Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-07-27

! 1t is stated that President McKin-
ley, ex-President Cleveland and Gov
Roosevelt will visit the proposed Min
nesota forest reserve in October.
The governor of Wisconsin issued
another appeal for the relief OF the
! New Richmond cyclone sufferers, say
| ing $75 900 more Is needed.
| The battleship Wisconsin, now build
ing at the Union hon Works, will go
on Hunters Point dry-dock this week
to have her propeller put on.
Admiral KautZ, commanding the
Pacific Station, will have four ships
under his command A squadron will
be formed to practice maneuvers.
Between $4,000 and $4,000 damages
was done by fire at Wagner, |. I.
The fire started in Rourkes bakery
and burned about 20 buildings.
Chicago capitalists are interested In
| the United American Glue company,
which was organized at New York
with a capitalization OF 100000.
The Baptist Young Peoples Union
OF American met in It's ninth annual
III h'i' W.
1000 persons at the opening session.
The Westinghouse company has Sc
cured the contract to equip the Rus
sion Imperial railway with air brakes.
The contract amounts to $l2OO0,00O.
The Missouri supreme court refused
rehearng to Insurance companies
which II is sought to GUST from the
state for violations Of the antitrust
law.
Cashier George M. Valentine, whose
embezzlement Of $l25,000 closed the
Middlesex County bank at Perth Am
boy, N. j., surrendered himself to the
sheriff
A train Of nine empty passenger cars
on the Northwestern railroad at Chi
cago, backed into the river at the
Kinzle street bridge. Nobody was
injured.
President Mckinley is said to be
negotiating for the purchase of the Nc
Klnley cottage, occupied by the family
at Canton during the last national
campaign.
| Rev. w. r. Cowles, II pioneer Metho-
dist minister, well known all over
eastern Iowa, died at Burlington, aged
so. He began his ministry slXty-two
years ago.
Chaplain Bateman, Of the army,
criticised the czar OF Russia and the
emperor OF Germany in an grafton and
may he called to account by the war
| department.
Secretary Long has received letter
from Oscar r. Delgnan declining the
appointment to the naval academy of
fered to him in accordance with an
act Of congress.
Rev. Jay G. Goodrich, the first APP
pointee of the American Bible Society
to the Philippine islands, will sail
with his wife from New York within
a few weeks.
The state department has instructed
our minister at Pekin to use his good
Offices in behalf Of American railroad
interests in China and to protect
them from injury.
The grand jury for Berkshire
county, Mass, has returned fifteen In
| dIctments charging forgery against
G. Albert Learned. formerly acting
auditor Of Pltsfield.
officials Of the government advocate
the extension of the war revenue tax
to patent-protocted articles and the
money transfer business Of telegraph
and express companies.
At Lexington, Ky, the republican
state ticket was completed as follows:
For auditor. John S. Sweeney; treas
urer, Walter II. Day; superintendent of
instruction, John Burke.
The Boer government has sent to
Washington petition, signed by 5000
Outlnnders, declaring that the govern
ment of the Transvaal is not oppres-
slye or unsatisfactory.
Mrs. Tournot Bruguicr, pioneer
woman Of the northwest, who was
known along the Missouri from St
Louis to Montana,is dead at Sioux
city, Iowa, aged u years.
In a hearing before Civil-Service
Commissioner Brewer at Concord N
IT,, the lie was passed between Sena-
| WIG Nr'idllhlNl dhl NitlllHbNlI anu all
! exciting scene ensued
\ report Of the interstate commerce
commission shows a large aggregate
increase in the net earnings of rail
ways and increase of wages Of rail
way employees for 1898.
AZ Youngstown Judge l.. w. King. a
prominent lawyer and republican
politician we'll known throughout
Ohio, died, after an illness of several
months. He was As years old.
At Cincinnati the jury In the case OF
Joseph pepow, charged with the MUIR
der OF James Patterson, Il noted local
politician and prize fighter, disagreed
Dcqcw was remanded to Jail
Louis w. lolladay, son of Jesse w
| Holiday. the Chicago millionaire, was
shot by his wife at ST. Louis and prob
ably fatally wounded, She says that
she did the shooting in selt-defense.
The average price per bushel of
wheat exported in the fiscal year just
ended was 7l.77 cents, against 9SS
cents in the preceding year, There