Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-01-29

point of freezing, and frightened into
! a nervous state bordering on prosta-
ton Miss Pearl Smith, a country
school teacher, escaped at Trenton,
Neb, from George Franklin, who had
boldly kidnapped the woman and
driven twenty miles in a fruitless
endeavor to force her to become his
| b.ide.
The state department has been in
formed Of a shrewd move on the part
/ of President Castro to circumYent the
/ blockade of the powers. 1t is an
nounced that the Venezuelan govern
mcnt will open to commerce without
| restrictions the whole Colombian
frontier, thus permitting the shipment
of supplies into Venezuela from Co,
! lombia.
AS a result Vt the negotiations be
tween the grievance committee of the
| Louisville and Nashville locomotive
engineers and General Manager Evans
| an agreement has been reached
whereby the engineers will receive an
increase in wages in proportion to the
. duuti uhIltD W hlNu nave ldllCll uDOu
each division on the various sections
Of the system.
! Mrs. Florence j. Maybrick and her
mother, the Baroness Won Roques,
Will it is said, lose all title and in
tereSt in 2,552,3O2 acres Of land in Vir-
ginia, West Virginia and Kentucky
valued at $7500,O00, unless Mrs. May
Trick is released from prison in Eng
lang in time to testify in a suit now
pending in the chancery court of Ricn-
lnond, Va.
Prominent members Of the Sons Of
the American Revolution will go to
Canton Jan. 20 to present to Mrs. Nc
Kinley an elaborate memorial of her
husband, who was a compatriot of the
society. The party will include mem
ber5 from every state in the union.
They will gather in Cleveland on the
evening before to attend the annuar
banquet of the society.
The Chippewa Indians in the north
west are to receive 1914, POI, or almost
500 per capita, as the amount derived
from the sale of dead timber cut on
the coded lands Of the Chippewas
under the act of June 7, 1897 OF this
amount $3715O will 90 to the Chippc-
was at the La Pointe Wis, agency;
$92 1913 at White Earth, Mimi, and
$G4, 1873 at LccCh Lake, Mimi.
Brooks Story, an escaped convict,
has voluntarily delivered himself to
the sheriff at Kosciusko, Miss, and
asked to be taken Lack to the penn
Tertiary at Jackson to serve three un.
expired years of his term. Story was
convicted in 1892 of robbing the ex-
press o &c at Durant and was given
a sentence of ten years. He escaped
five times and was recaptured four
times.
Former Governor A. S. Bushnell, A.
j. Baker, r. f. Hayward, r. d. Wal
lace, II. II. HarWood and other promi
nent politicians of Springfield, o.,
have been subpoenaed by the grand
jury to give testimony in the investi-
cation of the alleged bribery charges
against city Councilmen and members
OF the board of education. Evidence
| is desired in regard to gas CONTRACT,
the city clerk fight and contracts for
new school buildings.
A combination Of manufacturers Of
Egyptian cigarettes is announced at
Boston, Mass, in the purchase of the
factory of Mithran Ateshian. the larg.
est wholesaler in New England, with a
branch factory at Providence. Mr..
Ateshian, who will be prominent in the
new organization the international
| Tobacco company, capitalized at $780,
600, says there are IA makers of Egyp-
| tian cigarettes in the country and
most of them will join the cOmbna-
| ton.
Charles A. Chaplin of Niles, Mich,
announces that the courts have rem
| dercd n decision favOring his rights on
the st. Joseph river in Indiana for all
| electrical power as against contestants
appearing as parties to suit from
Berrin Springs, Mich. The suit in
wolves the right to dam the St Jo-
seph river at Berrien Springs. 1t is
| expected that the work of building II
dam at Bcrrien Springs will be begun
at once, the power derived to be used
! for manufacturing purposes in Berrien
Springs, Niles and South Bend, Ind.
FOREIGN.