Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1901-12-19


national university.
Revised estimates place the loss
sustained by fire that destroyed the |
National Starch Works plant in Des |
Moines, at 100000.
John NJ. Currier of Valparaiso, Ind, |
and Mrs Laura NJ. Morse OF Chicago, |
who were divorced 40 years ago, were
married in Valparaiso
A New York coroner's jury in the
case Of little Emeline Dale returned
a verdict that her death was caused
by accidental poisoning.
A convicted murderer who was
executed in Arkansas was partially
revived in his coffin, but died before
he could be hanged again.
President Roosevelt sent several
hundred nominations to the senate,
including that of Cornelius Van Colt,
as postmaster of New York.
The Masonic grand lodge of Texas
has invited Mexican lodges to seats.
This action gives Mexican Masons
standing in the United States.
The storage department of Faster
& GlasseIPs cotton warehouse and
II 500 bales Of cotton at Shreve-
port, La, burned. Loss, $4,000.
Willis L. Moore, head of the
weather department, made his annual
report in which he predicted in
creased use of wireless telegraphy.
In a fire at Bayou des Allemandes,
La, Misses May Ernest and Flossie
DelabretOnne, members Of prominent
New Orleans families, were burned
to death.
Judge Newburger in New York
denied the motion to dismiss the in
dictment against Roland B. Molineux
for the murder of Mrs. Katherine J.
Adams.
Editor A NJ. Lawrence and Re
porter H. S. Garfield, sentenced for
contempt by Judge Hanecy in Chi
cago, were released on habeas
corpus.
The reappointment of United States
Marshal Ames, Collector Nixon, and
Assistant Treasurer Williams at Chi
cago has been decided upon by the
president.
At Pittsburg Mrs. Sarah KIee and
child Mary Klee, persisted in a fire
and seven other members of the
family, including her husband, were
badly injured.
A gang of robbers partially
wrecked the postoff1ce at Port Union,
Ohio. The explosion of the safe
seriously injured one Of their number.
Nothing was taken.
Miss Jane Tappan was indicted by
the grand jury at Barnstable, Mass,
for the alleged murder of Mrs. Mary
E. Gibbs, Alden P. Davis and Mrs.
Genevieve A. Gordon.
In New York Perry Belmont gave
| cakewalk and beefsteak dinner for
Mrs. George KeppeI, the leader of
King Edwards court set, and her
! brother, Lord Albemarle
Robbers broke into the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad station at Whining
ton, Ohio, and after binding the
telegraph operator broke open the
cash drawer and stole $50.
An auxiliary branch of the Irish
league was formed at New York
with John F. Finerty, Chicago, as
president. Branches are to be formed
all over the United States.
| Friends of Barry Howard, leader of
a Kentucky mountain feud, attempt
ed to rescue him while on his way to
prison to Frankfort to be tried for
completely in the GoebeI murder.
Edward ]. Matthews, former
banker and broker and president Of
American District Telegraph COM
pany, was killed by fall from a
horse a his home in Valley Forge.
Stanford University is about to
come into full possession of the mil
lions left to it by Senator Stanford
The amount is $18,0OO,OOO in bonds
and $12,000000 in other property
Colonel John Doniphan, who served
with his uncle, General A. w. Doni-
phan, in successful campaigns in the
Mexican war, is dying at his home in
st. Joseph, Mo. He is 80 years old.
Theodore Salisbury Woolsey, pro-
fessOr of international law, has been
appointed temporary dean of the Yale
law school, on account of the serious
illness of Professor Francis Wayland.
DR.. Cameron Mann, long prominent
ly identified with the Episcopal church,
was cOnsecrated a bishop of the mis-
SlCnary district of North Dakota
amid elaborate ceremonies at Kansas
City, Mo.
The Omaha Loan and Trust COM
pany of Omaha is in financial distress
but liquidation is predicted. Liabilities
are $1,00O,O0O, mostly owned to east
ern investors, \. Z. Wyman, former
United States treasurer, is president.
John Baker, who has arrived at
Bisbee. Ariz., reports that himself and
his partner, Walter Kelly, were fred
on by Indians near the San Ber-
nardino ranch in the mountains OF
southern Arizona and that Kelly was
killed.
The financial business of the
United States government in the far
east is to be turned over to the New
York Guaranty and Trust company.
which gained the award despite
strong opposition from foreign
houses.
Nine persons were killed and many |
injured in a head-end collision of
Illinois passenger and freight trains
between Irene and Perryville, Ill, on