Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-08-29
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mitted peace offers to the Southern
railway.
There is a women's movement to
raise a memorial to the poet Whittier
at his old home in Amesbury, Mass.
The criminal prosecution Of the al
legged grafters in the building Of
Pennsylvania capitol starts in a
month.
Senator PIatt issued a statement
showing that the total yearly income
Of the United States Express company
was only 6 per cent.
Photographers are engaged to take
snap shots Of men Of the New York
navyyafd absent from their tasks but
supposed to be at work.
NeK York dealers in pearls will
ask the government for protection Of
the mussels in western rivers in
which the gems are found.
Alexander Jester, tried and acquitted
a few years ago on the charge Of muir
dering the brother Of John w. Gates,
died at the age Of 80 at Shawnee,
okla.
Charles J. Root, a wealthy manu-
facturer Of Bristol, Conn, with four
members Of family, was struck by
train while on an auto tour. Three
are dead.
In Philadelphia John Schmidt, a
wealthy ranchman of southern Cali
fornia, living not far from Los Ange-
les was sandbagged, drugged and
robbed of $1,000
The directors of the United States
steel corporation visited Gary, Ind, to
decide on the expenditure of the $45,-
10000 recently added to the first
appropriation for the new city.
Sheriff w. w. Tyus of Grady
county was shot twice and probably
fatally wounded near Cairo, Ga, by
Charles Williams, a negro whom he
sought to arrest.
e. H. Hartman said that when ask
ed again he probably would answer
the questions of the interstate com
mission to which he refused to reply
IN the spring.
The decision of the court at Con
cord, n. H., to Iet.Mrs. Mary Baker G.
Eddy meet a board of alienists at her
home, instead of ordering her to ap-
pear in court, pleases both sides.
Senator Dubois OF Idaho, at the
Chautauqua, advocates federal jurisdic-
ton and prison for Mormon leaders as
only way to stamp out polygamy and
end the growing power Of the Mormon
churcT
Eetty Green, in New York. scored
the smart set, declaring that modern
girls are extravagant and should have
work to do, and that vomen of fash
ion spend their time gambling smok-
ing and drinking.
At San Francisco the state supreme
court rendered a decision in the Nc
Kannay salary case, sustaining the
legality of the removal of Mayor
Schmitz and the appointment of
Mayor Taylor.
girl baby was born to Gov. and
Mrs, Charles e Hughes at the execu-
tive mansion in New York, their fourth
child. Both mother and child are do
ing well. The infant registered eight
pounds. The baby is the first child
ever born in the executive mansion.
Two Japanese were discovered in
the rear of Fort Mcpherson. Ca, tax
ing views and sketches of the build
lngs and grounds. They were driven
away. The officials of the department
say no action will be taken unless
other discoveries are made.
James Chapman, one of the best
known passenger engineers on the
Union Pacific railroad, was killed by a
bear near Evanston, Wyo. He was
camping out and had wandered away
from his friends. His body was found
in a thicket. Tracks of the bear were
all about the spot
Edward Hartman, aged 20 wears.
son Of E. H. Hartman, fired a Union
Pacific locomotive all the way from
Laramie to Rawlings, Wyo. He stated
after the trip that he wished to be-
come a fireman and work his way I'D
in the railway service from the lowest
rung of the ladder.
The Culver. Ind summer schools,
800 strong, left On two special trains
for jamestown, Va, with baggage.
cannon, cutters, and the fifty black
horses which constitute Culver's ia
mous black horse troop. The cadets
will spend a week at the jamestown
tair, and also will visit WASHINGTON
and the United States Naval academy
at Annapolis.
At ST Louis. President A. L. Ewing
Of the local union of commercial teleg-
raphers received a letter from his
wife, mailed at Sterling, ILL.,, on Sat
surday, stating that Mrs. James McGin-
mis-, his mother-in-law, had died
Mrs Ewing said that she was unable
20 notify him by telegraph owing to
the strike. Ewing was greatly af
Tected by the news, which had been
delayed two days in reaching him.
Al East Brookfeld, Mass, the people
are amazed by the statement that
Jarvis and John Woods. brothers,
after an estrangement lasting forty
years. have become reconciled. The
brothers wooed the same girl and be-
cause Jarvis won. John would not for
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