Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1901-07-11

Rev. DR.. Joseph Cook, the dis
tinguished lecturer and author, is dead
at Ticonderoga, N
Miss Sadie Freysinger and Jacob
lands Of Sterling, H., were killed
ny live electric wire.
A scaffold mt the Eastern elevator, at
Buffalo, fell and two men were killed
and five seriously hurt.
Great damage was done at La
Crosse, by tornado, which wrecked
several business places.
Jacob L. White and his family were
bound and tortured by robbers at
Brothers Station. w, Va.
Lulu Prince-Kennedy was sentenced
to serve term Of ten years for killing
her husband in Kansas City.
Forest Park, st. Louis, has been
/ selected as the site for the Louisiana
purchase exposition, in 1908.
Sixty persons in Boston and vicinity
are reported TO have been poisoned by
being bitten by brown moths.
At Piedmont Ala, while stacking
wheat Robert Coke and his son were
struck by lightning and killed.
The estimate of the number of lives
lost in the recent West Virginia flood
Is raised to something like 100.
Thirteen persons were killed and As
were injured In a wreck on the
Wabash railroad, near Peru, Ind.
About 1900 persons participated in
the pilgrimage to Mrs. Mary Baker
~ nj ran,npl NJ
Frank Miller and Alonzo Williams
were hanged at Birmingham, Ala,
and John Batcman at Marion, Ark
| Volunteer Capt. Thayer, who was
horsewhipped by his wife in Lincoln,
Neb., committed suicide in Omaha.
A British flag over the Canadian
customs Office in Skagway, Alaska,
was hauled down by an American.
President Mckinley appointed T.. H.
Hawks, Of Huntingdon, W. Va, warden
OF the federal prison at Atlanta, Ga.
G. u. and Clarence Guild, father and
son, were killed by Oliver Broker as
the result Of u feud near Dayton, Iowa.
DR.. Alexander Won PeeZ. German
economist, advocates a European tariff
combination against the United States.
Yale defeated Harvard in the
varsity and freshman races and
Harvard captured the four-oared event.
DR.. Wintner. in his trial at Granite
Falls, admits having shot Leonard, but
claims that he did not intend to kill
him.
| Ex-senator Marion Butler, chairman
of populist national committee, de-
clared the party will go it alone in
1904.
Theodore s. Bryan, for So years
grand secretary of tho Iowa Masonic
Grand Lodge is dead ut Grand Rapids,
Iowa.
Miss Louisa M. Stead, n pretty mis-
sIonary, is to sail for Liberia, whore
she will wed Rev. Mr.. Carson on her
arrival.
ID. j. Dickcy, n wellto.do citizen Of
Elk Rapids, Mich. shot and killed
Fritz Huegli in quarrel over II line
of fence,
An excursion steamer with 900
passengers abroad struck a rock and
sank in 400 feet OF water. All
escaped.
Nearly $4,000 steel workers are idle
ms tho result of n strike ordered by
president of the Amalgamated as
ISOLATION,
The Rev. Otto j. Scoville an Epis-
copal clergyman, died at Salem. Ore
aged AZ. He leaves n widow and u
daughter
Mrs. Matilda Shaw, widow of
Thomas Shaw, the inventor. is dead
Mt her home, in Shawmont. Pa, of
pneumonia.
Boston was selected for the next
convention of the American Park and
Outdoor association. in session in
Milwaukee,
Samuel Gompers, head of the
Federation of Labor. was seriously
hurt by a fall from u street car In
Washington.
Joseph Laude. founder of Dawson
city, died Mt his home near Plattsburg
N. Y, OF consumption contracted in
the Klondike.
White, aged 49, while swimming In
Green river, below Curdsville, Ky
were drowned.
Secretary Of Agriculture Wilson says
we are now raising as fine tobacco,
rice and maCaroni wheat as can be
found anywhere.
Twenty houses in the little town of
Center Point, Ark, were burned. The
county records were saved. The loss
viii reach $4,000,
j. Pierpont Morgan has given more
than 81 900, 00O' to Harvard for three
buildings for the proposed medical
school In Boston
Thomas G. Barker. who shot the
Rev. John Keller in Arlington. n. J.,
was sentenced to five years imprison
mcnt at hard labor.
The comparative statement of the
government for the fiscal year shows
an excess of receipts over disburse-
ments of $4,000 900