Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1900-06-21

| convention names him.
Judge Boggs has been elected chief
Justice of the Illinois supreme court
for the ensuing year.
General Shaw predicts 100000 visi-
tors to Chicago during the Grand
Army encampment.
Chairman Jones expects the renom-
! ination of Bryan and reafIirmatlon of
the 1896 platform.
Wheat Is booming on a crop scare,
prices advancing q per busheL Hog
products advance sharply.
Ihe Chicago health department es-
Inmates that drainage canal has saved
many lives and 81 100000.
The Colorado democratic convention
| instructed its delegates to the Kansas
city convention for Bryan.
Governor Shaw was cut and bruised
! in a collision on Northwestern road
inside city limits Of Des Molnes.
Kansas City jury has awarded dam
) A., AGAINST a local coal monopoly,
under the Sherman antitrust law.
Wife of Thomas Blythe Scott, former
banker of Chicago clubmen, was grant
ed divorce at st. Paul, for desertion.
Estimates by ward superintendent
of the census place Chicago's popula-
ton at 2,046,9l2, nearly double that of
1890.
A French syndicate Is said to have
been formed to extend the Siberian
railway to Bering sea and across to
! Alaska.
At AnaheIm, Cal, two earthquake
shocks were felt. Santa Ana also re-
ported two shocks No damage is re-
ported.
At San Francisco Robert BrandIey,
a sClf-Confessed Counterfeiter, dropped
| dead when sentenced to three years In
| the penltentiary.
A divorce suit between a prominent
| st. Louis couple Is based on the wife's
alleged affection for the ghost of w. j.
| Florence, the actor.
AneXplosion in a mine near Glouster,
| O.. resulted in four deaths and caused
panic among 200 workmen, a score Of
whom were imprisoned.
Or, D. X. Pearsons has agreed to
| give the Grand Prairie seminary OF
Onarga, H., $4,000 on condition that
| the trustees raise $50, 900.
Governor Stephens of Missouri, in
signed statement, blames Mayor
| Xiegenheim for declining to assist in
suppressing the st, Louis rioters.
a number Of Photographic plates of
the solar eclipse taken by scientists of
the United States naval observatory |
have been satisfactorily developed
Miss Lille j. Ray has been APP
qointed a deputy United States mar
shall for Hawaii Her father Is United |
States marshal for the new territory |
George &c. Roberts of Iowa telegraph |
ed his newspaper tho Fort Dodge |
| Messenger, assurances that DollVcr
viii be the republican vice presidential
nominee.
Chairman Peabody Of the gold dem
ocTatiC national committee said the |
question of ticket will remain in |
allegiance until after the other con
ycntons.
Dun's Review says that the failures |
for May break all records for that |
month, but holds that the situation |
is encouraging and shows frmness OF
financial affairs.
DR.. Paul Giber, head of the New |
York Pastcur Institute and famous |
bactorlologist, died Mt Suiiern, N. Y, |
as a result Of runaway accident. He |
was ~ years old.
by an electric railway collision in |
Providnce, II. L., fouc persons were
killed and may dangerously injured, |
the latter including Lieutenant Cover
nor Charles ID. Kimball.
The majority report of the Occur d.
Alene investigating committee COM
monds Governor Stounenberg for his
courage and fearlessncss" and con
graduates the military.
The navy department Is preparing to
carry out one of the largest ship
building programs in American his
| tory, the armor plate contract alone
reaching nearly $t7000,000.
~ NNhtli nv Nll't thN 'NNlbl iiNh
Presbyterian synod discussed the to-
hacco question and passed n resolution
| against ordainng elders or licensing
| preachers who use tobacco.
Chippewa Indians OF Leech Lake re-
soryaton, excited by pretended Mes
siah's" prediction of disaster have
armed for battle They held a council
of war defying the authorities, Set
| tiers were alarmed.
| The agricultural departments re-
port shows a further decrease of L.
$4,000 in the acreage of winter wheat
and $4,000 in spring crop. The
acreage of oats, barley, and rye is
slightly less than last year,
On the fast train No. 3 on the Chicago
! Milwaukee 4 st. Paul, running
| through Persia, Iowa, Il way station
| thlrty-oue miles from Council Bluffs
! -, i l.