Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1900-05-10

the orator.
Roosevelt's emphatic declaration Of
his position Increases the probability
OF Secretary Longs nomination for
vice president.
Police Sergeant Timothy 8. O'Con-
nell was found dead on the Eighteenth
street viaduct Chicago, shot through
the breast
DR.. Pfeiffer, discoverer Of influenza
bacillus, says handkerchiefs propagate
20 cent OF all colds in head. throat,
and nose.
Governor Tanner visited Chicago to
consult surgeons regarding an opera
tlon. He has gall stones and can
scarcely live.
At Cincinnati Mrs. Jessie Adams
was acquitted OF murder. She re-
Gently killed her husband, agent of the
U. p. railway.
S. w. Jacobs, president OF the Loan
& Trust company, Is under arrest in
Chicago for forging so shares OF Amer
lean sugar stock.
High school students at Findlay, o.,
removed the hands from every CLOCK
In the building Four youths have
been suspended.
Gen. Joseph Wheeler has forwarded
to Gov. Johnson, OF Alabama, his re-
signation as congressman. He prefers
to stay In the army.
j. C. Bayes ex-editor of the Iron
Age says a general collapse OF Iron
and steel prices is impossible. because
Of export demand.
The taxation of railroads on a gross
earnings basis Is to become a part OF
the conservative administration pro-
gram in Manitoba.
Beckhams answer in the Kentucky
contest case, filed in the United States
supreme court, denies jurisdiction of
national tribunal
Hanna Is credited with an attempt
to control the middle-of the-road pop
ulst convention and secure the nom
ination OF Dewey
Bishop Thoburn has plan to enlist
an army Of 100000 men to bring new
members into the Methodist church
and raise money
Fifteen men planting corn on Will
liam keerp's farm, near Bonefield, ILL.,,
were poisoned from eating cheese.
doctor saved them all.
Resolutions and Endorsements of
Mckinley were adopted by republican
conventions in Ohio, Indiana. Pennsyl-
vania and Wisconsin.
The Indiana republican state con-
vention nominated Winfield T. Dur
bin, colonel of volunteers for COVER
nor, and a full ticket
The Lima presbytery at special
meeting decided UNANIMOUSLY to ask
the general assembly to adopt a short,
comprehensive creed.
At Buffalo, N. Y, George p. Dold,
son of Jacob Dold the pork packer,
was found dead in bed at his home.
Heart disease killed him.
II. l.. Campbell, of Washington, ID.
G., has been named by Mckinley to
succeed Webster Davis as assistant
Buildings occupied by two saloons
In Blue Island avenue owned and
rented by the University of Chicago,
are condemned as unsafe.
Edward C. Delano, dean of the as
sistant superintendent of schools of
Chicago, will be acting head till DR..
Andrews successor Is named
p. ID. Armour, 1t Is announced, will
retire as head of the Armour packing
firm He leaves for Europe May TO-
He Is now in the best of health.
Popullsts demand the same rates to
their convention at Sioux Falls, S. D.,
as have been granted the mlddle-of-
the-road convention at Cincinnati.
Many Japanese are leaving Van.
covver and Victoria for the Klondike.
In the hope of securing work for wages
or to wash abandoned ground
Secretary Roots declaration at a
banquet that I'VE must abandon the
Monroe doctrine or fight" created
profound sensation in Washington
Disguised with the hypocrisy of the
sultan Oscar Straus, United States
minister to Turkey. has resigned and
Will not return to Constantinople.
According to statements of his
family, Harry Dribble, Is years old
who died from consumption, in New
York grew seven inches in two weeks.
rhe North American turquoise syn
dlcate, which aims to control the tur-
quoise industry in the United States,
was organized with $1,000,000 capital.
Counsel Of the state Of Missouri filed
answer TO the demurrer of the state OF
Illinois in case involving the pollu-
tion OF the Mississippi by the drainage
canal.
Daughters Of the American Reyolu-
ton propose to erect in Lincoln park
Chicago, a monument to David Ken
nison last survivor OF the Boston tea
qarty.
Admiral Dewey was presented with
\ watch purchased with 10000 pen
MES the contributions of school chill