Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-04-13
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Chicago May wheat, f3M ~ foAc'
Rich copper ore Ia found at Michi-
gan City, N. d.
An unusually deep snow fell In Kan
sas and Missouri.
Or. Gray Taggart OF Galesburg, ILL.,.
died of pneumonia, aged 80.
Six thousand miners struck In the
ishpeming (Mich.) district.
South Dakota had n heavy snow
fall--a serious thing for cattle.
Sixteen Kentucky prospectors were
murdered by Indians In Alaska.
The postofilce department warns
the public against letter chains.
At Cincinnati the Ohio river is foot
and y half above the danger line.
Judge II. G. Brubaker, OF the Ian
easter (Pa.) county court, died In Ian
caster.
The order retiring Rear Admiral
Robson under tho personnel bill was
issued.
Brigadier-General Flagler, chief of
ordnance Of the United States Army,
is dead.
John Sherman was safely housed In
hid home at Washington, d. c., but Is
feeble.
Clssy LOTUS, the actress. has filed n
suit for divorce from Justice Hnntley
Mccarthy.
A party OF Smithsonian institution
scientists exploring the tropics was
wrecked.
At Glasgow Ky. Bob Brown was
hanged for the murder Of his aged
father-ln-law.
During March 250 companea were
Incorporated in New Jersey They
paid fees Of $l26,000,
Every foreign insurance company
suspends business In Arkansas. due to
IN obnoxious law
Rear Admiral Charles G. Carpen
ter. u. 8. N, retired committed sui
eide In Boston asylum,
Brayton Ives. the banker, has
bought historic place near Sing
Sing, on tho Hudson.
II il said that Edna May, the act
resa, Is to sue for divorce from Fred
Titus, the bicycle rider,
Rev Alex. Gonnell has been called
to succeed the late DR., John tlall In
New York ut $4,000 n year.
Soldiers and sailors viii present Il
mammoth album with 1900 auto
graphs to Miss Helen Gould.
The total dead of the Windsor hotel
Are now number forty-one OF these
thirty are unidentified bodies.
Two white men and negro were
hanged at Troy, Ala, for the murder
of two women last December
A l0-ineh cannon burst on the Sandy
Hook IN. J.) proving grounds, kill
ing one man and inluring two others,
Films in the United States begin
agitation against tho cars oppres-
sion of their countrymen nj home.
ny the destruction OF lloilo foreign
houses lost over $l.ooo,00O English In
suranoe companies will be chief losers,
MIR. William Waldorf Astor threat
ems to become a British subject unless
his New York taxes are made smaller.
At Columbia, S. c., the city hail and
opera house were totally destroyed by
HIt. Ht lbss 10 NtNtVNu, lHsulullSt,
S3b 500
The Indiana supreme court held that
II man marries a woman who Is In
debted to him, the marriage discharges
the debt.
Miss Leah Maud Decker, the Long
Island schoolmarm who was In love
with boy pupil. Is not to be removed
from her position.
While en- route from feNarkan
Ark. Mrs. w u. Owen. wife of the
tecretaly of state OF Indiana. dropped
dead in the aisle of the car.
Rev. Father j. L. Shannahan, rector
OF the Church Of Our Mother OF Sor-
rows of Philadelphia has accepted the
Roman Catholic hishopric OF Harris
burg.
At Boston the Badger block. a five.
story structure on Wareham street, III
the heart OF the wood planning district
OF the South end, was Quilted by fire
Loss $4,000
The great Sierra de Mereedi noun
tain Of iron, adjoining Durango, Mex
has been purchased by G. Z Hunt
ington. The purchase price Is placed
at $500, 900 In gold.