Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-04-21

and was found guilty.
/ Springfield, H., April 15,--The coal
operators and miners OF the Chicago
e. Alton district, embracing ii mines,
with 400 miners, yesterday agreed
upon a scale after being in session
over n week. The scale Of last year
was agreed upon.
8 Maxine treasurer OF the imperial
japanese exhibit association at ST
Louis, was knocked down by high
wayman. The footpad was frightened
away by a policeman.
Rev, George A. Cooke, angered al
the verdict in the heresy trial or Proi.
B. p. Bovine, brought new set OF
charges and threatened to expose al
that took place at the trial.
Mrs. DIMES T. s. Denison Of New
York, authorizes the announcement
that she viii not be candidate for re.
election to the presidency Of the Gen
cral Federation Of Women's clubs.
At Sterling, ILL.,, because the water
In the river was too cold william
Windstrlm decided to postpone com
nllllIDR SIItlutt Ilf N'bl iibo W.
river for that purpose, but returned.
Periodical books are barred from
the privilege Of cheap newspaper pos
tagc by supreme court decision. The
dispute Is Of twenty years standing,
and has resulted in a big yearly deficit
Secretary Of War Taft, in an address
at a Kickapoo club banquet in Peoria,
H., outlined President Roosevets
Philippine policy. The natives need
several generations to learn self,gov.
eminent.
At ST. Louis Gen, Cronjc and Com
mandant Van Dam Of bocr war fame,
accompanied by $50 boer soldiers, az.
rived to participate IN the worlds
fair After the fair Is over they Will
go to Mexico to live.
An anti-graft department was or,
ganized by the Michigan university
faculty to supervise student entertain.
ments and prevent rake offs" The
teaching that public Office is a public
trust Is aimed at
AT Minneapolis w. IT, Johnson, sup
orintendent Of the poor during the
Ames administration, was arraigned
under two indictments charging him
with presenting fraudulent bill to
public officers for payment.
j. j. Hill declared that behind the
Hartman suit IL scheme for 81
gantIc railway merger, The Union
Pacific is to take the Burlington, st.
Paul the northern Pacific, and the
Northwestern the Great Northern.
Rev. DR.. Gunsauus of Chicago,
Technology, has accepted the invita-
tlon Of the st. Louis Exposition com
pany to deliver the invocation at the
opening ceremonies Of the worlds fair
April 30,
The United States supreme court eX.
tended until June ! the time FOR taking
testimony in the case of Missouri VS.,
Illinois, involving the proceedings OF
former state to enjon the cmptying
of the Chicago drainage canal into the
Mississippi river
Or, Jason koyabi Of Philadelphia,
WIN luN b''h bNliulNll'N w Japan Wy
the mkado to go to the front. has
asked the police to find his wife be,
fore he leaves. The doctor, a graduate
Of Columbia university married
hospital patient in this city last De.
cember. but she has left him
The state normal board of Mime,
sofa has unanimously elected Pro
fessor Guy Il. Maxwell to be president
of Winona normal to succeed Presl-
dent j. +. Mlllspaugh. resigned Pro-
fessor Maxwell Is at present superin.
tendont Of the training department or
the normal,
Alice Suzanne Williams, daughter or
the late Or, Williams of Ohio, made
successful debut at tho municipal
thoator in Nice, France, as Marguerite
in Faust. The American colony was
strongly represented In the audience.
Miss Williams studied under Massenet
and Saleha, the latter playing Faust
The Standard OH plant in Robin son.
Ill., was igntcd by spark from n
passing engine on the Big -Four rail.
WA lllI NllN ~ G. UiAtHllUS llNbN
trollablc people LETT their homes One
of the tanks exploded ana scattered
the burning oil in every dire ton,
Tho destruction OF the plant was com,
ploto
The llnited states supreme court de.
eided the New York case AGAINST
George W. Beavers, late eh,ar Of the
salary and allowance division Of the
rostctice departments 1t WAS an ap
pea from a decision by the circuit
court for the southern district Of New
York refusing 10 grant a writ of habeas
corpus
The gross postal receipts at the fifty
largest postoHces In the United States
for March 1901. as compared with
March zoos agercgatod $65,45S,30l, a
net Increase Of II per cent The larg
est percentage Of increase was over
IS 1t los Angeles, Chicago's re-.
ccaprs wore $l,o67i6S, or almost l 4
per cent increase
AT the cabinet muGtiug Attorney