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

The last of the United States troops
except the legation guard left Pekin
for Manila,
It Is now believed that 1887 900 600,
the indemnity originally demanded
from China viii stand
The sudden determination Of the
Germans to ovaCuate Pckin Is expect.
ed to cause great confusion.
The allied forces are gradually yield
Ing Pollin to the Chinese, each scpa-
rate power leaving ut It's best convent
ence.
Count Won Waldorsee will start from
Pelyn in short time on his way
home, and may return by way of the
United States.
The United States is holding out for
n reduction of the Chinese indemnity
TO $500, 100000 but none of the other
powers agrees to this.
An explosion Mt the arsenal In kal
gan wounded one German officer and
four privates Three German privates
are missing, The Germans generally
believe that the Chinese committed the
outrage.
A German officer in Pekin attacked
an American legation guard who re.
pulsed him with the hayonet The
guard shot at the German soldier who
ignored his orders and wounded an
other German,
The officials of Tung Chow handed
over 10000 taels to the American
board OF foreign missions in part pay
ment of the indemnity for the destruc.
ton OF the college and mission prop,
eIty at that place.
Reports have been received from
Pekln that Field Marshal Count Won
Waldersee has informed the Chinese
that his troops viii rot leave Pekin
until the court returns and he himself
is received in imperial audience
Count Won Waldersoe, In dispatch
from Pekin, says Ii Hung Chang, hay-
ing decided TO take energetic action
against the boxers along the southern
line Of demarcation, his generals are
now operating in conjunction with
General Balloud and Captain Knor.
goud. Two companies of the Sd
Germany regiment surprised and dis
persed 400 escaped boxers fourteen
miles northwest OF Paotingfu. Five
Germans were wounded
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1901-06-06
BOAT GOES OVER DAM.
And Six Girls and One Boy Find
Watery Graves.

Philadelphia, May 31-A rowboat,
containing a merry party of eight
young persons, was swept over the
Flat Rock dam in the Schuylkill river
yesterday afternoon and six girls and
one boy were drowned The victims,
all philadelphians, were Mamie Con
nors, Sallie Cantrell, Maize Kennedy,
Maud Rutter, Mamie Sullivan, Flor
ence Bond and Bertram Osmond. The
young man saved was John Moore.
The party was composed of mem
bers of the Elm Social club, one of the
numerous associations of the city or
gani2ed for the promotion of picnics
and other social functions. Following
their usual custom the members of
the party split up after dinner for a
row on the river and those above men
toned decided to go in one boat.
Heavy rains made the muddy stream
quite high and the current was mucn
swifter than usual After getting in
the middle of the river and finding the
current too swift for comfort, the boat
was rowed in toward the shore Dur
ing this time it was carried slowly
down the stream. The boy doing the
rowing decided to go through the locks
despite the warning by the lock
keeper. When the young oarsman
found the lock closed he attempted to
turn the boat which was then fifty
feet from the dam but he turned the
wrong way. The boat was carried
swiftly over the dam and dropped to
the rocks twelve feet below. The boat
struck the water bottom up and when
1t reappearcd one boy was clinging to
the keel. Then the other young man
came to the surface and made frantic
efforts to reach the shore by swim
ming but became exhausted and sank
before help arrived, The six girls
never rose to the surface.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1901-06-06
A FREAK OF NATURE.
Artist La Farge's impressions of
Hawaii's Lake of Fire.

Hawaiis Lake of Fire.
There is now only vapOr; sulphur
GUS fumes that float up and obscure
the distance, and go up into the skies.
But as the twilight begins, fires come
out, and the space is edged with fire
that sometimes colors the clouds of
vapor. At one side a small cone stands
up that burns with an eye of red fire.
From time to time this opening splits
out to one side little, vicious blotch
of fire. The clouds of vapor rise so
as to blur the distance, but near by
the rocks are clear enough, and
either black. or farther off where they
are greenish yellow with sulphur.
Sizes become uncertain. I could swear
that this lake was a thousand feet
long and the cliffs were five hundred
feet high; but Awoki and the guide,
walking along, reduce the lake to real
proportions. Then it is only small
lake of some hundred and fifty to two
hundred feet, perhaps. But the i'm
preston still remains-all is so
thrown out of reference. The hole is
so uncanny; the sky above, purple in
the yellow of the afterglow, and partly
covered with the yellowish tone of the
hellish vapor, looks high up above us.
| sit (and sketch on the absurd rocks,
and then we wait for something to
happen. 1t has become night; we de-
termine to give up hope of the break
ing up of the lake, and we start We
have lanterns, but gradually these go
out and we have only one that has to
be cherished. and we scramble along
BY and by we halt, and looking back
see greater lights, and the guide says
that the lake has broken out. Still
we are disinClined to return on the
chance, for the vapors eXaggerate
everything; and after much scrambl.
ing we get back TO the edge of the
crater, after a seven hours tramp.
As we go up the ascent the fire seems
larger, and our host and the guides
say that there is some breaking out.
Still we are in doubt; we are disap
pointed and tired. And still ! should
not go back unless the most extraordi.
nary contlagration occurred. Besides
the underlined terror and spooldness
Of the thing, there is great boredom.
There il nothing to take hold of, as 1t
were-no center OF FIRE and terror
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1901-06-06

Alfred Harmsworth gave $4,000
to London hospital.
A ministerial crisis is believed to
be imminent at Madrid.
Venezuela has finally rejected the
protocol offered by France.
Queen Victoria's birthday was gen
orally observed in England.
The Russian loan OF $4,000 GOO was
largely oversu"scribed in Paris.
The anti.Germau agitation in Posen
has assumed alarming proportions,
Emperor William is working .
Germani2e Alsace. He wishes Stras-
burg University to he put under gov
ernment control, but is opposed by the
clergy.
The volcano of Keloet, in Java, Is in
eruption and many natives are report
cd killed
1t Is feared that the lives of many
men were lost in a coal mine explosion
at Senghenydd, Wales.
The kaiser issued stringent orders
to exclude reporters from all meetings
NJ which he is TO speak
General Peraza, leader Of the last
uprising against the Venezuelan gov.
ernmeut, has been captured.
Sir Alfred Hickman protested in
parliament against continued pur-
chases Of American locomotives.
Six French warships now threaten
the capital Of Morocco. and Division
Of troops may he sent from Marseilles
to Algiers
Rev. Francis Paget, d n, dean OF
Christ church, has been appointed
bishop Of Oxford in succession to Rey.
William Stuhhs.
An electrically propelled submarine
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1901-06-06
To Make Barrels Without Slaves.

We may soon have to give up the
comfortable barrelstaye hammock. A
new factory in New Orleans will make
kind of barrel in which a single
broad strip Of wood takes the place of
slaves. a machine planes of a big
shaving from poplar log, the strip
is bent to the shape of a cylinder and
the ends are joined on the tongue
and groove" plan, like the boards in
floor. A hoop at each end of the bar
rel holds heads of the ordinary kind
in place The advantages claimed for
this barrel are that II is cheap and en-.
tirely leak proof 1t is well fitted for
holding cement, which is now shipped
In double sacks to keep II dry. Cotton
wood may be used instead of poplar.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1901-06-06
is Melted OUT TO FLORIDA MUIR.
DERER.
ON SPOT OF HIS CRIME
Victim Negro Who Assaulted and Muir.
dered White Woman-Taken From
Sheriff and Deliberately Put to
Death in Most Horrible Manner by
His Captors.

Barlow, Fla. May 3O.-Fred Ro
chelle, a negro who assaulted and MUIR
dered Mrs. Ed Taggert, was yesterday
burned at the stake here in the
presence of hundreds.
The burning was on the scene of
the negro's crime, within 100 yards of
the principal thoroughfare of the city.
Tuesday Mrs. Rena Taggert, a white
woman of good family and reputation.
went fishing alone in a small rowboat
she kept at the city bridge over Piaco
creek. This was in full view of the
public thoroughfare. On her return
home she rowed the boat to the bridge
and made it fast. Mrs Taggert started
home and had proceeded but a few
steps in the swamp toward the open
prairie when she was approached by
Rochelle who had been hiding in the
swamp. He seized her but she broke
loose and screaming ran from the
swamp into the prairie where he over
took her. After the assault he killed
her with a knife and then carried the
bleeding form back to the swamp and
escaped into the interior of the
swamp.
In less than an hour well armed
posses were moving in every direction
in search of the criminal. Blood
hounds were secured and all night the
fruitless search continued. About
noon a courier arrived announcing
that the negro had been captured by
two other negroes three miles south.
The captors evaded detection and sue
ceeded in getting the prisoner quickly
into the city and turning him over
to the sheriff In less than ten minutes
afterward the crowd moved on to the
Jail. In spite of the sheriff and a
strong guard of extra deputies, the
mob secured the prisoner. He was
taken to the scene of the crime, sur
rounded by a great throng of people,
resOlute and determined, but quiet and
orderly. Scream after scream broke
fOm the wretch's Quivering lips fol
lowed by groans and prayers for
mercy. BY common consent burning
was to be the penalty. A barrel was
in readiness and was placed by a
stake on the very spot where Mrs.
Taggart was murdered. On this the
negro was placed and chained to the
stake. He pleaded for mercy but in
the great crowd around him silence
was the only response. There were
no jeers, no swearing, no disorder,
Cans Of kerosene oil from many
sources We're passed to the front and
one of the leaders deliberately poured
it upon the negro until his clothes and
the barrel were well saturated. When
the match was applied the blaze
leaped skyward The burning body
could be seen only as a dark object n
circle of roaring flame. In half an
hour only the charred bones were left
as reminder of the Negroes crime
and fate. The crowd dispersed order
ly as it gathered and last night the
city was quiet.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1901-06-06

Spokesman of Delegation" Mr..
Carnegie. we have come to see you on
behalf of the authorities and people
of Banguptown with a view to calling
your attention to our need of d.
Mr. Carnegie Gnterrupting)-
Gentlemen, I have already inyesti-
gated your town. I find it has only
one good sidewalk, and that leads to
the cemetery. Such a town couldn't
support a library. Glad to have met
you, however, gentlemen. Good morn
ing"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1901-06-06
The Factory Whistles.

THE night is rent with sudden hoar3e
alarms,
The dawn has barely tinged thu
winter skies,
And trails of smoke from grimy
chimneys rise,
Where labor's bugles call world to
arms.
Through squalid streets the army
makes its way,
Childhood and age in one are blended
there.
No flush Of hope the pallid faces wear,
AS bleak before them breaks the
barren day.
They wage a weary war without
redress.
Their leaders false, they fight not for
their own.
Delight and hours of ease they have
not known.
Still to the strife their columns
slowly press"
John Curtis Underwood in Ain
slee's.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1901-06-06
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
spanish-American Islands.

One hundred Filipinos from various
islands Of the archipelago are to be
feature of the Buffalo Exposition.
The former Spanish cruiser Reina
Mecedes will soon be ready for use
as training ship for enlisted men IN
the navy.
The Philippine commission decided
native iurists are unsatisfactory ana
that the places on the bench shall be
filed by appointment from the United
States. Manila lawyers protest
The negotiations looking to the sur
render OF General Malyar have failed
and that General Malyar has proclaim
ed himself dictator in succession TO
Aguinaldo. He will reorganize the
rebel forces
Justus Lyman Of Chicago, a private
in the I'd United States artillery, who
was sentenced to fourteen years I'M
prlsonment by the Cuban courts for
killing a policeman, escaped from the
guardhouse
Supreme Court Of the United States
decided Porto Rico and the Philip
pines became integral parts of the
United States upon the ratification OF
the treaty of Paris, but congress may
enact special tariff law for the islands.
The trial of Harold Crowley of
Lockport, N. Y, son Of ex.Congress-
man Crowley, and former employe Of
the postal department, on charge OF
mlgappropration Of postal funds, was
concluded at Ponce He was sentenced
to four years hard labor.
II Is alleged that, as the outcome OF
a drunken quarrel in the officers quar-
ters at Camp Stotsenburg, Lieut..
James II. Howell, Of the 9th artillery,
shot Second Lieutenant Charles X.
Lloyd of the same regiment, the bul.
let grazing the left side Of Lloyd's
head and in0lcting a slight wound.
E. C. Lawrence, formerly a private
in the 33d volunteer infantry, and
afterwards employed as a civilian
clerk In tho adjutant generals Office ut
Manila, has been accused of forging
the signature Of Captain Slayens, the
insular dlsbursing officer, to certain
tHtChb UHl ppl biita W w f'S'N"'"
General Macarthur.
Theodore Fernandez, Franciscan
friar, was arraigned in court at Manila
charged with the embe2zlement OF
$4,000 The state conducted the
prosecution Fernandez was one OF
the FIVE administrators of the Fran
clacan order, but undertook to carry
on the financial affairs himself claim
Ing that he was the sole administrator
OF the order.
y An unhappy situation has developed
at TIC headquarters Of marines In Ca
vlte Colonel Henry G, Cochrane was
recently ordered home and Colonel
Mancil G. Goodrich was ordered to re-
liove him When Colonel Goodrich ar
rived the two officers had an altcrca'
ton, which resulted In Colonel Good.
relrs denouncing alleged acts of Col
onel CochrQne and Colonel Cochrano
arrested Goodrich on charge of drum
kenness. Colonel Goodrich Ia In Gus
tody, and Lieutenant Allen Kelton has
been placed In command at CayItc, re-
lieyng Colonel CoChrane
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1901-06-06

president Of the Transvaal Republic,
died at Potchefstroom, Transvaal.
Gossips alternately raise Sir Alfred
Miner to the peerage and supersede
him as high commissioner Of south
Africa.
An unofficial telegram from Ros'
mead reports that General DeWet is
again in Cape Colony He Is now in
the Zuurberg mountains, with a Long
Tom"
A considerable commando Of loyal
beers Is in the neighborhood Of Nigel.
reef, Transvaal Last week General
CoIvilles men attacked General Hans
Botha's laaRer nd after hard fighting
captured and burned it.
Colonel BulOck's column, when com
ing from Volks Rust, was subjected to
severe sniplng and rear guard actions.
The beers were driven into the hills,
and eleven Of them were captured, in.
Guiding COmmandant Swarts. The
beers are said to be deploring the loss
of large quantities of stock and nu
merous wagons.
An important concentration Of the
boer sis proceeding at Zuurburg. Many
fresh invaders are crossing the Orange
river into Cape Colony and Command.
ant Fouche has also joined the bur
ghers in that district. The total
strength Of the beers in that district
is estimated at between 1000 and
1900, There is an unconArmed rumor
that General DeWet is again in com
manl OF the boer invaders.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1901-06-06
Since Spring Has Hit TIL Range.

Since spring has hit tn range 1t seems
TIL days be more completer;
1t seems tn skies be bluer an
TIL air smell frcsher, sweeteI.
Since spring has hit tn range, you
know,
TIL trails be better goin',
An granger folk-them valley kind
Air ffggerin' on sowin
Since spring has hit tn range, oh,
well,
Jes' see tn joys she's bringin',
Can't tell jes' why, but, say, we feel
Like gittin' up an singin.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1901-06-06

boat, designed by Lieutenant Kol-
BASKETS, of the Russian, navy, is being
built at Kronstadt.
The postal affair has been finally
settled, and the foreign mail bags will
again be intrusted to the Turkish
travelling postofTices.
The German government has made
successful experiments with the sys-
tenn of rapid telegraph invented by the
late Prof. Henry A. Rowland of BaltL
more.
Commercial intercourse on the Rus
sia.German frontier between Russian
and Greman Jews, has been rendered
much more difficult by recent Russia 4
DEGREES.
The Paris transportation companies
are to be consolidated into one con-
Germ, which will include the omnibus,
tramways, metropolitan, and under
ground lines.
Geatano Bresci, the assassin of King
Humbert, committed suicide by
strangling in the penitentiary OF Santo
Stefano, Italy The wife of Bresei
says he was murdered.
Under dynastic law, the young
grand duke of SaXe-Weimar, Charles
Auguste, has compelled Prince Bern
hard of Saxe-Weimar and his wife to
leave the United States.
The Paris opera costs the govern
ment 100000 per year, and there is
always a deficit.
King Edward VII had a narrow
escape while on the yacht ShcmrocE
II, which, with the Shamrock was
wrecked while preparing for a race off
Brambles buoy, isle of Wight.
The second chamber of the Swedish
diet adopt&l-198 to 119-an amend
ment Of the army bill substituting
eight months compulsory service fer
the governments proposal of year.
Signor Marconi announces that he
has successfully installed his system
of wireless telegraphy in a steam
motor car, and that he is able to COM
municate with a central base while
travelling.
Italy has demanded satisfaction
from Turkey for the death of Decrocis,
the Italian who was summarily shot by
the sultan's order on suspicion of
being an emissary Of the young
Turkish party.
The Prussian railways have been
informed that there will be a large
immigration this spring of Ruthenian
farmers to the United States, and that
5000 will pass through Hamburg in
the next few days.
The population of the outer ring Gc
the suburbs of London is 2O42751,
as against 1,45O,489 in 1891, 95O,957 in
1881 and G3lS3l in 1871. The total
population of Greater London, includ
ing the outer ring of suburbs, is now
6,57S7S0.
1t is reported that inhabitants Of
Blagovestchensk, Vladivostok ard the
Amur valley have been crazed by re-
ported discoveries of gold in n>Tthern
Manchuria and are rushing to the SUD-
posed auriferous district, which has
been dubbed yellow Russia"
The census of Scotland shows 4
total population of A,47l,957, or an in
crease since the last census, taken
ten years ago, of 4iG,3l9. For the first
time. ScGtland's population exceeds
Irelands. The population of Glasgow
is 760,423, an increase of 142,j1, ami
that of Edinburgh, 3lG,479, an increase
of 51,GS3.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1901-06-06
WRONG MEN CALLED DEAD.
Shifting Of Cards Causes Temporary
Grief in Harlem Home.

GTlSI IN q 1dIlGTl IlS'lCs
Husband dead; claim body" or
words like those, formed the message
sent to Mrs Emma Crapp, of No
2177 Fifth avenue, Yesterday from
Bellevue. Naturally she wept little
to think that her Frederick had left
her forever; then she telegraphed to
relatives to come to her; then she
went to an undertaker's shop and
made arrangements for the funeral
and then she returned home.
She had been sitting there for
couple of hours, rocking to and fro
to comfort her, when in strobe the I'M
dertaker. And disguised man was
he.
Say" he snorted. Trying to fool
me?"
Everybody gasped an inquiry.
so he's dead, is he?" went on the
man of collins. We'll, he's the best
dead man that ever lived. Guess
again " And he slammed the door be-
hind him.
In truth, Frederick Crapp was not
dead. A mistake had been made in
entrance cards in Bellevue, that was
all.
Crapp was removed from his home
on Friday night, where he had become
suddenly insane, to the prison ward Of
Bellevue. Soon after his admittanCe
Frederick Hoffman, of No. 100 First
street, who had attempted suicide by
taking carbolic acid, was admitted.
Hoffman died in IA minutes.
Crapp soon became so violent that
he disturbed the other patients, and it
was decided to remove him to the in
sane pavilion. AS the attendants ar
rived with the stretcher other helpers
reached the ward with box to take
Hoffman's body to the morgue.
But somehow the entrance cards
we're shifted, and that bearing the
name of Crapp was sent with Hoff-
mans body to the morgue and notice
of death was sent to Mrs. Crapp. As
the undertaken had known Crapp in
life, he realized the mistake when he
saw Hoffman's body.
But Mrs. Graphs doorbell is likely
to be kept jangling by friends who
call to condole.-New York Press.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1901-06-06

Papers covering the Chicago end
of the Allis-Chalmers company, the
consolidation of the Edward p Allis
company of Milwaukee, Fraser &
Chalmers and the Gates Iron Works Of
Chicago and the Dickinson Manu-
featuring company, exclusive of the
locomotive works of Scranton. Pa,
have been filed. The value o. the
four plants constituting the syndicate,
not counting anything for good viii,
was estimated by the expert ap-
praisers at SQ.935,00
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1901-06-06

The Ragged Urchin-"Do you like
to see little boys have fits, ma'am?"
The Mercy, MOI"
The Ragged Urchin-"Well, if you'll
give me a piece o pie l won't have
nome. If you don't I'll throw the
worst fit you ever saw in your life,
right here, ma am" .
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1901-06-06
South Africa,

Beers deraled an armored train
bearing General Knox and nearly cap
nred him.
Representatives of the south African
republics have appealed for arbitra-
ton with England to the peace court
at The Hague.
Marthinus Vessels pretorius. first