Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-03-16

Sidewalks IN front OF the church.
President Mckinley will appoint
Senator George Gray Judge OF the third
circuit, including the states of Penn
sylvania, New Jersey and Delaware.
At San Jose, CAL, two bicycle rid
ers, David Aratio and Daniel Murphy
ran into each other on the country
road Aratio was killed instantly.
Steps were taken in Philadelphia to
interest trade organizations and Dusi-
ness interests in the Philadelphia com
mercial exposition, to be held next fall.
Mrs. Cornelia, or Connie" Jack
son, O sister Of Joseph Jefferson and
herself a we'll known actress, died
from cancer, aged sixty-three years.
Mayor Quincy OF Boston has given
directions to the superintendent Of
public grounds to begin the work OF
discriminating the English sparrows.
r. Hayden, editor Of the Weekly
Underwater and publisher of the An
nual Encyclopedia of Insurance, died
at his home in East Hartford, Conn.
Physician writing in the Medical
Record says that appendicitis can be
cured by free calomel and soda purga-
ton, followed by saline IL action Is
too slow.
Soldiers of Fort Sheridan are COM
planning at the abolition of the beer
canteen, the profits from which have
furnished all the table luxures for
their mess.
The condition of Rudyard Kipling,
the well known author, continues to
improve. His eldest child aged 6,
died of pneumonia, but Kipling does
not know this.
At Rochester, N. Y, Mrs. Emma
M. Winslow, executive officer Of the
Constellation is dead. She was chosen
by the navy department to christen
the Kearsarge.
The Ellington, a fashionable apart
ment-house in Cleveland, with about
$50 occupants, has been quarantined
because of smallpox, and ingress and
egress are prohibited.
old-tlme river steamboat rivalry on
the upper Mississippi this season. The
Diamond 10 and the Davenport-B
lington lines have parted company.
At GAINESVILLE, John Rider started
home with friend and next morning
his dead body was found on the bank
OF the river near his home. 1t Is sup
posed that he died from exposure.
An old grudge between cowboys was
settled with pistols at Childress, in
the Texas panhandle. John Bailey
and Thomas Palmer were the prlnci-
pals in an informal duel and both are
dead.
The proposed constitutional con-
ventlon for Alabama Is being ylgor-
ously opposed by the republicans of
the state. The republicans claim that
the convention will disfranchise the
negro,
The Montana legislature passed,
over the governors veto, bill to pro-
mote the copper and smelling inter
ests of the state, which confers great
powers upon the corporations con-
cerned
At Cleveland, Daniel Jones, alias j.
M. Wallace who swindled the Clti-
zens Savings and Loan association
bank out of $4,000 on n forged mort
gage, was sentenced to ten years In
the penitentiary.
DR.. e. M. Chanel of the chemical
department of Cornell university has
announced that nearly all wallpaper
sold at the present time contains ar
senieal poisons, some Of them in sur
prlsing quantities.
There is a strong belief among
farmers around Poseyvllle, Ind, that
Stephen Gawser did not kill his wife
and mother-in-law, Mrs. Elizabeth
Kinehloeb, and then commit suicide,
but that the three were murdered.
AZ Los Angeles, Cal, under the di-
reCtlon of Prof. Il. s. G. Lowe, series
of experiments are to be made at art
iticial rainmalling. A committee has
been appointed by the chamber OF
commerce to raise $4,000 for the pur-
pose.
At La Crosse, Joshua Weston, who
died few weeks ago, left by will
$4,000 to his brother John, now sup
posed to be In California. This sum
the Batavian bank has attached ON a
claim for about $4,000 now nearly
twenty years old.
Archie McNaughton, a well-known
young man, died at the Wauwatosa
insane asylum. For number OF
years he was assistant paymaster of
the Chicago, Milwaukee 4 st. Paul
railway and was once prominent In
Milwaukee social circles.
Shoots-at-Him, an Indian from
Rosebud Agency, has commenced di-
vorce proceedings in the United States
circuit court at Deadwood, s.. ID.
from his wife, Fanny Shoots-at- Him.
He alleges desertion as the cause.
This Is the first case ON record OF an
Indian applying for a divorce
Baron Farrer Hersehell, former lord
high chancellor Of Great Britain and
representative OF that nation on the
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