Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-05-25


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Chicago May wheat, G9%c.
Ex-Gov. Roswell p. Flower of New
York died suddenly.
Valuable Washington relicts have
been presented to the Ladies' Mount
Vernon association.
American and English literary
agents formed syndicate to contro
the kipling output.
Last reports from the tornado neal
Eagle Pass, Tex, say that ~ were
killed and 100 wounded.
r. w. Henry OF Dubuque, one OF the
leading lawyers Of Iowa, dropped dead
while trying case.
! The Louisiana purchase exposition
| to be held in st. Louis in 1903 will
rival the worlds fair.
A fourteen-year schoolgirl at Center
Vile, Wis, beat her lady school teach
er with serious results.
The Burlington contehip.ates the
purchase of several lines which 1t Is
operating under leases
Citizens OF Minneapolis held, a mass
meeting in support Of the govern
ment's Philippine policy.
John Doyle shot the nurse of a Chi
cago hospital. who cared for him while
an inmate. He fell in love with hel
while there but she refused to marry
him.
Grain elevators and the Minneapolis
and st. Louis stock yards at Lake
Mills, Iowa, were burned.
The radiOphone, the new Wireless
telephone, was shown at Madison
square garden, New York.
Poultry and egg dealers west OF
Chicago have combined into a stock
company to control prices
A New York syndicate has demon
strated the advantages OF petroleum
us motive power for automobiles.
Charles G. Judson, builder, filed pc
tition In bankruptcy at New York.
Liabilities, $229,262. No assets.
The steamer Thomas Davidson went
ashore at Cana Island. She Is loaded
with iron and bound for Milwaukee.
Junius Howe, a theatrical manager,
filed II petition in bankruptcy at New
York. Liabilities, $3l 952. No assets.
An excursion train on the Philadel-
phia a. Reading railway was wrecked,
rs people being killed and so injured,
Experts told the senate pure food
committee OF the prevalence Of the
use of containing fluids" In food and
drink
Mrs. w. A. IIaines OF Detroit COM
mitted suicide by jumping from the
nfth-floor veranda of the Battle Creek
sanitarlum.
After over ten years Of controversy
women have been admitted to member
ship in the order of Catholic Knights
Of America.
A general carriage company recently
incorporated IL found to have sweep
Ing powers to run cabs on every street
In New York.
A member Of the cabinet states that
President Mckinley has practically de-
cidcd to call an extra session of con
grcss in October.
Three thousand persons attended a
reception and banquet in Washington
In honor OF the National Society of Me
chanical Engineers.
Trafford N. Jayne, n prominent
young man Of Minneapolis, confessed
cmbeZzlemcnt and left the city,
threatening suicide.
Elijah G. Harvey an educated mu-
latto, is charged with robbing the New
York homo of Charles II. Yerkes, the
Chicago millionaire.
Hosea NJ Knowlton Of New Bedford
attorney general OF Massachusetts,, yes
tcrday announced his withdrawal as a
candidate for governor.
Tho assistant attorney general of
the United States decided that 'punts"
are not taxable under the war revenue
law, but calls" are.
rhe Catholic knights Of America
defeated the proposition to increase
the age limit of men eligible to ad-
mission from As to so years.
Recorder Golf severely condemned
the district attorneys office Of New
York for prosecuting bartcnders and
letting off saloon proprietors,
The fourth annual convention of the
Baptist Young Peoples Union was held
in Louisville Ky, preliminary to the
Southern Baptist convention.
woman, who says she was the
Commonlaw wife of the late Thomas
j. HaNcmcyor has claimed dover
rights in the millionaires estate.
AT the closing session Of the amman
encampment Of the Connecticut G. A.
II. Henry r. Jones of Hartford was
elected department commander.
A. II. Leslie, chief of Pittsburg's po-
lice, was elected president of the Ma
tional Association of Police Chiefs at
the convention in Chattanooga.
At New Castle, Pa, the United Pres
hytcrian missionary convention adopt
ed resolutions protesting against the
seating of Congressman elect Roberts,
Of Utah,
Colonel John s. Lord has accepted
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