Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1901-04-04

died He was born in Essex, Can,
and went to Chicago in 1855.
Valentine Botz of Buffalo has had
sight restored to him as the result Of
surgical operation performed in Bal.
timore, after having been totally blind
for 28 years He was operated on by
Prof. A. Douglas McConachie.
w. j. Gilbert, attorney of the de-
funct First National bank, Niles,
Mich. shot and killed himself. Funds
for which he was trustee are supposed
to be involved In the failure of the
bank wrecked by G. A. Johnson.
Work was commenced at Martins
Ferry O., on the foundations for big
sheet steel works for the Laughlin
Iron and Nail company The mill
Will be independent of the United
States Steel corporation and wuh en-
ploy 900 hands.
Alonza J. Whitcman, formerly Of
Duluth and once a member of the
Minnesota senate, who is charged with
| larceny in passing a bad check on the
Girard Life Insurance company Of
Philadelphia on Nov Is last, pleaded
not guilty in New York,
TIE steamer Poughkeepsie of the
| Central Hudson steamboat company
ran on the rocks at Stony Point,
few miles south of Hayerstraw, and is
reported in a sinking condition She
has large cargo of freight All the
| POL
No one was hurt.
Peter Furry, aged 85 years, died at
his home near GAINESVILLE. ILL., He was
the oldest resident Of Coles county
| He had lived on farm in the goose
nest prairie" for seventy years. He
was Il neighbor of Thomas Lincoln,
father Of the president. Furry came
from Ohio early in the '3O's.
| Two Pullman sleepers on the west
bound track Of the Lehigh Valley
road were derailed at the cantilever
| bridge at Niagara Falls, n Y. The
passengers, who were badly shaken
up but not seriously injured, proceed
ed on their way to Chicago, The sig
nal station was completely wrecked
The immense plant of the Dugdale
Can company, indianapolis, with an
annual output of 25,000000 cans, was
transferred to the American Can com.
pany of New York, which has capt
tai of $4,000 900. This completes the
consolidation of all the large tin can
manufacturing concerns of the coun.
try.
The American Bridge company an
nOunccd that 1t had closed one of the
largest foreign contracts ever made,
aggregating over 10000 tons. The
contract was issued by the Ecuador
ian association, the material to be
used for bridge construction on the
Guayaquil and Quito railroad, in
Ecuador.
David w. Hitchcock, last president
of the National Tube company before
the absorption of that company by the
steel company, died at his home,
3Sl Commonwealth avenue, Boston.
He leaves a son, Lemuel Hitchcock,
with whom he lived. He was born in
| "oDhotoNhi ' l., bhH' 10 1901, anu
went to Boston at the age of 10 years.
Lorin Blodgett, an eminent statisti-
clan and one of the foremost authori-
ties on the higher economics, died in
Philadelphia, aged 70 years. He was
born in jamestown, N. Y, and was a
graduate Of the Geneva, now Hobart,
college. In 1851 he was made an as.
sistant in the Smithsonian institution
at Washington, being placed In
charge of the researches on climat-
ology. He published several works on
atmospheric physics. In 1863 he took
charge of the financial and statistical
division of tho treasury department.
Later he became general appraiser of
customs in Philadelphia and subse.
quently was made chief of the Gus.
toms division of the treasury. He re.
signed in 1877 and since has held i'm.
portant positions in Philadelphia,