Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1901-02-21

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three days.
Three men were arrested at Ma
nilla, Ia, charged with stealing
$4,000 from the United States Elk
press companys safe.
Lorenzo Priori, who murdered Vim.
cenzo Garuzo in New York December
II, 1898, was put to death in the cleo.
trio chair at Sing Sing.
Captain J. S. Durham. a widely
known tug and lake vessel owner. Of
Chicago, is dead. In 1861 he was in
the towing business at Mobile.
Promoters of the Nathan Hale
statue for Yale university resented
the attitude taken by President Had
ley, who criticised their work.
Henry f. Youtsey, convicted as q
principal in the shooting of Governor
Goebel, entered upon his life sentence
in the Kentucky penitentiary
The duke and duchess of Manches
ter. Lord Lambert and Mr.. thinner.
man. father of the duchess, returned
to San Francisco from Monterey.
Receiver A. Mckenzie, who tried to
grab Nome mining claims, was sen.
fenced to a year in jail for contempt
of court by San Francisco Judge.
Newton Mccormick, Madison
county, Ind miser was found dying
from burns and bruises, and is be.
loved to have been robbed of $1,000.
A bill was introduced in the lower
house of the Illinois Legislature pro.
yidlng for capital punishment in the
electric chair instead Of by hanging,
Major c. e. Dutton Of the ordnance
dep1"tment was retired because he re,
vealod for p%h!icatioh Captain Lewis
letter concerning to French gun Sc
cret,
It is rumorcd that Mrs. George w,
Westinghouse is negotiating for the
purchase Of the Blaine mansion on
Dupont Circle, Washington, for
100000.
Tho Addicks republicans in the
Delaware legislature have rejected
overturcs from tho regulars" to com.
promise on candidates for United
States senators.
Gov. Nash Of Ohio was authorized
by the state emergency board to
spend $4,000 If necessary in calling
out troops to stop the projected
Jeffries-Ruhlin fight
II. G. Frick and the railroads arc
wrongling over the proposed ship
canal between Lake Michigan and the
Calumet river, a bill for which has
passed the Indiana senate.
The Diamond Match company
elected old officers and board of di,
rcctors. The annual statement showed
/ net earnings equal to Is $40 per cent,
on the $15,OO0O0O capital stock,
1t is said President Mckinley is con,
sidcring Ambassador Choate, p. G..
| Knox of Pittsburg, Solicitor General
Richards and Secretary Root for sue
cossor to Attorney General Griggs.
A sudden change for the worse has
taken place in the condition Of
Maurice Thompson, the author, who
has been i'll for nearly two months.
1t is thought that the end is near,
In the United States circuit court
in New York George J. Gould and
Helen NJ. Gould were appointed re-
cCiyers of the income of the Countess
Castellane in excess of 100000 a
year.
Robert w. Steele, first territorial
governor of Colorado, died at Colo
RADIO Springs, of the grip. Mrs
Steele died from the same disease
They were inferred in the same
grave.
Five members of the w. G. Y. L at
tackled two "blind tigers" in Dalton.
Ark. All the bottles of liquor We're
broken, contents of kegs were poured
into the streets and fixtures demol.
ishcd.
J. Kiucho, minister of agriculture
and commerce of Japan, and Special
| Commissioner mouyo called at the
state department in company with
some Of the officials of the Japanese
legation.
Chief Justice Mcclellan Of the
Alabama supreme court, was shot
through the shoulder by Jesse d.
Beale or Phclan Beale, his son, who
were searching FOR person who had
eloped with Miss Bealc.
The Rev. John Kellar, of Arlington,
n. j., was shot, perhaps mortally. by
Thomas c. Barker whose wife had
been an active worker in Rev. Mr..
Kellars parish. If the clergyman
lives he will probably be blind.
The house committee on coinage
acted favorably on the bills establish
ing branch minis in Omaha and
Tacoma and authorizing 100000 of
silver medals for the WASHINGTON
memorial exercises to be held at
Alexandria, Va,
Marcel L. Silverman, the New York
| jewoler who was found shot through
the head in his place of business, is
dead. The police are investigating
both the suicide and murder and rob.
berry theories, but have not come to
any conclusion,
Edmund G. Harrison, special agent
and road pNnprt IF thp nuEli, roads