Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1900-12-20

at Anderson, Ia, was held up and
robbed of SIS by a masked man.
| Edward Mason, Edward Matthews
and John Momant were run down by a
towboat and drowned at Industry. Pa.
Anthony Poor was sentenced to
sixty years in the pcnitcntiary fer the
killing Of John Adams at Collins, Mo
I The Northwestern Congregation
allst, published at Minneapolis, was
sold to the Chicago Advance company
Mrs. A. Byron Darby, wife Of Sen
ator.cIect Dr. Darby, died from eff,
fccts of AN explosion at Waterloo, Ind,
M. w. McAIarncy, publisher Of the
Harrisburg, Pa, Telegraph, died Of
BrghtB disease. He was GO years
old.
The annual review Of the lake mar
inc season shows shipment from
Chicago Of 13O,818,232 bushels Of
grain.
Employees on the Burlington's South
| Dakota division were forbidden the use
of tobacco and liquor during working
hours.
Congressman Robert r. Hit Is re-
garded as an avowed candidate for
United States senator to succeed
Cullom.
Edmund Hanson, alias A. l.. Clark,
supposed to be the head Of gang Of
! counterfeiterB, was arrested at Spo-
| kane.
One hundred thousand tons Of coal,
! a, ~, IIn,1a
pany are burning at Lake Linden,
Mich.
John McDOnough. an editor of
| Scranton, Pa, says his cyesight was
restored by prayer after oculists had
failed
Edward Burnett was convicted Of
murder in the second degree for the
| killing Of Lawson EarwoOd at Call.
polls, o.
Iowa republicans are already in the
| field for the gubcrnatoral campaign
of 1902. Hull and Cummins are in
the race.
At the funeral Of ox.Cadct Booz at
Bristol, Pa, the minister said the
young man was prosecuted for reading
his Bible
Vice President elect Theodore Roose-
volt has given n parsonage to the
African Methodist church at Oyster
Bay N. Y.
Thomas O1Iara, an old time jockey,
well known both in this country and
In England, was adjudgcd insane at
Chicago
The Missouri Guarantee Savings
and Building association Of st. Louis
made an assignment in the sum of
100000
Bios Aguirrc, the second American
citizen to be extradtod by Mexico
under the new treaty was sentenced
to be shot
DOW Lcfcvcr and John Moody lost
their cycsight by an explosion of dyna-
mite while trying to thaw it out at
TrimblP, O,
George Westinghouse of Pttsburg
will erect a large smotor on a T.
00-acro tract recently purchased near
Nogalcs, Ari2.
Tho house military committee Is to
report favorably on the resolution or
dcrng an inquiry into the death of
Cadet IOOz.
Rev. b. Prosecutor, Belleville, Ill.
sued Bishop Jansen for $35 600 for be-
ing prevented from exercising his
priostly calling
President Mckinley assured n dele
cation of Virginia congressman that
he ia opposed to reducing southern
representation.
John Arthafcr plead guilty to the
charge of manslaughtcr mt Dubuque
and was sentenced to four years in the
pcntontiary.
Niccpresldcnt elect Roosevelt Is
going to Colorado this winter for q
hunting trip The object Is to kill
mountain lions.
There is a possibility of tho senate
dropping the Uay-Paunccfoto treaty
and abrogating the Claytou-BulwcI
treaty instead.
Miss Anna Robinson, the American
actress, arrived and denied the stories
that she had nirtcd In Paris with the
king of Bolgians.
Tho deep Waterways commission
estimates that a 2lfoOt canal from the
great lakes to the Atlantic ocean will
cost $206,35SOO0.
Mssouri's law classifying cities
making st. Louis the only one of the
tirst class, was held constitutional by
the supreme court,
Inspector General breckenridge III
his report says the apparent difference
per man per annum in war and peace
times Is nearly $500,
Tramps are blamed for destruction
by fire of the Cleveland and Canton
Pressed Brick Company's plant at
Canton. Loss. $4,000
Roy. d, Il. Stuart, the Baptist min
istor Of Wyoming, Pa, was again dis
charged on tho accusation of causing
the death of his wife.
Jubilee sermons were preached IN
Episcopal churches in observance OF
the twcnty.hfth anniversary of Bishor
. McIarCn's conservation
! Mrs A RVTOn Darby wifC Of StDtt