Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1901-12-12

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Carlisle Indian football team, and
presented to each 81 with which TO
buy a new. necktie.
Henry CIews, Jr, and Mrs. Louise
H. Gerhard, who recently got
divorce from Frederick Gerhard, were
married in New York.
Senator Hanna gave $4,000 as ais
subscription to the Cleveland com
mittee Of the National Mckinney
Memorial association.
Judge Emory Speer at Macon, Ga,
decided that the law allowing sani-
tariums to keep patients against their
will was unconstitutional
Suit was begun at st. Paul by the
attorney general of Minnesota attack
ing the consolidation of the Hill-Har-
riman lines Of the northwest.
A negro who gave poisoned candy |
to insane DR.. Barnes at Jacksonville, |
H., was convicted and sentenced TO
twenty years imprisonment.
Terry McGovern's manager chaI-
Icuged Young Corbett to fight another
battle Of twenty rounds for S2O,OOO
and posted a forfeit of $4,000.
John and William Calimer OF
Waynesboro Pa, 8 and Y years old,
/ took their first train ride to jail on
| charge of setting fire to lumber.
| A dying stowaway was discovered
in the hold of an ocean liner, nailed
in box, where he had been for fifteen
days during a trip from Hamburg.
Edwin A. Abbey, the famous Amerl-
can artist, arrived in New York, bring
ing with him the last painting Of the
series of The Quest of the Holy Grail
F. E. KeiIbach of Savannah, Ga,
was missing when the steamer Chat
tahoochie, from Savannah, arrived in
New York, and it is supposed that he
jumped overheard.
MayOr-elect Low announced the Sc
lection Of Col. John n. Partridge Of
Brooklyn, now state superintendent
Of public works, as police commits
sioner Of New York city.
Believing his extravaganza had
ruined him, Walter G. Marcus Of 806
Washington boulevard, Chicago, COM
mitted suicide in Milwaukee, after
explaining things to his family.
Governor Aycock has offered $500
reward for the arrest Of the unknown
person or persons who have either
abducted or murdered Miss Nellie
, Cropsey of Elizabeth City, N. G..
Comptroller-elect Grout Of New
York has appointed N. Taylor
Phillips, chief lieutenant of John c.
Sbeehan, his first deputy. Phillips is
an old enemy Of Richard Croker.
James B. King, a sawmill owner,
was arrested at Leeds, Ala, on an in,
dictment found by the grand jury
charging him with taking part in the
Iynching of Charles Bennett, a negro.
John Hill, an engineer, and A. D
. Robinson were killed by the explosion
Of boiler at the Ida zinc mining
plant, three miles northwest of Joplin
Mo. Robinson was visiting the plant
The 5-year-oId child Of w. L. Waite
at GrandOn. Wis, died from the
effects of a dose of carbolic acid ad,
ministered by mistake for medicine
: The child was sick with scarlet fever
! Frank Gould and Miss Helen Kelly
were quietly married at the home of
the bride in New York by an Episco-
; pal clergyman. The bride is only II
and Catholic Gould is worth $12,-
OOO, 600
DR.. Francis E. Clark, president of
the Worlds Christian Endeavor, wiz
{ sail Jan. for Europe, where he will
, give his personal efforts to establish
ing the society more firmly on the
, continent
Henry H TerwilIiger, a private
banker of Montague, Mich, mysteri-
ously disappeared, notifying his fam
lily they might never see him again.
His financial affairs are apparently in
good condition.
The intercollegiate athletic confer
ence practically prohibited summer
baseball for college athletes. The
season of football practice is limited
to two weeks before the opening of
college in the fall.
The marriage of saleswomen in
Chicago department stores is causing
scarcity of clerks. There is a
shortage also in cash girls. Mer-
chants are compelled to go to the
country for help.
An electric car loaded with twenty
five glass-wOrkers at Anderson, Ind.
collided with a coal car while return
ing to the city from the factory. All
of the workmen were more or less in
jured and three will die
A. r. Peacock, formerly vice-presi-
dent of the Carnegie company, de-
clares that Andrew Carnegie is
library mad" He says he prefers to
remember old friends in distress and
has given houses to two Of them.
Herbert and Howard Gilman, aged
2 and 4, sons of Tilden Gilman, were
burned to death in a stable at
Shawnee, Ok. The fire was started
by the boys. Several head of stock
and 125 bales of hay were also con-
| sumed.
Experiments made at Schenectady
| in connection with the possible sub
sitution of electricity for steam in
the New York Central tunnel demon
strated the superiority of the electric
motor over the Central's best loco-
motives.
DR.. c. H. Zinz, inspector in charge
of the United States bureau of animal
industry at the East Buffalo stock
yards, has discovered what he be
| leves to be an outbreak of smallpox