Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1901-07-25

| Missouri midgets, Weighing AZ and
/ As pounds, were married.
Three wild bears were killed within
the city limits of Seattle.
The town of Lincoln. n. j., was
sold at auction for $4,000.
Andrew Carnegie offered Leadyllle
! 100000 for a public library.
Six persons were drowned while
bathing near Savannah, Ga.
The county poor house and insanf
asylum burned at Burlington, la.
Harry Mann emanuel Hayman), a
New York theatrical manager, Is
dead.
Mrs. BONNIE was indicted in Wash
ngton for the killing Of Census Clerk
Ayres.
Luminous golf balls were success
fully used in night game at New
| Haven.
Pat Grove. the alleged kidnapper.
Is heard from in Johannesburg. south
Africa.
Rear-Admlral Crowninshleld hopes
| to get command OF the European
squadron.
Carlisle d, Graham made his
fifth trip through the Niagara Rapids
In barrel.
Dun e. Co.'S trade review says con
fidence in the future Is expressed on
every hand.
Mrs. Albert Bigelow Paine, wife Of
the wcl.known author, died at Fort
Scott, Kans.
United States Consul at Teneriffe.
Canary islands, filed petition in
bankruptcy.
The soft coal trust will endeavor
to sell Pttsburg and West Virginia
coal abroad.
The case of Rev. NJ. Falk Gjertsen,
the Minneapolis divine. will probably
be reopened.
DR.. N. s. Davis. Jr., was elected
dean of the Northwestern University
Medical college.
pickpockets robbed 20 Epworth
Leaguers and left them stranded at
Colorado Springs.
Mrs. Martha Patterson. daughter Of
President Andrew Johnson, died at
Greenyille, Tenn.
Prof. Starr OF Chicago university
said ten times too many persons go to
college nowadays,
Senator Bacon of Georgia and a
number of members OF congress
sailed for Manila.
Ten men were killed by the collaps-
| hriJ rr,,
at Springfield. Pa.
Horace Peters, who murdere |
Peter Smith near Dowagiac, Mich,
committed suicide
The New York court of appeals sus-
tanned the constitutIonalIty Of the
eight.hour labor law.
Sixteen persons were killed in n
collision on the Chicago and Alton
road near Norton. Mo.
Pacific exports were the only part
OF American commerce which showed
falling off last year.
Ex-Judge J. NJ Cellar OF Crawfords-
vile, Ind. committed suicide because
OF financial difficulties.
Col James Kilbourne was nominal.
cd for governor by the Ohio demo
cratic state convention.
DR.. John S. Billings of New York
was elected president of the Amcri-
can Library association.
Raymond Foster, son of Professor
Foster of Chicago University, was
| drowned In Lake Marie.
81, 10
than one-thIrd Of the population of
the country lives In towns.
Joseph Cramer. aged rs. was arrest
cd In Philadelphia charged with
having sovcn wives living.
A. Il. Gwynn, brother Of Mrs.
Cornelius Vanderbilt. is to write n
book describing his travels.
The department OF agriculture re-
ports n bad year for corn but an I'M
usually good year for wheat
A hypnotic spell was given as the
excuse for n sensational murder on a
train near Wamsuttor Wyo.
John Costain was killed near New
Albany, Ind, by Joseph Turner while
trying to lIidnap Mrs. Turner,
Lewis Elllins of Philadelphia left
his 100000 fortune In trust for the
benefit Of aged women teachers.
Heat and drought. it Is estimated
have ruined 80 per cent. OF the crop
in tho big compromising states,
w. j. Bryan criticised the Ohio
democratic convention for failure to
reallIrm the Kansas City platform.