Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-09-05

hysterical condition and a better feel
ing prevails in the stock market. A
scarcity of money being felt in the
east, though the west seems well sup
piled.
Gen. Coxey of Coxey army fame will
raise a new army to fight for munich
pal and state ownership of public
utilities. Unlike his ragged cohort Of
old this new army will travel first
class on the railroads.
At Pittsburg two fires, due to the
explosion of gasoline in clothes press
ing establishments, caused damage es-
timated at s250,000, and for time
threatened the entire east end section
Ct the city.
Frost losses In the Canadian north
west stimulate large European pur-
chases of American wheat and prom
Use to curtaiI export competition with
this country. Corn nears 60-cent
ievel, and oats soar into ffties.
British parliament will be pro-
rogued next week with few of its
important reforms achieved, owing to
the attitude of the house of lords, and
in the recess the liberals will carry on
a campaign for limitation of the peers
power.
CabIegram from Walter Wellman,
dated Aug. 81, says the airship had
successfully passed its final test and
that all was ready for the arctic dash,
and gives color to the belief that by
this time the explorer may have
sailed.
Suspended halfway down a deep
quarry shaft by means of a rope, John
Hutchinson of Mercer county, New
Jersey, a blaster, was attacked by a
large pilot snake In spite of the
fact that he had stick of dynamite
in his hand, he fought the snake with
pocket knife and killed it.
Announcement was made in New
York, that the heads Of the INTERIOR
ough Metropolitan company, the trac-
ton combination in New York, have
refused to open their books to the pub
lic-serVice commission. The com,
pa1y holds that it is not a railroad
corporation, but merely holding con
Germ.
Edward G. Tombit, an elevator con
ductor in the Masonic temple, Chicago
was fatally injured, and two other
! men were seriously hurt when an ele
ivator in which they were riding drop
ped from the fifteenth floor Of the
building to the basement. The snap
ping of a cable was the cause of the
accident
An attempt was made about nooon to
blow up the incoming short line pas
senger train with dynamite at St
Peters Dome, midway between Grip
pie Creek and Colorado Springs. The
hand of NJ. ]. Mccarthy of Victor
| deputy state mine inspector, was cut
A similar attempt was made to blow
up the same train at DuffieId on Wed
nesday.
Postofice Inspector Kimball de
clares, after investigating the recent
theft Of two mail pouches on a Chi
cago, Burlington and Quincy train
that the stolen pouches contained mat
ter sent to points east of Chicago. He
said that if $250O00 has been stolen it
must have been currency sent from
the Denver banks to New York. The
inspector doubted that such an amount
had been taken.
Miss linda Ethel Blaine, % years
old, was shot and killed in the Sara
tOga hotel, Chicago, by Charles E
Andrews, 40 years old, formerly a res,
taurant keeper in Elkhart, Ind, with
whom she had lived as wife for Two
months. After he had made sure the
woman was dead, Andrews shot him
self in the head. He died in the am
bulance on the way to st. Luke's hos
pital. Miss Blaine came from Cali
fornia last Sunday night with An
dreWs. From letters found in the
trunks it is thought she was a resi-
dent of Flora, Ind. The letters told
plainly the story of the mans infatua-
ton