Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1900-03-15


! pointed receiver for the Third Avenue
, street railway of New York city.
In wreck on the Illinois Central, at
Pope, Miss, Engineer Oliver and Fire
man Adams were fatally injured.
Philadelphia mayor has paid the
second quarter of the 100000 guaran-
teed for the republican convention.
Ex-Assstant Secretary of State More
declared the -Pauncefote treaty is
supported by precedent and principle.
A cooperative glass factory will be
established in the Indiana gas belt for
the manufacture OF prescription war;.
Secretary Root, accompanied by his
family, left for Cuba. He will give one
week to the study of insular conditions.
About 5000 New England granite
workers have struck for an eight-hour
| day and minimum wage scale OF SO.
| l.. d. Harvey, state superintendent
for education in Wisconsin, was chosen
president Of the superintendents' asso-
citation
|
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul rail-
road collided at Bagley, la. Five wer
injured
Eleven universities, including Johns
Hopkins, have decided to maintain
uniformity Of requiremnts for gradu-
ate degrees.
At Troy, n. Y, fire burned the viii
lard business block and apartment
house on Broadway and caused $780,
600 damages.
Olga Nethersole and her manager
were held for trial in New York and
the police stopped the performance
Of Sapho.
At Atlanta, Ga, j. II, Soock, Jr., an
charged with robbng the Klmball
house of 81 500
Snow from two to three feet has fall
en- In northern Vermont and New
| Hampshire and traffic Is almost en-
tlrely suspended
Nine. Eames and other women of
his company kissed Maurice Grau In
congratnlating him on his Legion Of
Honor decoration.
AT Talbotton. Ga, William Leon
ard, colored, was hanged. lie killed
his wife and motherin-law with an
AK December %, 1896.
G. w. Perkins, a student in the fresh
man class Of the Sheffield scientific
school at Yale university, is Ill with
smallpox at New Haven.
At Philadelphia Frederick Kahlcr, a
dealer In books, was sentenced to one
years imprisonment for selling copies
OF D1ndet's novel, Sapho.
Mrs. b. l.. Harris, mother of Addison
G. Harris, United States minister to
Austria, died at the Greens Fork homo
stead near Richmond, Ind.
memorial has been sent to con-
gress attacking the character Aju-
tant General Corbin, who aspifes. ITO
the rank OF major general.
Al olympia, Wash, John, Charles
and Emma, small children of Charles
Wenger, were burned to death while
the parents We're absent
All juniors and sophomores at the
Western Pennsylvania university were
suspended for refusing to pay for col
lege property destroyed.
In the Johnson will contest Arch
bishop Corrigan, summoned as a wit
ness, took the oath by affirmation in
stead of kissing the Bible.
Politicians at the capital express in
dignation over the hotel charges of
Kansas City For single rooms with
ont bath $50 per day is demanded.
Indications are that New York
bank will take our circulation to
nearly the fun amount of their CAPT.
tai II the currency bill becomes law.
DR., d. X, Pearsons offered Lake For
est university $3.50 on condition that
100000 more be raised II. c. Durand
gave $50 900 toward the sum needed.
William stapleton, who for ten
years before January, 1898, was
managing editor OF The Denver Re
publican, Will resume that position.
blanche MolineuX, wife of Roland q
Molineux, who was convicted of muir
dering Mrs. Katherine j. Adams, made
public a statement in her own defense.
Jacob q. Chance, clerk of the Illl-
noiS supreme court, Is dead at Mount
Vernon, H., aged 81 years He was a
brother-in-law of Gen. Wesley Merritt.
Maj Gen, John r. Brooke Is to sue
coed Maiden, Wesley Merritt in COM
mand of the military department of the
east, with headquarters in New York.
At Redlands, Cal, Martin Mahon,
proprietor OF the New Amsterdam hotel
and chief figure in the Fayne Moore
badger case died OF lung trouble aged
54
George ) White Il wealthy Chicago
lumber dealer, has been granted di-
vorce from his wife because she
neglected her home to practice faith
cure
William H. Perry. owner of the Lake
Forest polo grounds, was killed last
night whIlp praGIny tho t,,apl,. ~ tho