Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-09-01

1 Statesboro, Ca, two shot, and several
whipped. The whites say that bad
characters must leave the vicinity.
Henry Schafer, an employe OF a
photograph gallery, committed suicide
at Rockford by drinking some Of the
chemicals used in developing plates.
Monroe Fulkerson, city fire In
spector of Chicago, resigned His
connection with the Iroquois theater
inspection scandal proves his undoing.
Sixteen dead scores injured, and
property damage exceeding $1,000 900,
/ Is the record Of a tornado which swept
the twin cities and other parts of Min
Incsota.
Miss Edna Van Dreal Of Harvey,
H., sued Or. T.. +. Laughlin for $50, 600
damages for breach of promise. A
| former suit filed last June was with.
drawn.
In Chicago Justice Grant ruled that
! a landady has right to a folding bed,
even though It jars the plaster off in
a tenants parlor and drives away her
/ daughters beau.
Four persons were killed and twenty
seven injured when an unmanageable
| trolley train struck a Chicago Great
Western train at the Forty-eight
avenue crossing, Chicago.
Ethel Barry, daughter Of a we'll
known business man Of Pennsylvania
who has been spending the summer at
Oceanport, N. j., eloDed with mo-
tor man on the trolley line.
When the Kronprnz Wilhelm ar
rived at New York cab was waiting
for H. M. Stevenson Of Chicago, who
( had ordered II by wireless telegraph
when he was 200 miles out at sea.
a quarrel about an open barroom
door led to the killing Of Frank &C.
Brett, travelling salesman, by
Andrew A. Wallin, superintendent Of
the Florodora Tag company, at At
lanta.
Experts place the total damage to
the wheat crop at 43,000,000 bushels
In the United States and Manitoba
This Is cut in previous figures, and
the yield In the United States Is es-
timated Mt 533, 100000 bushels
The United States general land Of
nce has instructed It's officers In the
Santa Fo, N. M, land district to with
draw for irrigation purposes from all
forms Of disposal fourteen townships
in that district, aggregating $4,000
acres.
At Camden, N. j.. six persons es-
capped from the county jail and are still
at large. The bars In the front win
dow were filed off and all the prison
ers would have made their escape had
It not been for u "trusty,' who gave
the alarm,
At Grinnell, Ia, after a fight between
John Parker and George Mitchell, in
which Mitchell was badly bruised up,
he got a shotgun and shot Parker, kill
I Ing him instantly. Mitchell served
In the Spanish war.
The coroner's jury, after lnvestigat-
Ing the death of Mrs. Jennie Helms,
who died In St Louis hotel. returned
n verdict Of mansaughter against
Charles NJ. Farthing, tho drug clerk
who sold Mrs, Helms husband tartar
emetio for cream OF tartar.
Two Norfolk and western freight
trains collided at Portsmouth, o,
Twenty-Five cars were wrecked and
ono engine. Two tramps were killed
and buried under the wreckage, En-
glneer Staten was fatally and Conduc'
tor Hensley seriously hurt,
Minnie M Lane has been missing
from her Pttsburg home for several
weeks Within twenty four hours two
letters have been received from her,
one mailed In st. Louis, the other in
Chicago. The girl says she Is mar
rled. Ono brother started to Chi.
cago and another to St Louis. The
family Is quite wealthy,
DR. H. j. Jones, physician and
stockman Of Benjamin, Tex, attacked
his wife with knife while she slept
and stabbed her to death, He then
went to the residence of County At
torncy Brookson and attacked him,
Brookson threw the doctor down and
broke his hip ana had MN placed uh'
der arrest Mrs Jones was suing for
divorce and Brookson was her attor-
Inoy.
A fast Wabash passenger train col
/ lided with Baltimore and Ohio
! freight train at the crossing of the two
roads at Massillon. o. The freight
/ train plowed into the second coach OF
1 the passenger train G, V. Hawley OF
/ Norwalk O.. brakeman on the pas.
senger train jumped and was crushed
4 TO death between car and n freight.
house. Mrs. Alice Elmensdorf OF Chi
cago. passenger, was slightly in
jured.
POLITICAL
Senator Fairbanks will campaign in
Vermont and Maine Sept. l-t2,
Leaders Of both old political