Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-05-05

United Irish League Of America has
announced New York City as the place
and Aug 30-31 as the date for the sec.
ond biennial convention of the league.
An earthquake shock was felt in
San Francisco. 1t was sharp, but not
severe, and lasted about three sec.
onds A slight tremor of the earth
preceded the shock. No damage was
done.
A great lakes naval training station
! is finally assured by a senate agree.
ment allowing President Roosevelt to
select the site, which probably will be
at the southern end of Lake Michi.
gan.
General Fred d. Grant, in command
of the departme of the lakes. paid
his respects to the president. He is
| in Washington arranging some details
of the settlement Of his mothers
estate.
/ In the circuit court at Carbonate,
ILL.,, Thomas Vaughn, charged with an
attempt at assault on Miss Eva
Kavanugh, a schoolteacher. was con
vlct9d and given an indeterminate
sentence.
DR.. Warren i. Babcock chief sur.
geon at the state soldiers home
hospital at Bath N. Y, will resign
his position May IL to accept the
s6perintendency of Grace hospital
Detroit.
Without kith or kin at his bedside,
Thornton Fleetwood, aged 70, claiming
to have formerly been professor at
Elton, England, died in the charity
ward OF the city hospital at St
Louis, Mo.
The case of thirty-twO Chinese held
for deportation was decided by the
supreme court which held that China.
men must exhaust the remedies pre-.
scrib2d by treaty before appealing to
the courts.
Governor Brady of Alaska has
reached Portland from Sitka. The
purpose Of his coming at this time Is
to confer with the Lewis and Clark
management concerning the Alaskan
exhibit in 1905,
The supreme court has decided the
case Of Rear Admiral Gibson VS. the
United States by holding that when
promotion was made just before re.
tifemcnt an officer in the navy Is not
entitled to the higher pay.
Postmaster General Payne in a
Telegram from Key West. Fla, reports
that he Is continuing to improve in
health and that he is about to start
north, and will return to WASHINGTON
by the latter part of the next week.
The cases involving the validity OF
the suffrage provision of the new
Virginia state constitution were dis
missed by the United States supreme
court on the ground that no relief
was sought already having been com
mtted
AT Bellevue, H., Michael Roach
was sentenced yesterday to life and
George Clegg to seventy years i'm
prisonmcnt in the penitentlary for
the murder of John Keith conductor
ON the East St Louis and Suburban
railway June . last
In partial report of the st. Louis
April grand jury new indictments
were returned against nine policemen
and others on the charges of having
interIored with voters at voting
places during the democratic
primaries March -,
Erwin Osborn has been elected
Justice of the peace in Shelby county,
Illinois, just nine days after he was
p years old. He will graduate this
year in the class of 1904 from the
Mowoaqua high school He is the
youngest justice in Illinois.
Caught between two Olive streey
cars going in opposite directions. j. H.
Good of Little Rock was killed at st,
Louis ana +. j. King who accom-.
panied him, was fatally injured Good
was crushed SO badly that almost
every bone in his body was broken.
Snow slides are reported from al
most every point in the interior of
British Columbia The most serious
occurred Mt Silver Cup mine in the
( 't'''''N' hlNlliNNt where Il SIlut I.LUU
.eet wide came down the mountain
side causing damage to the amount
Of $4,000
At kokomo, Ind, Samuel Michaels
was found guilty Of arson and given
a tweuty-one years sentence and fined
5000, lie. wrecked the residence
of Aaron Shock with dynamite because
he was refused permission to see Miss
EuIa Burns, who resided there, Michael
is 20 years old
Creditors. of Henry Herman the
ahscomdlns Milwaukee dnancier who
LETT hundreds Of thousands of in,
fdehtednrss behind him when he dis
appeared year ago, viii meet to re.
eetve the report of the receiver. which
will be that not enough assets can be
found to pay the receiver
4 NJ II Walker, native of Vermont
ana captain in the regular army.
now in the Philippines, has instituted
suit at Knoxville Tenn. to contest
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