Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-02-19
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Henry s. Monroe, one Of the Oldest
settlers and a veteran Of the Chicago
bar, is dead OF pneumonia
Deputy Collector b. w. Winters OF
New York was arrested for n short
age Of nearly $4,000 in his accounts.
Mrs. Lafayette Taylor, Of Center.
Vile. confessed to having killed her
husband and burned the body, on Jan,
25.
The frankfort Qnd) theater,
grocery, and saloon were destroyed by
n supposed inccndiary fire; loss $685.
600.
The Alabama legislature is planning
law to invite trust interpretations In
that state by removing restrictions on
them.
The $500 students Of Yale searched
for tho wife OF Prof. Peck until her
body was found at the foot of a cliff at
Morris Cove
President Roosevelt Is entertaining
his old friend, the Maine guide, "BIIl'
Sewall and a party of his relatives and
ncighbors,
Louis Mandcl, "A Now York dealer in
old iron, was murdered in his Office
in East Twcnty.third street Robbery
was the motive.
The crew of the American schooner
Anna l.. milford which mutInicd on
Jan 10, was picked up by the British
steamer Westhall,
The senate and house agreed on a
compromise measure creating the new
department of commerce, and the bill
is likely to pass,
Negro ghouls testified in an Indian
apolis trial to robbing graves for Dr..
j. G. Alexander, who offered them $50
zach for twenty subjects.
The Osmulgco river in Alabama Is
twcnty.ono feet over low water mark
All trains on the southern through
Macon have been annulled.
A tidal wave and hurricane swept
tho Society islands Jan, 1916, causing
tho death of 900 or moro natives.
Eighty islands were devastated,
Extensive maneuycrs for tho torpedo
feet rs well MS several Of the new
submarine craft of the navy will take
pace off Newport, X, H. in the spring.
At VInlta, l. r. two horse thieves
Doc Wallemberger and Jim Stevens
were killed In u battle with officers
and another, Ben Stevens, surrendered
Professor James w Brooks, n school
principal of Chicago, was fined $500
for securing the custody Of his H..
yoarold daughter by fraudulent means
At New Rochelle, N. Y, Augustus
Thomas IL under arrest for an assault
on the editor Of the Pioneer, who re-
ferred to him rs Miss Gussle
Thomas"
Revision of football rules to abolish
dangerous mass plays is urged by
seventy head masters Of schools in n
petition to the intercollegiate rules
committee.
Southern men In congress who want
Judge Parker for the uoxt democratic
presidential nominee will make n pill
grimagc 10 his homo right after ad-
ioUnment.
Mrs, Kate Ginder, aged Go, of Web.
stor City, Iowa, has committed suicide
by hanging Dependency brought
on the deed She used tlynct fastened
To a corn shelter
Supt Hrownson. in an effort to break
up ha2ing at the naval academy, has
confined the third class to their quar-.
tcrs, deprived them of holidays and
kept them at drill,
Poultncy Bigclow Is reported to have
said, In a speech, that he had been
reliably informed that. there was not n
United states consul in South America
who was sober after midnight,
lex Secretary John D. Long Is re.
ported steadily gaining in health. His
physicians announce that serious con
ditons have almost disappeared and
his early recovery Is hoped for,
Tho Terro Haute (Ind) street rail,
way franchise granting fifty year right
on the payment OF $4,000 passed by
the city council No municipal
ownership provision was included.
This year has opened with an un
precodented demand for fir lumber and
cedar shingles. Orders now booked
Reports in London strengthen the
belief that the situation In the Balkans
Is serious and that Russia is deter
mined to secure Constantnoplo, Tur
key really is alarmed at the prospect.
Or J. NJ Buckley editor of the
Christian Advocate, in an address &c
Now York Methodist minister's, disput
cd the statements that 100000 con
vcrts were made in the last -four years
American Catholic" is church fa
vored by b. Talbot Rogers of Fond DIT
Lac, Wis, a member of the uatona
Protestant Episcopal committee, as
the new namc for that denomination,
The Montezuma group of golC
mines, ChiCahuahua Mexico, have he
come the property of the United Min
ing and Exploration company of Los
Angeles The purchase price is s.,
100000
William ]. Bryan wired the man