Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-07-23

Imprisonment in Prussia on the charge
of overissuing stock in his own com.
pany.
Acting Governor Northcott of Hi
nois has offered reward of 5000 for
, the arrest and conviction OF George
Walters, who killed his wife In La
Sale County.
Secretaries Root and Moody held a
conference to dicuss plans for appoint
ing a Joint board of the army and
navy to formulate a complete system
Of national defense.
Professor Il. p. Chaplin CT Muskegon,
Mich, has been selected principal OF
the manual training school at Louis
vile, KY, to succeed Professor II, G.
! Brownei, resigned.
Burglars gained an entrance into
the jewelry store Of Postmaster II. j..
Smith at Racine and got away with
81 900 worth Of sllyerware, opera
glasses and jewelry.
| Prof. Wiley Of the agricultural de.
partment is to conduct a new series
OF experiments this fall for the pur-
pose of determining the effect Of to-
bacco on the human system.
There were 1862 arrests during Sun.
day in Manhattan and Brooklyn for
alleged violations Of the excise law
This was said TO have been the largest
number ever made in one day.
Another search for Captain Kidd's
treasure has come to naught and all
there is to show for 1t Is a big hole
in the cellar Of a storehouse connected
with big coffee mill in Brooklyn.
William Gould Brokaw of New York
filed his answer to the suit Of Mrs.
Catherine Poillon for $250,000
damages for breach Of promise to
marry. 1t denies any promise TO wed.
John Mitchell, Grand Army
veteran and a member of the Idaho
Legislature during the Shoup senatorial
fight, shot and severely wounded his
wife and then shot and killed himself,
Miss Ida Weeks, daughter of a
prominent citizen Of Reidvile, Ga,
died after eating candy given her It
Is alleged by her discarded lover,
Roache Barnard, and he under
arrest
The School CT Emerson, instituted In
honor of Ralph Waldo Emer. on, was
opened at Concord, Mass, and for
three weeks will continue with ex-
erclses alternately at Concord and at
Boston
Consul General McWadc at Canton
has cablcd the secretary of state that
Fantos Ting of Kwantung has been
appointed governor Of Kwang,Sl In
place Of Wong ChIlchum, who has
been degraded.
William Rhea, was hanged at
Lincoln, Neh while his attorneys
were making arguments in court to
secure n writ restraining the sheriff
until the legality of the execution
,could be- settled.
Andrew Carnegie has received let
ters from Count Casslni, on behalf of
tho ear and from Queen Wilhemina
of the Netherlands, thanking him for
his gift Of $l,500,000 for peace
palace at The Hague.
George A. Kolb, business manager
of the striking Marine Engineers as
ISOLATION, who disappeared last May
and was found in San Francisco, died
In his sleep from a brain affection
which puzzles the doctors.
In attempting to escape from two
men who were robbing the saloon OF
Ernest Spier, 1920 North Ashland
avenue, Chicago. Otto Bnunder, 1928
North Ashland avenue, was shot and
probably fatally wounded.
Full returns from the entrance ex-
animation committee of the two under
graduate departments of Yale show
that there will be an increase from
last year Of over 10 per cent in next
falls freshman enrollment,
john d, Rockefeller Is going to ri
Dorado Springs, Mo- for the benefit
OF Ills health, A committee of capt.
talists of that place has been appoint
cd to meet him. He has engaged
rooms at ono of the hotels,
Frank s, Pilditch, for eighteen
years New York MANAGER for the
WardloW steel company of Sheffield,
England, was arrested on two indict-
Iments charging grand larceny and sub
sequently released in $4,000 bail,
John TetzlofI, his wife and son were
found in dying condition near
| Valparaiso, Ind. having been poisoned
| from drinking water 1t is asserted a
deliberate attempt was made to
poison the family by doping the well,
At San Francisco after losing $i5.'
600 in coruering the Lima bean
market only to find nobody wanted the
, beans, Lyden \ Co. have assigned
The liabilities will amount to $300.
600 and the assets are estimated nj
$1,000
The Antartc ship Dtscovery's ten
der reached San Francisco and re-
ported the lowest latitude was reached
by dash ON sleds. Zero temperature
was experienced through the summer
months, New fauna of low type was
found.
President Francis e. Clark, in ad
dress to the Christian Endcavorers al
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