Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1902-06-26

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. Steel company from j. P. Morgan
The ship trust can now build battle.
ships and make armOr for them.
Abram Halsey, returning to New
, York after an absence of twentv
years, found his wife married again,
but husband No. 2 was induced to
leave for his former Kentucky home.
George NJ Finney, a member Of the
yacht Tartar's crew, was knocked
overheard and killed by a swinging
Of boom at Michigan City as the yacht
started to return from the annual race.
Frederick Hickman, living at
Temple, Pa, was stung by a 17-year
locust and his hand Is swollen to twice
it's normal size. The physician fears
that his hand will have to be ampu-
tated.
Venezuelan government forces are
reported to be bombarding La Guayra.
Two German cruisers which were at
st. Thomas, Danish West Indies. have
been sent to Venezuela under hurry
orders.
At Taunton, Mass, Timothy
Donohue, a baseball pitcher under
contract with the Washington Ameri-
can League club, died He played
last year with the Chicago Nationa!
League team
Former President Grover Cleveland
will be given the doctor of iuris-
! prudence degree by Augustnian col
lege, Philadelphia. Dr. w. l.. Bryan
! Indiana university is to be president
| of SwarthmOre.
The Allis-Cnalmers maChinists VINO
| have been on strike over wear,
will return to work, having been
granted an cight-hour day and an IN
| crease of II per cent. in wages and
/ recognition OF their union.
Marie Stevens, the Florodora girl
| who was taken to a Detroit hospital
some weeks ago as a charity patient,
is seriously i'll with consumption, and
was later discovered by her wealthy
father from Chicago, has died.
Because w. w, Kempf banker, re-
fused to doff his hat before the picture
of the emperor of Austro-Hungary,
| ir the Chicago Office of the consul
from that country, the latter has flcd
charges with the state department.
Lightning struck three churches in
Chicago, Calvary Presbyterian Sun
day school was thrown into panic.
| Tho memorial German Methodist Epis
COpal Church was destroyed, and Our
Lady Of Sorrows Church was injured.
At Denver, Mrs. Mamie Thome in
stitutod suit against Miss Keturah Sim
| for $4,000 damages for alternating the
affections of her husband, Albert ]
| ThOrnC, formerly n cotton broker OIL
Now York city, but now resident OIL
f, Denver.
The Chicago vaudeville actors.
chorus girls, and "supers" presented
demand to the managers for more
salary, dressing rooms, and pay for
| rohearsals. The demand is backed
by the stage employees national al
lance
The mysterious drowning o,
Clarence Foster and Sarah r.
Lawrence at Good Ground, N Y, isl
partly explained by an eye witness of
a fight between Foster and his rival,
Louis Disbrow. Foster was a married
man, the girl an heiress.
Former Mayor Washburnc and
others will apply for permission to
construct subway reaching all por-
tions of the downtown district of Chi
CagO for the use of traction lines and
telephone and telegraph wires, and to
be twcnty-fOur feet deep and extend
from curb to curb,
The republican congressional cam
pagn committee decided not to main
tain branch headquarters in Washing
ton. Branch headquarters will be
maintained in Now York, and theI
campaign will be directed from Chi-I
cago, as it is in the middle west that
the campaign will be hottest
Helen Vanderbilt Wackerman, theI
American girl who became insane
after she had been requested to leave
the homo of the English artist Hubert |
llcrkomor, for whom she has been
posing, arrived in New York from
southampton ono was ACCOMPANIED
by her mother, her uncle, DR.. Lewis |
G. Smith of Buffalo, and two trained
nurses.
Captain Reuben f. Kolb leader Of |
the Kolb movement in Alabama some
years ago, and twice a candidate for
governor, and three other prominen,
citizens Of birmingham were indicted |
and placed under bonds to answer to |
the charge of embczzlement in con
noction with the failed Continental |
Security Redemption company and
Birmiugham Dehouturc company
At louisville, Ky, Laura Talbot. |
Gait, 10 years old and a member of !
the eighth grade of the eighth ward |
school, has created u sensation by her |
action in refusing to join the class IN
the singing of Marching Through |
Georgia, and by writing dorcuse of |
the action of Admiral Sommos in es- !
Gaping in a yacht from the Alabama
after he had surrendered that ship tOI
the kcarsargc
President Mitchell of the ITuifrd !