal humel de-
manded and received his resignation.
Sugar planters and government Of
iicials of Hawaii are worried over the
discussion of the Hawaiian contract
labor system now going on in the
| United States. They deny that the
laborers are treated as slaves, and
while admitting that the contract
system will eventually have to be
abolished, insist that under present
conditions they have no other re-
course
Secretary Gage has upheld Customs
Collector Stone of Baltimore against
| the civil service commissioners In re-
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