Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1901-07-18
men in the country. died

builder or paterson, left his fortune oil
$4,000, 900 or more to the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York, giving his
relatives only S25, 900 apiece.
E. A. McConkey, a farmer near
Albany, NJ, supposed to be insane,
killed his neighbor, John Bryant, and
the latter's son with a club and then
shot himself. He is still alive.
S. r Dawson, inventor of the
Damascus steel process, has been
paroled from the Iowa penitentiary so
that his secret may not perish. He
murdered his son-in-law in 1895.
By the will of William Grant of
Louisville, the Louisville Presbyterian
Theological seminary is bequeathed
100000, with the provision that his
widow be paid an annuity of $5,vyv.
A joint conference is called to meet
| in Pittsburg of iron and steel workers
and employers, which win in all
probability result in an adjustment of
all differences and the strike being
ended.
Stephen x. Carter died at his home
in Clinton, H., of throat trouble, aged
GO years. He was a veteran of the
civil war and was wounded at the
battle Of Shiloh. He was an able
| lawyer.
Louis M. Saddler, manager of the
Western Telegraph office in Kankakec,
H., for thirteen years, died of
Addison's disease. He was formerly
manager Of the Carlo and Jacksonville
offices.
Delegates representing 5000 work
ingmen in all branches of the leather
trade in this country and Canada, at a
meeting in Philadelphia, formed the
| Amalgamated Leather Workers As
ISOLATION.
Sylvester Green of Mcdowell county,
West Virginia, fatally stabbed his wife
and beat out the brains of his child be-
cause the wife refused him money
with which to gamble He escaped to
Kentucky.
The new cup challenger Constitution
proved herself to be very fast racer,
and the old champion, Columbia
makes a commendable showing, while
the independence is left hopelessly In
the rear.
Indian education is showing such
practical results that well-infOrmed of
ficials claim that if the present policy
is continued ten years longer the
Indian bureau will have become utter
ly useless.
Gov. Yates of Illinois, who is just
home from trip through the middle
west, says Vice President Roosevelt
is undoubtedly the choice of the peo-
pie for the republican nomination to
succeed Mckinley.
r. r. Davis, formerly division freight
agent Of the Galesburg division of the
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy rail.
way, and later travelling freight agent
of the Santa Fe, died in the infrmary
at WATERFOWL. Ill.
County Treasurer Norlin of Kear-
ney county Nebraska, who week ago
asserted he had been assaulted and
robbed of county funds and his office
set on fire, was reported short $4,000
by a state examiner.
John B. Slaughter of Fort Worth,
Tex, has bought the ranch and cattle
of the Nave-McCord Cattle Company
of St Joseph, Mo, for $265,000 The
ranch comprises 100000 acres of land
in the Texas panhandle.
Lewis Edwin Adams, who died in
al lnot r,rnctrntion
was buried yesterday at West Bend,
Wis. He had been Unidentified with
newspaper work in Chicago and New
York for twenty-seven years.
Frank Tazelow, an aeronaut from
Grand Rapids, Mich, was killed while
making a cannon parachute drop at
Muskegon. When the balloon reached
a height Of 1000 feet the ropes burst
and Tazelow dropped into the lake.
f. A. Bracket, a retired farmer of
Atlantic Iowa, killed his wife and
then fatally shot himself at the home
Of their daughter, Mrs Otis Il. Powell.
Mental abrration from extreme heat is
supposed to have been the cause.
OluCtIS OF inc AIldlSdHldJcu iron
and Steel Workers association and
IrepresentatiNe s of the employers are
holding conference at Pittsburg to
settle the strike. President Shaffer
declared the trouble would be ended,
Because his father, Thomas =.
Windsor, refused him the use of a
team, Edward Windsor a Milford, Del,
shot the aged man, fatally wounding
him. The young man disappeared and
is believed to have committed suicide
EX-Congressman Lentz is denounced
for his announced intention of sum-
moning the president and Senator
Hanna to testify in his contest for
seat in the house of representatives
He accuses them Of plotting to defeat
him.
While crossing the channel from
Gladstone. Mich, to haywood a sail
boat containing eleven people, five of
whom were children, was run down
by the steamer Huron. All were saved