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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-12-19
KEEP BLUE LAWS
IN OPERATION
KANSAS CITY AND OMAHA MAIN
TAIN QUIET SUNDAY.
GRAND JURY GETS BUSY
indictments Returned Against over rs
Managersr of Theaters-EVery
Form of Business to Come Under
the Rule of Nothing Doing" in
Omaha, Even street Cars.

Kansas City, DeDc 16.-Indictments
were returned here Saturday after
noon against over rs managers and
employees of local theaters. charging
them with violating the Sunday clos
ing law. A number of propCietors OF
pool halls also were indicted. Judge
Wallace had the indictments served
at once and held court Saturday night
to accept the bonds of those indicted.
Lid on in Omaha.
Omaha. Neb., Dec. 15.-"The lid" is
to be on in Omaha today if attempts
to be made at Sunday closing are sue
cessful, Every form of business is to
come under the ban except those spe-
officially provided for by law.
Theaters and newspapers are not to
be exceptions, and arrests by whole
sale are promised If the merchants
open their places for business Street
car employees are to be arrested and
tests made of the statute which pTo-
vides for Sunday observance.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-12-19
NEWS Of THE WORLD
WISCONSIN NOTES.

Harry LAWYER has donated $50 for
prizes in the boys corn contest which
will be held in connection with the
poultry show next month at Lake &C.
neva-
At HaIsey, Carl Boehm and his son
William were arrested on a charge of
having killed game Illegally. The
latter was fined SIS, and the case OF
the former was continued.
Miss Fannie KriWanek OF Green Bay
vas attacked by man in Whitney
park but the assailant was frightened
by her screams. This is the second
affair Of the kind in the park in three
weeks.
The body of Alexander Linn, aged
81 years, was found frozen in the ice
In a marsh near Friendship by two
farmer boys. Only the head was
above the surface and the body had
to be chopped out.
The department of horse breeding
Of the college Of agriculture will com
mence issuing renewal stallion IL
censes on Jan. l. The fee is 81, and
the original certificate issued in 1906
must be sent.
A committee to select a name for
the organization and draw up con-
stitution and bylaws was appointed at
a meeting Of twenty-five local bust
ness men for the formation of mer-
chants association at Amigo.
Since Marinette county opened a
workhouse with a stone crushing es-
adjustment in connection Herewith
a year ago tramps have been scarce
.,everthcIess the county board is well
satisfied w, Ii the investment.
At La Crosse, c. A. Krebaum,
dealer in rubber stamps and photo
graphic supplies, has filed voluntary
petition in bankruptcy, giving liabili-
ties Of $500 and assets of $275, Of
which $3.50 is claimed to be exempt.
Patrick Brickle. arraigned on a
charge of burglarizing a saloon in the
village of Campbellsport, and pleading
guilty, was given a sentence of six
months i'll the county Jail. Brickle
touched a till in a CampbellspOrt sa-
loon for something like SIS, a part Of
which was in the form of metal
checks.
A special election will be held at
Kaukauna on Jan. is, 1903 at which
time the question Of municipal or pri-
vate ownership { an electric lighting
plant will be voted upon, as well as
the question of accepting the offer of
Mr.. Carnegie to donate $1,000 to the
city for the erection of a public IL
brary building.
A 15-year old daughter of Otto PITT
rick, while working about a corn
shredder on her fathers farm four
miles south of Downing, had he right
hand mutilated by the machinery to
such an extent that amputation of all
the fingers was necessary. Herman
Frederick, 20 years of age, a farmer
living three miles away had his LETT
hand cut by a gasoline woOdsaw, and
lost three fingers.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-12-19
BOARDER MURDERS
WOMAN AND CHILD

Pottsville, Pa, Dec. 17.-Mrs. Mary
Perkatis, aged 40, and her four-year-
old son, John, were murdered yester-
day at their home in Shenandoah.
Their threats were cut. The crime
was discovered by the woman's eight
year-old daughter, who, with another
little child, went into the cellar and
found the victims lying side by side
in a pool OF blood. The police are
searching for John Rodgers, a boarder
at the Perkatis home. He had been
ordered Saturday to pay his board or
leave. Saturday he drew his pay
and spent a considerable amount of
it for drink. Yesterday he quarreled
with the landlady and after she had
gone into the cellar to get some coal
he sent the daughter to store TO
get him tobacco. When she returned
there was no one in the house. The
woman's husband was at work in the
mines at the time of the murder,
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-12-19
NEW YORK.

The board of estimate took action
which held up $122,O0O,OOO worth of
public improvements.
J. A c. Warrington, a rich packer
from Bermuda, was arrested on a
charge made by his wife.
A farmer visiting the stock show
gave bonds for chorus girl who was
arrested for shoplifting.
The laymen's Evangelistic council
arranged to hold revival meetings in
500 Protestant churches in Chicago.
Gov. Hughes of New York ousted
from office John F. Ahearn, borough
president of Manhattan; neglect OF
duty was the charge.
The association OF insurance COM
pany presidents, in a meeting led by
new insurance legislation.
Mrs. E. ParTnelee Prentice, daugh.
ter of John D. Rockefeller, on Satur-
day gave birth to a daughter. This is
Mrs. Prentice's second child.
The temporary receiver of the Ham
ilton bank called the attention Of the
attorney general to loans of $1S0,00o
to +. Augustus Heinze and Otto &C.
Heinze.
Mrs. William ]. Bryan and her
youngest daughter. sailed ON Saturday
on the steamship Friedrich der Crosse
for Europe. They will spend the win
ter abroad.
Albert H. Smith, vice president and
general manager of New York Cen
trail railroad was placed on trial for
manslaughter as the result OF a
wreck.
Further reductions in eastbound pas
senger rates were announced by the
North German Lloyd Steamship COM
pany. The third class, or steerage
rate, from New York to Bremen and
the continent on the express steam
ships has been reduced from S42 10
S9S.
That dancing lowers the standard of
morality among Indians is the opinion
OF the National Indian association,
which, at its annual meeting, passed
a resolution asking that congress pro-
hibit dancing among the Indians.
Other resolutions favored more def
mite legislation against the sale of
liquor to Indians and other minor
matters.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-12-19
,ected by the temperance contest.

fected by the temperance contest.
Discovery is made that Ben P.
Brown of Franklin, Ind, who disap-
peared some time ago, had forged the
names of his father and Brother TO
notes aggregating $4,000 and had pro-
cured without Endorsement 5000 ad-
ditional.
h 4lnanciers and railway interests
are Disconnected over Stuyvesant
Fish's suit involving the ownership of
Illinois Central stock, believing the
time to be inopportune to try any case
against the railways involving public
policy, as the result might be dis
astrous.
William Mortenson and Engols
Homo of Minneapolis, schoolboys about
( Is years old, leaped into the Missis-
/ sippi river and at the risk OF their
Lives prevented Miss Ida Christensen,
81 years of age, from committing sui
eide The boys saw the woman jump
into the river.
| The state bank commissioner Of
! California has recommended to the at
torney general that receiver be ap-
pointed for the California Safe Deposit
and Trust company which closed it's
doors a few weeks ago. The securi-
! ties held by the bank are Of such a
nature that they can not be realized
upon.
John w. Reeve, who was convicted
! of setting fire to freight cars which
caused the explosion of quantity Of
dynamite, resulting in the death of
several persons and the destruction
of the Colorado and Southern freight
depot at Boulder, Colo, during the
recent switchman's strike, has been
sentenced to not less than ten nor
more than fifteen years in the peni-
| Tertiary.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-12-19
CHICAGO.

Hotel reservations for the republi-
can national convention break the
record.
The EIgin saloons closed and pas
tor expressed JOY that the mayor
was sober.
Attorney Wilton B. Judd obtained a
divorce from Helen Pratt Judd, social
list and now housemaid.
Englewod women decided to crowd
Judge Fakes courtroom at trial Of
the Sunday saloon cases.
Governor Hoke Smith of Georgia is
coming to Chicago to aid in the cru
SADIE against Sunday saloons.
The health department is pushing
it's campaign against the sale of de-
cayed meat and spoiled fruits.
Mr.. and Mrs. Solomon P. Wells
went for an automobile spin and re-
turned to find their fat a smOldering
ruin.
A deaf and dumb girl, who intends
to become a farmer, surprised her
friends by proficiency as student at
the y isconsin university.
Grand jury investigation of the al
legged milk trust was ordered when
Judge Kersten, in swearing in the
members of the December inquisitorial
body, gave special instructions for the
inquiry.
Judge George Kersten of the crimi-
nal court will issue an order to permit
the elimination of the body of Mil
dred Emma Hanson, 10 years old,
whose death is declared to have re-
suited from the alleged negligence Of
a physician during an operation. If
the result of the autopsy shows that
the childs death resulted from negli-
gence, prosecutor will follow.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-12-19

Washington, Dec. 10.-Wisconsin
pOstmasters confirmed by the senate
today were: w. H. Berray, Wautoma;
George w. Burchard, Fort Atkinson;
Sutliffe Parkin, Mazomanie.
Mrs. Joshua Hodgins, daughter Of
Senator Stephenson, left for her
home in wisconsin today after week
in Washington.
Senator La Toilette today intro
du"ed bills to grant pensions to these
residents Of Wisconsin,: E. N Marsh,
Baraboo, $50; Horace Seward, Cum
berland, $50; Legare Potter, Neills-
Vile, $24; H C. Barrows, Mondovi,
s24; H. J. Wall, Richland Center, $50;
George Page, National home, Milwau-
kee, s24; Elijah Trollop, Cassville,
$24; Harvey v Ames, Baraboo, $50;
William Mcmahon, Doylestown, s24;
Squire F. Bull, Tooyille, s24; C. C.
Shockley, Sun Prairie, s24; William
H. Shine, National home, s24; S. J.
Hook, National home, s24; George
Steckenbauer, Barabco, $50; Nellie B
Young, Baraboo, s12.
Senator La Toilette today intro
duced the following resolutions:
A resolution of the Wisconsin legis-
lature urging congress to revise the
Dingley tariff.
A resolution of the Wisconsin leg.
islature TO put all lumber on the free
list.
A resolution for the election OF sena-
tors by direct vote.
A resolution from residents Of the
state Of Wisconsin against restrictions
on second class mail matter
A resolution of the wisconsin Fed
Grafton of Labor indorsing government
ownership of telegraph systems.
Petitions for and against the par
eel post.
Representative Hall of South Da-
kota has introduced a bill of vast in
terest to the lumbermen of the coun-
try, providing for the placing of all
lumber on the free list and repeating
those sections of statutes imposing
any tariff on lumber.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-12-19
DOMESTIC.

The Fort Pitt National bank, of
P1ttsburg was closed for want OF
ready money.
Three labor leaders were shot by an
Insane man while in executive cham
beTs at Boston.
Some BIS miners are believed to
have persisted in the coal mine dis
aster at MOnOngah, w Va.
The failure Of the National Bank of
Commerce of Kansas City was fol
lowed by closing of three smaller ones.
V. b. Nethaway, a Nebraska trap
shooter, murdered his wife who is
seeking divorce and then shot himself.
Steps are taken in Nebraska that in
the future will bar from state employ
Eaent person holding railway passes.
The attorney general of California
has asked for the appointment of re-
sewer for the defunct San Francisco
bank.
Trainmen on SIS railroads east of
che Mississippi are voting on demands
for more pay. which may result in a
strike
The efforts Of the White Hand to
stamp out the Black Hand resulted in
q battle between Italians at Pitts
b"rg; S were wounded
Buffalo Bill" in denial OF all
charges in the Gould suit, said he was
offered $4,000 to testify against Kath-
rine Commons character.
Despite the reported move to aid
the prohibition cause, the United
Brewers societies are alleged to have
raised fund of 100000 to fight it.
The farm output III Kansas is
nearly S2O,OOOOVO greater than last
year, and the bank deposits are sufi-
cient to give every person IN the
state $500.
Coy. Malcolm r Patterson of Ten
uessee was married TO Miss Mamie
Gardner at Union City, Tenn. Miss
Gardner is sister of Russell A.
Gardner, a millionaire manufacturer
OF st Louis.
The engine of a passenger train on
the Burke and Wallace branch Of the
Northern Pacific blew up killing
Fireman Bulls, Brakeman Hodges, and
an engine wiper, and fatally injuring
Engineer Copenhagen.
By the death a few days ago at
Boston of Suuman Blagden. Yale 80,
HIS life interest IN a fund of $4,000
expired, and that sum now reyerts TO
the academic department Of Yale uni
versity, without restriction.
Involuntary bankruptcy proceedings
have been fled against the Whitney
Stephenson company and Whitney,
Stephenson & CO. of Pittsburg. The
liabilities are 100000 and the assets
are an account of 100000 with the
stock brokers.
Three armed men deliberately ex-
ploded off the front of the safe of
Joseph Urmston's private bank at
Reilly, near Hamilton, O., and disap'
peared with $500 in currency and a
large number of notes of which about
$1,000 was negotiable paper.
The temperance question and the
United States senatorship are now
agitating Iowa voters, and Governor
Cummins. who will oppose the re-elec-
ton Of Senator Allison, is deeply af
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-12-19

Washington, D. c., Dec. 12.-The
senate adopted a resolution presented
by Chairman AIdrich of the senate
committee on finance, calling on the
secretary of the treasury for detailed
information with respect to govern
ment deposits in national banks. The
resolution asks for the names of all
United States depOsitari3s, with the
amount on deposit daily III each from
Oct. 1 to Dec. 3, 1907, together with
statement showing the amount and
nature of securities held by the
gov ernment for the deposits. Report
on the condition of national banks
from Aug. % to Dec. 8, is asked for
tOgther with a statement Of the
amount Of national bank notes out
standing during that period. The res
olution also calls for an abstract Of
bids for the Panama canal bonds and
government certificates of indebted
ness; a statement as to the amount Of
clearing house certificates recently
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-12-19
FOREIGN.

King Oscar of Sweden died early
Sunday morning and his son took the
cath as Gustav V.
The keeper of a London bookshop
says that many reprints of standard
authors are used for gifts.
Mauretania made the new east bound
transatlantic record, beating the Lusi-
tania's time by II minutes.
King Alfonso during his visit to
England is constantly on the go, at
tending many entertainments.
The appeal of Won Bulow for sup
port of the reichstag made the minis
try responsible to that body.
The jewels lost by Mrs. David Beatty
through burglary were gifts to her by
her father, the late Marshall Field.
Baron Takahira has been chosen by
the japanese government as ambassa-
dor in Washington to succeed Aod.
A rOyalist paper in Paris declares
that war between Great Britain and
Germany is inevitable and seeks to
promote jealousy and suspicion.
For the second time within month
the government has instructed the
Russian minister at Sofia to call the
attention Of the Bulgarian government
TO the growing activity of Bulgarian
Lands in Macedonia, which it con-
siders Il serious menace. According to
consular agents the casualties in re-
cent engagements aggregate more
than 100 killed and wounded
At Lisbon The government, in it's
organ, Diaro Illustrado, promises to
terminate the dictatorship and hold
the elections in April if>the present
claim in the political atmosphere is
maintained. The firm attitude of Pre-
mier Franco has caused a complete
breaking up of the coalition of the
opposition parties
At Rome Cardinal Gotti on Monday
received Archbishop RiOrdan of San
Francisco, who represented the adyis-
ability Of appointing the Rev. Edward
Hanna of Rochester coadjutOr arch
bishop Of San Francisco. Cardinal
GOtti stated that DR.. Hanna was des-
cribed as protesting modernist princt-
pies and that therefore his appoint
ment had been held in allegiance.
Archbishop Riordan said these reports
were incorrect
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-12-19
Madison, Dec. II.

Foreign life insurance. companies
who elect to withdraw from Wiscon-
sin because of the new legislation,
will be allowed to remain in Wis
consin for the collection of premiums
during January and February, accord
ing to an opinion announced by at
torney General Gilbert, in part as
follows:
ANY life insurance company duly
authorized to do business IN this state
up to March l, 1903, may after De
cember 81, 1907 and up to the date
of the expiration of it's license, CON
tinue to collect premiums on policies
written prior to said 31st day of De-
cember through its authorized agents
in this state, whether such agents be
the officers of such company In the
state. banks or other persons. The
only restriction placed upon compa-
MES holding such licenses is that in
writing new policies after December
81, 1907, they comply with the laws
going into effect on that Gate.
Should such a company desire to
remain in this state after March /,
1908, for the purpose of looking after
it's business and OF collecting Premi-
ums On policies written prior to Sc
cember 81, 1907, without iasuing new
policies, 1t may do so by renewing
present license
Key Insurance Bumped
The organization OF a company to
insure against loss Of keys WAS pro
posed by Allen B. Calhoun ans has
been given black eye by the attor-
ney general in an official op0nion
rendered in response TO a request
from the commissioner of insurance.
The proposition was to form stock
company with capital of $1,000 and
whenever any of its policyhOiders
lost his keys, to hunt them up for
him or make good his loss. The
attorney general says that tho Wis
consin laws do not contain AIRY pro
visions for the organization OF such
company, unless it might come under
the provision for organization with
capital of 100000.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-12-19
CUMMINs DENIES PLEDGE.
Did Not Agree to Forever Keep Eyes
OFF CanafarShin

Did Not Agree to Forever Keep Eyes
Off Senatorship.
Des Moines, Ia, Dec. Ex-Governor
Cummfns, who was at New London,
Iowa, Saturday afternoon admitted
saying two years ago that he was not
then a candidate for the position
held by Senator Allison. Il meant
just what l said" said the governor.
81 was not candidate for senator at
that time. was running for COVER
nor. l qualified my statement suffi,
GENTLY to make it well understood
that l had no Iuea OF never running
for the senate"
The opposition claims that a let,
ter made public by Senator Dolliver
should cause the govrnor to with
draw
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-12-19

issued in various cities; all information
the secretary has on the Interior
movement of the currency, and state
ment of the gold exports and imports
from Oct / to Dec. 8, 1907.
Senator Clapp presented bill which
will materially decrease the alarming
number of desertions from the regular
army. 1t provides for an amendment
of the civil service laws so that any
one who has been honorably discharg-
ed after five years service in army,
navy or marine corps, shall have pref
erence in appointment and margin of
five points on comparative examina-
tons.
This rule now applies to those hon
orably discharged on account of
wounds received or sickness incurred
in service. If extended to the regu-
lar service il is believed it will furnish
an incentive for men to finish out their
enlistments
Congressman Keustermann intro
duced in the house bill to restore
the canteen in the army.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-12-19


Sunday school at Steubenville and
wife of a wealthy Greenfield township
farmer, was arrested yesterday in
Sandusky on an indictment charging
incendiarism.
The indictment charges that Mrs.
Campbell burned a dwelling owned
by Miss Loa Mather, neighbor, In
October. Miss Mather also has been
indicted.
Insurance Commissioner Haney as
serts that the woman framed a plot
by which Miss Mather was to take
the insurance money, pay off the mort
gage on her place, and on that condi-
ton Mrs. Campbell would buy the
place. Both women are out on bonds.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-12-19
BADGERS Take First Game.

Wisconsin defeated Beloit by score
of IS to Is N the first basketball
game Of the season Saturday after
noon. The game was slow, although
at times Wisconsin showed a fash Of
the form which may be expected later
in the season. Beloit's team work
was good, but they were weak in field
throwing, due in great measure to
Wisconsin's strong defense, which in
the first half held them down to three
points. In the second half, after
Coach Angel had shifted Wisconsin's
lineup Beloit took advantage OF the
change and scored twelve points.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-12-19
WASTE OF CIVIC ENERGY.

Kansas City Times.-With so much
for the people of Kansas city to do to
make the town attractive and to ad-
vance its industrial and commercial
growth, most of the time and energies
of the municipal authorities and of the
citizens is taken up in fighting priv
ilege grabs and political gratis. While
the city ought to be doing right things
it is kept busy preventing bad ones
from being done.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-12-19
SUSTAIN SUPREME COURT.
Accusing Attorney Faces Proceedings
for Disbarment.

st. Faul, Dec. 15.-The board OF
of the Minnesota State Bar associa-
ton Saturday passed resolutions con-
demn.ng as unwarranted the recent
attack made by Francis B. Hart Ut
Minneapolis, an attorney, on the state
supreme court, and voted to assist
in the disbament proceedings that
vii! be brought against him.
Hart sent a letter to Governor John
son accusing the supreme court of
injustice and of misinterpreting the
law, and asking him to institute an
inquiry.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-12-19
WASHINGTON,

The Touo press sheds light on the
recall of Ambassador Aoki and pays
high tribute to Roosevelt.
Representative of business leagues
from so cities formed a national coun-
sci of commerce.
The rivers and harbors congress
urged the nation to vote $4,000, 900
yearly for waterways.
President Roosevelt entertained
hunting companions at feast at the
white house and told stories of the
chase
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-12-19
TREAsoNARLE ORGANIZATION.

Declare Mine Owners of the Western
Federation.
Goldfeld, New, Dec 1.-THE mine
owners association yesterday pre-
scented to the commission sent here
by President Roosevelt a statement in
which they declare the western feder-
alton to be a reasonable organization
rather than a labor organization. More
strike breakers were put to work yes.
terday.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-12-19
DEAF FARMER MURDERED.

Paroled Convict Uses AK With Fatal
Effect.
Popular Bluff, Mo, Dec. flowing
to the fact that he was deaf, thus
being unable to hear the approach of
his slayer or his wife's cries OF warn
ing, Kinney Sifford, a farmer, was
chopped i'll the top of the head with
an ak by LutheR Baggott, a paroled
convict, and died yesterday. A posse
is searching a swamp for Baggott.
Domestic affairs caused the crime.