Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1901-02-28

not participant in the reunion.
The senate committee on commerce
agreed on a rs per cent. horizontal
reduction in the cash appropriation OF
the river and harbor bill and 1871
per cent. on continuing contracts.
The mayor of Minneapolis, angered
at the governors order to stop a
pugilistic contest. declared that he
would stop all athletic events in
which life and limb are endangered.
Among the rumors in Washington
is one to the effect that Secretary
Hay will retire and be succeeded by
Ambassador Choate, and Whitelaw
Reid will be sent to the court of ST.
James.
The enameling plant of the Keohler,
Hayssen e. Steyn Manufacturing com
pany at Sheboygan, Mich. covering
six acres. was burned; loss is $4,000,
covered by insurance. The plant will
be rebuilt
In a bloody fight over a woman at
HOLSTER, a mining village near Athens,
Ohio, Albert Sitter shot and killed
Mike Johnkac and Joe foolish. Sitter
was badly cut, but will recover, He is
under arrest.
Roy Powell Of Lena. H., aged x
years, was arrested at Freeport on
suspicion Of being connected with the
killing Of Woodbury. Workinger, who
was found dead in his home near
Mcconnell, III,
The old cadets at Kenyon military
academy in Ohio have signed and de-
liYered to the regents pledge that
they will neither engage in nor as
sist in any form of hazing or annoy
ing "A fellow cadet
Mr.. Trumbull, formerly general
counsel for the Texas Pacific Railway
company, was killed by a passenger
train at Il crossing in Webster Grove,
Mo. He did not see the train coming
and stepped in the way.
George w. Brientnall Lancaster
Pa, died. At the battle of Shiloh
when but 5 years old, he displayed
remarkable coolness and bravery and
was HlLtINdlV hlOWH Wy Tic SbDl i
quet, the drummer of Shiloh"
After being out twenty-five hours
the jury in the case of William Rhea,
charged with the murder of Herman
Hahn at Snyder, Neb,, Dec. Z, re-
turned a verdict of first degree muir
der and fixed the penalty at death.
Charles A. Leland, ex-state repre-
sentative and late associate justice Of
the supreme court of New Mexico un
der President Mckinley, died at his
home at Caldwell, O., of consumption
He leaves wife and one daughter.
James German was killed and many
hundred dollars damage to buildings
done at Kingslan, N. Y, by the eXplo
sion of quantity Of dynamite. The
explosion was the result of Germans
attempt to thaw out several sticks Of
the explosive.
DR.. Robert w. Morgan, of Lynch.
burg, Va, has been appointed a den
tai surgeon in the army under the pro.
visions of the army reorganization act
and will serve as member of the
board to examine candidates for den,
tai surgeons
Chief Good Thunder died on the In
dian reservation near Redwood Falls,
Mimi. of pneumonia aged IS years
He was friendly toward the whites
during the Indian uprising at the timo
of the civil war, and was one of Gen
cral Sibley's scouts.
The E. S. Hartwell Lumber com
pany of Chicago has purchased of the
Bay de Noquct company of Naham,
Mich, It's cut for 1901, amounting to
25,0O0,000 feet. The consideration is
100000, and 1t Is the second largest
deal of the season.
The secretary Of the treasury has
imposed n counteyailing duty of GA
Copcks, or about 80 cents per pood Ca
little over 36 pounds. on all refined
sugars imported into the United States
from Russia Russia rctaliated by
virtually excluding our machinery.
Senator Beverage. the senate com
mittee on forest reservations, reported
favorably the bill authorizing the es-
Enlistment of n national forest re.
serve in the Appalachian mountains,
within the states of Virginia, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and
Alabama.
The Railroad Securities company, a
syndicate with $20,OOO,0OO. has been
formed to control the management
through community of ownership"
OF twelve big railway systems of the
west George Gould, William Rockefel.
Ter, w X, Vanderbilt, Jacob A. Schiff
and Il. II. Hartman are in the pool
General S. NJ. b, Young, who was
confirmed major general has been
chosen to succeed General Shafter in
command of the department of Cali.
fornia, with headquarters at San Fran
cisco. General Young, who has been
In the Philippines for more than two
years, will sail from Manila in few
days.
Telegraphic advices have been re.
ceiyed at the war department from
Fort Egbert, England City. Alaska.
and Fort st. Michael, Alaska, to the