Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1902-03-13

WIN lU,UUU members. III AuIclICCt,
there are 352 classes with $4,000 stu
dents
DOMESTIC.
Mrs Roosevelt entertained delegates
to the mothers congress.
The University of Chicago track
team carried off hOnOrs at the A. A.
L, meet in Milwaukee.
Many census clerks are to lose po-
sitiOns as a result of the pending bill
making the bureau permanent
The pneumatic mail tube lobby is
trying to induce the house postofTice
committee to recommend the scheme.
Henry A Gould, New York philan-
thrOpist and merchant, married Capt.
Edna F. Ellis, a Salvation Army lass
Lord ThurlOw and G.. H. Proctor Of
New York are planning to build a
railroad from Eureka, Cal, to Boise
City.
\ threat of bodily harm to the presi-
dent if he visits South Carolina is de-
nounced as false by the people of that
state.
Between so and 70 miners were
caught in a snowslide near Telluride
Colo. and bodies have been re-
covered.
Jonathan Clark of Chicago w1lled
half OF his 100000 estate to charity,
to keep mis- descendants from becom-
ing idle
The United States notified turkey
that Miss Stones captors must be
punished. The sultan denied re-
sponsibility.
One rObber was fatally shot and the
chief of police badly wounded il a
| fight between burglars and police at
Mattoon. H.
Broker w. G. WasmansdorT filed a
petition in bankruptcy in Chicago,
scheduling liabilities of $92 ,489 and
| $fS.589 assets.
The Detroit ordinance reducing
street car fares to three cents was
declared illegal by the United States
supreme court
Leon Lewis, a writer and student
announced that glacial deluge pen
ned up at the south pole is about to
overwhelm the world.
President Roosevelt refused to ap-
point Dan Hogan internal revenue col
leCtOr for southern Illinois because
of his record as state grain registrar.
The LorimerYates faction however,
will be permitted to name the ap-
pointee
l. =
street, Chicago, was killed in a family
quarrel. His wife, step-daughter and
a guest were arrested
Former Secretary of the Treasury
Lyman J. Gage has accepted the pres
idency of the United States Trust
Company of New York.
A Denver priest declared Leo XIII.
would shine in history when people
were disputing whether Washington
was an Indian or a negro.
A shortage of $4,000 was discover
ed in the accounts of Cashier F. W.
COttle of the State Bank of Elkhart
H., and the bank was closed.
Australian troops in south Africa
are said to have taken the law into
their own hands and punished beers
who fired on English wounded.
The river at Pittsburg reached
stage OF 1926 feet, throwing $4,000 men
out Of employment and causing heavy
losses in that city and Allegheny.
TIE United States supreme court
in the case of Alfred V. Booth a
Chicago broker, upheld the Illinois
law prohibiting dealing in puts and
calls.
Canadian agents are reported in
Cuba working up a sentiment for re-
Ciprocity with the dominion if the
United States fails to grant conces-
sions.
Floods in the Mohawk valley stop
ped the operation of the New York
Central trains. Miles of track were
covered by ice and water, with many
washouts.
A man at Burlington, VT, is practi-
cally serving a life sentence in Jail
for contempt because he refuses to
tell the name of the woman who gave
him liquor.
Souvenir hunters who visited the
emperOr'S yacht HohenZollern stole
plates and saucers and ruined valu-
able tapestries by cutting pieces
from them
In Chicago DR.. Orville S. Burnett was
declared responsible for the suicide of
Mrs. Charlotte S. Nichols and his
punishment was fixed at fifteen years
| Imprisonment.
J. P. Morgan of New York has given
s., 900. 900 to the University Of the
South at Sewanee. This is one Of the
| foremost educational institutions in
| the southern country.
The house committee on rivers and
| harbors agreed on bill carrying ap-