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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-07-14
LARGE FRUIT DEALER VICTIM OF
CRAZY COMPETITOR.
CRIMINAL BARELY SAVED
Rescued from Mob by Squad of Po-
lice in the Nick of Time to Prevent
Lynching-Famiy Resentment
and Business Jealousy Ascribed as
Cause.

Chicago, July l2.-Shot down yes
terday by one Of his own countrymen
who had crept up behind him, Andrew
Cuneo, a member of the firm of Cuneo
Bros, fruit dealers, one of the best
known fruit exporters in the United
States and said to be the richest ltal-
ian in Chicago. is dying at Passavant
hospital His assailant, Anthony Gre
scio, narrowly escaped lynching by a
mob that closed around him after the
shooting In less than minute after
the shooting a rope had been procured
hy some one in the crowd, with which
to hang Crescio but the police, in re-
Spouse to riot call, appeared on the
scene just in time to save Crescio's
life The police were unable to take
Crescio away from the mob, but after
a hard fight in which clubs were freely
used Crescio was hustled into patrol
wagon and landed in Jail.
The shooting occurred in front of
Cuneo's store, where Cuneo was busy
receiving fruit Crescio crept up be-
hind Cunoo and drawing a revolver
shot the merchant twice, before any
Of the hystanders could interfere. One
bullet took effect in the left temple
while the second penetrated the head
near the base of the brain.
Cresco, who is believed to be mental
ly unbalanced, was until yesterday
morning employed by his brother John
Cresco, who has a wholesale fruit
store near Cuneo Bros. J. II. Crescio,
another brother of Cuneos assailant,
married a sister of Cuneo and after
living with her for few years is said
to have deserted her. 1t is believed
that this, together with keen business
rivalry between his brothers and Cuneo
Bros. were sufficient causes in the
mans disurdered brain for him to at
tempt to take Cuneo's life.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-07-14
Nine. Wong Buys a Plantation.

Nine. Wong Kai Ka wife of the Chi
nese vice-commissioner to the St.
Louis exposition, has determined that
she and her husband shall reside in
this country long after the worlds fair
has ended. While her husband is at
Hong Kong preparing Prince Pun Lun
to visit the exposition his wife has
been buying rice lands in Texas. Mrs.
Wong confidently expects to make mil
lions out of this new business venture.
When the fact first became known to
the Chinese and Japanese colony in St.
Louis that rice culture in Texas, along
the coast country, was proving profit
able to northern farmers, they at once
began to investigate
Saburo Arai, one of the Japanese
concessionaires, made a visit to Hous-
ton, the center of the rice industry, last
month. His report was favorable,
and there was divided among the Jap
anese colony at st. Louis a rice plan.
tation in Matagorda county, Tex, GOV.
ering 5000 acres.
Mrs. Wong Kai Ka, when she dis,
covered that the Japanese were trying
to corner the rice lands, sent her SON
in-law Kon Wal, down to that region,
and he has just bought for her a rice
plantation covering 1000 acres and a
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-07-14
LIGHTNING STRIKES WORLDS
FAIR BUILDING AT ST. LOUIS

st, Louis July 12.--During a storm
yesterday a man named O'Toole was
killed by lightning The wind struck
the steeple of the North Presbyterian
church and blew il across the street
into the front of grocery store. Sew
eral buildings were unroofed. heavy
plate glass windows were broken by
the wind and hail and telephones
and telegraph wires were carried away
in various parts Of the city. Light
ming struck the agricultural building
at the fair but did no serious damage.
Twelve barges were blown across
the river and is or 20 houses III
Twenty.first street we're unroofed
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-07-14
POLITICS.

President Roosevelt was welcomed
by his Oyster Bay townsmen.
Minnesota republicans nominated
Robert G, Dunn for governor by accla
nation.
Grover Cleveland is aboard r. c,
Bencdict's yacht Oneida at Gray Ga.
bles for n weeks fishing.
Paul Morton and Victor II. Metcalf
became members of the cabinet. w, IL,
Moody became attorney general
The president has appointed u, A.
Robinson postmaster at Dallas. Tex.
enoing a vigorous contest over the of.
fee,
Horny NJ lloyt Of San Francisco has
been appointed United States attorney
at Nome, Alaska to succeed Melvin
Grlgsby, resigned,
President Roosevelt directed the ap-
pointment of Col Theodore Bingham
as brgadier general The appoint
ment to take effect on July &, when
Gen Bingham retired Col Bingham
for many years was superintendent of
public buildings and grounds in Wash.
ington Several months ago he was
badly injured while experimenting
the erection of some harbor improve.
ments at Buffalo and lost leg
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-07-14
EEWS OF THE WORLD.
Russo.JAPANEsE WAR.

Japan's emperor expects to make
his headquarters in Osaka castle IN
Kioto.
The Russian army Is said TO be re.
treating TO the northward. Japanese
advance continued despite torrential
rains.
Russians have photographs and ties.
timony of eye witnesses to prove that
the japanese mutlate the dead and
wounded.
Japan may offer terms after the cap
ture of Port Arthur and the defeat Of
Kouropatkin. There is a hint that
Russia may accept
Both Russian fleets apparently are
trapped at sea, unable to return 10
their ports. Japanese are closing In
on Port Arthur with 10000 men.
Port Arthur Is being attacked by
sea and land. The Japanese carried
position eight and tWothirds miles
from the fortress and shelled the city.
Operations in the war in the far
east are halted by rain and troops are
being rushed forward from Russia to
reinforce General Kouropatln. a re,
port that Russia, through France, has
offered to surrender Port Arthur is dis
credited.
Tigo reports to TOXIC that his tor.
pedo boats made an attack at the en-
trance to Port Arthur harbor, sinking
n large vessel, either a battle ship or
d cruiser, and torpedo boat destroy
er. The Japanese losses were slight
The Vladiyostock squadron escaped
from Kamimura's feet after a running
battle.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-07-14
JANE ToPPAN AND HER AWFUL
RECORD.
THIRTY-ONE MURDERS
Killed Merely for the Cruel Pleasure of
Seeing the Death Struggles Of Her
Vctims-Profession Nurse Whose
Art Battles the Doctors-Declared
Insane.

Taunton, Mass, July 12.-Jane Top
pan, the nurse who murdered thirty
one persons that she might crafty
her peculiar pleasure by viewing their
death agonies, is an imbeclle. Com
mitted to the state insane asylum here
two years ago for the murder of her
intimate friend, Mrs. Charles Gibbs of
mentally and physically. Now she is
hopeless wreck, and the physicians
believe that she will not long survive.
The confinement of the asylum is
not blamed for her condition. This
modern Boadicea was given more than
the usual attention in the hope that
strange mental trouble might be al
leviated, if not absolutely cured. 1t is
believed that had she been at liberty
her breakdown would have come more
quickly.
Jane Toppan was a professional
nurse and an extremely skillful one,
commanding large wages and being in
constant demand by physicians in
Cambridge, Lowell, Somerville and
Boston.
In August, 1901, Mrs. Charles Gibbs
died under circumstances that aroused
suspicion of poisoning For months
the case was investigated, and finally
suspicion was directed to Jane Toppan,
but that the middle-aged, skilled nurse,
whose beneXolence was famed among
l l.. Ill od
her friend seemed incredible. But
other deaths were recalled, and one
by enc they were brought home to
Miss Toppan, until the list comprised
no less than thirty-one.
Repeated small doses of morphine
usually were the means used in every
case, but as everyone who had died
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-07-14

complete system of canals and pump
ing stations. The price paid was sS5
an acre, total of $4,000.
AS soon as the worlds fair is over
we propose to move down to Houston
and will give our rice farm personal
supervision" said Kon Wal, speaking
for his mother-in-law
At home in China Wong Kai IA was
a merchant and diplomat, and as such
in S., Louis has been very popular
among all classes. His wife is a very
shrewd woman, and while she speaks
but little English she is a good French
scholar and is highly educated from a
Chinese standpoint She is a strict
business woman and manages her own
household in st. Louis in a very eco
nomical manner. The Wongs have
large family of children, all of whom
attend the public schools.
The economy with which this family
OF rich Chinese lives is matter Of
considerable comment in St. Louis. At
a recent fashionable tea given by the
Chinese vice-commissioner the gowns
and costumes worn by the family cost
over 100000 while the expense of the
tea and the refreshments amounted to
less than $15.-Chicago Examiner.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-07-14
LEADING PLANKS IN DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL PLATFORM

the abuses to which they are subjected
in the matter of transportation.
We demand strict enforcement of
existing civil and criminal statutes
against all such trusts, combinations
and monopolies, and we demand the
enactment of such further legislation
as may be necessary to effectually sup
press them.
Any trust or unlawful combination
engaged in interstate commerce, which
is monopoliZing any branch of business
or production, should not be permitted
to transact business outside Of the
state of it's origin. Whenever it shall
he established in any court of compe-
tent jurisdiction that such monopoli-
zation exists, such prohibition should
be enforced through comprehensive
laws, to be enacted on the subject.
The race question has brought
countless woes to this country The
calm wisdom of the American people
should see to it that it brings no more
To revive the dead and hateful race
and sectional animosities in any part
of our common country means CON
fusion, distraction of business, and the
reopening of wounds now happily
healed. North. South, East and West
have but recently stood together in
, line Of battle from the walls of Pekin
to the hills of Santiago, and as sharers
of common glory and a common des-
! -ln ~, !, n
common burdens.
We therefore deprecate and con
denim the Bourbonlike, selfish, and mar
row spirit of the recent republican
convention at Chicago which sought
! to kindle anew the embers of racial
and sectional strife, and we appeal
! from it to the sober common sense and
patriotic spirit of the American people.
We favor the preservation, so far as
we can. of an open door for the worlds
commerce in ttle orient. without an
unnecessary ENHANCEMENT in oriental
and European affairs, and without ar
hitrary. unlimited, irresponsible. and
absolute government anywhere within
I our jurisdiction We oppose as fer
vently as did George Washington him
self. an indefinite irresponsible. dis
cretionary. and vague absolutsm and
policy of colonial exploitation. no
matter where or by whom invoked or
exercised We believe with Thomas
Jefferson and John Adams. that no
government has right to make one
set of laws for those "at home" and
another and a different set of laws.
absolute in their character. for those
lin the colonies" All men under the
4 American flag are entitled to the pro
I lection of the institutions whose EN-
blem the flag is. II they are inherent.
4 ~ unfit for these institutions then they
ere inherently unfit to be members Of
the American body polite Wherever
there may exist people incapable of
being governed under American laws,
\ in consonnance with the American
constitution, that people ought not 10
he part Of the American domain
We insist that we orght to do for
the Filipinos what we have done al
ready for the Cnhans. and II is our
duty to make that promise now. and
npon suitable guarantees Of protection
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-07-14

had been a sick person and the poison
had been given in most skillful man.
ner no suspicion had been aroused.
The murder of these thirty-one persons
extended over a period of several
years.
When Miss Toppan was arrested
she stoutly denied her guilt, but the
evidence in the case of Mrs. Gibbs was
conclusive. Then the woman broke
down and confessed all. To her
lawyer, Judge Fred NJ. Bixby of Lowell,
she recited the appalling details of her
career She declared she was moved
by an uncomfortable impulse to kill.
She boosted with obvious gratifica-
tion that no instance had the attend
ing physicians had any suspicion that
death was not from natural causes.
When she was brought to trial she
said: II know | am not a safe person
to be at liberty" She had de-
scribed the paroxysms of her victims
with convincing detail and with ana
lytical intelligence. She knew and
said she could not control her homici
dial impulses, the desire to kill by the
most artful means known-the injec.
ton of atropine and morphine. She
was declared insane and sentenced to
life confinement.
Among her victims was Mrs. Annie
G. Gordon of Chicago, who was visit
ing her parents in Cataumet in July,
1901.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-07-14

to citizens of our own and other cOun-
tries resident there at the time of our
withdrawal, set the Filipino people
upon their feet, free and independent
to work out their own destiny.
We favor enactment and administra-
ton of laws giving labor and capital
impartially their just rights. Capital
and labor ought not to be enemies
Each is necessary to the other. Each
has its rights, but the rights of labor
are certainly no less vested" no less
sacred" and no less "inalienable'
than the rights of capital
Constitutional guarantees are VIC
lated whenever any citizen is denied
the right to labor, acquire and enjoy
property, or reside where interest or
inclination may determine, Any denial
thereof by individuals, organizations,
or governments should be summary
rebuked and punished.
We deny the right of any executive
to disregard or Cuspend any constitu-
tional privileges or limitation. Obedi
ence to the laws and respect for their
requirements are alike the supreme
duty of the citizen and the official
The military should be used only to
support and to maintain the law. We
unqualifiedly condemn its employment
for the summary Punishment of citi-
zens without trial. or for the control Of
elections.
We approve the measure which
passed the United States senate in
1896, but which a republican congress
has ever since refused to enact. reIat-
ing to contempts in federal courts.
and providing for trial by jury in
cases Of indirect contempt
We denounce the ship subsidy hin
recently passed by the United States
senate as an iniquitous appropri alton
of public funds for private purposes
and a wastefUl. illogical. and useless
attempt to overcome by subsidy the
distractions raised by republican legis-
lation to the growth and development
of American commerce on the sea. We
favor the upbuilding of a merchant
marine without new or additional burr
dens upon the people and without
bounties from the public treasury.
We favor liberal trade arrangements
with Canada. and with peoples Of other
countries where they can be entered
into with benefit to American agricul-
ture manufactures. mining or com
merce.
The democratic party stands ON
mitted to the principles Of civil service
reform. and we demand their honest
just. and impartial enforcement We
denounce the republican party for its
continuous and sinister entertainments
upon the spirit and operation of civil
service rules, whereby it has arhitrar-
ily dispensed with examinations for
office in the interests Of favorites and
employed all manner Of devices To
.overreach and set aside the principles
upon which the civil service was az
tablished
We favor the admission Of the ter
ritories on Oklahoma and Indian Ter
ritorv We also favor me immediate
admission Of Arizona and New Mexico
as separate states ani a territorial
government for Alaska and Porto Rico.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-07-14
In SuLAR.

At San Juan, Bcokman Winthrop,
the new governor Of Porto Rico, ar
rived He was inaugurated July 4,
Father OConnor, secretary TO The
late Archbishop Guidi, Mt Manila, was
summoned to Rome to complete ncgo.
tiations over lands held by religious
orders
President Roosevelt has appointed
as commissioner Of education of Porto
Rico Or, Roland = Falkuer, at present
chief OF the division of documents In
the congressional library, vice Or,
Samuel McCune Lindsay, who re-
signed, 10 tako effect oct, |.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-07-14
FOREIGN.

The emperor took luncheon with
Cornelius Vanderbilt ON board the
yacht North Stat at kiel.
The Baltic, the new steamer of the
White Star line and the largest vessel
anoat, sailed from Queenstown on its
maiden trip
A parallel for the wreck of the
steamship Norge Is found in the burn.
ing of the emigrant ship William Me-.
son in midocean in 1865.
Chiefs Of the Anghera tribe have
written "a the sultan rnat unless their
demand for the release Of their tribes.
men is granted they will capture an
Englishman and hold him AS hos.
tage
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-07-14
RELIGIOUS,

Cardinal Satolli dedicated the Cath
Ollie chapel in the Nisayan village at
the Philippine reservation at the
worlds fair
NJ Mangasarian will represent the
Independent Religious Society of Chit
cage as delegate to the International
Congress Of Ratonalists, which meets
in Rome Italy, Sept %
Rev, A, G, Dixon, u. H., pastor of
tho Rugglos street Baptist church,
New York, has received u call to take
field, Mass DIR. Dixon has not an.
nounced his decision.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-07-14
EDUCATIONAL.

Yale easily won the annual varsity
eight oar race from Harvard the Grim.
son four beat the Yale four,
DR. Burnett of Cambridge, II gradu.
ate of Harvard in 1903. and an in.
structor there the last year, has been
elected to the chair of philosophy in
Iowa college
Professor Elias =. Lyon, professor
of physiology in the University of Chi.
cago, has accepted position as head
OF the department of physiology in
Washington university.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-07-14

The Steamer Norge of the Scandin-
avian-American line was lost in the
north Atlantic and more than 700 per.
sons persisted. The steamer, bound
from Copenhagen to New York with
Danish emigrants, struck dangerous
reef 200 miles off the coast of Scot.
land and went down in ten minutes,
while the life boats were crushed by
the waves and the passengers leaped
into the sea in a panic.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-07-14
POLICE CATCH WlFEMuRDERER.
When Closely Pursued He Inflicts
Suicidal Wounds

Omaha, July 12.-William Cellar.
who last Saturday killed his wife and
her father, j. R. Burkamp. was cap
tured by the police yesterday He
had returned to his home. where the
officers were watching for him. Eel
lar fled when discovered and on find.
ing himself closely pursued drew a
knife and slashed himself across tho
breast inflicting probably fatal
wounds. Cellar stabbed his wife to
death and dubbed his father-in-law
Saturday, as the result of family
quarrel.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-07-14
MORTUARY MATTERS.

Col w c. Nelson, secretary Ken
lucky and Tennessee Underwriters
board, died in Louisville.
C. p. Flackton of Prince Edward
Island and a member of Mrs. Carriers
company, who died in San Francisco,
was cremated.
DR.. Theodore Herzl, the noted au-
thor, father of the project for Jewish
Palestine and president of the Zionist
congress. died in Vienna.
Senior Dupuy de LONE, who hurried
~ resigned as Spanish minister to
Washington after an Insult 10 Presi-
dent Mckinley, died in Paris.
Dan Emmett the composer Of Dixie,
was buried at Mount Vernon, O., by
the Elks lodges. Many well known
theatrical people were present and
Dixie was played over the grave.
David Mcdowell, of Chicago, presi-
dent of Mcdowell, Stocker & Co. died
of heart disease at Eureka Springs,
Ark, where he had gone for his health
Mr.. Mcdowell came to Chicago in 1857
Fred w. Starbuck Of New York
once resident of Hyde Park, H..
where he was known as an athlete and
bicycle rider, died in Richmond, Ind
He was returning to the east from
Arizona, where he went in search of
health He was 70 years old.
George Frederick Watts, the paint
or, died of bronchitis at his home in
England Watts was born in 1920 and
was practically self-taught artist
who stood at the head Of English art,
the foremost painter of the nude.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-07-14
DOMESTIC.

August Orsted Of Oregon, Ill., broke
his back in two places while diving In
shallow water
Peter Christianson of Eden Wis.
was killed by freight while attempt.
ing TO steal a ride
Two hundred Porto Rican school
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-07-14
FOURTH OF JULY.

Celebrations without the accompanl-
ment Of fireworks are numerous and
thousands spent the day outdoors.
Wanton disregard Of the warnings
Of authorities and doctors results in a
big harvest of July accidents, thOus
ands being fatally wounded and hurt
throughout the country.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-07-14
LABOR.

An attempt was made in a court
at Chicago TO liborate "I,lack jack
Gallagher, alleged "slUggcr of Attor
ney Allen, the labor leader arrested.
Supreme Justice Robert w steele
of Colorado in n dissenting opinion in
tho Meyer habeas corpus case dc.
clarcd the miner has been nlawfuIly
imprisoned
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-07-14
CHRONICLE TURNS REPUBLICAN
Chicago Newspaper Decides to Leave
Democratic PARTY

Chicago, July 1.-THE Chicago
Chronicle. which has been generally
considered democratic newspaper,
will announce formally in its issue to-
day that it will hereafter appear as
republican newspaper.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-07-14
FOE OF BOIL WEEVIL.
GuatamaIan Ants Eat the Pests of
Cotton Crop.

Washington, July 12-The effective
ness of Guatamalan ants in checking
the ravages of the boil weevils in the
cotton fields has been tested and the
department of agriculture expert yes
terday telegraphed Secretary Wilson
that the ants probably destroyed the
weevils and the harmful Texas red
ants as well.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-07-14

Seventeen men were killed and fifty
injured in a New Jersey excursion train
wreck due to the mistake of a tower
signal operator.