Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-04-06
TELEGRAPHIC TICKS.

L ne fln ILLINOIS mas Ielt havana
for Tampa.
Ambassador Choate has almost re-
covered from his recent indisposiuon.
Severe cold weather is being expert
enced in Virginia, North Carolina and
South Carolina.
One hundred machinists in the Rock
Island arsenal have quit work for an
advance in wages.
Gen. Shafter has been ordered from
San Francisco to Washington as wit
ness before the court of inquiry.
Vice-President Hobart is not
progressing as satisfactorily as hoped
for, being still unable TO throw off his
cough.
Articles of incorporation of the
American Refining company, with a
capital of 65,00O,OO0 have been filed
in New Jersey.
Maj.-Gen. George Leonard Andrews,
formerly professor of modern Ian
guages at the West Point military
academy, is dead, aged 20.
A charter has been granted at
Charleston, w. Va, to the American
Colonial Banking Co. with capital of
100000 to establish a bank at San
Juan.
At San Francisco, Lilly Post, the
opera singer, has been adjudged in
sane and taken to an asylum
At Rowell, Tex, two children were
poisoned by Mrs. Annie Blachek, their
mother, who then committed suicide.
A freight train on the Pennsylvania
road killed James Dristell, John
Clark and fatally injured John Nc
Allister at Pittsburg
The gunboat Machias has been Or
dered to Nicaragua to protect Ameri-
can residents there who are being
subjected to unjust pressure by the
authorities.
Great Britain has accepted the plan
proposed by Germany for settlement
of the Samoan trouble by the appoint
United States had already accepted
the general proposition
The battleship Iowa, at present in
San Francisco, undergoing repairs,
has been ordered to Manila to relieve
the Oregon. The latter will proceed
to San Franc sco as soon as the Iowa
appears. The repairs on the Iowa will
take three weeks.
Judge John Stewart of Chambers
burg is the present choice of the anti
Quay republican members of the leg
islature for United States senator.
He was agreed upon at meeting of
the insurgents" He is one of the
leading judges of the state.
The secretary of war requested an
opinion from the attorney general as
10 whether the act passed at the last
session OF congress touching canteens
in the army prohibits a continuance Of
sale by the government. The attorney
general holds that the section doesn t
prohibit the sale as heretofore carried
out; but that no officer or enlisted
man can be detailed to do the selling.
In Chester county, Tenn, Mrs. J. A.
Stewart was found murdered iii a
barnyard few days ago Several
weeks ago her husband was found in
field murdered. One of his sons was
arrested at the instance of his brother
in-law, Dan Foster, charged with the
murder of the father. While young
Stewart was in Jail Foster. committed
suicide by shooting The boy was
afterward released. Now comes the
bird in this chain of tragedies.
Revised estimates of election results
in Michigan place Judge Grants plur-
atty for supreme judge at 25000 Fully
two-thlrds of the circuit judges elected
in the SO judicial districts are re-
pubicans Detroit and the other
largercities, with the Pingree feature
eliminated, show democratic gains.
At ST. Louis. Captain Joseph La
Barge, an old riyerman, is dead aged
81. Seventy years of La Barge's life
were spent on the Mississippi and
Missouri rivers.
GOD KNOWS NAME AND SIN"