Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1900-01-25

with an immense cargo of provisions,
-four, grain, thirty troop horses and
fifty transport mules. .....
Philip C. Swab, president OF the
Reliance Coal and Coke company and
one of the largest coal operators In
Kentucky, died suddenly Of heart dis
ease at Mddlesboro, KY.
Secretary OF War Root, in a letter
to Henry c. Payne, republican ma
tional committeeman for Wisconsin,
I says that he Is not a candidate for the
vice presidency and will not be.
| Oficial reports have been made an
nouncing the feasibility Of a cable
across the Pacific, connecting San
Francisco, Honolulu, Midway island,
Guam, Luzon and Yokohama.
From New York comes a story that
the senate republican caucus decided to
give the secretaryship to Benjamin f.
| Odel OF New York and that Daniel VI,
Ransdell would be sergeant-at-arms.
An expedition will soon leave Seat
| tie to accomplish the difficult feat of
reaching Cape Nome by an overland
journey from Portage Bay, Cooks In
| let, across the snowcOvered plains Of
| Alaska.
The testimony in the Clark bribery
case Is Of a most sensational charaC-
ter Thirty thousand dollars, said to
have been paid by the senator's man
ayers for votes promised, was ex-
hibited.
The resignation of Governor Smith
Of Maryland was presented to the
house and it gave rise to considerable
discussion on the question of the
need Of a uniform plan for the filling
of vacancies.
At Port Jeryis, N, Y, Lewis F,
Goldsmith, assistant cashier OF the
National Bank, who pleaded guilty
to taking 100000 from the institution,
has been sentenced to eight years
in the penitentiary.
Colonel A. ID. Hope died at his home
in Roselle, NJ j., after a lingering Ill
ness. Colonel Hope, who was SO
years old, had charge Of the first train
to carry troops during the civil war
to Washington.
The house committee on interstate
and foreign commerce ordered a IA
vorable report on the Hepburn bill
for the construction Of the Nicara-
qua canal. The bill carries an appro-
priation Of Sli0,000,000,
Secretary Long has aroused much
criticism in naval personnel law. In
a letter just made public he Is said to
lay himself open to the charge OF at
tempting to evade the important
questions involved.
James u. HILL president of the
Great Northern Railroad company, in
a speech at St Paul, said that the
adoption of the Hanna-Payne ship
ping subsidy measure pending in con-
grcsS would be a scandal.
II. NJ. Flaglcr, the Standard Oil
magnate, filed an itomi2ed report in
New York showing what it has cost
to care for his wife since she was
pronounced insane last August More
| than $4,000 a year is paid for her care
| in sanitarium
Az Tompklnville, S. L., Mrs. Car
nina Tiotielo was stabbed to death
| in her home by Joseppo Easello. The
man had been engaged to marry Mrs.
| Tiotiello's daughter Carmelia, the
| the match had been broken off at the
| instance of Mrs. Tiotiello.
| Miss Emma Miller, a clerk of Hart
degcn q Co., of Newark, who sold the
silver bottle-holder in which the
poison which killed Mrs. Adams was
sent to Cornish, testified in the Mol
meux trial in New York that MolineuX
did not buy the bottle-holder.
Secretary Gage sent to congress his
statement in answer to the resolutions
demanding an explanation If his deal
ings with the National City Bank
and Hanover National Bank of New
York. Mr.. Gage declares he has COM
mittcd no act that is not sanctioned by
law and precedent.
At Ripley, Tenn. excitement over the
murder of Officers Turner and Dur
ham, and the double lynching which
followed, has abated. The last of the
residents. composing a posse In pur-
suit Of the two remaining negroes,
rode into town and announced that
they could find no trace OF the fugi-
tves.
John d. Rockefeller, In u sworn
statement addressed to the industrial
commission, declares the Standard OIL
company does not receive unlawful fla
yors from railroad companies. MIR.
Rockefeller says that commercial
combinations are necessary and tells
how he would have them governed
| by law.
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