Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-09-07

Vile, Ind, on tour OF northern states
to invite the governors and President
Mckinley to attend the national reun-
ion Of the Blue and Gray October 10
to 10, inclusive.
Lieutenant w. w. Wells, U. s. N,
was besieged In st. Louis with men
and boys anxious to enlist. He wants
to secure 100 landsmen and 80 appren-
tees and expects to be ready to leave
with them in few days.
Lieutenant Jarvis, Of the revenue
cutter Bear, reports that he found a
great deal of sickness and restitution
among gold-seekers in camp at Kotze-
bue Sound, Alaska. Eighty-three per-
sons were taken to st. Michael.
Commissioner General Peck received
word from William l.. Elkins Of Phil
adelphia, accepting his appointment as
a member of the art commission, which
will supervise the decoration Of the
national building at Paris.
J. II. Ladew Of New York is having a
yacht built according to designs sug-
gested by the navy department. In
case of war the yacht can be easily
converted into fighting ship and car
ry an effective battery.
The Pennsylvania republican conven-
ton at Harrisburg nominated j. Hay
Brown OF Lancaster for supreme court
Judge, Josiah X. Adams OF Philadelphia
for superior court judge, and Lieut.
Col. Jas. e. Barrett for state treasurer
Colonel Kennon of the thlrty-fourth
infantry at Fort Logan, Colorado, has
reprted to the war department that
thirty-nine officers have reported and
more than the full quota of enlisted
men. The health conditions are excel
lent.
The forest fires in the Adirondacks
were extnguished or under control.
The fires have been mostly in waste
lands, no virgin forests being burned.
The damage done to timber Is small
and no hotels were in danger at any
time.
1t is said at the state department that
the report Of the probable settlement
Of the recent Italian lynching in Louis
lana on the basis of $4,000 indem-
nifty is incorrect, as no such PROPOSE
ton has come from the Italian authori-
ties or Is under consideration by the
department.,
In reply to a cabled inquiry from
Surgeon General Wyman, Assistant
Surgeon Heiser at Naples has cabled
the marine hospital bureau that there
Is absolutely no truth In the report
that he plague has appeared at Naples
and Palermo.
The National Union Veterans Union
adopted resolutions denouncng Gov.
Shaw Of Iowa for appointing j. Rush
Lincoln an eX-confederate, as brigadier
general of Iowa troops when they were
the Spanish war.
Two designs for a new So silver GER
tincate have been submitted to the sec
rotary OF the treasury by the bureau Of
engraving and printing, One has upon
its face the vgnette of Washington and
the other of Jefferson. 1t Is likely the
former will be selected, owing to the
superiority Of the workmanship upon
1t.
The Exploration Company Of New
York, 1t Is said, has obtained an option
on the controlling interest in the ORR
noco company, end conferences in re-
lation to the exercise of that option
are being held in this city between rep
resentaives Of these two companies and
members OF local Syndicate. The
Orinoco company Is capitalized at $780,
000, 900.
At Engle, N. NJ, w. ]. Spraddling, a
wealthy cattleman, was killed by cow
boys in revenge for murderous assault
upon Miss Nellie McKinstry. Sprad-
ding quarrcled with the woman while
they were horseback riding and shot
her in the neck. She will recover.
An order of the war department di-
reefs that he state volunteer organiza-
lions under the act of April %, 1898,
must be maintained while in the
United States service as originally ac-
cepted. Governors cannot appoint the
new officers since created by law.
Captain Francis w. Dickins, for
some time assistant chief and acting
chief OF the bureau of navigation, Is
to be detached and after a brief rest
take command Of the pattleship Iadi-
ana succeeding Captain II. C. Taylor,
who has asked to be relieved
Two negroes were killed, two seri-
pusly burned and eighteen others Sc
vere)y shocked while engaged in re-
the St Charles avenue
street car line at New Orleans. The
men placed n rail against pole
charged with 500 volts of electricity.
The Greek government has been
granted the courtesy of having an en-
sign of the Greek navy assigned to
duty on the north Atlantic squadron,
and Ensign Cnnstantin Delgeorges has
been selected for this service. He will
go aboard Admiral SIMPSONS flagship
Louis y. Mason of Salt Lake City Is
on his way home from Mexico, where
he claims to have obtained n rpnces-