Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1901-07-18

Commerce with Porto Rico showed a
big increase during last year, the ex
ports exceeding those Of 1893 by 900
per cent
The cashier and chief clerk of San
Francisco mint have been suspended
pending inquiry into the loss OF
$4,000.
Mayor Johnson of Cleveland will, as
far as practicable, carry out the troll.
ley plans of his late brother, A. L.
Johnson.
Ohio democratic leaders are as.
sembling at Columbus for the state
convention. Jas. Kilbourne is to head
the ticket
Rev e. A. Cantrell Of the First
Christian church, Washing On, ind,
announced his disbelief in many Bible
statements.
Miss Elizabeth, formerly an officer
of the Christian Endeavor Society, was
baptized into the Mormon faith at
Jersey City
Judge Addison Brown of the United
States district court, New York, re-
signed because Of advanced age and
i'll health.
At Omaha three more angry and
active bulls fruitlessly chased half a
dozen toreadors in the arena at the
street fair.
A. b. Kittridge, a prominent attor-
ney Of Sioux Falls, will probably be
named as the successor of the late
Senator Kyle.
Roy Powell, aged 18, was convicted
at Freeport, ILL.,, of killing Woodbury.
Workinger and given thirty years
| Imprisonment.
Receivers were appointed for
Sturges' bank, a private institution,
and the Mansfield machine works, Of
Mansfield, Ohio.
Miss May Harding, 20 years old
was burned to death in farmhouse
near indianapolis She started a fire
with kerosene.
The nomination committee of the
American Library association decided
to recommend John Billings of New
York for president.
Jerome Byron Wheeler, clubman and
nnancier has begun bankruptcy pro.
ceedings in New York. His liabli.
ties are $1,59G,574.
In a collision between a Main street
trolley car and New York Central
coal train in Buffalo, two men and one
women were injured.
A jury at Fort Scott, Kas, decided
that witnesses cannot be compelled to
testify concerning knowledge of viola.
| ton Of liquor laws.
A report on exports Of farm pro.
ducts in 1900 showed that twelve ma.
tions expended over $1O,OOO,OOO each
for American products.
Judge Stone Of Cleveland enjoined
the striking machinists interfering
with the plant of the Cleveland Punch
and Shear company.
Comptroller of the Currency Dawes
has resigned, to take effect Oct. 1 so
that he may devote his attention to
the senatorship canvass.
j. p. Morgan &c Co. are said to have
purchased the Northern Pacific and
the Washington and Alaska Steamship
Companies properties.
Commander Booth of the Volunteers
of America sued Montclair, N. j.. for
$4,000 damages for filing up a ditch
and flooding his property.
In the fight between Jack Moffatt
and George Gardner at San Francisco
the formers shoulder was thrown out
of place in the third round,
The University of Pennsylvania
crew was defeated by the Leanders by
one length at Henley in the final heat
for the grand challenge cup,
The immigration bureau discovers
| that n large percentage of the inmates
Of reformatory, penal and charitable
institutions of the states are aliens.
Delegates of the National Edu-
cational association convention at
Detroit are apprehensive that the
church schools will affect their work.
The heaviest rainfall ever recorded
in New York flooded easements and
burst sewers. Deluge was accom-.
panied by high winds. Loss, $4,000,
Twenty-one disciples of Dowie
visited Evanston and, despite the ef.
forts of the police force, a mob of one
thousand people drove them out of
| town
Professor Franklin w. Fisk, for
forty years connected with Chicago
theological seminary, and thirteen
years its president died from the ex.
| treme heat.
w, Il. Fitzgerald, head Of Milwaukee
branch of American Shipbuilding com.
pany, died Of injuries caused by the
explosion of acetylene gas at his sum-
mer home.
William Mum and his wife Of Ger,
edo, w. Va, and Howard Mead of
Catlottsburg, Ky, were dangerously
injured by falling from an electric car
MT Clyfeside, Ky.
Jacob EidcnauC and his son were