Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-11-26

and breakfast in suite.
Topeka, Havana, and Bishop CID
citizens are hunting for Fred Strube
believed to have murdered Ella Hen
meyer for refusing to marry, him. Her
body was found buried.
The second trial OF ID. V. Miller
former assistant attorney general
and Joseph M. Johns for conspiracy
to extort bribe from John j. Ryan
was begun at Cincinnati.
Mrs. Hermann Oelrichs and her
friend, Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish of New
York were not invited to the Rox.
burghe-Goelet wedding, and social war
among the 400 Is threatened.
Andrew II. Green, father Of greater
| New York" was shot to death on the
! steps OF his house by Cornelius M.
Williams, an insane negro, who be
lieved Green slandered him.
Senator Clapp has introduced bill
appropriating $4,000 for a suitable
monument in Washington to General
Frederick William Augustus Steuben
Of the revolutionary war.
Trouble In the Oelrchs family of
| New York is'indicated by Mrs. Her
man Oelrichs and Mrs. w. X. Van.
derbilt Jr., revolving their power Of
attorney to Herman Oelrlchs.
William Ziegler, the New York mil
lionare president Of the baking
powder trust was indicted at Jeffer-
son City, Mo, for alleged conspiracy
in bribng state legislators.
At st. Louis the arrest of Dr.
John G. Tebrecht, for attempting TO
break into the room of an attendant
at the female hospital, has revealed in
tolorabe conditions at that instltu.
ton.
A beauty contest for men and wo.
men. with chief prize Of $1,000,
Will be held IN New York. The con.
teBtants are to be clad in skin tight
stoctinet Similar contests are held
in Europe.
Henry Klein, aged 2G years, and
Frank Gray, aged 25, both of Min.
neapols were drowned in Lake Eddy,
near Anolta MINI. They had gone to
the lake to hunt and their boat over
| turned.
Governor Pardee Of California has
issued n warrant Of eXtradItion against
David G. Nelson, held on the charge
OF being accessory to a murder com
mtted by hls brother In CoffeyVille,
Kan.
Governor Mickey Of Nebraska
/ a I,l IInl
session Of the Legislature In case Of
an adverse ruling by the supreme
court against tho revenue law enacted
n year ago,
Senator Hoars Recollectlons of
| Seventy Years, Just published, shows
bitter dislike for Benjamin +. Butler,
whom he calls vlndictIve and brutal,
! Carl Schurz's politics Is criticised and
Blane's honesty Is upheld
Tho yoliow fever situation at
Laredo, Tex, shows twenty-five new
cases and two deaths, The total cases
To date at Laredo are SSS; deaths,
oighty-rour. The fever has been al
most entirely stamped out In Nuevo
Laredo
William Stokes, a negro, shot and
seriously wounded Fred Smith, an OIL
worker. at Marion, Ind, because the
latter hanterod him over his failure
to bag any game on hunting trip.
Smith called Stokes poor shot.
Stokes escaped
President Roosevelt received about
thirty delegates to the National So,
Geological society, an organization Of
prominent colored mon, who called
to pay their respects Bishop ArnGtt
OF Ohio and former Representative
White of South Carolina were at the
! head Of the delegation.
1t Is rumored that n large number
: of dismlssals and reductions are
; about to be made In the New York
postothce as result OF tho special
investigation in progress at that of
fce but Postmaster General Payne
and other officials deny knowledge OF
any immediate change
: One of the reforms in postofIlces
that will be advocated by the postof
nee departments Ia authority by which
: all clerks below the designation OF
foreman shall be classed in the future
simply as clerks, This will abolish
+ the titles OF stampers, mailing clerks
and variety of other subordinate
5 places,
Tho postoflico department an
l ncunced that in the wreck of tn,
Q southern Pacific train near Tehama
Cal, Nov l. a large amount of thu
{ mail matter destroyed was desttne,
! from Hawaii Philippines, China ant
5 Japan to California. Oregon, Wash
s ington Alaska, western Canadian
provinces. Idaho and Montana,
: The department Of Justice has for
/. warded to the interior department
telegram from the United States dis
h trict attorney for the northern dis
triot of California, saying. "Engle an,
!. three ether defendants convicted o
:, suhornatton of perjury In taking u,
. timber lands in northern California
= This should have a wholesome eifec
IN correcting timber land frauds