Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-08-20

that nowadays a transatlantic journey
really a small matter.
The limited Pan Handle passenger
train, moving at sixty miles an hour,
was derailed at Lumleys Crossing, w.
Va, by sudden application of the
air brakes to save track walkers life
Fireman John M. Smith of Dennison,
Ohio, was killed and Engineer John
b. Hoffman OF Allegheny fatally hurt.
At Binghamton, n Y, possessed of
property said TO be worth thousands
and denied admission to hotels and
hospitals because ne is suffering from
cancer, Andrew Murray of Brooklyn
has been admitted to the county poor
house. His pockets were lined with
bills when he entered the institution.
A History of the Carnegie Steel
Company by James Howard Bridge
rings the changes on the theory "be
ccessful-sOmehow, and says in its
introduction that business is not built
upon beatitudes. Carnegie's treatment
of his associates is not handled in a
! complimentary way.
Lieut.. Gen. Neson A. Miles, who re.
i tired from command of the army is
sued general order bidding farewell
to the army, in which he urges the
men to Keep the service untarnished
and honorable. Gen Miles declared
the world Is ripe for international
peace A worlds congress and dis.
armament compact are urged.
Senator b. r. Tillman of South
| Carolina and Charles Cuppel of West
Allis arrived at Fifeld, Wis. as guests
OF Rublee A. Cole, n Milwaukee
lawyer, and went at once to the home
stead at Pipe and Round lakes, In the
northwestern part Of Price county,
where Mrs. Tilman and Miss Hill of
| Georgia, her niece, and Mrs. Cuppel
have been the past two weeks as
guests Of Mrs. Cole.
The president has granted a pardon
to William Follis OF Texas, whose
testimony is said to be essential in a
murder trial pending in Texas in
which James FOllis, a nephew Of the
pardoncd man, is the accused. He
served a term some ten years ago for
counterfeiting and his testimony was
incompetent under the laws OF the
state until he was pardoned.
Bernard Cohen, 10 years old, who
has just been discharged from a New
York hospital, where he has been
lowering between life and death for
five weeks, has lost his memory and
power Of speech. The doctors say he
will have to learn anew how to talk
There was a clot of blood on the lads
brain when he entered the hospital
caused by stone which fell upon his
head and fractured the skull.
Ont of the fifty competitive poems
an ode composed by Mrs. Gilbert Nc
Clurg of Colorado Springs, Col, has
been selected to commemorate the
opening of the eleventh national irriga-
tion congress, which opens in Ogden,
Utah, Sept. Is. Mrs. McClurg Is a
recognized authority on the history of
cliff dwellers of America and is we'll
| known to club women throughout the
country, having represented the
Federation of Women's Clubs at the
last irrigation congress.
Peter +. Collier publisher, polo
player and master of the Monmouth
county hounds, has bought one of the
most valuable tracts of land that was
in the market at Newport and will
have a fine summer residence erected
upon it for use next season. 1t contains
four and a half acres most of which
has natural elevation of fifty feet
above the level of the sea. 1t has
frontage of 400 feet on the famous
ocean drive.
Among the passengers on the
steamer Aorangi, from Australia ar
irving at Victoria b, c., was Sir
James Hector director of the geo
logical survey of New Zealand. He
is the disCoverer of the Kicking Horse
pass which the Canadian Pacific uses
to enter British Columbia through the
Rockies. This pass was found in
| 1857 and was named in consequence
of an incident wherein Sir James
Hector was kicked by horse and
| thought To have been killed