Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1902-02-13
Domestic

BelIwood, Neb., tried to lynch the
cashier.
Rumors Of railroad extensions al =
rife in North Dakota
A woman of % and a man Of -
clipped at Pyrmont, Ind.
The property loss in the Waterbury
ire will reach $3,50O,0O0.
Mrs Shaw called on Mrs. ROose-
welt and was delighted with her recep-
lion.
Bob Fitzsimmons has agreed to
fight jim Jeffries.
Louis Kellihan, a life convict at the
Saltwater prison, died a raving
maniac
Labor leaders plan to push Il
scheme of a government department
Of labor.
choir singer of New Rochelle. n.
Z killed herself because of her hus-
bands arrest.
At Wolcott, Ind, fire wiped out
nearly the entire business section,
Loss, 100000
A conductor and negro were killed
on a train at Pembroke KY, in a re
yolyer fight.
The Iowa senate appointed a com
mittee to draft a new law governing
railroad taxation.
Depositors of the broken bank at
Boston elevated roads and trolley
lines are to consolidate.
Another stockholders suit begun at
n y,rDyrnD+ tho ,,,oroo,, Cf
northwestern roads.
Present conditions in Kansas pres
age the greatest wheat crop in the
history of the state.
The Pittsburg and Western railroad
mas at last been transferred to the
Baltimore and Ohio
A Chicago boy was killed by
burglars while he was defending his
employers property.
A twelye-year-old girl at Spriu gtteId
O. is accused of numbering her
foster mother by poison.
An inmate of the Konosha poor
house became insane and fought
twelve men for an hour
The senate committee postpones
action on the treaty for the purchase
of the Danish West Indies
Six thousand operatives are out
owing to a strike at the American
wooden mills at Olneyyillc. r. |.
Two Italians who killed man ut
Shawmut, Pa. Jan. % were captured
by posse near Crenshaw. Pa.
The Menominee and Marinette
street railway systems were con
solidated under one management.
The steel trust gives up 45,090
acres of school lands Minnesota con
veyed to a railroad through error.
John ID. Rockefeller pledged a 81 900.
GOO gift to Harvard, which will swell
a recent endowments to S2,50O.0O0
The kfdnapers of Mrs. Mabel
Stearns of Philadelphia were sen
fenced to terms in prison and fined
Lost sermons, for which a preachrr
Of Portsmouth, Va, was paid 81 -
each, were found in negrO's house.
The new grand jury at St. Louis
vas instructed to continue the investi-
gati0R Of bribery in the city council
The selection of iIlustrious AmeIi-
cans for the Columbia University
Hall of Fame was postponed until
1895.
Six distinct Investigations are being
made into the causes of the terrible
explosion in the subway tunnel New
York.
Representative Tawney insists that
the house has right to take a hand
in the negotiation of reciprocity
treaties
The HalliweIl-Phillips Shakspearean
collection Of Birmingham. England
was bought by NJ. J. Perry Of Proyj-
denoe. R. l.
Two prominent members were eN-
PEELED from the New Orleans cotton
exchange for defrauding a customer
out Of 100000
Leslie NJ. Shaw took the oath q
Office as secretary of the treasury.
Ex-Secretary Gage may accept a
Chicago offer
The vanderbilts and Goulds are
said to be engaged in a fight to
seeare control of the Delaware AMI
Lackawanna.
A man accidentally locked in
freight car was carried from San
Francisco to Indianapolis. He was
sadly frozen.
At Cincinnati great damage was
wrought and all over the south by q
sleet storm At Little Rock. Ark, the
damage was 100000.
The Atlantic hotel, Columbia Office
building, and a block of stores We're
destroyed by fire at Norfolk. Va
Less. 100000
Four men were killed in collision
of two Illinois Central stock trains
near Apple River, III. Four others
were seriously injured.
Eighty-five miners are reported
killed and 70 others said to he en-
tombed by an explosion at the
Hondo mines, in Mexico.
The car shed Of the Paterson Elec-
trio Railway company in Passaic, \.