Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1900-05-31

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1t is said in Washington that Will
lam A. Clark will not be permitted to
take his seat in the seante, although
lawyers in that body admit he is
technically in the right.
C. w. Knapp of st. Louis and
Charles S. Diehl were elected to sue
coed Victor F. Lawson and M. e.
Stone as president and general man
ager of the Associated Press
Samuel j. Richie, alias Sam Scott,
arrested in Baltimore charged with
robbing the Bradley Bank Of Eldon,
Iowa, was at one time a prominent
democratic politician in Chicago.
The Methodist committee on book
concern voted to abolish the st. Louis
book depository and to consolidate the
central Omaha, and Rocky mountain
papers with the office at Kansas City.
The committee of the Methodist Epis-
copal general conference having
charge Of the subject Of amusements
Will recommend that no change be
made in church discipline in this re-
gard.
r. NJ. Patterson, who contests the
nomination of William j. ONeill for
congress by the republicans in the
third Illinois district, has filed suit
charging fraud in the convention
proceedings.
J. f. Hutchinson. editor of the
Guthrie, Ky, Graphic, and Virgil Mar
SHALL freight agent, were fatally shot
in a saloon in Guthrie, Ky, by II. +.
Duvoid. Marshall was a bystander
All are young men.
Manager Brady C. the Jeffries camp
says that te IDS uncovered a plan by
give a fake fight sor the purpose of get
ting pictures and calling them pictures
Of the Corbett-Jeffries fight.
Three hundred girls employed as
cigar-makers at Hamburger, Homan &
Co. S factory, New York, refused to
strike because the superintendent
bought gallons Of ice cream and
candies and engaged an orchestra.
After three years inexplicable illnel 5
Miss Barbara Knobel of Altoona, Wis
has been relieved by a surgical opera
ton of four inch steel hatpin imbed-
ded in the muscles of her right side.
How it got there she doesn't know.
The Indiana supreme court decided
that the Wabash roads purchase Of the
Eel River line to prevent competition
was Illegal, and the latter road reverts
to the state. The decision paves the
way for an effective antitrust law in
Indiana.
Judge Tuley formally declines to
allow his name to be considered for
the democratic nomination for COVER
nor in Illinois. Mayor Harrison and
other county leaders decided to sup
port Judge Nicholas e. Worthington
of Peoria.
Gov. Smith of Montana revoked
the action Of the lieutenant COVER
nor in appointing Clark and appoint
ed Martin Maginis United States SEN
ator, 1t is possible that the Clark
case will be permitted to rest during
the remainder of the session.
Mrs. George Ray, Garrett, Ind, has
sued the Baltimore and Ohio railroad
company for $4,000 for the death of
her husband, a fireman, who was kill
ed in a wreck.
1t Is said that syndicate secured
an option on the Danish West Indies
for $1,000 600 and tried to sell them
for $4,000,000 to the United States.
Secretary Hay learned of the scheme,
and will wait until the contract
lapses and then negotiate direct.
Prince Alexis Dalgaroukoff of St.
Petersburg is looking into the
standing of men composing the Rus
sian-American Commercial company,
capitalized at $50OO,0OO, organized for
the purpose of operating along the
line of the Transiberian Railroad.
Fire destroyed the Grand Army
Home for Soldiers Widows, at Haw-
kins Station, Pa. The forty inmates,
ranging in age from 80 to 95 years, es-
capped without injury.
The date OF the wedding of Miss
katherine Clark, daughter Of United
States Senator Clark to DR.. Lewis
Rutherford Morris of New York, has
been changed from June is to May 2S.
Senator Clark. it is said, decided to
hasten the ceremony owing to impera-
tive business requiring his presence in
Montana.
The United States supreme court
decided that the Kentucky legisla-
lures decision in the gubernatorial
contest is final Three justices dis
scented, but only Harlan believed the
court OF appeals decision should be
reversed. Taylor is in Indiana to es-
cape arrest, as Mount will not ex-
tradite him.
In New York Mrs Clio Hinton Hun
eker and William Bracken were quiet
\ ly married at Delmonico's after en-
, cOuntering most unusual obstacles and