Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1900-05-03

Washington and Lafayette was un-
yelled at New York
Many Presbyteries have overturned
the General Assembly to revise the
Confession OF Faith.
Frederick B. Whitney, for years
business manager of the Boston Tran
script. died, aged so.
Roosevelt signed the bill compelling
the provision Of seats for mattresses in
New York restaurants.
Or. Charles f. Noyes, Christian
Scientist dentist, died under the treat
ment OF two healers.
American coal production for 1899 Is
estimated at 250,539 $50 tons, an in
crease of 17.5 per cent.
Consul General Goodnow says
American cotton goods dominate the
market in northern China.
Mayor Van Wyck signed bill auth
orizing the construction of the New
York connecting railroad.
The Alaskan winter was the coolest
on record; temperature II degrees to
50 degrees below at Dawson.
After leaving Chicago Dewey goes to
Jacksonville, H., st. Louis, Memphis,
Nashville, and Knoxville.
1t is announced that the carbon
manufacturing field will soon be en-
tered by a competing concern.
1t is reported Mrs. James Brown
Potter after securing her divorce, is
1.
Representative Dolliver of Iowa
thinks he will get the republican nom
nation for the vice presidency
Announcement il made that the free
silver republicans are hereafter to be
known as Lincoln republicans.
j. C. Henley will ask the interna-
tional agricultural congress at Paris to
assist in forming farmers trust
Business men of st. Joseph and
Benton Harbor, Mimi, want the Paw
Paw river opened to navigation.
Mrs. Caroline e. Haskell, who gave
a large fortune for education and re-
lgion, died in Michigan City, Ind,
DIR" Adam l.. Schumacher was ar
rested in ST. Paul on the charge of
bigamy and was taken to Mankato.
Michael Cudahy gave $4,000 to the
professorship endowment fund of the
Catholic university at Washington
At razewell, w. Va, John Peters
colored, was lynched for assaultLng
Katie Richards, 1G-year- old girl.
William Aylward, a Chicago fisher
man, murdered William Larkins and
gashed with knife an 1S-year-old
boy.
After May | the firm OF Segel
Cooper 4 Co. becomes a cooperative
concern, the employees sharing the
profits.
Nearly every country in the world
IS represented at the ecumenical con
ference on foreign missions in New
York
Mrs. George NJ Trimble of New
York claims a share of the $1,000, 900
estate left by Ludwig Fisher of Hol-
land,
1t Is definitely decided that Yale
and Harvard will not meet the track
athletes of Oxford and Cambridge this
year.
Major Thomas j. Chew, Jr., one Of
st, Joseph's wealthlest citizens and
part owner of the st. Joseph Herald
died.
Out of sheer deviltry one Of the To-
ledo. Ohio, wards has nominated and
may elect a Chinaman to the common
council.
The Croton New York dam CON
tractor say the strike is virtually at
an end and they anticipate no further
trouble.
Andrew Cordiff, an Ohio farmer, was
about to wed Miss Lucy Cole when he
discovered by accident that she was
his daughter.
The National Academy Of Science
has honored Wilhelm Roentgen, dis
coverer Of the N-ray by elccting him
a member.
Admiral Dewey in a letter, declared
story that he said democrats in war
were traitors and at other times fools
to be a lie.
The publishing houses of Appleton
and Harper both Of which recently
failed, may be combined under one
management
The pulp mill of the John Edwards
pager plant At Grand Rapids. Wis, has
been forced to shut down on account
Of high water.
The Carnegie Steel company, it Is
stated. VIII build the vladuct and ele-
waited structures Of the New York
transit system.
Fhe temperature at Marquette
Mich, reached 81 degrees In the
shade the highest recorded IN AprllI
for eight years
Mrs. Charles Smith OF Brownvllle,
Neh., shot her husband and herself
The woman probably will die. but the
man may recover
W. a, Funk formally announced his
candidacy for the republican con
sresslonal nomination Of the second
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