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

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s24,000,000 is cash and 500, 900 in
continuing contracts
A new Indictment was returned in
the United States court at Savannah
against Capt. B. D. Greene and the
| Gaynors relative to the alleged
Savannah harbor frauds.
| Professor Charles w. Pearson. who
resigned the chair of English litera-
ture in Northwestern university be-
| cause of his views on the Bible. has
| signed contract with a lecturing
| bureau.
The Chicago grand jury has in
dicted Captain George W. Streeter,
William Force, Henry Hoeldtke and
Billy McManners for the murder of
! John S. Kirk, who was killed in a bat
tie on the Streeter tract
| Superintendent c. j. Crandell of the
| United States Indian school at Santa
Fee. n. NJ, has received word from
two precincts in northern Taor county
that 40 children had died there the
past few days of diphtheria.
! MarcOni, who arrived in New York,
kept up wireless communication with
his station at Cornwall until he was
2,O99 miles away, when the last signal
was heard. Actual messages were re-
ceived at a distance 1851 miles.
| Chilto Hargo, or Crazy Snake, and
nine of his followers were sentenced
to the United States penitentiary at
Fort Leavenworth for two years and
wer fined s., 900 each, on a charge of
conspiring against the government.
/ The supreme court at Boston over
ruled the exceptions taken by coun-
sci for John C.. Best, the farm hand
convicted Of the murder of George E.
Bailey at Break Heart Hill farm,
North Saugus, in the spring Of 1901.
Benjamin F. Ellsworth Of Wood
stock killed an aged man whom he &C
cused Of running his home, and com
mitted suicide after taking the life OF
his wife The son of the murderer
was arrested as accessory to the
crime.
At Grand Rapids, Mich, Henry A
Taylor, of New York, was found guilty
Of conspiracy to bride by the jury in
the superior court. This is the sec,
ond conviction as a result of the re
cent investigation of the city water
scandal.
Patrick O'COnnell is dead and Jere
miah Murphy is in a critical condition
and five other men had narrow es-
capes from death at the works of the
Standard oil company in Constable
Hook, n. J. The men were overcome
by gas from boiling oil
The New York grand jury concluded
its Investigation into the New York
. Central tunnel disaster of Jan. 8, and
found an indictment for manslaughtel
against John NJ. Wisker, engineer OF
the White Plains local, which ran in
to the Norwalk local in the tunnel.
: Chicagoans who have been plan
e ming to take part in the Illinois day
celebration at Charleston, S. c., March
II. it is intimated will not participate
in the exposition unless the manage
ment repudiates Lieutenant Cover
nor Tillmap's insult to the president.
Floods in the Mohawk valley il
/ New York and the Passaic river val
p, ley, New Jersey, did great damage
Six hundred families were driver
from their homes at Paterson. Many
towns along the New York Contra
: road were under water and bridges
: washed away.
The cOroners jury which has beer
: investigating the cause of the explo
1 sion of the boiler at the Penberthy in
jector cOmpany's plant at Detroit or
November &c, which resulted in the
4 loss of 300 lives, brought in a verdict
that the boiler was defective and cen
sured its makers.
Mrs. Coils P. Huntington, just ar
rived from Europe, declared that she
5 had SIS 900 worth of personal effects
that she had bought abroad. She was
told that the duty was $31, 500 She
paid it promptly. This is the high
: est amount of duty ever paid by any
, one individual on goods brought in
personal baggage.
= William Matthews, a Hamilton anC
Dayton railroad fireman put on g
, mask, entered the bank of Plato over
powered the cashier and locked him
in a back room, and took $1,000 from
the safe says a dispatch from Glen
coe, Mimi. He caught freight train
, for Glencoe, but was arrested at Glen
? cOe and confessed the crime. All the
money but $40 has been restored.
Sensational charges are made
against the Cleveland Electric Rail
way company and the Cleveland City
! Railway company in two petitions for
injunctions 1t is alleged that the old
street railway companies are using
improper methods and means in an
attempt to block the recently incorpo
rated Scent fare railway company
Judge Phillips granted a temporary
restraining order.
r. H. Pope, formerly a student al
Stanford university, a son Of the
late Lieutenant Pope, assistant sur
geon-general of the United States
army, has been missing since Novem
Der 10. All of his effects were found
in a hotel in San Francisco. His
mother is now on the way home from
the Philippines with the body Of her
husband and knows nothing of her
sons disappearance.
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