Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1901-05-30


the presence of President Mckinley,
Governor Nash and other high Of
fcials. Miss Barber took Mrs. Nc
Kinley's place in cutting the rope
holding the vessel. A great crowd
attended the ceremony at San Fran.
| cisco.
An advance of 10 per cent in the
cost of higher-priced chamber suite
furniture was decided on at the annual
meeting of the National Association OF
| Chamber Suite and Case Work Manu-
| facturers, who represent a large per
centage of the output in this line of
goods.
Mr.. Blair Bratton, wife Of a Phila-
delphia and Erie railroad man had a
vision in which she saw her husband
mangled under an engine. At the same
time Bratton fell under a shifting
engine. Both legs were crushed
and his back broken. He died a few
hours later.
James Beeman, superintendent Of
the Plano Manufacturing company
Chicago, and his son, James Beeman
Jr., will be placed on trial charged
with murder. The victim of the
alleged crime, William Singleton, ?
negro, was killed in the Plano com
paDy's factory,
Nefe & Levy have informed the
navy department that Miss May
Chauncey Stevens of Grand Rapids,
Mich, has been selected to christen
the torpedo boat Chauncey She Is 4
| reat-granddaughter of Commodore
Isaac Chauncey, after whom the yes
sci was named,
The National Piano Manufacturers
association, in session in New York,
elected these officers President, e. S.
Conway, Chicago vice presidents,
! William Dalliba Dutton and Charles
II. Parsons of New York; secretary,
W. b. Price, Chicago; treasurer,
Frederick p Stierf, Baltimore.
The archbishop of Canterbury would
like to see the clergy of the church
of England married. Preaching at
Hampstead parish church in aid of the
Queen Victorian fund, he observed the
! experience Of an unmarried ministry
had lasted in this country long enough
to make the people dislike it,
Daniel NJ. Kellogg, whose home is
| in Wisconsin, a clerk in the pension
| bureau, has been soaring his as
sociates some time with wild gesticu
lations. signs he was making 20 those
"in the spirit world" and the
bureau have asked the appointment of
commission in lunacy in his case.
Monsignor O'Connell formerly rec
tor Of the American college in Rome,
and recently appointed bishop of
Portland, Me, was solemnly conse-
Grated in the Church of st. John
Lateran by Cardinal Satolli, project
of the propaganda and formerly apOs-
tolc delegate to the United States.
Az Upper sandusky, Ohio, Charles
Foster was sentenced TO serve ten
years in the pententiary and to pay
the costs OF the trial for the murder
of farmer named Johnson. The case
attracted attention as the result of
an order issued by Judge Young pro
hibiting the publication of testimony.
Chicago machinists decided to defer
action on striking in hopes the ques
ton of higher wages and a nino-hour
day will be settled by arbitration.
Many cities in all parts of the country
are affected, $500 going out at San
Francisco, 5000 at Cincinnati, 5000 at
! Scranton over 10000 machinists
are out.
The suicide at Naples of the Rev
Maltbie Davenport Babcock pastor OF
the Brick Presbyterian church in New
York, who killed himself by cutting an
artery in his wrist and swallowing
corrosive subIimate, was due to his
dcspairing of ever recovering from the
chronic liver complaint from which
he suffered.
The torpedo boat Biddle for the
United States navy, was successfully
launched from the Bath iron works.
The Biddle is a sister torpedo boat TO
the Bagley and the Barney type WHICH
each showed speed of more than a
|
knots required by contract. The
Biddle cost $lG1,000
People at Windsor and the royal
retainers are beginning to realize what
the death of Queen Victoria meant to
them, The older servants are being
pcustoned. Frazer, the late queens
police superintendent, almost as
familiar a figure as the queen herself
on public occasions, goes into retire
ment and headkeepers and gardeners
disappear into the obscurity of the
pension list
At Harbor Beach, Mich Blanche
Reynolds, aged years, sdead, as the
result of beating administered to her
by schoolmates, who are said to have
been angry because her parents had
forbidden Blanche to play with them.
In executive session the conven-
ton of the Order of Railway Conduc-
tors decided to continue the grand of.
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