Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1901-06-13

Washington and Idaho wheat belts
Spring rains have come at just Tho
proper time.
Brigadier General Thomas Wilson
, L. S. A.. retired, is dead in New York
He was in his seventeen year. HI
was born in the district Of Columbia
June 10, 1882.
Governor insolvency Of South
| Carolina has rejected the designations
Of Senator Tillman and McLsurin
The latter then withdrew his; the
former will not.
Capt. Henry Howgate, whose arrest
escape and final rearrest and i'm
prisonmont created so much talk d
few years since, died at his home
in Washington.
Henry f. Perrine, well-Itnown bust
ness man Of Buffalo, n. Y, is dead
His second wife, who survives him.
was Mrs. Folsom, mother of Mrs.
Grover Cleveland.
At Worcester, Mass, st. Johns
Catholic church was broken into, the
safe containing the sacred vessels
blown open and vessels worth over
81 600 were taken.
The tablets in the Hall Of Fame at
New York University were dedicated.
Maryland Daughters of the Confeder,
acy sent a wreath for the tablet in
honor of Gen Robert e. Lee.
II. p. Baldwin, late general passen'
ger agent Of the Central Railroad Of
New jersey. fied after a long illness.
Cn1y two weeks gro he was retired at
his own requc't VIII half pay for life,
George ID. Rise. proprietor of the
Lebanon House New York, committed
suicide by drinking "a poisonous fluid
while on a train from Now York. He
left Il note saying he had lost every
thing.
President Cowen Of the Baltimore
and Ohio resigned, and l.. F. Loree,
fourth vice president Of the Pennsyl-
vanla, has been elected 10 succeed
him. The Pennsylvania thus takes
full control Of the system.
The supreme court OF Connecticut
has decided that a business partner
ship Of husband and wife Is void. This
relieved Mrs. Parsons Of Waterbury
from liability for debts Of an insol-
vent bank she and Mr.. Parsons ran.
The statistician Of the department
of agriculture estimates the total area
planted in cotton at 2,532 GOO acres, an
increase Of 2,1ll0O0 acres. or S.3 per
cent. over the acreage planted last
year and of 2,498,000 acres, or 10 per
cent. over the acreage actually picked
Governor Stone of Pennsylvania
signed the Snyder-Harris oleomargar-
inc restriction bill regulating the man.
ufacture and sale of butterine, forbid
ding the coloring of OleOmargarine ana
making 1t compulsory for each dealer
to secure permit from the agriculture
al department before handling cleo
margarine.
Many railroad officials attended the
funeral of the late Daniel Billiard
Robinson, formerly president of the
St. Louis and San Francisco railroad,
which was held in Chicago. Mr..
Robinson Is survived by a widow and
two sons, James b, and Harry NJ. Rob
inson of St. Louis, and "A daughter,
Mrs. Gale Thompson,
The Youngstown-SharOn street rail
way company pa has awarded the
used in the construction of the line
between Sharon and Newcastle, a dis,
tance of twenty-one miles 1t is the
intention to expend about 81, 500, 600
in western Pennsylvania and Ohio on
their new trolley railway systems.
Rev Thomas II. Pearne, aged 81,
and for siXty-one years minister in
the Methodist church is dead at his
home in Cincinnati, He held many
prominent positions in the church
and was United States consul in the
British West Indies during part of his
missionary service. He was the author
of several standard books on Metho-
dsm.
The funeral of William \. Will,
yms, one of the most widely known
negroes in New York, occurred from
the Church of St. Benedict the Moor
in New York Mr.. Willyms had been
for number of years sacristan of the
church. He was educated at Rome and
had as fellow pupils Archbishop Cor.
rigan, Or. MCGlynn. Dr. Birdsall and
other well-lnown church diguitaries.
Mrs, Mary Virginia Nah Stuart
died at the residence of her son-in.
law c. c. Brown, at Springfield, H.,
aged So years. She was born near
Richmond, Va, and came to Missouri
when Il child with her parents, Gen.
eral and Mrs, Francis Nash She was
married to the late Major John Todd
Stuart, who was a member of congress
in 1888, in Jacksonville, oct. -. 1887,
where she was residing with her uncle,
Judge Samuel n. Lockwood of the Hi
nois supreme court A daughter aud
two sons survive
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