Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-01-21


not be candidate this year.
Fifty persons persisted by the sink
ing of the steamer Clallam near Smith
island, off Victoria, b. c. Many won.
en- were among the drowned.
Eightyfive horses were burned 10
death in fire which destroyed the
/ stables of the Peoples Brothers, con
tractors, in West Philadelphia.
e. III. Hartman was elected presi-
dent of the Union Pacific railroad,
but will retire when a president Is
found for all his western lines.
The Dunning Ull.) infirmary nurses
union Is opposed by DR.. Podstata,
superintendent. The standard of SER
vice would be lowered, he says.
Smoke from defective furnace In
the Roman Catholic church at New
Richmond, Wis, started wild panic.
in which many lives were imperiled.
At Cory, Pa, Pearl Sharling, 10
years old, while playing soldier with a
brother and two sisters. discharged \
shotgun in their faces, killing two.
Frank II. Burgess, under death sen.
tence at Sing Sing On. W for nine
murders, says his victims deserved
to die. Revenge for injuries was his
reason.
Four thousand jack rabbits were
chased into wire pen at Echo (Ore)
and killed by excursionists. including
many young women. who used clubs
as weapons.
Grover Cleveland discussing Judge
Parker's candidacy for the democratic
nomination, says he once offered TO
make Parker second assistant postmas.
ter general
Postal checks for transml.ting
small sums, postal savings banks in
Porto Rico, and increased pay for
rural carriers are uged by the post.
master general
Miss Ida Mueller, of Milwaukee
aged %. is missing from Evanston
where she went to marry a man al.
ready welded. Goodwin is short
$4,000 and gone
Mrs. Il. a. Sanderson OF New York
paid $4,000 for an authors edition OF
Theodore Roosevelts works and
claims fraud because experts say it is
worth only $25
A servant girls union was formed at
Orange. n j., as an Offset to the Wo-
mans club. Families are already
broken up by help" problem and gone
to New York fats,
An estate Of 100000. 600 was left by
the VIII of Capt. Frederick Pabst Of
Milwaukee to the widow. -four chill.
dren and an adopted daughter There
were no public requests.
The enormous increase OF immigra.
ton in 1903 threatens the entire |
country. The total is nearly 900 900.
of whom over half remained in New
York and the eastern states.
Working hours Of government EN-.
ployes, except in the printing house
and navy yard were heightened half
an hour by President Roosevelt tol
avoid hiring more clerks
The democratic national conycntin
will be held In Chicago. one or two
weeks after the republican. according
to national committeeman; st. Louis !
and New York are competitors.
Campbell Bros merchants of New
Castle. Ind, were awarded damages |
against a restaurant keeper who fried |
onions Gay and night The verdict |
was upheld by the appellate court
President Roosevelt will speak At
the Wisconsin university sem.
centennial celebration at Madison
next June, If he can leave Washing
ton, G. r. Van Hisc will be in
augurated
Attorney Lyman T. Barnes is at the
point of death at Appleton, with acute |
appendicitis. He Is among the best
known democrats and lawyers In the
west and was congressman for the
eighth district from 1898 to 1895.
Rev William r. Huntington. dean
OF the Boston university, was elected
president Of that institution in place
of DIR. William +. Warren, who re,
signed year ago. He graduated
from the Wisconsin university In 1870.
Alfred Ernst, conductor of tho
Choral Symphony society at S. Louis.
Mo. was appointed conductor of the
worlds fair symphony orchestra. He
was born In Goltra, Germany, July Is.
1865, and studied music three and a
half years In Leipslc.
The general relief committee which
has had charge of all contributions
and directed the relief work during
the prevalence of the typhoid fever
epidemic in Butler, Pa, issues state.
ment that the necessity for further
contributions has passed
Chief of Police Byrne of La Crosse
| stopped all street cars which were
without conductors and arrested the
! motormen operating them. This was
done In accordance with the ordinance
providing that all street cars In the
city must have conductors.
| Charles NJ Schwab was ON the
stand in the shipbuilding inquiry. His
Testimony was principally to the
effect that the value of steel stocks