Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-02-26

Henry i. Hugheson, New York man.
pany of Muskegon, Mich, who com
mitted suicide declared to be $4,000
short. His salary was $1,000 annual.
ly, but he lived high.
Miss Ora Montgomery, % years old
school teacher in Western Port, Md.
slipped and fell while running after a
recalcitrant pupil. Her neck was
broken in her fall down the stairway
She died almost Immediately.
The famous Mueller case involving
title to valuable ore-bearing land on
the Mesaba range, was decided in the
district court at Duluth. The deci
sion Is In favor Of Kosmerl, the plain
tiff and record owner, in every point
j. Edward Addicks notified the
"bolting" Delaware republican logisla-
tors that they must return to the party
caucus and help elect two senator's
near" to him or the campaign for his
own election Will be kept up indefi-
nlteIy.
The California legislatures investi.
cation Of the San Quentin and Folsom
state prison abuses disclosed one con
Wet killed and many permanently
crippled by straitjackets. The Span.
ish wndlass Is used at Folsom to ex-
tract confessions.
Tho New York World says: ut ap.
pears that Emperor Williams sudden
and mysterious recall of Baron Won
Holleben. German ambassador at
Washington. closely followed charges
that he had used his official position to
advertise certain wine"
The William Thompson fellowship
fer purposes of study abroad has been
awarded by the vote of the faculty and
trustees Of the Hartford, Conn, Theo.
logical seminary to Walter b. Pitkin of
Detroit, a senior at the seminary. He
sill spend two years In Germany.
Another Cornell university student
A. Wessman Of Passaic, N. j., junior
IN the mechanical engineering depart
ment There seems to be no material
decrease In the disease ut Ithaca there
being more than 400 cases at present
\ large meteor struck the earth in
the vicinity of Bingham, Utah The
collision with the earth caused win.
iows to rattle and houses to tremble,
thunder awakened the inhabitants.
People thought there had been an
"a rthquake.
Harry German who had masquerad.
ed as a man for twenty years and
threatened to- throw herself over
Niagara Falls II compelled to wear
skirts after being liberated from Buff.
falo hospital Is missing from the hos.
pital 4 doctors suit Of clothes dis.
ut the same time.
] Il. Miller, with many aliases, who
SO 'ured transportation from the Rock
Island, the Wabash and the Great
Western railways on forged checks,
has been sentenced ut Des Moines to
eight years imprisonment in the Iowa
Miller Is wanted at Syca.
more, H. on similar charge.
stephen Bonsall, newspaper and
writer and at one time con.
nected with the United States dlplo.
matte service, was waylaid and IT.
tackled by negro servant of the hotel
at Caracas, Venezuela whom Mr.. Bon
SAL had Chnstised for inaolenre His
aSsailant was immediatcly arrested
The old officers were reelected at
the meeting Of the American Read
as follows: President II S.
Earle. Detroit; vice presidents, l3d
ward A. Bond Of Albany, n T., Charles
H.lL n c.; treasurer, Colonel +. w,
Dickinson Springfield, Nass. score.
tary, W. $. Crandall, New York city,
Mrs Eugene s. Spalding of Atlanta
Ga, Is a leSatee for $35, 900 under the
Will Of Charles Waldo llaskins, who
died last month in New York Mrs
Spalding is the widow of Eugene S
Spaldiug who died four or five
months ago He was president of the
Atlanta 4 Knoxville railroad, The mat
ter causes some gossip.
Or, Irvine, the prison physician at
Sing Sing. ~ Y, examined William
Hooper Young, who began his life SEN
tence for the murder of Mrs. Annie
Pulitzer, The doctor found, as did
The New York physicians, that Young
was medically insane and legally sane.
loung's condition. the doctor said, |
was due to the excessive use of NOR
phine and cigarettes,
The great prevalence of smallpox in |
The coke region of Pennsylvania has |
prompted the officials of the II. c, |
Fricll Coke Company to issue an order
calling for the free vaccination of all |
It's employees and their families. AS
The Frck Company has about $4,000 |
men on its pay roll, this order will
affect about 100000 persons. Ten
thousand dollars has been expended in
vaccine virus,
Miss Blanche Boise, who smashed
the plate glass windows In four joints
and two drug stores at Topeka, Kan
has been released ON a bond signed by
nr Eva Harding. who WAS Mrs. Ma.
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