Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1901-01-10
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
Domestic.


ments to would-be Divorces.
Female prisoners in a Brooklyn jail
ferceIy assaulted the matron and war
den.
The last specimens Of the American
bison were killed in Montana.
The will of the late Henry Willard
was filed at White Plains, N. Y.
The report that P8derewsh had
been killed inca duel proves untrue.
Governor Pingroe pardoned a muir
derer and a burglar and pardoned nine
other conyicts.
cat was killed by electricity and
then brought back to life by reversing
the current.
A new emperor, a boy Is said to
have been selected by the dowager en-
press of China.
Russian settlers near Anamoose, N,
d., are said TO be starving.
Indications are for exceptional
trade prosperity in 1901.
Cincinnati preachers expect to pre-
vent the Jeffries-Ruhlin fight.
A score of divekeepers were Indicted
by the grand jury In Chicago.
Former Secretary of War Alger
scored Gen, Miles anent the embalmed
beef charges.
Attendants and nurses at Bellevue
hospital are charged with stranBling
a patient to death.
Nebraska Legislators are assembling
at Lincoln preparatory to the opening
of the senatorial fight.
Miss Jennie Fitzpatrick of Peoria
killed by headache powders, was to bo
married the next day.
Capt. Howgate who stole 100000
from the government In 1880, complet
ed his term of imprisonment
The story Of the Iowa drowning
disaster proves to have been joke
perpetrated by some trainmen.
Former President Cleveland favors
longer terms for presidents and a
change in the method Of election.
Vice Chairman Johnson of the demo
cratic national committee declared the
committee would not be reorgani2ed.
Mrs Fairbanks, wife of the Indiana
senator, consents to become candi'
date for the presidency of the ID. A. II.
The wife of Kansas mayor who
eloped with her coachman was located
In Winnipeg and consented to return
home.
One of the worst storms In many
years prevailed along the British coast,
and many shipping disasters are re-
ported.
Mrs. Carrie Nation of the Kansas w,
G. r. u. smashed the furnishings and
pictures In n Wichita saloon and was
locked up.
Alfred Harmsworth, owner of the
London Mail, will edit n New York pa.
per one day to demonstrate his ideas
Of journalism,
A quarrel over cards at Abbevlllo
s. G., resulted In the killing of three |
men, including II sheriff and United |
States marshal
Judge d. w. Garfield, for fifty years
one of the most prominent men In |
northern Ohio, died of apopIeXy, aged |
goventytwO years.
The Dubuque, Morning Herald has
suspended publication, The evening
edition will continue. The Herald IL |
the oldest paper In the northwest
Prisoners in Jail at White Plains, N |
Y, set fire to the jail hoping to es-
cape, The Tailor left them to perish
In flames, ana they quickly eXtngulsh- |
ed It.
Charles j. Bronna, hookkcepor |
cashier and confidential clerk at tho |
Wainwright branch of the St Louis !
Brewing company, Is charged with en-
be2zling $4,000
Samuel Mcdonald. who n week ago
shot aud killed r. II. Morris, auditor
for the war department, died from the
selfinflctod wounds he received at the
time of the murder
judge j. Wesley Booth of the Clay
ton (MoO circuit court, rendered a de.
cislon upholdlng the legality of bucket
shop transactions from The standpoint
OF common law.
w, J. Bryan arrived Mt Galveston,
Tex. and left soon after with Col. w
l.. Moody for the private game pre-.
serve of the latter across the bay In
Chambers county,
Rcapportioumont will be the great
Issue in congress after holiday recess
Congressman Hopkins scheme. provid-
ing for 1857 representatives. Is general.
ly considered most equitable.
Lord pauncCfotC the British ambas-
sador, had u conference with the sec.
ond assistant postmaster general upon
the establishment OF a parcels post
convention with Great Britain.
At Denver S W. Hubbicll, a stock
dealer of Omaha, shot ut his wife,
slightly wounding her and then
turned his weapon upon himself with
fatal effect The couple were married
on Christmas day.
In a pitched battle between Sam
Gum and Jim Love on one side and
Dutch Jackson and Philip Franklin