Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-03-12
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
DOM EsTIc.

LOSS $2,000,000.
A Fort Worth & Denver passenger
was snowbound near Wichita Falls
Tex, for three days.
At Guthrie, Okla, II. Il. Wood has
introduced In the legislature a bill
amending the laws of seven-up.
AT Hickman, KY, two women and
four men were drowned by the over
turning OF skiff In the Mississippi
A trick bill passed In Indiana frees
all those concerned In the grave
robbery case by abollshing the crime
itself.
At Toledo, AL Wade, convicted Of
the murder of Miss Kate Sullivan, In
the first degree, without clemency,
will be electrocuted.
Ernest Frank McGregor OF st. Paul
is among the eleven students at Yale
divinity school who were awarded
Allis scholarships.
At San Francisco indictments have
been returned against the Federal
Salt company for alleged violations OF
the Sherman antitrust act.
At Chicago, Alderman Frederick A..
Hart, of the twenty.ninth ward, was
indicted on charges OF soliciting a
bribe and Of malfeasance in Office.
o. p. Austin, chief OF the bureau Of
statistics, Is writing book dealing
with the development Of the boundary
fines of tho states and territories.
At Westvlle, Ind, Charles Lump
kins has been arrested In connection
with the robbery Of the Smith bank
and the murder OF Wesley Reynolds
James Reidy, secretary Of the
ClannarGael, has made public a
declaration OF principles stating that
ireland will accept nothing short OF
freedom.
At St Louis, August Kleykamp. Jr,
rs years old, son OF DR.. Kleykamp, Ia
believed to have committed suicide
because his father wanted him to be
come doctor.
Fire has destroyed the Masonic
temple ut Cheyenne, wy. The loss is
$4,000. with $4,000 insurance.
Several flremen were injured by the
lhll OF cOrnlce.
Edward L. Howard, Yale uni
versIty student from Mont Claire, N,
j., was found dead on n shelf of East
Rock, New Haven, where he Is be.
lieyed to have fallen.
Gov Odell's mortgage-tax bill adds
$1,000, 000, 900 to the taxable property
In New York city. The annual
revenue will be $7S96,620, onehalf of
which Is 70 go to the state
Andrew Carnegie. ]. p. Morgan and
William 10. Dodge have given 100000
toward 100000 endowment for
Cooper Union, New York, as a
memorial TO Abram S, Hewitt,
Mrs Jane Hendrickson, n widow
weighing 800 pounds, aged IS years,
and worth several million dollars,
eloped at Brooklyn IN. " with a
livery driver, Patrick McHugh.
At Chicago, Attorney Richard
Wade, Thomas McNelly and others
are implicated In the theft of $74 900
from the postotllce In Oct. 1901, by
the confession OF Mrs Lulu Moll
Az Mortified, MINI, St Olaf col
lege was closed Thursday on account
or scarlatina, Fourteen or fifteen are
down with the disease, and the build
ings have been quarantined.
Some senator's are alarmed Mt the
large immigration of American
farmers into Canada, and are trying
10 enact favorable land laws to In.
dnce them to remain In the United
States.
Students Of the Northwestern uni
versity dental school are accused OF
purchasing from waiter 10-cent
restaurant checks and eating 25-cent
meals on them One has been ex.
PEELED.
An order issued by the health board
OF Terre Haut, Ind, closes the public
schools until the case brought against
the health and school authorities by
the Observation-Disclosures Is heard in the
circuit court.
At Hartford. Conn. William
Rudolph, known as the Missouri
kid" and George Collins were ar.
rested. The men are wanted for n
bank robbery at Union, Mo, com.
mlttcd Dec. 81,
President Roosevelt In letter TO
the Atlanta Constitution declares hts
attitude toward negro appointment
will not be influenced by criticism.
Negroes In office are only In 100.
Color Is held no bar to Office.
Tho deal by which tho public
utilities Of Springfield, H., railway,
electric light and power and hot
water heating plants 80 into the con,
troll Of II, w, Clark q Co. OF phlla.
delphia has been consummated.
The record of the fifty-seventh con,
gress is unprecedented for times OF
peace, The Panama canal legislation
is most important The bureaus Of cor.
porations publicity, ana supervision
are step toward correcting trust
evils
Edwin Foster, a 17.yearold school
boy Of Spartanburg, s, c., who was
shot by Reuben Il, Pitts. a teacher IN
the academy. during school hours