Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1900-02-01


The big bonspiel Of the Northwest
ern Curling association that was to be
held in Milwaukee beginning Jan.
%, has been postponed, and will begin
Jan. q. The pOstponement was neces-
sary because of the mild weather.
Trustee Jacob Schwab of the Chi
cago board OF education, will offer a
resolution at the next meeting to pro-
vide separate school buildings for boys
and girls. He says: The girls learn
too much roughness from the boys"
Mrs. Anna Ellsworth Smith widow
of Roswell Smith, founder Of the Cen
fury company, died at New York,
aged 49, She sent the famous first
Geographic message, What God hath
wrought" from Washington to Balti-
more.
The passenger steamer Lexington,
owned by the Carr Line, of Charleston,
w. Va, while racing with the opposi'
ton packet Argand struck the lock
wall near Scary, broke in two and
sunk. The passengers and crew were
rescued.
At Burlington, N, j., all the works
of the A. II. McNeal Pipe and Foun-
try Company, except the machine
shops were shut down. Between 600
and 800 men were thrown out OF en-
ployment. Inability to get iron
was the cause
Father Adolph Ebel, c. S. s. r., who
has been engaged in German mission
airy work in the United States since
1875, died in Chicago. He was IS years
old and was born in Germany. He
was stationed at Kansas City, Detroit
and Chicago.
The rod mill strike is practically
ended as far as the Pittsburg district
plants Of the American Steel and
Wire company are concerned. The
management Of the company claim all
the plants in that district are being
operated.
The Chickamauga and Chattanooga
attendance at Chattanooga on the
9th, 10th and llth of October of all
veterans interested in the historical
accuracy of the work thus far com
plcted at the park.
ANA Tioutnnon+ covernnr Marshall
I,nvo nIo1 thoir oornto, notioo 10 oor-
test against Mr.. Goebel and Mr.. Beck
man, The document is lengthy and
goes into details regarding democratic
fr9lls all over the STATE
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The steamer Dorc, which arrived
from the orient landed 700 Japanese
at Honolulu. This completed a list of
1000 inside of four days. The records
Of the immigration bureau at Homo
lulu show that since June Is last, H.
5000 Japanese have been landed there.
In the craw of a turkey, Alexander
BjorkIand of Denver, recently pur-
chased for $1.15. his wife found a gold
nugget valued at $1.lS. Now Biorkland
is making every effort to find where
the fowl came from, Judging that if
the place can be located it must be a
rich placer ground.
At Greenwich, Conn, William
Rockefeller's automobile frightened
the horse that Mrs, Herbert Smith
was driving and he ran away, throw
ing the woman rnd a companion from
the carriage, and both Were severely
in iurpl Mr. ROpkpfp Her DrOmDtlV