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

preparations for the dedication on
memorial day of monument to the
war heroes of Kenosla county.
Fierce forest fires rage in Manitoba,
the Dakotas and Minnesota. Lives OF
MANI lumbermen are sacrificed and
there is great loss of property.
A majority of the ways and means
committee opposes requiring the COM
missioner OF internal revenue to tell
the ingredients of oleomargarine.
Oscar Gardner, the Omaha kid"
and Joe Bernstein are matched to fight
in New York. The winer is promised
match with Teddy McGovern.
Miss Marie Dinse of New York
leaped from the Brooklyn bridge into
the East river and escaped, it is
thought, without serious injuries.
Amelia Smith jumped from a Penn
sylvania express train running mile
a minute, near Atlanta City. She
landed on soft earth and survived.
The United States supreme court de-
cided that Captain Oberln NJ. Carter
must undergo sentence of five years
Imprisonment for peculation of mill
lions
Charles J. Bonaparte Of Baltimore,
made an address at the celebration of
the one hundred and twenty-fifth an
niversary of the battle at Concord
Mass.
Joseph Sibley of Pennsylvania, who
in 1896 favored free silver and Bryan
has been nominated for congress by
the republicans. He is now a McKin
ley man.
Senator Jones. chairman of the ma
ti0nal democratic committee, is receiv-
ing numerous letters urging the nomi-
nation Of Admiral Schley for vice
president
In Chicago Rufus Wrghts will be-
queathed no part of his 100000 es-
tate to charity. The widow in whose
room Wright was found dying has
been held.
Warrants have been sworn out for
the thirty-one ringleaders of the Gro
ton dam New York strikers but most
of the men accused have fled to the
mountains.
The Merchants association of New
York has petitioned for an abolition
of the stamp taxes on express, rail
road and steamboat shipments and on
kilograms.
Riley Powell, colored, was hanged
at Cairo, ILL.,, for the murder of Elmo
Erie, City Marshal of Charleston, Mo-
The victims widow and child witness
ed the execution
The sultan of Turkey has been in
formed that unless the debts due
ish minister at Washington will re-
ceive his passports.
DR.. Hills declared doctrine of re-
probation is unscrptural, unevangeli-
cal heretical, Christian. OF 100
Presbyterian preachers interviewed
10 favored revision.
by running home and telling their
father that railroad rail was loose,
Willie and WILDER Stonestreet, r.
year-od twins, prevented passenger
wreck at Cedar, Ind
Package freight handlers, of whom
there are 1000 employed along the
lakes, have demanded an advance of
lG per cent. in wagons. They now re-
ceive 35 cents an hour.
Attorneys for six western land grant
railroads have decided to sue the
United States for nearly 100000 for
the transportation of soldiers from
Chicago to San Francisco.
Napoleon Haines, one of the or
ganizers of the Dime Savings Bank
and the Fifth National Bank, and
founder OF the piano firm of Haines
Brothers, died in New York.
The manufacturers of the east are
said to have sent $4,000 to Chicago
to defeat Chicago union
labor. New York unions are literally
for the strikers.
Ira Light was sentenced to life i'm
prlsonmept for being an accessory to
the murder of Rufus Ross in Pike
county Ind. Frank Purcell, the muir
derer, received similar sentence.
Rumor the Carnegie company will
absorb American Steel and Wire and
that II. c. Frick will succeed John w.
Gates. The latters political friends
admitted being caught in the slump.
resolution passed by the cont
mental congress in 1873. providing for
u monument to Count Pulaski, has
been unearthed. and Poles are to Pc
tlton for 100000 to erect a statue.
The Emmanuel Holland Reformed
church of Muskegon, Mica, was de-
by fire. Nicholas Carey. fire.
man. was killed by a falling wall and
Ben Peterson was seriously injured.
The attempt to destroy the locks on
the Weland canal at Port Colbourne
Is attributed to Buffalo grain scoopers.
Buffalo police say Fenians or boerI
sympathizers had nothing to do with
it.
Illinois Steel company's three rod
mills at Joliet were closed. The cause