Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-04-09

and load from SHOIBuH III DuHCdu
hands killed him instantly.
Ambassador Choate has informed
| the state department that sanitary
congress which will consider matters
OF international Importance will be
held at Bradford, England, from July
tives are invited
On account of the heavy expense To
which Cornell university has been put
during the epidemic Of typhoid fever
work on the new Rockefeller hall of
physics will be delayed several
months. The work Of remodeling Sage
chapel will also be postponed.
t Admiral Dewey may be reprimanded
! for an interview declaring that the
| American naval maneuvers in the
West Indies are intended as an object
| lesson for the kaiser. Germany was
also declared unable to send a fleet to
equal It,
! A. G. Spalding, former baseball man,
| is now a resident at the Point Iona
/ (Cal) theosophcal community. Mrs.
Elizabeth Churchill Mayer whom he
married recently, Is a follower Of Mrs.
TIngley. He declares himself a be-
lever,
I The sealing steamers Virginia Lake
and Aurora arrived at st, Johns, N. f.,
from the ice fields with $4,000 seals.
They report total of 23S,000 seals for
| two thirds of the fleet and this years
! catch Is likely to reach 100000 seals
altogether
/ General Greedy chief signal officer,
! has received q dispatch from the otfi
Ger in charge Of the telegraph lines In
! Alaska saying that the posts of st.
j Michael and Fort Egbert will be con
nected with the United States by wire
in May.
The Kentucky court Of appeals af-
frmed judgments granting Governor
/ Bcckham a writ of mandamus compell-
| ing the democratic state committee to
, place his name on the ballot as a can
dIdate for the gubernatorial nomna-
tion.
In addressing Grand Army men at
ANbN w lNAIlob WV, ''h'ithA i''ii"P
Stewart. commander in chief, said pre-
judice was rapidly dying out in both
north and south, but he did not think n
reunion of the blue and gray was yet
in sight.
| Twenty persons were injured by the
! derailng of Burlington south bound
passenger train near Thompson, Ill.
/ The Pullman sleeper and chair car
! we're overturned and burned. Three
persons killed in southern Pacific col
/ lision near San Antonio,
Tho president made an interesting
talk to the Society of Foresters on the
! general subject Of the preservation of
! forests and of forestry as a profession.
He said that the object OF the forestry
i policy was to make prosperous homes
and to see that they were kept So
The Cuban government was notified
by President Roosevelt that an extra
session will be called to ratify the re-
! ciprocity treaty, If the island congress
accepts 1t as amended by the Unlten
States, A hint was also given that
an amendment by Cuba probably will
cause II to fail.
Chief Justice Bingham Of the dis
/ trict supreme court at Washington, has
made an important ruling favoring
! John II. Grove, n retail feed dealer,
against members Of the Wholesale
| Feed Dealers association, involving
proceedings instituted under the Sher-
man antitrust law.
The big schooner Mary e. Morse,
bound from Port Royal, S. c., to New
| York. with lumber, was lost as the re-
, suit of collision at sea with the Phil
,adelphia and Boston steamer Parthian.
Tho Parthian, which sustained injuries
to her stern. saved the Mary l.. Morse's
crew.
I Harry Sanderson. 10 years old for
/ merly of Bridgeport, Conn, was ar
| rested at Lockport, N. Y. in the act
of ting fire to Il. w. Rogers Il
Sons cotton batting factory. TO Dis
triCt Attorney Stockwell he admitted
having set fire to the warehouse on
three previous occasions, causing
! loss OF $4,000.
w. Il. MACEDONIAN chief of the war
i rant division Of the treasury depart
ment. started for Honolulu charged
with the duty of discussing the 81 000,-
J 000 appropriated by congress to satisfy
| IN part the lvdpments rendered on &C.
count of tho destruction Of property in
honolulu in suppressing the bubonic
| plaSUe.
A system OF motor vehicles capable
of being operated as douhledeCkers i'll
summer and carrying forty passengers
each will be- placed in competition
with the Detroit United Railway com.
pauy on n 6.cent fare basis. The inteu-
ton Is to extend the system not only
over Detroit, but also out into the
state.
Judge Lacombe in the United States
circuit court in Now York denied the
application of Whitaker Wright for
bail without prejudice to It's renewal
ovidental papers arrive and the pre-.
cise acts complained of are more fully
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