Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1902-08-21

ship ever built in this country. She
is for the Standard Oil company and
will be 374 feet long, so feet beam and
2Sh feet depth of hold. She will
carry 100000 gallons of oil.
DR.. w. e. Terry was fatally in
iured by an explosion of gasoline at
Princeton, KY. He lit a match in the
Terry & Fr9yer drug store, which
caused the explosion and originated a
fire that did 10000 damage before it
was brought upder control.
At Washington ]. A. Bower has in
vented a steel Coming tower electric
searchlight caisson and diving bell
combined, weighing eight tons, ana
will attempt to locate the steamship
Rio Janeiro which sank in the Golden
Gate, at San Francisco, Feb, %, 1901.
Chicago police secured evidence
connecting Oscar Thompson, the
boarder at the Bartholin house, with
the murder of Minnie Mitchell A
woman witness said she saw Thomp-
son and Barnman Claffy OUT with
wagon on the morning after the muir
der.
The Kankakee asylum inquiry was
abruptly ended by the state board Of
charities and a report was made TO
the governor that after a full and
thorough investigation 1t was found
that no cruelties have been inflicted
upon patients and that the food is the
best.
Professor Winchell of Minneapolis
and Warren Upham of st. Paul, with
others visited Lansing, Kan, and on
inspection of the human skull recently
found there pronounced it of the
Iowan stage of the glacial period and
the most ancient found on this con
tinCnt.
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt has
bought the entire house for one per-
Torrance OF the Wild Rose company,
at the Knickerbocker theater, New
York, and will take the company to
Newport for private theatricals at a
dinner she is to give in the near
future.
Prince Chen, accompanied by
Chinese notables, was welcomed by
President Fornes, of the New York
board of aldermen, after which the
postofIice, subtreasury and Brooklyn
bridge were inspected, followed by q
visit to Chinatown, where a reception
took place.
The postomce at Highland Falls,
N. Y, was entered by burglars. The
safe was blown open with dynamite,
and stamps to the value Of $1,000,
$500 in currency, three diamond rings,
n valuable bracelet and all the records
of the office were stolen. There is no
clcw to the robbers.
Lance Harwood, an 8-year-old boy of
Grand Rapids, Mich, returned to
Swift & Co, Chicago, a package con-
tanning $4,000 worth of negotiable Sc
curities which had been lost at the
stock yards by a messenger boy en-
ployed by the firm. Young Harwood
received a reward of $25.
At Echo, Utah, a body identified by
papers as that of John Mcdonald of
Sandstone, Mimi, was discovered
alongside the Union Pacific tracks, An
ugly hole, apparently inflicted by some
dull instrument appears on the back
of the head The authorities believe
Mcdonald was killed by tramps.
The governor of the island of
Guam reports through the navy de-
partment at Washington that the peo-
pie of Guam desire to make a good
showing at the St Louis worlds fair
The governor is with them and will
do all he can to have the island
croditably represented at the fair.
Attorneys for the American Book
company have filed n writ of error be-
fore the supreme court at Washington
against the state of Kansas. The
fight win be upon the right of the
Kansas supreme court to bar the com
pany from doing business in Kansas
under the Interstate commerce laws.
The body of Harry Tracey was re-
ceived at the Oregon penitenttary, just
two months after his sensational
escape. The corpse was Identified
by prison officials and conyicts. Wit
riol was placed on the face to destroy
the features, for fear some one might
steal the body to place 1t on eXhi-
bition.
Jacob Mumma an aged farmer, who
lives alone north Of Dayton. O., was
tortured Ivy masked robbers. who
broke into his house. The robbers
poured coal oil ON his feet and