Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1900-01-04

life insurance policy which had been
made in her favor.
In rear-end collision near Bards-
town. KY, between a freight train and
the Springfield accommodation on the
) Louisville G Nashville, Mrs. J. NJ.
|, Carothers of Bardstown was caught
: between two seats and crushed to
: death. About dozen other passen-
gers were slightly injured.
Republican members of the house
committee on census propose to re-
) port a bill to reduce the representation
, of those states in which citizens are
disfranchised for any other cause ex-
cept participation in rebellion or other
crime. This is expected to affect the
southern states especially.
The two biggest winners in the re-
!, cent New York stock furry were James
r. Keene, $2,5OO,0OO, and Mrs. James
r. keene $2,5000OO Mr.. Keene won
the whole $5,000,000, but one-half of
his winnings go to his wife by virtue
of an agreement, Mr.. Keene Is now
believed to be worth $40, 100000.
Governor Stunenberg and Represent
ative Wilson of Idaho of the house
committee on military affairs, had a
conference with the president as to
the reimbursement of states which had
paid the expenses of rejected volun-
teers for the Spanish war. 1t is likely
that a bill covering the question will
be introduced in congress.
I
farmer of Palmra, ~. Y, was re-
turning home in wagon when a train
struck and demolished the vehicle at
a railroad crossing, killing the old
man, one of his daughters and a grand
child. Another daughter was badly
injured and second grandchild has
since died from its injuries.
A dispatch from Dawson, in the
klondike. gives brief information re-
garding two fatalities near Ogilvie.
Mrs. J. Rumball, Mrs Dumbottom,
Henry Kelly and two MacNamara
brothers persisted in an ice jam Near
White House 7. Smith, Fred Batty
and John Mcintosh, while in a small
boat, salyaging a cargo, We're struck
by heavy swell and carried under the
ice.
Congressman Corliss' bill, having in
view the construction of a dam at the
lower end of Lake Erie, SO that the
Lake levels will be raised two feet, does
not meet much favor in Ontario es-
pecially among the Canadians who re-
side thp hpripp of 7 oil 10 Erin nd an
the Detroit river and Lake st. Clair,
In order to carry the engineering to Sc
cure the consent Of the dominion gov
eminent.
Willis Clark. AZ years of age, a
variety actor, tried to kill his wife and
little child and committed suicide in
broadway, New York, in front of the
Fifth Avenue Hotel. He fired four
shots, one at his little girl and two at
his wife, missing them, He then
placed the muZzle of the revolver in his
mouth and fired. The street was
crowded at the time.
The president has granted a full
pardon to James H. Bacon, convicted
in 1896 of making a false report to the
comptroller of the currency of the con-
dition of the National bank of Salt
Lake Utah, of which he was president
Comptroller Dawes and his predeces-
sor stated that they believed Bacon
was innocent of any moral wrong and
that he ought not to have been con-
yicted
The new twn-screw' steamer, Rhein
the last addition to the North German
Lloyd fleet of steamers, arrived at her
Ipier from Bremen, with thirty-seven
cabin and 532 steerage passengers and
a full cargo of general merchandise
The Rhein was built by Blohm & Vose
of Hamburg She is 10,05S tons gross
and 6,39S tons registered, and has ac
commodatons for $50 cabin and over
900 Storage passengers.
The seminary for female ministers
which Rev A. II. NJ. HarvuOt of the
Central Christian church of Cincinnati
succeeded in having fayorably con-
sidercd by the jubilee convention of
the Christian Missionary societies, held
last October. and which it was thought
would be located in Cincinnati, will
probably be established in Chicago,
This is because the Church of the
Disciples has no large college in this
vicinity.
Evidence Of Great Britains deter
mination not to be caught mapping at
any OF her outpoSts is afforded by the
PRONUNCIATION of an order that here
after all merchant vessels wishing to
enter Esquimault harbor Victoria, b.
| G., must come to dead stop at the en-
trance and signal their presence by
means of series of whistles which
have been communicated prevately TO
the local pilots and the masters, OF
such steam craft as may naturally be
expected to visit the naval port, and
which Will be answered from the
shore
NJ H. Hanna of Cleveland has given
$4,000 to found the chair Of medical
| Jurisprudence in the medical college in
the Western Reserve university. Mr.