Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1902-01-02
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
Domestic.

New York young lady weds an ex-
convict.
Franz C., son of Theodore Thomas,
died at Pensacola, Fla
Ground was broken at st. Louis for
the exposition of 1903.
A Bryn Mawr college girl bathed IN
alcohol and was burned TO death.
Ministers of Beloit are arranging for
an anti-yice campaign in that city.
Representative Hull of Iowa is CON
fined to his bed with typhoid fever.
A policeman of Louisville, KY, was
convicted of numbering a felloW-officer
In the st. Louis circuit court, Judge
Tally decided that strikes were law
full.
Clinton Houser, 102 years old, died
at TreVeorton, Pa, from oVer-ezer-
ton.
Two mutinoug seamen on the steam
ship Thronley tried to murder their
officer.
LHverna Schlatter, wife of an alleged
divine healer" has sued him for di-
vorce.
A strange warehouse and 48,83O
bushels of peanuts were burned at
Suffolk, Va.
At Oakland, Cal, son was born to
Mrs. Funston, wife of General Fun
ston.
RumoF places Gov. Merriam at the
heaf of the proposed department Of
commerce.
Michael Mclaughlin, an old-t-me
politician Of Lexington, KY, com
mitted suicide.
James Doyle was given verdict for
SAC, 922.73 in his mining suit at Coun-
oil Bluffs, Iowa.
The navy department has announc-
ed the final acceptance of the battle
ship Wisconsin.
William Redding and james Winton
we're hanged on the same galloWs at
Birmingham, Ala.
TIE Wabash railroad let a contract
for g. 100000 bridge over Ohio river
at Mingo Junction.
Frank Weber and Stephen Hinster-
ger. Valley City, N. L., were asphyxtat-
ed In Chicago hotel.
Perry Belmonts nomination to
congress in the seventh New York dis
trict may be contested.
DR.. William Osler of Baltimore has
been summoned to Detroit, Mich, to
attend Gen. r. A. Alger.
A syndicate of Illinois investors, in
Guiding Congressman Cannon, bought
10000 acres in Nebraska
At Bristol, Va, Cicero Harris,
colored, was hung for the murder of
Samuel Ware, also cOlored.
Mayor-elect Low selected Thomas
w. Hynes, a Shepard supporter, fol
commissioner of correction.
AS result of the intense cold and
blizzard, at Oklahoma stockmen figure
a 10 per cent. loss on cattle.
Five business buildings on Bank and
State streets, New London, Conn.
were guJCed. Loss, 100000.
John G. Dancy, of North Carolina
he's been chosen for recorder of deeds
for the district Of Columbia.
Arthur Martin disappeared from a
sanitarium at Kenosha and the police
cannot find any trace of him.
Mrs Grace Powell mysteriousIy
disappeared at Vancouver and is be
Heved to have been murdered.
At Albert Lea, Mimi, Erick Olson
convicted of robbery, was sentenced
to five years in the penitentiary.
Henry G. Payne, who will be the
next postmaster general, expressed
himself in favor of penny postage.
Representative Wood of California
has introduced a bill to establish &
department of mines and mining.
John L. Carton. of Dubuque. who en-
listed Nov. 10 last, has been reported
10 the adjutant general as deserter.
A meeting of the price list com
mittee of the Wisconsin Valley Lum
bermen's association, which is affiliat
John McQuaid, a farmer, residing in
Stanton, died in the hospital in Still
water as the result of exposure tC
cold.
Four lives were lost by fire near
Dubois, Pa, and fifteen were killed in
burning market at Zacatecas.
Mexico.
The operation was performed on
Russell A. Alger, whose condition is
serious, but with good chance of his
recovery.
Chairman Foss of the house naval
committee denied that Speaker Hen
derson tried to influence him in the
Schley case.
At Dodge Center, Mimi, DR.. J. a.
Carver was fatally burned by his
clothing becoming ignited from an
open CRATE.
Gossip again has it that Secretary
OF State Hay will resign and be sue
eeeded by Judge Taft of the Philippine
commission.
DR.. ]. E. Moore, of Minneapolis,
has been elected president of the
Western Surgical and genealogical
association.
Dayton H. Miller, secretary and
treasurer of a coal company, was
shot and killed by a negro near Blue
field. w. Va.
1t is said an 100000 apartment
houe is to be erected at the corner of
Connecticut avenue and L street.
Washington.
The German cruiser Vinila. now at
Norfolk, Va, was ordered to join the
German squadron in Venezuleqn
waters