Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1902-04-24
DOMESTIC

Miss Ida Rogers dacIan.
gagement to Jasper oglesby is n not "a
John D. Rockefeller made . oor.
a.t5ona! gift Of $t25,oOo to Adelpb,
roIIege '7'i'"i
General Frederick Funston a.
5amed command Of the denartrnan+ ~
colorado. ''''' ''ii'ii' u
D." as general manager of the St
Paul road liz 81
The national league baseball cocoon
opened Thursday, The Anoricon
league opens April % All u van
President d. P. Francis of tho O.
Louis fair denied actual Dostnonar,ont
and said he preferred 1902 - ,-'' 80
Fire in the Johnson chair factory
go Haisted street, Chicago. is laid r.
IN incendiary. Loss $50 600
Secretary Of State FroehIich IF
Wisconsin announced himself as . ra-
publican candidate for governor
baltimore capitalists behind Cbor1oc
u 1orhes' London railway projects
object to his $5,OOO,OOO profits and viii
1ithdran. -
EDWIN u. Campbell, a blind profess
aor at the Michigan university in.
vented furnace for making Portland
cement. '''''''
alah orthodox church was laid at Lea
Tftt street and Haddon avenue Chi
oago. The car gave SIS. 900 to the
building fund.
Lieutenant General Miles will be
forcibly retired soon and Major Cen
eral John r.. Brooke will probably
succeed him.
The control of the Louisville and
Nashville railroad is believed to have
PASSED TO John W. Gates and southern
railway interests.
The six story building, occupied by
the Pacific Coast Borax COMPANY at
Bayonne, n. J., was Quilted by fire.
Loss, $4,000.
oscar A. Schaeffer, secretary and
treasurer of the w. f. Baker Cboco-
late company, shot and killed himself
ia his New York office.
Navy department is preparing for ex-
.ensiVe and exhaustive tests with
liquid fuel, which may be used in the
navy If successful
The foreign commerce bureau an
Jnnced that the United States now
sells more goods in Canada than all
.he rest OF the world.
Professor Joseph Miller, the music
teacher who killed Miss Jennett of De
sroit, began serving life sentence in
Jackson penitentiary:
Henry Flutcher, a negro boy, was
hanged for murder at ST. Louis
rhlrty-fye minutes before a reprieye
arrived from the governor.
The new $200000,O0O steel trust is
believed in Chicago to represent a
combine OF the Independent mills with
united States Steel company.
All expert accountant. after an eX-
animation OF the books of Auglaize
county, O., says the funds show a
shortage of $24,652 in ten years.
Attorney General Knox, in a letter
20 Congressman Ray, said the depart
ment is investigating the so-called beef
trust and the high meat prices.
David B. Hill, in a speech on how
Jefferson would do today. declared he
might reduce corporation dividends
aud withdraw tariff protection.
The Oregon democratic state con-
yention nominated George Chamber
lain of Portland, former attorney gen
eral of Oregon, for governor.
The Iowa legislature adjourned
after SO days session. Just S22 bills
we're introduced and 249 passed.
Woman suffrage was defeated.
An American crowd at Juarez
Mexico. witnessed a ring fight between
q 4-year-old African lion and a MeXi-
can bull. in which the latter won.
Dun & Co.'S weekly review OF
trade found the business of the
country still prosperous, in spite of
the labor troubles and bad weather.
At Columbus, Ohio. fire that broke
ont in the pillow shop of the Southern
Elow works consumed two blocks and
4 warehouse. The loss is $25O,OO0.
After the exciting experiences Of
the past few months. Miss Ellen NJ.
Stone is in the care of her relatives in
Chelsea. her old Massachusetts home
Mrs. Fanny Goldman, of Toronto,
committed suicide at Lipman's hotel
Chicago. after trying to secure her
sons release from the Cook county
JAIL
The stock farm of the Charles F.
Bates Horse company and the resi-
dence of Norman n. Rogers, near
Youngstown, O, were burned. Loss
$4,000
At MantOn, Mich, four members of
the France family have been charged
with the murder of Caleb France, the
husband and father. The persons ar
rested are Mrs. Lydia France, the
widow: Mrs. Essie Forman, Lulu
France, daughters and Glenn France.
a son.
Glen France, a 15-year-old Pine
Grove (Mich) boy, confessed to the
murder of his father. Caleb France
The crime was done to save his
mothers life.
Eugene Ware, the poet lawyer, who
is TO succeed H. Clay Evans as Pen
sion Commissioner, is said to have
played game OF poker for seat in
congress and won.
MRS. Martha J. Calhoun and daugh-
Ter Mrs. Vaughn, were killed near
GLeveIand by an unknown assassin
"iil vaughn, stepson of latter, was ar
rested on suspicion
Inc Racine Jail was threatened by
mob because -