Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1900-01-18

ministration, died, aged a.
Steamship rates to Paris during the
exposition will be high So much
business Is assured that the companies
do not want eXcursionists.
The American Sugar Beet company
will establish a $1,500,000 plant at
Rocky Ford, Col, with a capacity Of
$4,000 tons of refined sugar.
Charles Thomas and Allen Stoll,
sons of William Stoll, were cremated
in their home at Coal Run, Pa, and
the residence destroyed.
Nearly half a mile of copper cable,
weighing ton was stolen from the
Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul Elec-
trio railway in Chicago.
w d. Hoard Of Wisconsin, president
OF the National Dairy union, thinks
congress will pass laws to prevent sale
Of oleomargarine as butter.
All the factories controlled by the
! American window Glass company
/ were started up. The company will
operate at present ! 500 pots.
Empl.yes Of the American Steel
and Wire company have had their
wages advanced IN per cent. The ad-
vance affects 10000 employees.
At Summersworth, N H., Charles NJ
Door, national bank examiner for the
state under President Harrison, died
Of pneumonia, aged Sc years.
Julia Morrison, the actress, Is on
trial in Chattan soga, charged with
the murder of Frank l,eiden, her
stage manager and leading man.
The Mississippi Legislature nomi-
mated w. V. Sullivan as the United
States senator to fill the short term of
enc year ending March 4, 1901.
Mrs. Ellen Spaulding, widow Of
Judge Spaulding of New York, was
killed by a fall in the Reading Rail
way station at Philadelphia.
DR.. Franklin Fish, president of the
Chicago Theological seminary, has re-
| signed. He Is 80 years old a:d has
served The institution 40 years.
The whisky trust has mortgaged It's
twenty eight distilleries in kentucky
for SIS 900, 900 at per cent. to run for
twenty years and to bo gold bearing.
General Andrade, late president OF
| Venezuela, who fed on q warship
when the Castro revolution proved sue
cessful, is living quietly In Porto Rico.
John ID. Rockefeller has subscribed
ST, 600 to the fund for the p.rpetuation
of the Dewey arch. The subscriptions,
pledges and cash now amount to $780,
600. ...
william Goebel has secured an
overwhelming majority Of the legis-
lative committee which will hear his
contest for the governorshlp of Ken
lucky.
Julia Marlowe Tabor has beea
granted divorce from her husband,
Robert Tabor, for cruelty and intoler-
able severity. She receives 81, 900 ali
mOny.
The secretary Of the Interior has
! sent to congress an estimate of $641,-
| l05 for the expenses, surveys, etc, of
the commission to the five civilized
tribes.
The Paris, Lyons & Mediterranean
railroad of France has placed an order
with the Pressed Steel Car company of
Pittsburg for 500 steel gondola cars of
special design,
joel q. Tyler, late teller of the
Safety National bank of F'itchburg
Mass, was sentenced to serve five
years in Jail for embezzlng the funds
of the bank,
Charles II. Cole, former president of
the Globe National bank, Boston, has
been released on $50 900 bail, to appear
for trial Jan. IS, on the charge of en-
bezzlement.
At Lexington, Ky, Mrs Mary War
! field Clay, who several years ago Sc
cured a divorce from her husband,
General Cassius NJ. Clay, the Sage of
Whitehall" ia ILL.,
Miss Eta Thomas, niece Of General
Joe" Wheeler has begun suit in Chi
cago against William II. Fahrney. ask
ing 100000 dam ge5 for all & breach
of promise to marry.
Representative Berry introduced a
bill to bring in circulation Il Scent
piece, made of nickel, to be the size of
the present 1-ccnt piece and to have a
hole In the center ne-Quarter of an
inch in diameter.
Traffic on the White Pass and Yukon
railway has been indefinitely suspend
ed on account Of snow and slides,
which are from fifty to two hundred
feet deep on the rails.
Andrew Carnegie gave $4,000 to tn !
General Society OF Mechanics and
rradrsmcn George II. sheldon and
his brother gave $1500O0 to St Pauls
School Garden CITY.
| CoCoanut island, the most famous and
! picturesque bit of sea beach and palm
grove in all Hawaii, has been seized by
G.. ". Pringle of Hello and claimed by
him on squattcrs' rights,
The sugar product of the Hawiian
islands for the season Of 1899 was 30i.-
COB tons. Tho total exports of COM
moditics from the islands for 1899
amounted to $5,973, 753 over 1898
Professor Henry Crosby Emery
Phi. D., If Bowdoin college has been Of
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