Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-05-21
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Ex-Mayor Ames, of Minneapolis, was
found guilty Of bribery.
Three girls were injured by jump
Ing from q burning factory at Pitts
burg, Pa.
The fremont hotel at Kewanee,
was destroyed by fire. Two persons
were killed. ,u
The Deering Harvester company's
peace negotiations failed and 5000
employees will continue on a strike,
The sawmill of the Scofeld Lum-
Der company, west Superior, was
burned, entaIlng a loss Of $4,000
Isaac stlgler, aged IS, n farmer
living in Rapho township, Pa, has
been murdered, presumably for his
money.
Charges OF bribery, prepared by
George J. Raymond, will be In
vestgated by Massachusetts legis-
lative committee.
AT Cincinnati llnemen, foremen,
inspectors and conduit men Of the
Bell Telephone company struck for an
increase OF wages,
Two armed, masked whites held up
negro mallcarrler near Gallatin,
Tenn, and warned him to resign on
peril Of his life.
The bill providing for the nomina-
tlon of candidates for United States
senator by the people was killed In
the Michigan house.
At Ellthart, Ind, the plant of the
Consolidated Paper and Bag company
vas destroyed by fire. Loss. $4,000,
with $4,000 insurance.
The pope decided to appoint Father
Cotton Of New York, to be bishop Of
Buffalo and received his jubilee gift
rom President Roosevelt.
Herman M. Blasjell and wife OF
North Collins, N. Y, were killed by
explosion which destroyed thoir
house. Gas was the cause.
The Westinghouse officials Will
form Canadian company to mani
facture In Canada the apparatus
needed to supply that market
Eight hundred union bakers we're
locked out OF Kennedy plant Mt Chi
cago by the National Biscuit com.
pany In revenge for boycott.
Near Huntington, W. Va, nineteen
bodies have been recovered from
Fggleston tunnel. There may be five
or six more within the tunnel
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aire lumberman, fell and broke his
neck while experimenting repairs on
his residence Mt Princeton, Wis.
DR., James Davidson, of salt Lake
City, Utah, started on n sixty day
fast to cure the asthma from which
he has suffered for thirteen years,
William Ferguson, 14t0 Dearborn
street, Chicago, n negro, was shot to
death by Victor Vandevoir, Danville
Uu) saloonkeeper, whom he tried to
rob ~,
At Buffalo, the strike of Journey.
man talors for an increase of wages
which has been In progress In this
ity for nine months, was declared
of.
Chicago police are searching for s
s. Secor, wealthy banker. of Whine
hngo City. Mimi, who disappeared
mystcriously from Milwaukee April
or
The body of Charles G. Dennison
Hinsdale, H., who disappeared al
Buffalo, March Is, was found In the
Niagara river below the Horseshoe
falls.
In New Orleans. while performinG
an operation on club foot at the
Charity hospital, Dr. Adolph Loren7
suddenly collapsed, and he Is now
confined to his hotel.
Charles w. Sherrerd Of Scranton
Pa member of the senior class %
Rensselaer, institute, Troy, n. Y, was
drowned by the upsetttng of a boat II
the Hudson river
The commercial telegraphers' unior
has applied for an injunction to re
strain tho Western Union Telegraph
company from hlacklisttng member!
Of the organization.
Miss Louise Hadley, chamber
maid nj the Hotel English, In
danapolis, refused to make the be,
m which Booker 7. Washington slept
and was discharged,
Ed Pickett. Des Moines, Iowa
horse trader. was arrested for thu
murder of Aleck Youcler travel
ing horse trader. who died from tn,
effects ne 4 fist hipw
Charles Spore Of Vincennes, Ind