Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1901-08-01

Italians in Mississippi.
DR.. Rodcrmund of Appleton, Wis,
ate pus from the postules of a sup
posed smallpox patient.
Weekly trade reports declared re
tail business little affected by the
strike and the drought.
Robert f. Westcott died Of heart
disease after a runaway accident at
Richfield Springs, N. Y.
Thieves robbed Mrs. Thompson Of
$3.50 at Kankakee and burned her
house to hide the crime.
An Indian was shot and killed near
Ssseton, S. d., in a dispute with 9.
e. Hall over a land title.
Converts and many churches are
barricaded at Saragossa, Spain, n
anticipation Of further riots.
A Montana doctor surrounded by
rattlcsankes on a mountain escaped
death by chloroforming them.
Divine Healer" Schlatter was
found to be sane in Washington, and
will be arraigned for yagrancy.
The Hawaiian legislature APP
prOpriated money far in excess of the
estimated income of the colony.
The trial Of Robert S. Fosburgh
charged with killing his sister at
Plttsfeld, Mass, was continued.
Mrs, William Goldie, Jr., has
brought suit in Buffalo for divorce
from her husband, a Chicagoan.
officials of the navy say naval
vessels should be able to make 1000
to 10000 miles without recoaling.
A resolution was offered in the
Virginia constitutional convention to
restrict the granting of divorces.
The duke Of Marlborough will give
a big fete to leaders of the conserva-
tive party at BIenheim, August TO-
Arthur Mclaughlin and Ene Tip
ton eloped at New Ross. Ind. The
girls father chased them ten miles.
Wayman Grow McCrcery, a we'll
known businessman and amateur
billlardist of st. Louis. is dead. aged
81.
Rabbi Frey Of Wabash, Ind, de-
cares he has invented Il car that will
travel 300 miles an hour over sea or
land.
President Mckinley will issue a
proclamation declaring free trade
between the United States and Porto
Rico.
A court at San Francisco ordered
the immediate distribution of $1,000
600 of the J. G. Fair estate among the
heirs.
It is rumoled that there is a CON
splracy to install Prince Louis
as French Emperor Septem-
Der IL.
The divorced wife Of DR.. r. Hanna
Of Cleveland may remain in England
to keep her children from Senator
Hanna.
A census bulletin shows that. Iowa
has few negroes, while men outnum-
Der women in Iowa, Kansas, and
Indiana.
The postofTlce at Mier, Ind, was
abolished thus releasing postmaste'
A, l.. Fox, who repeatedly attempted
to resign.
Mrs. George w. Lane, wife of 4
farmer, was choked to death,
by robbor, in her homo
near Canton. I'll.
Gottlieb Faher, a well-known land
scape artist was shot and killed in
front of his home in New York by
Thomas McGurk.
The Chicago authorities have re-
fused DR.. r. J. Betiero's request for
permit to bury n live man in the
interests of science.
Fifty million feet OF standing
timber was sold at the La Pointc
agency, Wisconsin, at an average of
81 per thousand feet.
w, Clayton Pickerspill, British
consul general for the Pacific coast
states and territories, died at a
in Alameda. Cal
Newton s. Greasy, a Harvard law
student, shot and killed his friend,
Sidney Bristol, whom he mistook for
a burglar, at Brattlehoro, Vt
Lord Pauncefoot is proving friend
Of the United States in removing the
possible causes for friction with Eng
land over the Nicarauguan canal.
At Cincinnati, the old plant of the
Globe Wcrnicke company was par
TALLY destroyed by fire The damage
was 100000. with fun insurance
Governor Durbin, in letter to the
state department, denied the. story
that an Italian consul was refused
to u hospital at Peru, Ind.
Arthur r. Colburn Of Philadelphia,
two daughters of Captain Flint and a !
sailor were drowned by tho capsizing
Of the yacht Venit2ia in Long island
sound.
Tho receiver for the Seventh
National bank, New York, has been
instructed to bring suit unless de-
positors are paid in fun within two
weeks.
Kansas temperance women Dc,
Stroyod tent saloon at TT Dorado
and a policy shop at Loayonworth.
Fort Scott saloons were cnfoinod bv,
the court.