Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1901-06-20


| resignation to Governor Mclean. III
health is the reason for the resigna
ton.
The STANDARD Oil interests elected
ten of the fifteen directors of the lin
seed oil trust. President MAJOR Of the
latter company is to start a rival con-
Germ.
A mob failed in an attempt to lynch
a negro murderer at Carrollton, Ga.
The sheriff defended his charge kill
ing one of the lynchers and wounding
two others.
New York politicians will get the
major part of the 100000 police eight
hour fund, it is said, in return for
their Influence" in having the system
adopted
Professor Harper Of the University
of Chicago announces that the uni
veTsity mas begun to prepare
preparatory schools in different parts
Of Europe.
Congressman Grosvenor of Ohio de-
clared that at no time in the history
Of the country were conditions 50
justinable for eIecting a president for
third term.
Nearly IN entire business block at
Fcnnyille, Mich, was destroyed by
fire. The loss, divided among a
dozen merchants, is $4,000, with IN
suraHco Of $4,000
The rough riders have decided to
hold their annual reunion in Colorado
Springs during the quartocentcnnial
celebration, Aug. I, and 3. 1t s
expected that Roosevelt will attend.
At New Castle, Del, Daniel Mil
Ter, colored serving a life term for
murder, was sent on an errand and
failed to return. He was a "trusty"
and had served eight years.
In New York grave discussions
have arisen in the ranks Of the com
mittee Of fifteen, and unless funds are
Immediately obtained, the work of re-
for inauguratcd by the committee
must come to an end.
The jury in the Defenbach insurance
and swindle case at Chicago, declared
Or. A. M. Unger and F. w. Brown
guilty Of conspiracy to defraud. Smiley
pleaded guilty.
Nels Nelson, farm hand near SyCa-
more, ILL.,, killed Mrs. John Lydig, for
whom he recently worked, because
she refused to marry him. Then he
killed himself.
Contractor McDonaId's profits on
the tunnel will be cut about 81 100000
by the refusal Of the rapid-transit
board to permit the use of park sta
lions for pOwCrhouses.
In his baccaIaureate sermon to
Princeton seniors President Patton
touched upon international questions,
political, commercial religious, social,
and intellectual problems.
Frank Rutledge, who was convicted
Of burglary at Toronto, committed sui.
eide in jail there rather than stand
trial for the murder Of a constable in
an unsuccessful attempt to escape.
At Kansas City, Mo, Mrs. Lulu
PrnceKennedy the 2O-year-old bride
of month, who last January is al
legged to have shot and killed her hus-
band, Philip II. Kennedy, was placed
on trial.
Eliza H. Palmer, wife of Eugene
b. Palmer, a former Chicago newspa-
per man, died at Salt Lake City, Utah.
Mrs. Palmer was a daughter of Judge
Lysandor Houll and wrote over the
pen name of Snow IIouk.
The will of John w. Doanc a prom
inent tea and coffee merchant and
banker, who died in New York March
%, was filed for probate in Chicago.
Despite reports of great wealth the
petition scheduled only $119,OOOO.
The coroner reopencd the inquiry
into the death of Mrs. Mary Hcrshber-
ger, Mrs. Hattie Maggie, and Calvin
Maggie near Watseka, Ill.,, on account
of a suspicion directed against the
husband Of one of the women
SiXtCen-year-old Harry Kemp of
Arlington N. j., arrived home from a
years wandering about the world, N
which he visited South America,
Australia, China, Japan, and the
Philippines, He was at the ooting of
Pekin.
The governor has issued a procla.
nation calling for an extra session of
tho Washington legislature for the
purpose of amending the law passed
at the recent session providing that all
death sentences shall be executed in
the state pentitcntiary.