Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1902-01-09


factorily closed.
More than 95 per cent. Of American
window glass manufacturers were
| represented at the meeting held IN
Muncie, Ind, for establishing uniform
prices and to prevent reinous cuts in
! prices next year.
Both the service papers, the Army
and Navy Register and the Army and
Navy Journal in their latest issues
comment adversely on the reprimand
| administered by Secretary Root to
Lieut.. Gen. Miles.
At New York, Edward Kern, aged
| 80, a Swiss valet recommended to
| Charles Thebaud by benevolent So
! ciety. stole between $4,000 and SIS,
| 600 worth of jewelry from his en-
| pIoyer and escaped.
To stamp out smallpox, the Boston
| board of health has issued an order
making vaccination compulsory in ali
| cases where there has been no yaccin-
alton since 1887. The order will affect
about 1906 persons.
The navy department is contem-
plating the establishment of a
permanent naval training station on
the great lakes, probably at Chicago
Congress will be asked for an apprO-
| priation for this purpose.
| Mayor Harrison of Chicago has con-
CURED in Professor James statement
that the republicans of that state to
win must nominate a candidate for
mayor whose record on traction ques-
lions arouses confidence.
i DolandO, known as the beef and
beans" horse, has been retired and will
spend his days in easy living He will
race no more. The horse got his nick
name because he was owned by John
Meehan of beanery fame.
1t is reported that Richard Croker
has decided to sail for England on
Jan, % and that he will resign the
leadership of Tammany hall This
rumor came from the Democratic
club, Croker's headquarters.
In a head-on collision between
two coal trains on the Erie railroad in
the East Honesdale, Pa, yard Fireman
John Rossner of Port Jervis, N. Y, was
, killed. Both engines were demolished
! and a score of cars were wrecked.
Lewis J. Palmer, youngest son of the
late Senator John NJ. Palmer, died at
his home in Springfield, H., of pneu,
mOnia. Mr.. Palmer was prominent
among the young attorneys of central
Illinois. He had been i'll only a few
days.
: Jack Roberts, the English feather
weight champion pugilist, is coming
to America to get matches with YOunE
Corbett, Terry McGovern, kid" BroaC
or other tOp-notchers in his class
Roberts fights at from 122 to 70
pounds.
Miss Mary E. Wilkins, the authoress
who was reported to have secret,
welded DR.. Charles Freeman O.
Metuchen, N. j., some weeks ago, has
J fixed upon New Years day as tn
time when she is willing to forsak,
single life.
Outside of the business of supply
l. ing New York city with milk, the far
mers of New York state have an in
2 vestment Of SAB ,45O,OOO in COWS, and {
t corresponding amount in dairy farms
and fixtures, the total being not less
that $150.000,000
: While insane a man of the name 0
Elmgren, who lived near Deer Lake
; Wis, cut his throat with a small piec
of stove wood and died soon afterward
t He was 45 years old, unmarried an
f became crazy from brooding over
/ nancial matters.
Marconi laughed at the publishet
statement that he to be married Will
l on this side of the Atlantic on this OC
casiOn. He admitted it was true tina
L he is engaged to young woman, blu
said the wedding is yet quite a dis
lance in the future.
i Jack Carkeek, the American wrest
Ter is meeting all corners in London
England. Lately he met "a agpirant;
and threw each one Of them. He ha
thrown the champions Of France, Pc
land and Wales. He will shortly e
to France and Germany to wrestle.
United States Senator Chauncey NJ
| bSpS" anu MISS May rainier were
married at Nice in the American con
sulate by United States Consul
Harold S. Van Buren,, who conducted
the civil ceremony under a special dis
pensation granted by the secretary OF
state.
For three years Mrs. Patrick Walsh
of Baltimore had been placing her
savings all in bank notes under the
crate in the parlor stove for safety
While she was out her son made a
fire in the stove, and Mrs. Walsh is
now nearly crazy over the loss of
/ 1920.
Robert H. Hatfield, one of the last
of the notorious Kentucky clan, was
shot and killed at Troy mining camp
in the Pinal mountains, Arizona. The
slayer was Deputy Sheriff John C.
Devine, who bore a warrant for Hat
| gield's arrest on a charge of wife
| beating.
At London in the suit of the Taft
/ Vale railway against the Amalagamat-
ed Society Of Railway Servants, an
! important trade union case, the plain
| tiffs filed a statement claiming ga
GAG damages suffered through an
| alleged conspiracy and unlawful com
| bination.
Secretary Long, it is understood, will
| be the next man to leave the cabinet,