Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-10-17

union 10 keep up Inc price Oh DOaTQ
ma rooms, the occasion being the in
| creased price of foodstuffs and the
higher rentals.
The New York Equal Suffrage
league has indorsed the suit of Mrs.
! harriet Stanton Batch against the
Hoffman house because she was
| lenied admission to the restaurant
without an escort.
Mrs. Marguerite Pasquam, an Ital-
ian woman, applied to Bellevue hos
| pital in New York and offered to sell
| thirty inches Of her skin for $50 in
| order to get money to buy food foT
! her starving baby. She then tried to
| sell her hair but was unsuccessful.
Capt. August Richter has resigned
| his command Of the North German
| Lloyd steamer KronpTinz Wilhelm as
the result Of a supernatural warning
to quit the sea early in the summer
when the great ship struck an ice
berg off the grand banks.
! At Fort Worth the National Asso-
/ citation of Railway Clerks elected
| these officers: D. E. Barnes, Wichita,
Kan, PRESIDENT; James Garfield,
/ Syracuse, n. Y, vice president, and
George A. Wood, Portsmouth, n. H.
treasurer.
Stanley Gerrity and J. F. Fortney,
| employees of a construction company
at Gary, Ind, were killed, and three
workmen injured when through
| eastbound Lake Shore and Michigan
Southern passenger train ran into a
group of men who were about to
J board a train at Gary.
Following Justice Jefries' inVestl-
| cation, at Beloit, into the death of
Miss Edith Presley, proofreader in
the legislative printing Office, Repre-
sentative Charles E. Ward was held
for tr.aI, charged with being a party
to the girls death in a maternity hos
| pital.
At Traverse City, Mich, William
EgIer, %, drowned in Lake Michigan
after his younger brother Harry had
swan a mile with him through the
icy water and had reached shore.
The lads strength failed and the old
er boy died before aid could be sum-
| m0ned.
States Attorney HeaIey's gambling
investigation, which was expected to
result in wholesale indictments tend
ing to shake official Chicago to it's
| foundations, collapsed when the
grand jury reported that there had
Mt been submitted sufficient evidence
on which to base a single Indictment.
StuyYesant Fish, ex-president of
! the Illinois Central railroad, in a SEN
| sational statement accuses E. H.
Hartman the present head Of the
system, of making Illinois Central
employees SOLICIT proxies ler the
coming meeting in Chicago and OF
juggling the stock books of the com
pany SO as to qualify certain men to
attend the meeting in his interest
Judge SeweL has decided that
| Eymoto, the Japanese restaurant
keeper whose place in San Francisco
was damaged by a mob some months
| ago, cannot recover from che city
and county of San Francisco damages
for anything but the actual loss in
CURED. The complainant sued for
$4,000 damages for loss of good will
and profits.
A fund of several thousand dollars
has been raised for Bertha Claiche,
who is serving a tWO-year term in
the Bedford reformatory for killing
Emil Gordon, her former sweet
heart who, she declared, had en-
shaved her in New York. The money
will be used in fixing up a little
dressmaking establishment for the
young woman, who will be free in a
few weeks.
With reference to the published
report that Booker T. Washington,
Jr, son of the colored educator, and
J. E. Gomez, son of the Cuban gen
eral had been forced to leave Philips
Exeter academy on account of race
prejudice. Principal Amen denies the
story. He says that Washington vol
unfairly left school rather than sub
NIT to discipline. Gomez, Washing
tons roommate, also left voluntarily,
it is believed, because ne took offense
at a rebuke from one OF the teachers.
Mayor Bennett of Fort Dodge, who
gained lame by issuing a ukase that
ali bachelors must wed within year
or pay a fine, was taken at his WORD
by Nolan Snow, a chauffeur, who
eloped with the mayors daughter,
Mabel.