Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1902-01-16
NEWS OF TIE WORLD.
Domestic.


Colonel e. w. Ayers the noted lob
byist, is dead.
Gen. Seamans, acknowledgement. of
California, died.
The public debt decreased s8s43 1872
70 December.
In New York there were 7O,SO8
deaths reported in 1901.
The Illinois Central station at
Alden, Iowa, vas destroyed by fire.
Helen Could is to build sanitarium
tor children in Idaho Springs, Colo.
At Amigo John Conway was killed
while attempting to board a moving
train
Hawaiians are opposed to the
gcbeme to establish Ieper colony N
the islands.
The will Of G. Fl. Peary was filed
at Minneapolis. The estate is valued
ut $2,800,000
Standard Oil interests are said to
be seeking a franchise for a gas
plant in Paris
The entire tobacco crop of 1900, ri
Wisconsin, is cornered by eastern
manufacturers
Hope Booth the welLknown actress,
has filed a petition in bankruptcy.
She has 1000 debts.
The Mckinley Monument associa-
ton has decided to endeavor to raise
81 900 in North Dakota
Clyde Moore, aged II, of Winfield,
Kas., was sentenced to twenty years
Imprisonment for murder
A street car carrying nOn-union
workmen at Springfield, H., was
blown up with dynamite.
Dudley Evans of New York has
been elected president of the Wells
Fargo Express company.
The annual sparrowhunt" of Pleas
ant township, Illinois, resulted in the
killing of $4,000 sparrOWs.
Kankakee is in need of servant girls
Efforts to import colored cooks from
the south proved failure.
At Seattle, Wash, William Allen
Seaton was hanged for the murder OF
his uncle, Daniel Richards.
At Oskaloosa, Ia, Constable John
Ruggerberg was fatally wounded In
attempting to make an arrest.
A. Rib Lake Joseph Depto, who was
accidentally shot, died. The remains
were taken to Stevens Point.
At st. Paul Bernard Michel, 67
years old, was found in his Office with
his throat cut. 1t was a case of sui
eide.
At Decatur, H., four men broke In
to the bank of A. r. Scott at Bethany
blew up the safe and secured $4,000 in
bills.
At Cartwright, Wis, Patrick DOnO
van was burned to death. His re
mains were found in the ruins of his
house.
c. N. Wiswell of Milwaukee, who
was slated for fourth assistant post
master general, may die of pneu
mODia.
Captain Leary, former governor Of
Guam, was promoted to rear admira
the day before his death, but he never
knew it.
The Methodist Sunday schools OF
Cincinnati barred from the libraries
v L
Apollos.
At Columbus, Ohio, the republican
caucus nominated the Foraker ticket
for the senate and the Hanna ticket
for the house.
At Grand Rapids the fifteenth an
nual meeting of the Wisconsin State
Cranberry Growers association will
be held Jan. IA.
Admiral Schley will be invited to be
the guest of the Maryland society of
Chicago at an entertainment in his
honor this month.
In his message to the New York
legislature, Governor Odell takes
strong ground against open Sunday
saloons in New York
Paul Blouet ("Max O'Ren'D, the
French author and lecturer, has I'M
dergone a successful operation for ap-
pendicitis in New York.
Terry McGovern and Dave Sullivan
agreed to fight before the Yosemite
Athletic club of San Francisco the
second week in February.
AT Lewiston, Idaho, James w. Reid
ex-congressman from North Carolina,
died after an illness of several months.
He came to Idaho in 1887.
Mayor Seth Low was inaugurated,
and almost the entire government of
New York city changed hands from
Tammany + the reformers.
In New York a receiver has been
appointed for the Crude Rubber COM
pany. The assets are aOout SO ,OOO,-
600 and liabilities, $J,000,000
At Omaha Anne Johnson. a colored
woman, held up and robbed T. J.
Graham, stockman, of $3.50. She was
Saught and the money found.
Both Argentine and Chile have been
endeayoring unsuccessfully to buy
warships in the United States n
anticipation of a possible war
Miss Alice Roosevelt accepted an in
vitatfon to christen Emperor Williams
yacht. The president and Mrs. Roose-
gelt will witness the ceremony
Ex-Congressman Thomas E. Miller
orator Of negro day at the Charleston
exposition. said social equality is
neither possible nor desirable.
John Murray, who is wanted by the
American police on the charge Of muir
dering his wife in jefferson, O., has
surrendered to the London police
Charles T. Croker, aged Is, and a
millionaire. was brought from San