Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-03-26

Tor WINES ana DlaChS IN the street
cars.
Camille Hugo, feet 3 inches high
weighing 500 pounds, and the largest
man in the world, reached New York
from France; his breakfast consisted
OF two quarts of coffee and twelve
rolls.
Fifteen Purdue freshmen were fined
for disorderly conduct. SophomoreS
and freshmen also arranged to pay
$3.50 for the damage done when the
freshmen attacked the sophomore
banquet.
Mrs. Anna Powalek, believed to be
the Oldest resident of Manitowoc,
died, aged 101 years. There are
Twenty-Five great grandchildren
living in ManitowOc and sixteen in
Poland.
Kansas City Teasters' union was Ell.
joined by the United States court
from interfering with wagons en- route
to railroad depots; goods held to be in
transit and protected by interstate
commerce law.
Charles LongwelI, Toledo. o., at
torney, is under arrest ON four
charges of embezzlement. 1t is
claimed that he appropriated money
that he was to handle as attorney
for an assignee.
Mayor Harrison has issued review
of his work as bid for reelection:
brick and asphalt paving. modern ac-
counting system, special assessment
department improvements, and street
cleaning are cited
A man named Roher got off train
at Oconto Junction, and, going into
the tankhouse, attempted to commit
suicide by cutting his throat with
pocket knife and pounding himself
with mallet.
Fourteen armed and masked men
entered the house of Mrs. Jacob
Rcicshcldcrfer, an aged and wealthy
widow, near Criderville, Ohio, bound
the inmates and secured several
thousand dollars
John Newman Of Cropsey, H., was
! found dead. lie had been duck
hunting and in climbing a barbed
wire fence the trigger of his gun be
came caught, discharging the con
tents into his side.
Mississippi river levee eighteen
miles from Memphis oVertopped by
water and mile wide crevasse pre-
dictcd; 500 men strengthening it with
sand bags North Memphis residents
are fleeing from homes.
A psychological study Of Lole
Fuller's serpentine dance will be
issued by Clark university. President
G. Stanley Hall declares age has
compelled her to substitute light AMI
color effects for agility.
Whitaker Wright, fugitive London
promoter arrested at New York, an
nounced he would return to England
without eXtradltion papers; losses de
clared by him to aggregate $4,000,
600; hearing postponed.
Roster of officers and enlisted men
in union and confederate armies will
be compiled by war department under
authorization of congress; thirty
volumes planned; governors of con
federate states asked to aid.
Hetty Green is in New York and
in an interview declared she does not
want u home because personal prop
erty taxes would have to be paid;
business keeps her journeying be-
tween that city and Chicago
President Roosevelt arranged in
a general way plan of his coming trip,
which will carry him as far west as
the Pacific coast. No political
significance is attached to the reasons
suggesting states to be visited.
Alleged Philadelphia murder mill,
where undesirable relatives or
friends can be disposed of at nominal
cost, is declared TO have been un.
earthcd by detectives, George Hos
sey, negro, held as proprietor.
Senator Cullom in an interview de.
clarcd the demand for tariff revision is
not general and legislation at the next
session Of congress is unlikely; a com
mission to investigate the needed
changes probably will be named
: Clinton Peters, Baltimore portrait
painter, and wife celebrated the
thirteenth anniversary of their mar
rage on Friday, March Is. During
conjunction of Saturn and Uranus
bad omen. crepe tied to doorbell,
District Attorney jerome of Now
York declared the investigation Of the
/ Metropolitan street railways alleged
tinacial irregularities was started bs
IA remark of w. n Amory, whom he
met at he Manhattan Chess club
President Roosevelt will arrive in
Chicago at 8 a, IN. on April and
remain until midnight. suggestion
made that Union League Marquette
Hamilton. and other clubs arrange
for meeting at which he will speak
The htn biennial session Of the
Utah legislature has adjourned.
Among the more important hills
passed were the pure food law, the
state irrigation bin and the general
appropriation bill carrying $l525o00,
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