Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1900-03-01

The Knickerbocker Telephone com
pany began business in New York. The
rates are 90 per cent less than the Bell
charges.
At San Francisco the battleship Wis
consin, is fast nearing completion. She
will probably be ready for trial before
July /.
Andrew White, United States am
bassador to Berlin, after partial re-
covery from the grip, suffered severe
relapse.
Central passenger association lines
agree to give rate of ! cent mile
for the G. A. II. encampemnt in Chi
Cago.
Mrs. Grace Brady, widow Of the
young stock broker who committed
suicide some months ago in New York,
killed herself.
The League of American Wheelmen
voted to relinquish control of racing
and abolish the amateur clause Of
membership.
Pulsifer, Cook & Co., Boston paper
dealers, made an assignment, brought
| ABOUT ny lHC ClOHlnS VI tllc hlODt va
tiOnal bank.
Kentucky prison authorities have
recognized w. j. c. Beckham as gov
ernor by releasing convict whom he
had pardoned.
| Twenty-Five of the % steel sheet
mills in the country formed COM
binatlon at Pittsburg. The capital will
he $50, 100000.
Negotiations are now pending to
combine the National Starch and
| United States Starch companies, with a
capital of $25,OOO,0OO.
| At Cleveland the stable Of Gibbons
n Pinkett was destroyed by fire and
forty horses persisted, Loss, $4,000;
covered by insurance.
The board of general appraisers de-
cided that Porto Rico is not part Of
the United States so far as the present
| tariff laws are concerned.
| New York combination of the quick
| lunch restaurants" of New York city
and other cities is being formed, with
capitalization of $7000,000.
| ne ONHtIS vi puuult val
den, New York, have offered to sell
the building to the government for its
uptown postofiice for $2,500,000.
| lex Senator German and Richard
Croker are said to have entered into a
scheme which explains their great
show Of friendliness for Bryan.
A school for the training Of trough
riders" and sharpshooters, 1t is said,
is to be established in Colorado on
government land in the Shenandoah
| valley.
I At Peekskill, N. Y, Mrs. Rachael b.
Crane has given $4,000 to the Home
Mission Board Of the Presbyterian
church and $4,000 to It's Foreign Mis-
sion Board,
The will of a wealthy woman was
set aside in Chicago. At one sitting
she had consumed three quarts of
whlskey and at another thirty-six
bottles of beer.
Provost Harrison Of the University
Of Pennsylvania announces that gift
of $4,000 has been made to the univer-
sity by Mrs. Thomas Mexican of
Philadelphia.
Anne Dupont, one of the most cele-
brated photographers in the United
States, died at his home in New York
city. He was born in France fifty
one years ago
An offer of / 900 hotel and restau-
rant menus was made by young wo-
man to the New York public library
with the suggestion that they be kept
sealed until 1850,
| In New York fire destroyed one of
the buildings occupied by the Metro
polltan Street Railway company. r. We
aged. Loss, $4,000
A jump of from So to s. per ton in
the price Of black sheets, and an ad-
vance of s per cent in the price of
galvanized sheets are reported as i'm
minent in Chicago.
A weekly paper to be known as the
American Antitrust Journal, the
launching OF which was sanctioned at
the recent antitrust conference, ap-
peared in Chicago.
Insurance superintendent Van
Cleave has revoked the license OF the
Wisconsin Fire Insurance company Of
Milwaukee, for failure to comply with
the laws of Illinois
New York coal men say there is an
active demand in Europe for Ameri-
can coal, rs England Is outstanding
her supply, and that the home CON
sumption Is increasing.
Complications increase as result of
the double-headed government in
Kentucky Judge Taft at Cincinnati
decided that he had no jurisdiction in
the Kentucky election cases
Chicago building contractors issued
a manifesto to the public stating their
grounds for entering the lists against
the building trades council They de-
clare they are IN the fight to win.
\ Joliet Judge has decided that the
fact that bloodhounds trailed four
men charged with robbery to their
homes, was not enough evidence to