Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-06-27

Ten thousand strikers have burned
mine buildings, destroyed much prop
erty. killed the chief of police at Sui
motto, Japan, and attacked a regiment
sent to quell the rioting. The dam
age TO the mines is over million dof
lars.
A plot to steal s50,0O0,0O0 from the
Russian government Office at Tschita
has been discovered and 30 Russians
arrested They had made a tunnel
120 yards long from hotel to the
safe
Inc new Franco-Spanish treaty de-
clares that each government is firm
ly resolved to maintain intact its in
suiar and maritime possessions in the
Mediterranean and The Atlantic and
each country, in the event of circum-
stances arising which threaten to
modify the status quo agrees to con-
sui the other with a view to common
action"
1t was just a year ago last night
that Harry K. Thaw shot and killed
Stanford White in New York Thaw
has many more days in the Tombs, for
it is certain that he will not be tried
the second time until late i'll the fall.
He seems sanguine and is in good
health.
The Venezuela cabinet has resigned
owing to the action of congress in con
demning the policy of the minister of
finance
The San Francisco fourth of July
committee drafted reply to General
Funston in which the latter's intima-
ton that United States troops would
not be safe from insult in the streets
of San Francisco and repudiated the
generals offer of troops because a
parade had been abandoned.
The abandonment of Fort Assinni,
bOine, Montana, as an army post is
contemplated by the war department.
Seven persons, six members of one
Italian family, were killed in the col
downtown Italian quarters OF New
York. Three other members of the
same family were painfully injured.
1t is officially announced by the Pa
cifc Steam Navigation company that
only one passenger was aboard the
Santiago, wrecked fifty miles north of
Corral, and he was drowned. The
only survivor was the fourth officer.
The crew, numbering 80 and including
II English officers, persisted.
Refugees are fleeing to Hongkong
from districts affected by the revolu-
ton in south China. The rebel move
ment is most pretentiOus, with an
army organized after European meth
DDS. War notes, which rebel leaders
promised to redeem at twice their
are being issued.
The taking Of dispositions in an eff
fort to impeach the story of Harry
Orchard at the Boise trial, that he
placed bomb in front of F. W. Brad
Ieys door, in San Francisco, was be-
gun. w. n. Linforth, who owned the
building and secured a $4,000 judg-
ment against the gas company for
damages caused by the explosion, stat
ed that gas leaks were found later
and that before the explosion gas was
smelt for some time. This testimony
was Corroborated By Mrs. Packard and
Mrs. Cumming.
At Oyster Bay President Roosevelt
received a message from the central
labor union of Washington asking him
to cause an investigation to be made
to ascertain whether the telegraph
companies have violated the Sherman
antitrust law by a conspiracy in re-
straint of trade The president has
given no indication Of his probable &C
ton.
Paris sensational papers are print
ing extras announcing new mutinies
by troops in the south, but the war
ministry declares that nothing has oc-
Cured.
At Pittsburg Major T. Lemul Harp
err, secretary of the Americas club and
former superintendent of the Ameri-
can Steel Hoop company, was arrest
ed charged with assault upon Levi De
Wolf, millionaire broker, was held on
the charge of felonious shooting with
intent to kill Bail was fixed at 81
600. De Wolf testified that Harper
entered his Office drew a revolver and
fired three times at him. De Wolf
was unhurt De Wolf said he had a
dispute with Harper once and struck
him.
At Yale yesterday President Hadley
gave university statistics, showing
that in seven years students in the
regular courses had increased about
80 Del. cent. There was a falling off
in the department Of theology. En-
dowments and additional pledges cur
ing the year make a~total contribution
of $3,0O0O00
At Louisville while Ernest Black of
Quincy, Ind, was oiling pile-driver
he accidentally stuck his
head directly over the top of the pile.
The iron weight, weighing several
tons. came down and Blacks head
was mashed fat.
The body of Seaman Frank B. Plum
lee. who was one of the Il drowned
from the Inflated launch of the battle
ship Minnesota June 10, was recoy-
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