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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-07-18
INDIAN IN POOL OF BLOOD.
Foster Gonon Found Dead on Shaw
ano Road

Green Bay, Wis, July 16.-"Lying
dead in a pool of blood Foster Gonlon,
an Oneida Indian, was found on the
Shawano road near the Oneida reser-
walton, Sunday night. His skull was
fractured at the base of the brain,
and from what evidence the authori-
ties have, it is thought Conlon fell
from his wagon probably landing on
the wheel, and died from the loss of
blood. The dead man was So years
of age, and married His wife and two
children survive him
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-07-18

subjects upon which the referendum
is desired in order that there may be
no doubt or uncertainty as to the
scope of the statute. Some of the i'm
portant matters which would be re
ferred to a vote of the people under
this bill are already provided for I'M
der the provisions Of chapter 387.
laws of 1903, where it is provided that
no ordinance for granting either a
street railroad. electric lighting, gas.
water or telephone franchise, or for
the extension of the life of any such
existing franchise shall be operative
in any city of this state until after
90 days from the date, Of its passage
At any time during that period 20 per
cent Of the voters may demand that
the ordinance be submitted to direct
vote of the people and be approved
by them before it becomes operative.
This provision of the statute is def
mite and certain with respect to the
matters therein contained, and it
might be advisable to extend it to
other subjects, but in so doing no
doubt should exist as to the subjects
treated -
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-07-18
NO USE FOR LOBBY.

Rock Island Ceases to Handle Legis-
Iators.
Des Moines, July 16.-At a luncheon
rendered him yesterday by the Des
Moines business men, President Win
chelI of the Rock Island railroad said
that the Rock Island is out of politics
and will do away with it's Hobbies and
lobbyists, both in the state Iegisla.
ture aad congress. John Sebastian,
general passenger agent of the same
road said the Rock Island will not
reduce it's passenger service on &C,
count of the two-cent rate laws but
has and will improve it further.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-07-18
TORNADO IN SOUTH DAKOTA.
Many Buildings Destroyed but No
ives Lost.

Mitchell, S. D, July IA tornado
swept over the northwestern par of
this city Saturday evening. In the
vicinity Of Mount Vernon west of here
number of houses and barns were
swept away. In the northwestern
part of this city houses were COM
pletely swept away and barns demoI-
ished No lives were lost, the occu-
pants of the destroyed buildings hav-
ing taken refuge in cellars.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-07-18
CIRCUS TENT BLOWN
DOWN; ONE MAN KILLED

WATERFOWL s. D., July 1.-THE
menagerie tent of circus was demol-
ished by a storm Saturday afternoon.
One of the circus employees was killed
and three seriously injured By falling
poles. Fifteen thousand people were
in the tent Is minutes before the
storm broke.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-07-18
FISH UPSETS A BOAT.

TWO Chippewa, Falls Men Dragged
Down River by Big Fish.
Chippewa Falls, Wis, July 14-Her-
man Holz and Albert Holz narrowly
escaped being drowned in the Chip
pewa river yesterday. They were
out fishing in a boat when suddenly
a fish tackled Herman's line and in
the excitement which followed the
boat capsized The line caught in
the oar-lOck and the fish carried the
boat down stream. Luckily a log
hove to and the men got on it and
fiOated down the river until they
were picked up. Neither of the men
could swim. The craft was after
wards recovered a mile distant.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-07-18
CHARLES GROLlNG DEAD.
Prominent Beaver Dam citizen Passes
Away, Aged 78

Beaver Dam, Wis, July 16.--Charles
Groling, one of the best known pio-
neers of Beaver Dam, is dead, aged
rs years. Mr.. Groling had been in
Feeble health for several months. He
was born in Hesse, Germany. He
came to America in 1919 and lived in
New York three years, after which
he came to Wisconsin, and had resid-
ed in Beaver Dam fifty-two years.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-07-18
Co-enpIoye Act.

The co-employe law for railway en-
ployes does away with contributory
negligence as defense to accidents
occasioned by the negligence of a CO.
employee and provides that a compare,
tive rule of negligence shall be
adopted. By this damages can be re-
covered by a finding by jury that
the employe injured was less response
BILE for the accident occasioning the
injury than his fellow employee The
law also provides that the question of
the degree of negligence shall be q
question solely for the jury.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-07-18
SEVERE RAINS IN NEBRASKA.
Aggregate of Eight inches of Water
Fall in a Nqht.

aFF TT q FNEJFFIs
Omaha, July 16.-Heavy rains in
many counties aggregating eight
inches, fell over southern Nebraska
Sunday night and as the result rail
road traffic is partially suspended.
Rock Island Is using the Burlington
tracks between Omaha and Lincoln
because of washouts along the Platte
river. The Missouri Pacifics Kansas
City-Omaha line washed out in
dozen places in southeast Nebraska
and no trains are running. The I'm
ion Pacific washed out on its Kansas
Nebraska line and trains cannot be
run until today. The Burlington Is
washed out on many branches.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-07-18
GREEN BAY BOY DROWNED.
Alden DeCramer Falls Off Dock and
Perishes.

Green Bay, Wis, July 16.-Aiden,
the 15-year-old son of Charles De-
Cramer, was drowned in the East
river Sunday, and his body recovered
yesterday morning. The boy must
have fallen off the end of the dock,
as his clothes were on the body when
taken from the river. Two weeks ago.
Harold Schwartz was drowned near
the same place
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-07-18
lnSur ance.

The bill which requires including in
insurance politics a statement of the
expense charges in such politics was
one of the actuarial bills defeated. The
following seven measures go on the
statute books on the subject of IN
surance:
1. Limiting the expense charge Oh
policies to one-third the gross pre-
MUM collected on those policies and
providing the expense charge in no
year shall be greater on any policy
than the expense charge on a 2O-pay-
ment life policy.
2. limiting the expense loading on
policies to conform to expense charge.
Prohibiting any officer or employee of
a domestic life insurance company to
receive remuneration of more than
$4,000 per year.
4. Defining insurance terms and
giving legal effect to them.
5. Providing for the annual ac-
counting on all policies
6. Providing that there must be an
accounting on all deferred dividend
policies as to present worth of those
policies.
7. Regulating elections of home in
surance companies in such manner as
to protect the voting interest of pol
|icy-holders in such election and. giving
to policy-holders an opportunity for a
cumulative vote on their choice of di-
rectors. This bill also does away with
proxy voting and provides for either
la mail or personal ballot in all cleo
tons in mutual insurance companies
in Wisconsin.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-07-18

Mark Twain babe farewell to Lon
don Saturday and sailed for home on
the Minnetonka. A great crowd OF
admirers was at the station.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-07-18
Earthouake i'm Texas.

Paris, Texas, July 16.-An earth
shock was felt here at midnight Sun
day night Dishes were ratified and
buildings shaken.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-07-18
Tolstoi Reported Dead.

London, July 1.-THE Telegraph
prints a dispatch from st. Petersburg
that there is an unconfrmed rumor
that Count Leo Tolstoi is dead
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-07-18
WILL NOT LEAVE
BADGER STATE
INSURANCE COMPANIES WILL
TRY NEW LAWS,
PREMIUM BILL AMENDED

Seven Words Added to Measure Max
ing 1t Satisfactory to Representa-
tIves of Big Life insurance Compa-
nies-Proxy Permission Cut Out of
important Bill.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-07-18
SALOONS CLOSE EARLY.
Nine at Night the Latest Hour Now
In Alabama.

Montgomery, Ala, July 14-The
anti-saloon league scored victory be
fore the Alabama legislature when
the early closing bill passed the SEN
ate. The bill which prohibits the ship
ment of liquor into prohibition coun-
ties was taken from the adverse cal
endar The early closing bill provides
that saloons must close at from to
9 p. m. according to the population of
towns and cities.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-07-18
AGAINST Pension Policy.

The message returning the supreme
court pension measure is in part as
follows:
IN my opinion it is against public
policy for the state a. this time to
enter upon a system which authorizes
the payment of a pension to public of
ficers who have served the state in a
lucrative position, after their terms of
office had expired. 1t is not to be sup
posed that our judges will be in need
'of pecuniary aid after having served
the state for twenty years, and I can
| see no grounds upon which such leg
islation can be justified. If this sys-
tenn is once entered upon, every leg
islature in the future will be impor-
tuned to grant compensation to other
officers than our judges, after their
services for the state have ended.
This act does not take effect until
after the next session of the legisla-
ture, and in any event it may be as
we'll to allow the future to take care
of this matter, in accordance with
conditions when may hereafter arise.
up to the present time this state
has not adopted the policy of granting
extra compensation to public officers
after they have retired from their Of
fetal positions, and, in my opinion,
the act is of doubtful validity, under
that provision of our constitution
which provides: The legislature shall
never grant any extra compensation
to any public officer, agent, servant or
contractor after the services shall
have been rendered or the contract
entered into, nor shall the compensa-
ton of any public officer be increased
or diminished during his term of Of
flee If the bill is not in fact within
the letter of this provision of the con-
stitution, it certainly falls within the
spirit thereof"
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1907-09-13

The Phoenix Drug Company,
Limited, Is the sole agent in
Winfield for Jacobs celebrated
candies. put up in boxes Of con-
yenient sizes. Try them. 5-10tf
Boost Winfield by buying a
button.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1907-09-13

The Only Guaranteed kidney Cure
is Smiths Sure Kidney Cure. Your
druggist win refund your money if
after taking one bottle you are not
satisfied with results. so cents by
Phoenix Drug Store. fS6m.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1907-09-13
Fine Repairing a Speciality

put the evil beyond his reach.
This can only be done by State
prohibition. This would be right
for anything is wrong that de-
thrones reason. If a meeting will
be called of the people of my dis
trict and they select committee
of good business men that will
get the law of Kansas, South Car
DINA and Georgia, colIate what
they like of each, l will endeavor
to put it in phraseology to fit our
civil law aud introduce it in the
Senate where l think / can pass
it. | am of the opinion that it
may fail in the House but it will
get the people to talking ana if it
does not go through this session
it will the next. Four years ago,
| introduced bill prohibiting the
State from making any more pub
lie buildings of wood but provided
that they should be as nearly fire
proof as possible; that all schools
aud asylums more than one story
high should have metal fire
escapes; that Superintendent must
lnangurate fire drills, etc. 1t
would not pass the house but two
years educated the same repres-
entatives up to passing it and l
believe it will be the same with
this measure. Sincerely,
G. II. TEAL.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1907-09-13
Long 4 Black
the wide awake

Liverymen, meet
all trains with
their buses and
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1907-09-13
Hon. c. H. Teal's Views.

Colfax, La, Sept. Z, 1907.
Ny Dear Major Strong:
As was leaving WINFIELD the
other day, l was told that it was
customary for candidatein Winn
parish to have platform of what
be stood for accompany his an
n0uncemeEt. / have been away
al summer and am not as familiar
With the issues that have arisen as
I SHOULD be but my knowledge of
public matters makes me say that
Z public Office is a public trust
and any man seeking it should
pledge himself to the same econo-
my aud care, that he would use
ID managing bis own affairs.
Il happened that l was on the
finance committee of the Senate
- committee that approves or
disapproves of all monies paid
ont By the authority of the legis-
{1ture-aDd / was an active menu
bor of that committee and assisted
IL saving the State many thou
onnds of dollars, on account of
which / have received many let
tcro from business men (not polit
fcfsns) asking that | offer for
election again..
Ia . letter six months ago, L
committed myself to Mr.. P. M.
Potts, President of the Cotton
Brewers Association of Louisiana
60 the effect that L would assist
him il passinga law to prohibit
totton future gambling in this
6tate. II elected, / shall gladly
comply with this promise. 4
Again / am in favor OF a law
80 win put the Sheriffs in the
11fge parishes on q salary. In
f6ot e IN equitable adjustment
oonld Be reached, l believe all,
oGRoere Of the State could be put
q Z salary basis. There is no
r11oon Why the Governor of the
Gfnhe should get Ave thousand
10llars md the Secretary of State
t5penty- i've thousand dollars, nor
~ Judge sitting on the bench
ofzoe thousand dollars aud the
6koriH that waits on him get
11lonty or twenty-five thousand.
horo should be- an Adjustment
6rrise that would amply pay the
noriG for his responsibilities and
okp of hls person and make it .
n1nried Office.
Tkere Is one more very import
~ ouestion, viz: whiskey. be-
6eoo good majority of the peo-
- of the whole State stand for
okIbitiou and Is . rule it does
prohibit. The illicit selling
n6ing numerous arrests. the
-
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1907-09-13

There is increasing evidence
that the good roads movement l.
gaining ground rapidly especial,
in the South. which has not been
in fix until now To undertake
Improvements of this kind. In
terest is being awakened in Lonis-
lana, where good roads are needed
more badly than in any other
State in the Union. There are
about $4,000 mile, of public roads
in this State and it is said that
only thirty-four miles have been
improved and made permanent.
However, as stated, the good
roads agitation is beginning to
bear results i'm various commun-
tiles in the South. Jefferson
county, Alabama, in which Birm-
ingham is situated, adopted a
! good roads system some years ago
until now macadamlzed roads lead
from that city into almost every
portion of the county. Colbert
county, Alabama, issued bonds
for road building and that county
has splendid system of pike
roads and the increased value of
lands, it is claimed, in one year
was more than enough to meet
the bonds.
Mecklenberg county, North
Carolina, has 100 miles of good
roads, built largely with county
convict labor at very small cost,
while automobile clubs at Sayan-
nah. Ga, and Jacksonville, Fla,
are actively at5Tork to advance
the building fgood roads in those
sections of the South. The Men,
phis Commercial-APpeaI notices
editorially the various movements
now on foot for good roads in
which that city is interested, from
which the following Is taken:
ALREADY 1t is proposed to build
from Fort Smith through Arkau-
sas to Memphis. Mississippi has
In contemplation plan for a
trunk line from Gulfport via
jackson to Memphis. Tennessee
is considering highway from
Bristol, via Knoxville and Chat
tanooga to Memphis. a second
road from Nashville to Memphis
and third from some point near
Paducah. Ky, to Memphis. Ala
bama and Georgia have not put
themselves on record. but it is
believed they will make extra eff
forts to connect their salt water
ports with the Chattanooga and
Memphis highway" A good
roads meeting was held in Spar
tausburg, s. c., on the 9TH and
Sth insts., that was largely attend
ed from all portions of South
Carolina, the governor delivered
strong address and much inter-
est was apparent.
In Louisiana Caddo parish pro-
poses to take the lead in the good
roads movement. When the State
Fair opens next month it is hoped
to have the object lesson oil and
asphalt road which is being built
as sort of experiment ready for
inspection by the people of the
State. 1t is believed that this
road will prove SO satisfactory in
every way that it will be adopted
generally in this State and give
impetus to the movement in favor
of better highways. If this oil
and asphalt road is q success. it is
proposed to build a system OF
permanent highways in this par
ish, employing this method
Shreveport Times.
- -
The Only Guaranteed kidney Cure
is Smiths Sure Kidney Cure. Your
druggist win refund your money if
after taking one bottle you are not
n n L.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1907-09-13
Doctors Endorse 1t.

Lang Bros, Druggists, Pad
ucah. KY, write: 1--WE sell more
of DR.. Mendenhall's Chill and
Fever Cure than all other REM
edies combined, having retalIed
over 700 bottles in one sea on.
Physicians here prescribe it and
persons who once use it will have
no -olher." Sold by honest drug
glsts.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-03-01
ORIENTAL JUGGLERs.
Feats Performed by Chinese and
East Indian Magicians.

EkSASt hA6AeS ACAdASs
During a trip through the far east
was much impressed with the won
derful feats performed by some Of the
Chinese and Indian jugglers and
sleight of hdnd artists" said Chi
cage man the other day. "In Ameri-
can theaters we see some skillful
work along these lines, but the per-
former is usually at a considerable
distance from the spectators and
could employ many aids that the ORR
entails do not use.
81 have seen Chinese and Indian
magicians come on board a ship and
in the center of circle of passengers
perform tricks that are little short Of
marvellous. For instance, one of the
Chinese would ask a spectator to
place a coin in the latter's hand. The
Chinaman would close the fingers one
after another over the piece of money
and then, by passing his hands over
the closed fist of his subject" would
in some mysterious manner extract
the coin. l have had this trick work.
ed on me number of times, and I,
am no nearer to knowing how 1t is
done than l was the first time.
"rhen have seen an Indian magi-
clan come out on deck. place small
seed on the planks. pour little water
over it, cover with a small cloth for
moment and then remove the cloth to
disclose living plant foot or more
high. These fellows do not wear long,
almost be concealed, but have bare
arms. There is said to be clan of
jugglers, among whom the secrets of
the craft are jealousy preserved and
handed down from father to SON.
Detroit Free Press.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-03-01
Saved Her Sons Life.

The happiest mother in the little
town of Ava, Mo-, is Mrs. S. Rnp
pee She writes: "One year ago
my son was down with such serious
lung trouble that our physician
was unable to help him; when, by
our druggists advice [ began giving
him DIR. Kings New Discovery, and
| soon noticed improvement |
kept this treatment up for few
weeks when he was perfectly well
lie has worked steadily since al
'arpeuter work. DIR. Kings New
Discovery saved his life" Guar
anteed best cough and cold cure 10y
Eli T Reynolds, Druggist soc
aud 81 90 Trial bottle free.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-03-01
DRESSED SEALSklN.
The Way This Beautiful Fur II
Brought to Perfection.

The Way This Beautiful Fur II
Brought to Perfection.
If lady's sealskin jacket be COM
pared with the coarse. hard or dry
sailed sealskin as imported, or, still
better, with the coat of the living fur
seals, one is struck with the vast diff
ference between them.
Passing our fingers among the hairs
Of the cat or dog. we may notice fine
short hairs at the roots of the longer,
coarser general covering of the animal.
This is so called under fur. But in the
greater number of these animals the
short hairs are so few and often so fine
as to be, comparatively speaking, lost
sight of among what to our eyes con-
stitutes the coat.
The operation which the skin under
goes to bring out, so to say, the fur,
may be briefly described as follows:
The skin. after being washed to rid 1t
of grease and so forth, is laid fiat on
the stretch, flesh side up. A fiat knife
Is then passed across the flesh sub
stance, thinning it to a very consider
able extent. In doing this, the blade
sewers the roots Of the long strong
hairs, which penetrate the skin deeper
than do the soft, delicate ones under
the fur. The rough hairs are then got
rid of while the fur retains it's hold.
A variety of subsidiary manipula-
tons, in which the pelt is softened and
preserved. are next gone through, and
then the fur undergoes a process of
dyeing which produces that deep uni
form tint so we'll known and admired.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-03-01
A CRUEL ENDING
The Lonely Death and Desecrated
Grave of Laurence Sterne.

The Lonely Death and Desecrated
Grave of Laurence Sterne.
Laurence Sterne, the great writer,
was left alone in his rooms on Bond
street, London, in those last bitter
days, with a servant of the lodging
house for his only attendant. AS he
lay dying knock was heard at the
door and footman entered, come
from house near by to inquire as to
his health.
The footman waited till the end, saw
the thin arm raised as if to ward off
blow and heard the almost inarticu-
late murmur from white lips, "Now it
is Gomez
Then he went back to the house,
where large party was gathered. and
told the news to the feasters, most Of
whom were Sterne's friends. For the
space of half an hour they lamented
him. and then the talk turned on other
things-so soon are we forgotten in
this workaday world.
"Alas, poor Yorick!" His publisher
and single friend followed him to
the tomb, while ghouls watched out
side and marked the spot where he
was laid. Two nights afterward the
body was stolen. shipped to Cambridge
and placed. strangely enough, upon the
dissecting table at his own university.
A friend recognized his features and
tainted away when it was too late to
stop the Observation-Disclosures Reed in
Book News Monthly.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-03-01
How To Remain Young.

To continue young in health and
strength, do ~ Mrs. N F. Rowan,
MrDonough, Ga, did. She says:
"Fhree bottles of Electric Bitters
cured me- of chronic liver and
stomach trouble, complicated with
such an unhealthy condition of the
blood thai my skin turned as red
rs flannel. | am now practically 20
years Younger than before | took
Electric Bltters. | can now do all
my work with ease and assist in my
husbands store " Guaranteed at
Eli T. Reynolds Drug S ore. Price
soc
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-03-01
Debt Owed to Antiquity.

Are we Indebted to antiquity? Yes,
immensely. 1t is the labor, the expert
ence, even the failures of ancestors,
that have placed us where we are. We
still repeat many of their mistaken ex-
periments which they thought wise. It
was tentative effort with them. though
mistaken, and they did the best they
knew. But. on the whole the world Is
doing we'll. Its chief debt to antiquity
is in the lessons it has learned through
which it avoids or may avoid repetition
of old errors and absurdities.-Por Cortland
Oregonian.