Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1901-11-28

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and Northern Pacific.
Two Of the escaped Leavenworth
convfcts held up a porter on the bind
baggage Of a Santa Fe train and es-
capped after long ride.
Andrew NJ. Lawrence and II. S. Can
field Chicago reporters, sent to jail
for contempt of court, were released
on a writ of habeas corpus.
The annual report of the New York
city charity organization society shows |
that it is caring for $50 families, in |
which there are 800 children.
After being out twenty minutes the |
Jury at Sioux City, Iowa, found Ben !
Mcknight guilty of murder in the Sec
ond degree for killing his wife.
Teller Zollinhofer of the Williams
burg Savings bank confessed that he
and Teller Corbett, now dead, robbed
the institution of over $4,000.
Representative BabcOck says he will
introduce another bill repeating the
duties on heavy steel products, and de-
clares he believes it will pass.
Some friends Of A P. German init
mate he may decline the senatorship
with a view to securing the democratic
presidential nomination in 1904.
The 3-year-old daughter Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Otto Fox of Nevada, O., was
burned to death, her clothing catch
! ing fire from a spark from a stove.
The Methodist committee at Pitts
burg appropriated AZ per cent. Of the
missionary money for home missions
and 81 per cent for foreign missions.
| John T. Pidcock OF Moultrie, Ga,
president Of the Georgia Northern
Railway company, was married to Miss
Jeanette Davis, at White House, n. J,
Fire totally destroyed the plant OF
of the Marshall Oil company at Mar
shaIltown, Iowa, including 3,vU0 barrels
Of oil. Loss, 100000; insurance, $780,
600.
Miss Florence Mackubin, who paint
ed a portrait of Queen Henrietta Ma
ria in England for the state Of Mary
land, arrived in New York from Liver
pool.
! Congressman who are opposed to
any change in the tariff are prOsecut-
ing a multiplicity of plans, it is said,
with view to bewiIdering the presi-
dent.
Richard Mayo Smith, a professor OF
political economics at Columbia uni,
versity, was killed by falling from a
window on the fourth floor of his resi-
dence,
Pension Commissioner H. Clay Ev,
ans states that it is probable that a
camp of instruction will be established
q at Chickamauga park by the war de-
partment.
q At Winsted, Conn, fire caused $50,
) 900 damage to the Winsted opera
house The theater was almost de
stroyed and stores and offices were
damaged.
Under a showing of the vast revenue
to the city from the enforcement OF
the Raines law it was contended that
big deficit will result if the law be
repealed,
BY a collision on the Oregon Short
Line near Orchard, Idaho, between ar
> east-bound freight train and a west
bound helper engine two trainmen lost
their lives.
President Roosevelt explained to the
cabinet his plans for the appointment
in the public service. Men with goot
0 records will be retained in office wher
Q ever possible.
It is reported that the transconti
mental railway deal will be further ex
Z tended by the absorption of the Chfca
go, Milwaukee and ST Paul road bv the
t Union Pacific.
Timothy Ryan, for more than twenty
= years patrolman on the Chicago po
lice force, died Of typhoid fever. Ryan
: was so years old and leaves a widow
and eight children.
Miss Helen NJ. Gould has purchased
for Sl08,0O0 a house on West Fifty
ninth street facing Central park. New
York. She is said to intend 1t for A
charitable purpose.
May0r-elect Seth Low of New York
has chosen George L. Rives, a demo,
crat, for corporation counsel, and Col.
John N. Partridge a republican. for
police commissioner
A Chinaman by the name of Gee was
murdered at Fort Reno, Ok. The DIS
sassin an, the motive for the crime.
are unknown. Gee had several thou
sand dollars in bank.
Eugene Klein, timekeeper for the
Standard mine, was shot and killed in
the company's Office at Mace, Idaho, by
G. E. Snuff, a miner, who was dis
missed. Shut is in Jail.
Senator Stranahan of Oswego. n. Y.
was offered the position of collector of
the port of New York, to succeed G.
R. Bidwell. The appointment was ap-
proved by Platt and Odell.
Senator McLaurin, in a speech 10 the
Southern Cotton Spinners' association
declared for the isthmfan canal and
building up merchant marine as aids
IN extending foreign trade.
Two hunters, in quest of deer, in the
woods two miles southwest of Senev
Mich, discovered the bleached re-
mains of man who had evidently
been dead for several years.
Strikers attacked non-union men ann
guards ar the Providence coal mine
near Madisonville, Ky. One striker
was killed. another fatally wounded |
and three men slightly hurt.
President Williams of the San Fran |
cisco board Of health recommends thar
the famous Chinatown be burned 10 |
the ground as a safeguard against in
lection from oriental diseases.
AT Marionville, Mo. Mrs George