Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1901-04-25


Fort Worth. Tex ,f.eI in ST Louis IN.
victim of "kncr sou; GIcts. by IN
known per uas Il q salon near th
union station,
DR.. w p. M,CltElnI died at Dca,
yer, araG 50. re was roted as a
surge. ana was the FIST physician to
make 2 study of the clima -ic influ
ences OF the mouat~il lll.Cn on pull
morary diseases.
J. Pierpoat Morgan's visit to Europe
is said to be for the purpose of sound
ing European capitalists on the es-
| tabliehment CT a new Mexican
financial policy.
At indianapolis, Ind, fire broke out
I'm the women's department in the
main building Of the central hospital
for the insane. All the patients were
removed in safety.
Governor Hunt has issued proc,
lamation aboIi3hing martial law in
Shoshonc county, Idaho. Martial law
was proclaimed May 4, 1899 following
the riots Of April 20.
Emmett Chittenden, well known
farmer of Spring Valley, Ala, shor
and instantly killed a negro named
West for criminally assaulting
| Chittenden's daughter.
The courthouse and part Of the coun.
ty records at Danyilie, Mo, have been
destroyed by f;c. The building was
burned during the civil war by the
outlaw Bill Anderson.
At Cripple Creek, Col, the family
of James Smith, including the father,
business in that city do not pay their
just proportion of taxes and has
taken steps to have their assessments
increased.
The New York assembly has killed
the Everett antiscalpers' bill. which
provides thGt no person shall issue or
sell passage tickets except the author.
lied agents of railroads and steamship
companies.
At Granite, Ok, J. r. New killed his
brother-n-law. The latter fled to a
neighbours house to avoid the quarrel,
but New followed him and shot him
three times Bad blood had existed
between them,
At New York DR.. William jay
Youmans died at his home IN Mount
Vernon, N. Y, from typhoid fever,
after an Illness Of ten days. DR.. You
mans established the Popular Science
Monthly in 1872.
A head.end collision between a
freight train and a work. train on the
Louisville railroad near West Pine
Vile, Ky, resulted in the death Of
VIII Sharp, engineer, and viii Fret
well, yardmaster.
General Thomas II. Taylor, who
fought in the Mexican and civil wars
and who had held the office of chief
of police longer than any other man,
died in Louisville of typhoid pneu-
monla, aged Is.
A motion filed in the United States
supreme court is calculated to raise
the question of the relation of the
Hawaiian islands to the United States
The motion was made in the case of
the Wilders Steamship company.
The Michigan house has passed the
Chandler railroad tax bill, which also
provides for the taxing according to
the ad yalorcm system Of express,
sleeping ear and parlor car companies
The vote was 70 year to 10 nays,
Hunt Brothers fruit-cannIng plant
at Haywards, Cal, was destroyed by
fire The company's boarding-house
and IS cottages were also burned. The
loss will exceed $125,000, The fire is
believed to have been incendiary.
Henry II. FaXon, a temperance
advocate sent $1OC checks to 23
clergymen of Quincy, Mass, to be
used 'in promoting the moral,
spiritual, social and political welfare
of the people of this historic city"
At Cincinnati Mike Conley, the for
mer pugii9t and known as THE
Ithaca Giant" has been arrested
charged with being implicated in the
murder Of Telegraph Operator
Charles d. Gildea, in a fight in a sa-
loon.
Three gold bars, SAID to be worth
$4,000 each, were stolen from the
steamer halSef WllnClh uCT bIOsSe On
her trip from New York to Cher
bourg but were found in a Croyicc, the
thief having been unable to get them
ashore,
At Summerville, Ga, r. l.. AIRING
ton shot and killed Miss Mamie
Clcghorn and then killed himself.
Arlington had been engaged to the
young woman but because of parental
objections the engagement had been
broken.
Seventy students Of the Ar
mour Institute, wearing nightgowr3,
boarded South Side elevated train in
Chicago. The students were celebrat-
ing the gift of 100000 to he
institute by Mrs. p. ID. Armour and ].
Ogden Armour.
The sale of two girls, members of a
| gypsy band, at Momence, Ill.,, brought
on a riot that for time threatened
serious results. SO angry were the
citizens over the traffic that mob