Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-03-19


wife OF wealthy hotel proprietor Of
New York, and Renhold Hinrcks,
with whom she is said to have eloped,
were arrested by local detectives.
Sir Edward Bertram Bates died at
Bombay of enteric fever He was
head of the firm of Bates e. Sons,
Liverpool who own number OF
steamships plying between Liverpool
and Boston and Galveston. He was
in his twenty-sixth year.
The genral officers of the Woman's
Christian Temperance union, to whom
was left the selection Of the cOnyen.
ton city, have settled upon Gin
cinnati. The dates are Nov. 10 to 49,,
At Cambridge, Mass, George l.. O..
Perry, the negro indicted for the
murders of Agnes McPhee, at Somer-
Vile, and Clara Morton, at Wayerly,
died In Jail from nervous exhaustion.
Dresser e Co.. commission men at
10 Green street, New York, failed for
/ 81 $50 900, and S. ID. Davis of Samuel
d. Davis & Co. brokers, filed petition
in bankruptcy with $988,?34 liabilities.
Rev. Martin Luecke, pastor of
Trinity German Lutheran church,
Springfield, H., has accepted the
presidency Of Concordia Lutheran
Theological seminary at Fort Wayne,
Ind.
At Finday, Ohio, Mayor j. B. Smith
of Deshler, Ohio, was arralgned for
drunkenness He instructed the
marshal to arrest the first man he
found intoxicated, with the above re-
suit.
The mayor of Vineland IN. j. is
flooded with letters from Montana and
other western states asking his aid in
securing wives for lonesome ranch
owners from among the girls Of that
city.
A Waterbury Comm special police.
man was shot and allled and two
members of n trolley car crew beaten
by five masked men The conductor
Is missing, Recent strike troubles
are blamed,
The Northern Pacific railway
suffered 100000 loss through the
buring of its warehouse and several
loaded cars at Helena, Mont The
fire originated from an explosion of
gasoline stove.
Word has been received that Will
lam Miller II Boston missionary, who
went to Russian Poland to work
among the poorer classes, has been
arrested by the police and oXiled to
Siberia.
Fifteen persons are believed to be
killed by an exploding oil tank at
Olean, N, y, following the collision
Of Erie freight trains. The people
were watching the ruined cars when
the fire started
AT Philadelphia, Charles 7. Molony,
general superintendent of the Penn
aylvania WarehOusing and Safe De
post company, cashed what Is al
legged to be forged check for 81, 600,
and then disappeared.
Floods in the mississippi and Ohio
valleys are growing serious Hun.
drods of families have been driven
from home. Stock has been
abandoned BY farmers, near Harris,
burg and Cairo III.
Rov. Il, G, Bryant of Rockford dc
clared that the negro and other
racial typos will blond into ono
through intormarriage Many white
girls would prefer good Lesro hus-
land to bad white man. -.
5 Arthur +, German Is again demo
cratic leader IN congress and the
prediction Is made that he viii be the
pnrty's national leader as n presidcu,
tial candidate. He Is sound money
man but supported Bryan,
A. w pOntius Of Minnesota has
been appointed II student interpreter
at Pelin. Mr.. pontius, undor the law,
is pledged to remain there in that
capacity for period of ten years at
Il salary Of $1,000 year.
At Greoncastlo, Ind, Thomas G.
Hammond and Jerome Allen. who
We're until last month president and
cashier of the First National bank
having held the respective Offices
forty years each have assigned.
a vigorous protest has been filed
With Secretary Hitchcock by Agent
Brosius of the Indian Rights associa-
ton against the appointment Of John
Carrigan to be agent at the Standing
Rock Indian agency, North Dakota.
The first United States supreme
court decision on the Elliins anti.re-
bate law handed down IN tho Missouri
pncilc.WiChita discrimination case,
holds that the act is applicable, nj
though passed since the suit was he
gun.
/ w. W. Britt, formerly prominent
at Morris, MIMI, died Tuesday al
| North Yakima, from an overdose of
morphine. At first 1t was supposed
he had committed suicide, but later
Developments mako this theory I'M
/ tonahe.
! A five thousand dollar scholarship
! was given to Harvard college by Mrs
John Marlcve, Philadelphia In
memory of her son. Thirty thousand
dollars for needy infrmary students