Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-05-11

1885, 025, 533, an average of 100000 for
each working day.
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
VanderlIp handed to Secretary Hay
the drafts for 100000 to be turned
over to the Spanish government.
A hearing was begun in Philadelphia
OF the case of former United States Dis
trlct Attorney T.. p. Ingham, accused
OF conspiracy with counterfeiters.
A prairie fire, swept by cyclone,
devastated farms In path twenty-five
miles long and mile wide near
Coleridge, Neb. Two lives were lost.
The trial OF the Mccormick con-
spiracy case growing out OF the Phoe-
nix election riots last year ended in a
verdict OF not guilty at Greenvlle, s.
G..
Mrs. Annie George, who was ac-
cused OF the murder of George Saxton,
brother-in-law of President Nc
Kinley, was acquitted by Canton
(Ohio) jury.
President Mckinley, several mem
bers of his cabinet and Mrs. y. S.
Grant attended the unwilling at Phil
adelphia of an equestrian statue OF
Gen. u. s. Grant.
| In a fight with two desperadoes who
held up several persons near Brigham
City, Utah, Captain Brown of the Og-
den police force was killed, after he
| had shot one OF the robbers dead.
Lieutenant o. Il. Lasher, United
States navy, thrown from his trap
while out driving at Monterey, Cal,
April 81, Is dead OF his injuries. He
was native OF New York, aged 70.
The United States supreme court Is
hearing argument in the case OF the
government against the cast iron pipe
trust, the most important case ever
brought under the Sherman antitrust
law.
Prof. Carl A. Myer, 80 years old,
professor OF German language at the
Albany, N. Y, High school, and as
slstant teacher of that study at the AL
bany Female academy, committed sui
eide.
In New York fire badly damaged the
former convent OF st. Francis Xavier
large stone building on st. Catharin
street, now occupied by about dozen
small manufacturing concerns. LOSS
$75, 900.
The friends of Mr.. Quay claim that
he polled the senate before adjourn
ment of congress and secured pledges
from slxty-seven senators voted for
his admission to the senate IL he was
appointed by the governor.
Henry +. Sloane, the wealthy New
York society man, was granted an
absolute divorce with the custody OF
the children. Mrs. Sloane was, i'm
mtdiately after the Decree married to
Perry Belmont at Greenwich, Conn.
The main part Of the business por-
ton Of st. Francis, Kan, was de-
stroyed by fire. Thirteen business
buildings were destroyed. No loss OF
lirc Cuase of fire unknown. County
Attorney Finley was badly burned.
While his father, DR.. Reuben Lud-
lam, sr. was dying OF heart disease
In Chicago, his son, Or. Reuben, jr.,
continued successful operation on a
patient whom both were attending
when the fatal stroke came. DR.. Lud
lam was president Of lIahnemann col
lege.
News has been received here of the
assassination In Van Buren, county,
Ark, of the son OF Hugh Patterson,
who was murdered In December 1897,
\
was hanged, while few days ago Har-
din was shot to death in Jail. 1t is
believed young Patterson was muir
dered by friends of Hardin.
The II. G. Prick Coke company,
which employs more than 10000 men,
has become convinced by series of
remarkable experiments that hypno-
tlsm may be employed to n great adj
vantage not only In alleviating pain
and curing certain diseases, but for
the purpose of reforming criminals
and the treatment Of certain forms of
insanity.
American manufacturers made their
highest record In foreign markets last
month. The figures of the March eX
portations, which the treasury bureau
of statisctics issued this month earlier
than ON any previous occasion, show
that the March expectations OF manu-
features were $36 25,733, or
50 per cent. more than In February.
1899 During the nine months ending
with March, 1899, the exports of manu-
features amounted to $2i2, S33,6i5,
against sos, 7SS,o36 in the correspond
ing months of last year, and formed
more than &c per cent, of the total eX-
ports. against % per cent. in the cor
responding months of the preceding
fiscal year,
The computation of the money order
transactions of the postoilce depart
ment, just completed by the auditor. of
the six months ended Dec. 81, 1898, all
of the accounts having been checked
to that time, shows that during that
period money orders were issued to an
nmrpnt ar en- snE inD IN axppcc ,T tho