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

The viborg Is. d. bank was robbed
Of $4,000 by safe breakers. II. D.
Hunter, Nome miner, was robbed Of
81, 600 in gold dust; the Linn Grove
Iowa postofIlce safe Of $4,000
The United States Steel company
is accused Of driving American agri-
cultural implement makers from Can.
adam markets by selling machinery
steel to rivals there at lower prices.
Former President Grover Cleveland
returned to Princeton, N. j., from Chi
cago, He said that his trip had been
a most enjoyable one and that he was
suffering no i'll effects from the jour.
ney.
G.. o. Moore, agent OF the Jackson
vile and st. Louis at Keyesport, ILL.,,
was fatally injured at Centralia, ILL.,,
boose by his head striking a water
crane
The Ohio state board of health has
adopted resolution to take steps to
prevent the sale of toy pistols and
other explosive appendages." Fourth
of July accidents are cited as the
cause.
Or. w. Seward Webb, who has just
returned from Europe to Burlington,
VT, expressed annoyance over reports
that he had been very Ill in England.
II have not felt better In ten years."
said Mr.. Webb.
| Albert e. Bell who has confessed
!
covered sufficiently to be taken from
the hospital at Denver, where he has
been confined and will be taken to
Philadelphia for trial.
Isaac Taggart of Providence, one
Of the sailors on Senator N. w. Aid
rich's steam yacht Chichota was
drowned near Warwick, r. L., by fall.
Ing overheard from a small boat in
which he was rowing
| Frederick A. Johnson, defaultlng
individual bookkeeping of the Marine
national bank at Buffalo, was sent to
n reformatory. He withdrew his
plea Of not guilty and pleaded guilty
to grand larceny in the first degree.
The officers of the Episcopal church
Of the Holy Trinity in Brooklyn have
decided to extend call to Rev. Sher-
ard Billings OF the Grotop school at
Groton to flll the vacancy caused byl
tho resignation of Rev. s. d. Neon
nell.
Secretary Wilson at a cabinet meet
ing said he would go south soon after
the November elections to investigate
the ravages of the bold weevil In the
cotton fields. He will devote his time
personally to an investigation OF the
subject
Joe" Walcott. In n 15-round fight
with kid" Carter at the New Crl
terion club in Boston, was given the
decision, although the spectators
hooted the referee and demanded a
draw Carter was knocked down
twice in the first round but later he
put up n stlff fight.
w. H. Baldwin, Jr, president OF the
Long Island railroad and n prominent
member OF the citizens union, made
application for permission to vote in
the LIST Assembly district OF Brooklyn
Tho board Of registration at 1877 Col
umbia flights demurred and Mr.. Bald
win was not permitted to register, He
recently sold his house In Brooklyn
and has been living in a suburb,
The usual quarterly dividend of $2|
n share from net earnings was de-
clared at the annual meeting OF the
stockholders of the Pullman com
pany. The total surplus for the fiscal
year ending July 81. 1909 was s14,-
276,7i9. The increase over last year
In the number of passengers carried
was IA per cent The former board
of directors was elected.
Joseph Stout, the self-confessed
slayer Of Charles Tucker, killed at
Bridgeport, CT, after bar,room quar-.
rol, was formally arratgned on the
charge of murder In the second de-
gree A demurrer entered by his
counsel was overruled, and Stout was
held in $4,000 bonds for the next term
of the superior court. It Is expected
that plea of selfdefense will be
made at the trial,
Diamonds and lewelry to the value
Of SO 100, which were kept In a strong
box in the dresslng-room of James l..
! Putnam ut 80 Commonwealth avenue,
Boston, have been stolen, Walter
Ellis, butler for Mr. Putnam, Is re.
ported missing, and tho police say
that they regard some torn bits of en-.
yolopes and printed matter giving the
sailing time of various steamers for
England as an important clew. Ellis
had boon In the employ of Mr. Putnam
| for about one week.
Secretary Hartzell and Commits
sIoner of Education Lindsay sailed
from San Juan p, r., on the steamer
Coamo for New York to present to
| President Roosevelt resolutions
adopted by tho coffee growers asking
for all possible aid from the federal
government to assist in obtaining a
market for Porto Rican coffee by eff.
footing commercial treaties with
France, Spain, Italy, Germany and
Austria