Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1900-01-11

JuuSe Motifs VI the Oleuo COulliOh
pleas court has decided that strikers
have a right to place pickets and urge
workmen not to take their places.
The negotiations between China and
Mexico for a general treaty Of trade,
navigation and immigration, have been
brought 10 a successful conclusion.
Elliot Danforth in an interview in
New York says a recent tour in the
south has convinced him that silver
will not be a leading issue in 1900.
At Worcester, Mass, A manufacturer
Of cartridge belts has received an order
As 900 double bandelier cartridge belts
DR.. Wickliff, surgeon Of the 165th
Indiana regiment, was killed together
with his Cuban boy, Francisco Zousa.
near Delphi, Ind, by Wabash train.
Chicago real estate transfers for
1899, in transactions of 81 900 and over,
show gain in number of 978 sales
and in amount of $15, 109, S35 over 1898.
In New York Richard Croker War
rem, nephew Of Richard Croker, mar
ried Mrs Sadie l.. Corse, who had been
married twice before and divorced
once.
At Kansas City the grand jury re-
turned indictments against IL leading
retail druggists for selling liquor lille
gally without the requisite county IL
cense.
1t may be decided TO increase the
nf tn,
ground that the constantly increasing
population demands additional protec-
ton
The program of the presidents New
York reception settles the question of
precedence at official receptions. The
army is given precedence over the
navy.
The navy department has decided to
open recruiting rendezvous at Cleve-
land in accordance with its policy of
enlisting men from the interior as far
as possible.
DR.. Henry ]. Van Dyke has resigned
the pastorate of the historic Brick
Presbyterian church in New York, to
take the chair of literature in Prince
ton university.
The American Economic association
elected Richard 7. Ely Of the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin, president. The next
meeting will be held at Detroit, in De-
cember, 1900
At Cairo, H., William Martin was
hanged for the murder of Joseph Lam
drum last October. On the scaffold,
Martin talked briefly, expressing his
willingness to die
At Baltimore Franklin B. Living
stone, a blind man, aged 56 years,
choked his wife, Rosie Livingstone, to
death and then gave himself up. He
pleaded self-defense
Rev. Sylvester Malone, pastor Of the
Roman Catholic church of Saints Peter
and Paul. Brooklyn, and a member of
the board of regents of the University
of New York, died
Aaron Wolfsohn: on the finding of
whose supposed body the New York
Life Insurance company paid the pub
lie administration of his estate $4,000,
is alive in Chicago.
At Omaha the Greater American
Exposition company has been declared
bankrupt by the courts. The decision
releases about 100000 which has been
tied up In banks,
Arrangements have been completed
by Frederick Leyland & Co. of Liver
pool for the establishment of weekly
passenger steamship service between
New York and Liverpool.
The board of visitors to the naval
observatory has made n report criti-
risng the management of the institu-
ton and recommending several changes
in methods that now obtain.
Capt. &. A. Armcs, a retired army
officer, is preparing to publish book
in which he deuounces a number of Of
heers of the regular army. 1t is
thought he may be court. martialed,
At Augusta, Ga, the stwmill of the
perkingS Manufacturing company and
the Georgia Iron Works, owned by the
PerkingS Manufacturing company,
were destroyed by fire. Loss $4,000.
julius II. MCAfce, page in the house
of representatives, has been arrested
charged with larceny Of $500 from Con-
gresham Stevens and another mem
Der of congress He admits the theft
The report OF Naval Constructor
Bowlcs that the English built cruiser
New Orleans was unstable has been
proved unfounded. and the navy de-
partment is greatly embarrassed there
by.
Clyde H. Wallace, clerk in the
United States subtreasury, at Chica-
go, was arrested yesterday on the
charge of having stolen $1,000 in gold
from the office. Tie made a confess
sion,
The last earth between the Chicago
river ana the drainage canal was cut
away and the water poured in 1t will
take a week to fill the canal, which is
to carry Chicago sewage to the Missis-
sippi river,
Assistant Secretary Taylor OF the
Treasury department. says he will sub
NIT TO congress amendments to the i'm
migration law Something should be
done, he SAYS, TO check the tide OF