Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-10-29

of congress on Nov. was issued by
! President Roosevelt to act on the
Cuban treaty.
Senator Poirier, in address to the
Canadian parliament at Ottawa, urged
calling halt" on the cession of land
to the United States.
At Paisley, N c., two ghls, Willie
Russell and Armie Rountree, tried to
hasten a fire in the kitchen range with
! kerosene. Both are dead.
4. l.. Wentz OF Philadelphia, 28
years old, millionaire coal operator,
is missing and is supposed to have
been murdered in Virginia.
Nineteen University of Chicago pro-
fessors, tired of living in flats, will
break ground for two rows of model
houses, all in colonial style.
| Eight men were killed by the
collapse of crane on the new
Wabash railroad bridge over the
| MOnongahela river at Pittsburg.
/ Newburg, Ore, was in possession
of bandits for two hours, and a bank
building was wrecked in a vain at
tempt to dynamite the money vault
The body of Miss Frances Hickman
tho woman physician of the Royal
Free hospital, London, was found in
Richmond park with her throat cut.
An appropriation of $250,000 for a
naval training station on Lake
Michigan will again be urged by Sec
rotary Moody in his yearly estimates.
The steamer South Portland, from
Portland (Ore.) to San Francisco, was
wrecked on Cape Blanco and fourteen
of the thirty-six persons on board ere
lost
Careful estimates of the amount of
oil in storage in the Beaumont, Sour
Lake and Saratoga fields show $780,
600 barrels in these and intervening
sections.
Arbitration treaties between France
and Italy, Holland, and Norway and
Sweden, are now being negotiated
according to Baron d Estournelles de !
Constant.
N. O. KamOroy, who was the Rus
sian representative in the seal arbitra
ton at The Hague, has been APP
pointed a delegate to the November
seal conference.
the Iowa anti-insurance compact
law was declared unconstitutional by
the federal court at Des Moines. A
general reorganization of rates PROB
ably will follow.
Frbran he al 1o. 4 ~
prominent Toledo families, whu were
convicted of burglary under assumed
names, have been pardoned by Cover.
nor Nash of Ohio.
Senior Aiciniegas, special envoy of
Colombia on Panama canal matters,
arrived and announced he will make
no new proposal. The old treaty is
under consideration.
President Palma has pardoned the
only two American soldiers remaining
in Cuban prisons, so they may he
enabled to accompany their com
panions who embarked for home.
Baltimore is threatened with a
financial panic through the failure of
the Maryland Trust company, with
$5,77S,817 deposits. and the Union
Trust company, with 100000.
w. j. Bryan authorizes denial of
the report which quoted him as saying
that he believed free silver would not
be considered at the democratic
national convention in 1904.
The Ohio gubernatorial campaign is
likcned to a triangular duel, Senator
Hanna is fighting Tom Johnson. The
latter is fighting John r. Mclean; !
and neither is opposing Herrick.
w. l.. White, Jesse o. Wells, e. II. :,
Hunter f. A. Marion, and Michael
brady leading Des Moines Qa.)
politicians, were held guilty of con-
tempt influencing juries
Ferdinand Allen, 80 years old, was
shot and killed at the Aylor mine. near
Prosperity Mo, by Benjamin Aylor, a
millionaire mine owner. There were no !
witnesses and the cause of the shoot.
ing is unknown.
Evidence that $4,000 in paper was
torSed by Cashier Leimer was dis
covered at the Princeton (Wis) bank
investigation. The latters liabilities
are $270000, and the Montello banks
100000.
Aylesworth and Jette Canadian
members of the Alaskan boundary
commission, refused to sign the de-
clston in favor of the United States.
The latter is not affected as majority
already have acted.
Report on the postal fraud inquiry,
completed by Assistant Postmaster
General Bristow, gives Postmaster
General Payne credit for starting the
Investigation and partly sustains the
Tulloch charges.