Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-03-09

$l00, 900, MED new certlncdte yeSLef-
day increasing the capital to $4,000
600.
1t is insisted that Secretary OF War
A!ger will resign and that ex-Goy-
ernor Merriam leads those men
toned for the succession. Alger de-
MES It.
The Pennsylvania house OF repre-
sentatives decided to appoint a com
mittee to investigate charges of bril-
berry in connection with the McCar-
rell jury bill.
The story that Nance ONell and
Mckee Rankin have been secretly
married Is denied by the actress and
denounced ~ q falsehood by Mr.. Ran
kin, her manager.
At San francisco the commissioners
OF Golden Gate park have accepted an
offer by Claus Sprockles to erect mar
BILE and granite music stand to cost not
less than 100000.
Mrs. Ida Pendrey, daughter OF Rich
ard Temby, OF Dodgeville, and her
friend Mary Ann Trezona, both OF
Rosslin, b. c., have started on a trip
to Johannesburg. Africa.
Edward e. Searlcs, who donated the
Hopkins Institute OF Art to the Un4-
versity of California, has agreed to add
another gallery to the splendid build
Ing on Mob hill In San Francisco.
What Is thought to be wreckage
from the steamship Pelican which
sailed from Seattle Oct. IL, 1897, for
Taku, China, laden with railroad lum-
Der and ties, has been reported.
Knox college, Gaesburg, H., cee-
brated Founders day the 18th, when
President Finley announced an audl-
ton to the college endowment Of $780,
900. DR.. ID. X. fearsons gave $4,000.
At Canton, o., no jury Will be re-
qured to pass on the technical points
raised in the prosecution of Mrs.
George. Her attorneys say the trial will
probably commence within thirty days.
The secretary Of state has received
n note from the Italian embassy at
Washington transmitting the regula-
lions for the congress OF commercial
instructions which will be opened in
Venice May 4.
At Troy, Ala, Sam Rivers. George
Hale and Edward Johnson have been
sentenced to hang March 81 for the
murder OF old Mrs. Meyers and her
daughter, several months ago, to Sc
cure $1,000.
1t IL stated on what il declared to
be good authority that the relations
between President Mckinley and Sec
rotary Alger are very strained, and
that the secretary will retire from the
cabinet in II few weeks.
In Chicago fire destroyed the Lind
20 to 80 Market street, one
Of the few buildings which stood in
tact through the great fire of 1871, and
through several small fires which
threatened to destroy 1t since.
Tho Wabash road has awarded to the
Baldwin, the Richmond and the Rhode
Island works contract for 40 new
locomotives. Thirty of these Will be
used I'm the freight service, four for
switching and six for fast passenger
service.
w. Peck, United States commission
or to the Paris exposition, has de-
aided That Samuel kay2er director Of
he Chicago Conservatory of Music,
shall have charge OF the United
states department OF musical exhibits
At the exposition.
At Lincoln, Neb., III the Legislative
on the charges OF hold
ing up insurance companies, made
against State Auditor Cornell, some
letters were introduced tending to
show that Cornell had personally proc
Ilted by excessive charges.
Professor Henry Rowland of Johns
Hopkins university has invented new
telegraph machine by which an opera
tor playing on the keys can transmit
a message, which will be automatically
printed ON machine 500 miles away,
doing away with the receiving opera
tor entirely.
Richard Croker admits that the
Elevated Railway company
rejected his proposition to use its
structure for pipe through which his
Air Power company desired to trans
nit compressed air y a pressure Of
1000 pounds to the l we inch for
commercial purposes.
fho American Iron and Steel AS
sociation in its bulletin Of March |,
says that 6.G09,0l7 gross tons OF Res-
semcr steel ingots We're produced in
the United States during 1898, over
20 per cent. more than in 1897 Penn
sylyania's share was 2,i02,254, Ohio,
|, iS9, ll5; Illinois, 100000 and other
states. 6l2,60S.
New York custom officials are au-
thortty for the statement that the
seizure last week of some | 200 Swiss
watch movements and one-half that
OF gold cases In the office OF
A, w. Levy. points directly to the eN-
istence of an organized gang of
which they are In hopes
of soon apprchending,
Frances Savtllc, the opera singer,
~ hn Stot,v tbot sho t. a ,ItIy,n ~ Tnlj