Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-11-16

reports that all incapable enumerators
have been discharged.
Andrew Anderson, railroad detec-
tive in the employ of the Illinois Cen
trail, shot and killed his wife and ther
shot and killed himself. Jealousy was
the cause of the tragedy.
In his annual report Admiral Crown
inshield, chief of the bureau of navi-
cation, lectures congress for having
failed to promote naval officers who
distinguished themselves in Cuban
waters.
Football: -Mnnesota 5, Northwest
ern IL; Harvard 16, Pennsylvania 0;
Yale "a, West Point 0; Princeton 49,
Brown 6; Michigan 3S, Virginia 0. A
riot attended the Harvard-Pennsyl-
vania game
General Funston has directed his at
torneys to sue Archbishop Ireland and
San Francisco Catholic paper for
criminal libel in connection with the
charge that he looted church property
in the Philippines.
Edward ID. Shultz of New York, a
well-known theatrical manager, com
mitted suicide by shooting himself
through the head. He had forged the
name of Joe Jefferson and son to
checks to the value of 1896.
Major H. l.. Higginson, IS, who gave
Soldiers field to Harvard university,
has given $150,000 for the erection and
equipment of building suitable to the
re ho lint, ify 1,h
memorial to Harvard men who fell in
the war with Spain.
Officials of the Western Union and
Postal Telegraph companies deny that
those corporations are in any way in
terested in the Telephone, Telegraph
and Gable company, which will soon be
launched with a capital Of $25,000,000
to fight the Bell company
During the past six weeks the matri-
monial business in the Choctaw Ma
ton, Indian Territory has been at it's
highest. All along the borders of that
country there have been hundreds of
tents pitched and occupied by white
men, hunting squaw wives.
The will of John Black, disposing of
an estate estimated at 81 100000, has
been filed for probate at Milwaukee.
Mrs. j. V. Clarke of Chicago and
Elizabeth Black, his daughters, are to
have an equal share in the estate after
the payment of few minor requests.
A certificate of incorporation has
been filed in Delaware by the Anglo
American Rapid Vehicle company of
New York with capital stock of $751;
100000 all of which is common stock.
The purpose is to combine English
and American automobile companies.
The committee on federal relations
of the American Brewers association
had conference with Commissioner
Wilson of the internal revenue bureau
in support of their proposition to do
away with all beer packages of a less
capacity than one-fourth of a barrel.
In Cleveland street car, carrying 40
passengers, crashed through the side
railing of bridge, over ravine, and
the front trucks went over the side of
the structure, after which the car
stopped, overhanging the gully, sew
enty-five feet below. No one was in
jured.
Women of Chicago have started
movement toward systematic effort
to show in some substantial way to
Generals Fitzhugh Lee and Joseph
Wheeler their appreciation by the
American people of their bravery and
patriotism in the recent war with
Spain.
In the report to the state depart
ment, Consul McCook, at Dawson, UNI
der the date of Sept. IA last, says that
the gold shipments for the season ag-
gregated $9247,745. Prices of living,
he says, have been slowly declining.
Typhoid was decreasing and the death
rate had also decreased.
The chief signal officer says there
will be no practical demonstration of
the Marconi system of wireless tel
egraphy in connection with the signal
service of the army. 1t is understood
that the instruments brought by Mar
conf to this country are unsuited to
greater distances than II miles by land
and 80 miles by water.
In a jealous rage George Barthell, a
foreman in the st. Louis wholesale
house of the Simmons Hardware Co,
fatally shot his wife, beat his wife's
father and mother into insensibility,
and then killed himself. Barthell had
been separated from his wife for four
years, and during that time had made
repeated requests that she return to
him, but to no avail
FOREIGN.