Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-12-31

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Four Italians We're killed and two
probably fatally injured by dynamite
explosion at Cramer, Pa. The mer
were laborers on grading work for the
Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg road
and were blasting
| w. j. Clark, a wealthy mine owner
OF Montana, was seized with a cramE
while on the street at Joplin, Mo, and
died few moments later. His wife
was with him. Clark was a relative oil
United States Senator Clark.
In a running fight between five
burglars who had broken into an Office
| in East Boston, and two policemen
one Of the burglars was shot dead
| The others escaped, but 1t is thought
some of them were wounded.
General Lew Wallace OF Indiana,
| who is in New York with his son,
denied all reports to the effect he was
to undergo an operation of any sort.
1t was reported he was taking the
X.ray treatment for cancer.
The report that Princess Charlotte
Of SAKE Meiningen, sister OF Emperor
William, Is suffering from cancer and
that the verdict OF the physicians has
created CONSERVATION In the German
court, Is officially defined at Berlin as
nonsense"
At Riverhead, l.. l., Tuthill Reeves,
the demented farmer who shot and
killed William H. Rafford, a deputy
sheriff, and warden of the county jail,
while the latter was trying to serve
an execution for debt, surrendered
after an all.night siege,
Two Croatlans, Petrovitch Lepanae
and Mlovar Keobar, were brought
back from England on the Teutonic
In custody of detectives of Pittsburg
They are charged with the murder of
Samuel IT, Ferguson near New Middle
town, Pa. last September.
The first shovelful of earth was
turned ON the Huntley flats irrigation
canal project, which has for It's pur.
pose tho reclamation OF 10000 acres
near Billings, Mont. A canal fifteen
miles long and piercing a small
mountain will be constructed
Ten Chinese who had been deserted
by their guide who piloted them
across the International boundary
line into this country were arrested as
they made their way into Whatcom,
Wash, in a famished and exhausted
condition, They will be ordered de.
ported
Tho Nebraska supreme court passed
upon the constitutlonality of the
revenue law enacted by the last
Legislature and sustained II in its en-
tirety. II Is estimated that the grand
assessment roll OF the state will be
increased from $lS7 900 to at least
Sd60000,
Tho coroner's jury investigating
Into the cause of the wreck on the
Milwaukee near Abel Iowa, In which
three lives were lost, held the wreck
was due to the carelessness and mis-.
take of ID, w. Sleater. the 17.yearold
telegraph operator at Cliva, who
failed to carry out the instructions of
the dispatcher.
At a conference attended by Gov
ernor VOLS and other state officials.
plans were formulated for saving
Great Salt lake, which Is gradually
disappearing, The plan In brief ia
to utilize the lucin cutoff as dam
to separate the upper part of the
like from the lower and let the upper
part so Lack to the desert.
The ways and means subcommltte
on internal revenue heard arguments
for and against the Tawney bill pro-
hitting tbs packing Of anything
other than the manufacturers wrap.
pcrs and labels and the internal
revenue stamps In packages of manu-
featured smoking or chewing tobacco,
snunf, cigars or cigarettes.
A worldwide observance of March
II, 1904, as Bible Sunday proposed by
the British and Foreign Bible society,
has been approved by the American
Blblo society. On that date falls the
centenary Of the British society,
| "hNH uuflnS lne century mas UlS'
tributcd 1S0,00O,000 volumes OF the
scriptures In about $40 languages.
Charles Pierson, local anarchist,
was arrested at Galveston, Tex,
charged with disorderly conduct He
was tried on n charge of ohstructing
the streets, found not guilty and dis.
charged. There Is no foundation for
sensational stories that plans of
President Rooseyelt's home at Oyster
Bay were found In Persons pos
session.
l., G, Humhert Of Pontiac, Ill.,, com
mitted suicide by drowning himself In
n cistern, The suicide was caused by
mental worry over loss due to the
failure of the Indian National bank oil
Elkhart, Mr. Humbert recently
bought farm for $4,000 ON which
there remained u mortgage which he
had sent TO the bank to pay of and
which was not paid
The jury in the case of A. Wilson
charged with robhng the Rawlins
county, Kansas, treasury in 1901. re