Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-06-15

The employees Of the Cleveland,
Akron and Columbus railway, now
owned by the Pennsylvania, have had
the 10 per cent. cut in wages made in
1893 restored.
Alger, his son Russell A. Alger, Jr.,
accompanied by Mrs. Frank Russell
and Mr.. and Mrs. c. d. Pike, left Bos-
ton for Detroit.
George Trott, one Of the six organi-
zers OF the Union League OF Philadel-
phia, Is dead, at the age Of so years.
He was born In Boston and graduated
from Harvard.
Ellis II. Roberts, United States
treasurer, has issued q call for the
FIVE per cent 20-year funding bonds
OF the District of Columbia, issued un-
der the act Of 1879.
Articles OF incorporation Of the
American Chicle company, the much
talked chewing gum trust, were
filed at Trenton, N. J. The capital
stock Is $4,000, 900.
rhe report Of the Nicaragua canal
commission estimates the cost OF the
isthmian canal along the route recon-
mended by the commission to be not
more than $118,113,790.
At Carlisle, Pa, there has been one
death from smallpox in the Indian
school There are several cases OF
varlolold in the hospital and strict
quarantine Is being observed.
At Cleveland, Henry Levin who was
employed to investigate the Iynchings
Of Hose and Rev. Mr.. Strickland, at
| Newman, Ga, reported that the out
RACES were fully premedltated.
Indiana farmers are forming local
oranges OF the Farmers Protective as
ISOLATION, whose object Is to boost
grain prices by storing for an in
definite period in common elevators.
The industrial commission will, on
the 9Th inst, investigate the inhu~
ence OF trusts on commercial travel
ers. The sugar trust will be nves-
| tigated from June 10 to IA, inclusive.
Three companies Of the first regl-
ment, Kentucky guard, under Col,
| Williams, have received orders to
move to London, Clay county, to at
tend the Baker trial. Violence Is
| feared.
| Mrs. Dora +. Voorhls OF Washing
ton, ID. c., widow Of Commodore Voor-
his, who was formerly at the head of
the New York Yacht club, was found
dead. Heart failure Is attributed as
the cause.
At Geneva, N Y, already about one
tenth OF the wheat crop has been de-
stroyed by the work of the llessian fly.
1t Is thought that within weeks
time u much larger part will be en-
tirely laid waste.
AT Missouri, Mont, In headend
collision between an east-bound pas
senger train and a fast freight on the
Northern Pacific, nm unknown man
was killed and a fireman named Eng
llsh badly injured.
While temporarily insane, Mrs. s,
Jewett OF West Toronto Junction,
Ont, murdered her G-months' old babe
and committed suicide. she crushed
the child's head with an AK, and
uIDWHtu HtIStIl III ~ tlcth.
At st. Louis as the result of family
quarrel Charles Ierzog, teamster,
aged 49, last evening shot his young
wife and her mother, Mrs. Mary Sopp
and then killed himself. Mrs. Sopp
Is dead and her daughter cannot live.
The United States will not cede
Pyramid harbor TO Canada. The state
department does not approve the
British governments proposition to de-
clare neutral the strip Of country
from the Lynn canal to the Canadian
line.
Miss Eva Shontz, president of the
Young Peoples Christian Temple
Union, has started out to tour the
country preparatory to calling con-
vention to perfect national organ
ization which will convene in Chi
cago, Sept 20.
Three treaties respecting CONNER
cial relations with Jamaica, Barbados
and British Guiana are in the hands
of the secretary of state. Sir Caven-
dish Boyle, government secretary OF
i'l'lSh 'Ni'Ahu, ~ hNIc w I'Splldlt IL
treaty of reciprocity.
An officer of the Womans Temple,
Chicago, says that 100000 of the $780,
GOO necessary to secure legal control
of the building has been provided for.
Mrs. Carse will put into operation
new plan for raising the necessary
funds to pay the debt.
rhe time of holding the national
conference Of reformers who favor the
abolition or suppression of the drink
traffic, etc, has been changed to Dec.
IS, rhe reason for the change is hope
funess for a union of all reformers
for the national campaign In 1900,
Miss Nella Bergen, ms she Is known
on the comic opera stage, has secured
a divorce in Fargo N. D.. from her
husband. James d. Bergen, glass
manufacturer of Merden, Conn. Miss
Bergen was u member OF De Wolf
Hopper's company and will now we'd
Hopper.