Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-02-18

Mrs. Clarence w. Mackey has
; written a novel, The Stone of Destiny,
which is about to be issued.
President Harper Of the University
of Chicago is i'll with appendicitis. An
operation is believed unnecessary.
The car barn bandits trial began
in Chicago. Spectators not known to
the police are searched for weapons.
Customs officials seize s2,a"0 worth
of Jewels concealed In a railway guide
hook mailed from Germany 10 Denver.
Two guns in the battleship lowa's
forward turret were ruined by the
blowing off of the muzzles during
practice.
In Chicago Louis Witze, T. S. Nc
Carthy and Charles Conway have been
convicted Of robbing the body of an
Iroqucis fire victim.
Edward Butler, the st. Louis mil
Iionaire politician, was declared not
guilty OF charge OF bribing nine mem
bers of the house OF delegates
Ernest Thompson Seton's Ia days
old daughter, born In New York win
be brought up out Of doors in Indian
fashion, according to her father
Rev. +. w Gunsaulus In Chicago
sermon declared that women OF to.
morrow must rule men through their
affections as Queen Esther did
Henry ]. Bebro, Of New York filed
charges with the governor of Mas
sachusetts that inmates OF Charles
town prison are inhumanly treated
A new revision of the bible based
on literary classification Of its
books, is favored by Profs. Stuart
and Coe OF the Garrett Biblical In.
stituto.
James b. Dill the New York cor
poratIon lawyer. shot at and wounded
a burglar at his home in East Orange.
The burglar escaped with $4,000 worth
of jewels.
Mrs. Sarah ]. Lipplncott (Grace
Greenwood has sued Harper & Bros.
for $4,000 DANCES because Of state
ment made In recent book by Julian
Hawthorne,
In an alteration on n railroad plat
form MT Lewistown, Mo, Noah Bowles,
town marshal. was shot and killed by
William Pittman, who sui sequently
committed suicide.
George Bearsltin. principal chief Of
the Seneca Indians, has been found
dead Ly the roadside near Cayuga, !, T.
IT Is supposed he lost his way and
was frozen to death.
Mrs. Catherine Conway, aged GO,
was lun over and killed in New York
hy al automobile driven IVY George
Gordon The latter tried to escape,
but wos arrested.
Fred p. Ravens, n Kansas City Insur
ance man, Is under arrest In St Louis
on the charge of obtaining S56290
from RI. r. Bright OF Carthage Mo-
on false pretenses,
James j. Hill and the Great North.
ern railroad are accused by J. T. Bib
Of Tacoma with deprIving Washington
farmers of $9,00O0O0 by Illegal rate
discrimination,
In fight in st Louis Joseph Littler
proprietor of the Bachelor hotel on
Olive street, was shot and killed and
Police Onlcer Edward Mackeele was
shot and seriously wounded,
The Standard Oh company controls
the worlds supply of asbestos. It
plans huge monopoly. The mineral
will be used for many purposes, in
GLIDING railway cars and tunnel lining
The best paid woman secretary in
the world Is Miss Harrison private
secretary to H. II. Rogers, head of the
Standard oil company, She gets
$4,000 and knows the trusts secrets,
The auxiliary cruiser Yankees
launch was fired on by San Domingo
insurgents, and ], G. Johnston, en-.
glneer was killed United States
marines were landed.
At Saginaw, Mich, Mrs. Charles A.
Valois, 10, is dead, and her husband, 81,
may not recover as n result Of taking
carbolic acid because their relatives
would not reconcile themselves to their
marriage
Rear Admiral Clark is fighting q bat
tie against death in order to save his
old schoolmate, Rear Admiral Cook,
who Is suffering from heart disease
and melanoholla over the death OF his
wife.
A double runner carrying two boys
and two girls, each about IA years old.
Collided with an electric car at Haver-
HILL Mass All four children were
seriously injured, and one, Benjamin
Slider will probably die.
Attorney General Proutt has begun
suit in the Nebraska supreme court
to annul the charter of the North
western Trust company of Omaha. He
alleges that 1t Is an instaEment trust
corporation which has not complied
with the state banking regulations,
Wilson Frederick of Dunellen, n j.
whose friends probably saved his life
ny contributing $500 pieces of cuticle
TO he grated ON his scalded Lody, after
he had been hurt In wreck nearly a
year ago at Westheld, n, j., received
SIh 0O0 frtsm the rnilronI cDmnnny ne