Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-10-05

cost OF $4,000, burned from defective
fiue.
Work on the New York rapid-transit
road, 1t Is announced, may begin be-
fore Jan. 1.
The German Methodist conference at
l. Crosse selected Chicago for next
years meeting.
The republicans OF Nebraska met IL
convention at Omaha and nominated u
state ticket.
Julia Dent Grant, granddaughter OF
rince in Newport.
The Milwaukee road held It's annu2!
meeting. A. J. Earling of Chicago was
elected president.
Electricity in any quantity can be
stored in capsules by new invention
it Is claimed
The democratic state convention Of
Massachusetts met at Boston and
elected delegates to the presidential
nominating convention In 1900. Free
silver controlled.
The governors antitrust conference
in st. Louis adopted resolutions and
adjourned sine die.
Two little boys, brothers, were
drowned at Mankato, one giving his
life to save the other.
An Illinois man Is reported cured Of
apparently hopeless insanity by the
use Of lymph from goats
The United States consented to pro-
tect German subjects in Venezuela dur
In. the revolution there.
Clarence B, Britton was arrested in
New York charged by the Chicago po-.
lice with arson and homicide.
At Los Angeles, G. u. Hall, rough
rider, was arrested charged with rob-
bling the post Office at Las Vegas.
A young woman temporarily de-
ranged, disrobed and tried to bathe in
Union Square fountain, New York.
Pension Commissioner II. Clay
Evans Is being doomed for vice-presi
dent by Tennessee republican clubs.
w. A. Franz, professor Of English
and literature in Oxford, Ga, unver-
slty, killed himself, using pick and a
knife.
The state board Of health declared
that New York City should at once
build a hospital for durable consump
tives. j |.
The Stegcr n Singer Piano Company
OF Chicago has taken It's $50 employees
into partnership on tho cooperative
plan. -, s.
Tho general land commissioner fixes
Oct. Is MS the date for tho sale OF the
land on which Cass Lake, Mimi, isl
situated.
The Phllllps-Judson excursion from
the east was in railway accident in
Colorado, six passengers being killed
and five hurt.
William G. Morse Of Minneapolis |
was appointed immigration inspector
OF tho st. Paul district TO succeed Sam
ue' Lowenstein.,
A. G. Bondurant, q leading citizen Of
Polk county and founder Of the town
OF Bondurant, Iowa, died. He was 67
years Of age.
Tho Association of Iron and Steel
OF sheet from $3.10 to $3.25 ton, to
take effect at once.
Patrick S. Triggs, an American just
back from Johannesburg, denounced |
the English agitation as n scheme 20
grab tho rransvaal.
George Gould returned from Europe |
He said there was large demand for
American securities, due to the proser
ity OF this country.
AT Vinton, Iowa, Judge John Shane
former colono, Of the thirteenth Iowa
regiment, and formerly state senator,
died after long illness.
The Grand Army of the Republic, OF
Chicago has offered to get for the new
pOstoflce ut that place cornerstone
prepared by union labor.
Mrs Horace Chenery, niece Of Chief
Justice Fuller, committed suicide hy
throwing herself from a window Of the
Hotel Majestic In New York.
At Ridgeway, Pa. the Ridgeway tan
merry was destroyed by fire originating
from an explosion OF tanbark dust
\ nv lNSS lS tHtlHlHtiAl at P-ut,NNu'
The government has taken steps to
secures possession of Mission rock, San |
Francisco, which has been held by the
California Dry Dock company since
1870,
The state department issued eXtradi-
ton papers for the return to Bremen
OF larthoemans Coast, n German, who !
murdered his Wife and tled to the |
lInked States.
At Window, MIMI, in a rear end col.
lision Of freight trains on the Omaha
road, two men were killed, four in
lurod, the engine thrown into the river
and seventeen cars demolished,
At st. Louis an order temporarily |
restraining the enforcement Of the Dc.
partmcnt store law, enacted at the re-
cent session Of the Missouri state legis
latup, was issued
Oct 10 has been designated as Chad |
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