Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-05-14
DOM ESTIC.

The public debt on April 80 was
1898, 935,4ls; decrease for month,
$GGS.501
j. Wells Chahpney, famous portrait
painter, was killed by fall from a
New York elevator.
Bob Bryant and win Morris, negroes,
were lynched at Haynes Bluff, Miss,
for alleged murder,
Three hundred saloons in Manhat.
tan and the Bronx failed to pay the
increased llquor-tax license.
The most serious strike in the
country outside of New York is that
of the carpenters In Philadelphia.
The University of Pennsylvania
boat sunk In race with Annapolis
cadets. The oarsmen were rescued.
Two thousand men and women
rioted In the Slavonic Roman Catholic
church Mt Joliet H., over factlonal
troubles.
The merchants State bank, at
Freeman 8. d., was robbed of 3d.
600; tho Mddlesvillo (Mlch) post
Office of $1,000.
Indiana had another freeze and
frost lite that about finished the
strawberry crop. plums and other
tender early fruits.
George Williamson Crawford OF
Birmingham, Ala, n negro. Ia one of
the winners In the Francis Wayland
prize debate at Yale.
Former Cashier Tuloch accuses
former postmaster.General Smith of
hushlng up scandal involving the
Washington city postofce.
General Edwin s, Greedy of New
Haven, Conn. was elected president
general of the National society, Sons
OF the American Revolution.
A Germantown physician has made
tho discovery by accident that the
so-called Flnson or violet rays have
valuable anaesthetic properties.
A device for locating wrecked
ships by means Of buoy, detached
at the moment of sinking, was invent.
ed by Andreas Tomlce Pittsburg.
Frank Pallcas $3.50 estate al
Racine, was bequeathed to Anna Lar.
sen. his stenographer, because she
was kind to him when he was ILL.,
J. IL, Mcmahon. brother OF Tam
many leader, was killed in n fight
with Daniel Kennedy, New York
prize-h fighter with bad reputation.
Rev Paul l., Johnston was dismissed
by Columbus CO.. Lutheran church
because of the declaration that he
had received new bible revelations.
Rev. j. r. Gulledge. who disappeared
from Harrisburg, Ill, returned, started
divorce proceedings, and declared he
would marry widow named Howe,
Governor Pennypacker of Pennsyl.
vanla vetoed the Grady bill giving To
railroads the right to take dwellings
under eminent domain proceedings.
Ex-Mayor Ames, Minneapolis, Will
claim incipient paresis and insanity
as defense against the hoodling
charges on which he Is now being
tried.
The Boston school authorities re-
fuse to follow New York's example In
throwing out Uncle Toms Cabin from
the libraries. They regard 1t as n
classic.
Ten Polish excursonists from Toll
edo were killed by = fast Grand Trunk
train at Detroit, Mich while crossing
the tracks. Thirty others were
seriously injured
Three persons were killed and
twenty.eight others injured by an
explosion In the Thor torpedo
factory at Cleveland, Many build.
inss were wrecked.
Alexander Smith Cochrane of
New York, who has Just Inherited
Sl4,000,000 and industry employing
$500 men, ia young, retiring and a
student of sociology
The safe at Balsteads private bank
at Concord Mich, was dynamited.
All the funds In the bank, including
postofllce money and stamps, was
secured by the robbers.
The United States Express COM
pany says that the amount stolen BY