Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-12-21

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Iowa.
j. D. Rockefeller Jr., Is said to have
made 10000 specializing in leather
| stock.
The Yale faculty Is investigating a
prize fight between two juniors, due to
hazing.
Senator Penrose has introduced a
bill to give Mrs. Gridley 500 month
pension.
i The date for the next years g. A. X.
encampment Is set for the third week
in August
Congressman Lorimer has intro
duced a bill to establish postal saw
ings banks.
At Denver the National Jewish
Home for Consumptives was formally
dedicated.
Football: Chicago II, Wisconsin 0
settling the western football cham
pionship.
All the powers concerned agree to
the United States open door-in-Ch
demands.
A minister and his wife. the Che
neys, at Racine, Wis, were shot by
| burglars.
No franchise tax will be actually
| collected In 1900, according to advices
from Albany.
The wages of $4,000 operatives In
New England cotton mills are materi-
ally advanced.
BY a strict party vote the house de-
cided to take final action on the flnan-
cial bill Dec. Is.
A coal damp explosion in mine at
Carbonate. Wash, killed large
number of men.
Father Ernest Audran, priest OF st.
Augustine Catholic church, Jefferson
ville Ind, died.
Charles =. Fletcher, u pioneer rail-
way contractor, died at Fort Wayne,
Ind, aged II years.
w. o. Parker died suddenly of apo
plexy In the city hospital at Norwalk,
Ohio, aged n years.
A seat In the New York stock eX
change was sold for $4,000, the high
est price ever paid.
Dun says trade activity Is surpris
ing. Employment and profit are as
sured far into 1900,
The Burlington road issued new in
structions forbdding gambling on
Chicago smoking cars.
Government contractors are indicted
at Savannah as the result of the con-
vlction of Capt. Carter.
Ir,nnnpnr william, oxnrnauaI urutiN-
cation with President McKinleys at
titude toward Germany.
The quartermaster general has re-
celved word that the troopship Thorn
as has arrived at Colombo.
A large number of girls were injured
in fire In n hosiery mill ut Reading,
Pa, by jumping from windows,
Mamie Melando, witness against
MolineuX, was entiCed from New Jer
sey by detectives and brought here.
At Enfield, N. H., The Baltic MILL
owned by the American Wooden Mills
company was burned. Loss 100000.
Utah Gentiles reply to Roberts ad-
dress maintaining that he Is Ineligible
to congress and Is under Indictment
John A. Sumner, landscape artist
formerly of st. Louis, died suddenly
ut Middletown, Conn, aged "a years
The union reform party will put up
u presidential ticket, with the initi
alive and referendum the sole plank
General Anderson appointed two
majors and one captain to inquire into
the loss Of one mule belonging to the
army
Judge Jenkins in Milwaukee formal
| ly closed the Northern Pacific re-
ownership by discharging the re-
ceiyers
| Threats are made of lynching a Ne
! braska man accused Of hypnotizing a
woman and causing her to commit
murder,
1t is felt in Washington that Com.
missioner Kasson made too many CON
cessions in negotiating reciprocity
treaties.
George G. Power of St Paul is said
to have been agreed upon by Senators
Davis and Nelson for national bank
examiner.
Representative l4ents introduced Il
Joint resolution for congressional In
vestigation of the IDAHO "bullpen"
horrors.
At San Francisco o. VI. Welburn,
eX-collector Of internal revenue, has
been acquitted of the charges Of en-
bezzlcment
Senator Chandler introduced bin
to increase physical and diminish
mental training in the naval and mil
itary academies.
House republicans in caucus unani-
mously approved the house finance
bill and urged its passage after reason
abel deliberation.
Professor q. w. llough Of the Fort
Dearborn observatory, Northwestern
University, has discovered Tau Taurt
to be n double star.
John u. Rockefeller Is reported to
be backing II. c. Prick In plans to es-
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