Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-09-21

located the probable site of Harvard
northern hemisphere observatory
complimentary to the southern obser-
vatory In Peru.
Senator Clark of Montana has
bought for S145,000 the home of Sen.
ator Stewart In Washington, known as
Stewart CASTLE" He will build a mag
nificent structure on the site OF the
present building
Richard b. Leech of Brooklyn died
suddenly last night at the conclusion
of his address at a banquet of the
forty-elghth New York volunteers
held at Brighton Beach. Mr.. Leech
was "a years old.
M. Bernard, the Partisan architect
has been awarded the first prize in the
competition sponsored by Mrs. Phoebe
Hearst, who offered prizes for the best
plans for new buildings for the Uni
verslty Of California.
The Georgia commissioner Of agri-
culture o. b. .,tevens, who returned to
Atlanta after an inspection of the
crops throughout middle and south
west Georgia, states that cotton will be
at least half million bales short and
that in order to realize rs per cent. of
the crop OF 1899 conditions will have
to remain favorable for some time to
come.
At Ottawa, H., ST. Xavier's Academy
and the Sisters of Mercy convent was
destroyed by fire. The inmates GO
sisters and pupils. escaped in their
night clothes. The loss amounts to
$75, 900; insurance, 100000
During sham battle in the Paine
spectacle, The Battle of San Juan, at
the Ohio state fair grounds, three peo-
pie were shot, one being killed, by bull
lets from loaded shells, supposed to
have gotten mixed with the blank.
Samuel Ross Winans, Phi. d., the new
dean of Princeton university, who was
appointed last June to succeed the late
Dean Murray, has arrived from Nova
Scotia. President Patton sailed from
England for Princeton September 10.
Within a few weeks past, over $780,
600 has been taken from live stock
commission firms of Kansas City by a
band of swindlers, seven men and two
women, who have operated from yari-
Gus points in Iowa, Nebraska and
Missouri.
Colonel w. j. Bryan has accepted an
invitation to attend the conference
on trusts and trade combines under
the auspices of the Civic Federation to
be held in Chicago from Sept. 10 to
II. Other prominent men whose ac-
ceptances were received are w. Bourke
Cochran William c. p. Breckenridge
of Lexington, KY, General e. S. Bragg
of Wisconsin and General Felix Agnus
of Baltimore.
After a protracted drought in Texas
of So days in which the maximum tenn
perature has been over 100 degrees,
rain fell, but only enough to lay the
dust. The present drought is the
most severe in the history of the local
weather bureau.
Two persons were killed and two
others fatally injured by a bolt of
lightning at Camargo, Ill. The dead
are Spencer Bromfield of Woodruff
and Robert Meyers of Champaign.
William Alder of Champaign and John
Griest of lIrbana will die.
Samuel Moore Pelton, receiver of
the Queen & Crescent line, has been
elected to the presidency of the Chi
Cago & Alton road, vice e. II. Harri-
man, who resigned to become chair
man Of the executive committee of the
syndicate owned property.
A consignment of 100000 worth Of
Klondlke gold for the United States
assay office arrived on the steamer
Cleveland from st. Michael. The con-
signors were the Canadian Bank of
Commerce, 100000 and the Bank of
British North America, 100000
lncome-taX amendment to consttu-
ton, popular election OF senators and
curbing of trusts are issues urged by
w, j, Bryan upon Congressman DAILY
of New Jersey, who Is trying to Sc
cure Bryan delegation. Silver was
not mentioned in Bryan's letter.
Arthur JOY Draper OF Hopedale,
Mass, third son of General William
f. Draper, United States ambassador
to Italy, and Miss Lily Duncan Vor-
heis, daughter Of Charles H. Vorheis
banker and capitalist of Lexington
Ky, We're married.
Minister Sewall at Honolulu reports
the duties collected at the port upon
merchandise from the United States
between Aug. r. 1898, and Aug. Il,
1899, amounted to S109,931. Value of
invoices from the United States re-
ported by the collector Of customs was
8,356,747.
John T. Mclean, the democratic
nominee for governor of Ohio selected
an executive committee to conduct his
campaign. The following We're chosen:
HERMAN Groesbeck, Cincinnati VIM. T..
shine Sidney; d. u. nonavin, Desh-
Ter; Frank Harper Mount Vernon;
T.. III. Southland, GAINESVILLE; O, S. Rock
WELL Kent; G.. n. Haskell, Ottawa.