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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-06-25
FOREIGN.

Cardinal Logue, primate of all Ire
land, was given great welcome up
on his arrival at Queenstown from
New York.
Julian Aybar, the editor of a labor
paper at San Juan, P. R., was sent.
enced to two years penal servitude
on two counts of libel consisting of
an attack made upon a Judge.
A Prague paper reports that a plot
to take the life of the kaiser was
frustrated at Vienna during his re-
cent jubilee visit to the Emperor
Francis Joseph.
Advices received at Auckland, n.
T., state that for three nights, begin
ming May TO- there was a remarkable
volcanic Outburst on Savaii, the larg-
est of the SAMOAN islands.
Provincial Detective Miller, who
has been Investigating the cause of
the fire at the Queens hotel at Tilson-
burg, Ont, in which three lives
were lost, arrested Chester Bucker-
rough, a blacksmith on the charge
Of setting fire to the hotel.
The doubts expressed as to the
truth Of the announcement in the Iron
and Steel Trades Journal that a great
combination had recently been effect
ed in the British steel trade with a
capital of $75,OO0,O00 are confirmed by
inquiries made in best informed quar-
tiers.
A pitiable spectacle, the degrade
ton of the traitor Charles C. B. UlImo
formerly q naval officer occurred at
st. Roch square at TouIon in the
presence Of an enormous crowd. En-
sign UIImO was arrested at Tou1on
last October charged with being a
spy.
The great pageant, the central feat
ure Of the festivities marking the jul
bilee of the reign of Emperor Fran
els Joseph, took place in Vienna on
riday and proved a spIendidly pic
turesQue popular festival More than
10000 representatives of the different
races either rode or walked in the
procession,
Victor Navarro, a negro lad Of Ha-
Vana, Cuba, arrested on the charge Of
completely in the kidnapping Of Luisa
Valdes, a white child, who recently
disappeared from her home, has con-
fessed that the girl was the victim Of
a band of burjOs, or negro wizards.
He said that the girl was murdered
for the purpose of using the blood of
her heart to cure an old negress Of
consumption.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-06-25
SUSAN 3. ANToNYs DEFIANCE.

ct has been so many yearh ago that
most people have forgotten that the
late Susan B. Anthony was fined 800
or a years Imprisonment for having
dared to vote for Gen. Grant for presi
dent" said Judge T. H. Meyers of
Chicago. Miss Anthony was is
brave as she was intellectual, and
asked to be allowed to speak a word
in her own behalf. Permission being
given, she tod the court of the strug-
gle she had in keeping little news
paper going. from which she made her
living. Your honor, she said, hold
ing up her right hand, I am due my
creditors not less than $1,0So. This
money I expect to live to pay, but !
am wiIung this arm shall wither from
my body before will pay the 5IJ0
you have so unjusIly assessed against
me- The court realized the deep
seriousness Of Miss Anthony's declar-
ati0n, and, though she could have been
ordered to jail for nonpayment of the
fine, his honor did not have the nerve
to enforce the extreme penalty. Miss
Anthony lived for many years after
its imposition, but tie fine was never
paid kansas City Star"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-06-25
OBITUARY..

William Rankin OF whitewater, a
soldier in the TWenty-eighth Wiscon
sin is dead.
John Vines Wright, the eldest liv.
ing former member of congress, is
dead at the age OF 80.
Quincy A: Shaw, well known in
mining and financial circles, and who
was prominently identified with CaIu-
met and HecIa, is dead at Boston.
Mrs. A. Ward, aged SO years, life
long resident of Niles, Mich, IS dead.
Mrs Ward was the mother of Mont
gomery Ward, the Chicago merchant
prince.
S. A. Harris, president of the Ma
tional Bank of Commerce Of Minneap-
oils until it's consolidation with the
Northwestern National bank, is dead.
Captain H. G. Hunt, who lost a leg
at Peach Tree Creek, while command
ing a company of the Twenty second
Wisconsin, and who was postmaster
of Delavan under President Cleve-
land, is dead, aged rs years.
Frank c. Bangs, the well-known
tragedian, died at Atlantic City, New
Jersey, after an illness Of several
months. He was rs years of age.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-06-25

the way for a settlement Of a conflict
over the succession 10 the kingdom
Of Hanover between the Cumberiands
and the German empire
Mrs. Carleton G. Ferris OF De
troit has given $4,000 toward the es-
tablishment at Indianapolis OF a mis-.
sionary training school by the Christ
ian Woman's board Of missions.
Wisconsin men who are to debate
with Nebraska and Iowa university
men are: Carl n. Hill, Spring Green
Wis; Gerhart a GesselI and H. R
Martin, Madison; Gustave Buchen
Sheboygan, Wis; John S. Clark, Port
age, Wis; and Monte F. Appel, Huron
S. D.
Senator Otto G. Foelker Of Brooklyn
New York, who went to Albany from
his sick bed in Staatsburg to vote FOL
the Agnew-Hart anti-race track
gambling bills, returned to Stats
burg. The senator appeared to be i'm
proved in health.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-06-25
IN BADGERDOM.

Charles Hammer fell from teIe
phone pole at HillsbOro and was Sc
verely injured.
Frank Gutzel Of La Crosse, aged Is
years, was struck by a street car and
his feet badly crushed.
While walking across a field Theo-
dore HeIgeson of Viroqua was struck
BY a stray bullet, and badly wounded,
Richard C. Mooney has been ap-
pointed postmaster at Richardson,
Polk county, vice Nels P. Swanson,
resigned.
In the disbarment proceedings
against him Frank B. LamOreauX Of
Superior has filed an affidavit Of pref
udice against Judge Einje.
Mrs. George H. Frenz. q we'll known
woman OF Kenosha, is Al the hospital
in a critical condition on account OF
taking carboIic acid while delirious.
Mrs. George W. Samuel, colored,
of Madison, was seriously injured by
Che accidental discharge Of a revolver
at her home. She picked it up in
making a bed.
Henry Yetta of hilbOurn was SEN
fenced 10 three years at the Green
Bay reformatory by Judge Fowler
for stealing q livery rig from Bresna-
han Bros. at Kilbourn,
There is much objection in Eau
Claire county 10 the new bounty laws.
At least two lives have been lost in
the strenuous efforts to secure go
piers and sparrows and $4,000 will
be paid in bounties.
Frank H. Tyler, alias Charles H.
Ballard, wanted in Kenosha on d
charge of uttering a forged draft for
$50. has been arrested by Pinkerton
detectives in Chicago. Tyler is al
legged to have worked in twenty cities
in Wisconsin.
The heads of two of the largest
moose ever killed in this country
were brought to Chippewa Falls By
Bruno yinette from Cook county
MINI. Each moose weighed 1900
pounds. One of the antlers measures
ifty-seyen inches from tip to tip.
At Avalon, ten miles south OF
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-06-25
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.

Mrs. F. F. BalIou Of Appleton is a
first cousin OF Secretary Cortelyou, a
vice presidential possibility.
Senator Bailey of Texas, who has
been i'll at the Waldorf-Astoria, New
York, for several days following an
operation on his throat, was not so
well.
Professor William P Welsh Of the
Johns Hopkins hospital announce
Henry Phipps of Pittsburg and New
York, just prior TO sailing for Eu
rope arraigned for a large gift to the
Johns Hopkins hospital and univer
sity for the founding of psychiatric
clinic. It is understood that it will
considerably exceed half a million dol
lars.
Prince Ernest August Of Cumber
land, the youngest son Of the duke
of Cumberland, it is reported, is about
to become an officer in the German
army. If this step is carried out il
is believed that it will greatly clear
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-06-25
LABOR AND INDUSTRY.

Test borings for oil are being made
southwest Of Rockford, H., which
causes the speculation that Beliot
may be in an oil belt.
Austrian laborers who came to Ap-
pleton from Chicago to work upon a
street contract have left the city be-
cause Of a misunderstanding with a
labor agency about terms.
The La Crosse City railway COM
pany plans to extend its Main street
line distance of half a mile.
The extensive plant of the Ameri,
can and British Manufacturing com
Iany was destroyed by fire at Provi-
dence, R. l. The loss is more than
$150,OO0.
Arguments on the motion for a
new trial in the case of the govern
ment against the Standard Oil com
pany for rebating will be heard by
Judge Hazel in Buffalo On July II.
Business men met at the city hall at
Beaver Dam and adopted resolutions
protesting against the Bell Telephone
company trying to raise rates on bust
ness phones to $3.50 per month.
The big mill Of the United States
Steel corporation at Ensley, Alabama,
viii resume operations. The plant has
a daily capacity of 1900 tons of fin
ished rails.
To QueII what might have been a
riot at the new normal school at La
Crosse policemen were dispatched to
restore order The trouble arose over
the bringing Of Italians from MiIwau-
kee to replace local men.
A grand jury at Richmond, Va, re
turned indictments against the Ches.
apeake and Ohio railroad company
and Warner r. Moore and Thomas l..
Moore, trading as Warner Moore &
Co., charged with violating the inter
state commerce law.
Subscriptions for $25,O00,0O0 of the
new bonds amounting to $50,0O0,000
issued by the Union Pacific railroad
company closed. Al the office of Kuhn
Loeb &, Co, it was stated that the
amount offered was heavily oversub-
scribed.
The stockholders of the American
Steel Foundries company at a meet
ing in Jersey City, adopted the plan
OF a committee OF the directors re-
ducing the capital stock OF the com
pany from $37,650,0O0 to $171340O0.
The purpose of the reduction, it has
been stated, is to make the stock
represent actual value.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-06-25

GAINESVILLE, a robber threatened TO kill
the six months old baby Of Mrs. Gus
Hobert unless she gave him what
money she had in the house. She
gave him SIS, he knocked her down
and departed. The man is described
as a foreigner, with a blackened face.
Mrs. Ole S. Remol Of Chippewa
county has received back from the
postmasters at Westby and Blooming
ton letters which she had written to
her father Christian Headkleve, with
the statement that he had not been
there. This leads her to give up hope
that he is alive, and she fears he has
been murdered by Mrs. Guinness.
After being lost to family and
friends for IA years, F. Adams, aged
rs years, once a prosperous manu-.
facturer of Hokah, MINI, has been
discovered in the La Crosse county
poorhouse. His daughter, Mrs. Wall
of Chicago, upon hearing Of her
fathers predicament, took her aged
parent home with her.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-06-25
EXPLOSION IN
HOLD OF STEAMER
DEADLY BLAST OCCURS IN TIE
GERMAN LINER
ARCADIA.

Philadelphia, June 21.-One man Is
dead, another is missing and nearly 4
score of others are injured as the re-
suit of an explosion on board the Ger
man steamship Arcadia, which ar
rived here from Hamburg. The deaf
man was negro steYedOre OF this
city. Sixteen Of the injured were tax
from burns and decorations and the
physicians say they do not expect
that any will die The majority 81
the injured are negro stevedores.
Some Of them will lose their limbs
The explosion occurred in one Of
the holds Of the steamer and its
cause is not known. There was moth
ing Of an explosive nature in the car
go, and it is believed the accident
was due to gases that may have &C
cum1lated while the holds were
closed.
Sixty steyedores were put 70 work
as soon as the steamer was tied 70
her dock at Washington Avenue Del
aware river, yesterday. All the holds
were opened and twenty-five men
entered the forehold to unload the
cargo. Shortly after they they IN
tered they were able to climb out on
the hold and others were rescued by
who were working in 9th
er parts of the steamer. Great diff
Guilty was experienced in getting the
men out because Of fire which fol-
lowed the explosion.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-06-25
DOM

Senator Hepburn OF Idaho says wo
man suffrage has forced the nomina,
ton of better men in his state.
Attorney Jacob Kern OF Chicago OBJ,
tanned judgment for $4,000 against
the Chicago American for libel. The
paper published retraction.
Albert TinbuIoWski was shot in De-
troit while he lay sleeping in bed be-
side his wife in their home in Alex.
andria avenue, and died from the
wound.
William D. Ryan, of Springfield, Ill.,,
secretary-treasurer Of the United
Mine Workers of America, announced
himself as a republican candidate for
congress.
Attorneys have discovered that no
one holds power to fix a new date for
Billik's execution, even though the
United States supreme court refuses
to grant a writ of habeas corpus.
A Menomonee, Mich, man was
thrown out of a street car window
as the car went around a curve. He
had been leaning out of the window.
No serious injury resulted from the
fall.
Estimates based on hotel reserva-
lions already made and official adj
vices from the 115 Shrine temples in
the United States indicate that $4,000
visitors will be entertained in st. Paul
during the Shriners' week, coming
fOk the imperial council meeting.
The news that Caleb Powers had
been pardoned by Governor Wilson
of Kentucky spread rapidly through
the country and large crowds col
lected at the stations of Pennington
Gap, Middlesboro, Pinesyiile, and
other points through which the train
passed on Sunday. Mr.. Powers shook
hands with thousands OF friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Heikkonen of
Isle Royale, Mich, have gone TO Ann
ArbOr TO take the Pasteur treatment,
being informed by DR.. Turner of the
Pasteur institute at that place that
the cat which bit them recently was
rabid. An examination of the DINin of
the cat was made by Dr.. Turner.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-06-25
Exaggerated Spring Shapes.

And just as the femme world is
congratuIating itself upon the sensible
shapes Of the new hats comes a whole
host OF freakish frames which eXag-
gerates all the good lines of the adj
yanced models. And some way mucn
vanced models. And some way Wo-
men will surely prefer them, however
much one may pray otherwise.
The pretty little hat with medium
brim and crown that came in first now
shows The latter grown TO such an ex-
IRENE that it has quite swallowed up
the brim bar an inch or SO. Then, as
If to emphasize the height and circum-
stances of the crown, a wide band OF
velvet is sewed around it. What a
pity it s!-Philadelphia Ledger.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-06-25
Electricity as Aid to Memory

At a recent meeting Of the Royal
Society Of Canada, Sir James Grant,
l.. D., presented a paper on tue
ueurons and cells of the brain in their
relation to the faculty Of memory.
and, after stating that as with the
other tissues Of the body, so with
the cells of the brain, evidence OF
Iessening power and activity appears
with the passage Of years, he added
the very interesting statement that
the line Of present investigation
demonstrates that the electrical err
rent through the brain rotates 70
molecules to such degree as to
produce most notable physiological
response in the direction Of improVe1
memory.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-06-25
THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM At A GLANCE

ment of the national monetary com
mission; the employers and govern
ment liability laws; the measures for
the greater efficiency of the army and
navy; the widows pension bill; the
child labor law for the District Of Col.
umbia; the new statutes for the
safety Of railroad engineers and fire
men.
POSTAL SAVINGS BANKS
We approve the railroad rate law and
postal savings system for the conven-
fence of the people and the encour-
agement of thrift.
RAILROADS.
We approve the railroad rate law and
| the prosecution Of rebaters and favor
the prevention of the over issue Of
stocks and bonds.
MINING
We favor the establishment Of a bu-
reau of mines and mining.
ARMY AND NAVY
While the American people Go not
desire and will not provoke a war
with any other country, we neverthe-
less declare our devotion to a policy
which will keep this republic ready
| at all times to defend her traditional
doctrines.
GOOD ROADS
We approve the efforts of the agri-
cultural department to make clear to
the public the best methods of good
road construction.
NEGROES
We demand equal justice for all
men, without regard to race or color,
and condemn all devices for the dis
reimbursement Of the negro.
REPUBLICAN POLICY
The difference between democracy
and repubIicanism is that one stands
for vacilation and timidity in govern
ment. the other for strength and
purpose. Democracy would have the
nation own the people, while republi-
canism would have the people own teh
nation.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-06-25
TAFT NOMINATED
ON FIRST BALLOT
oHlOAN HAS WALkAWAY IN RE-
PUBLICAN NATIONAL CON
VENTION.
ATTEMPT AT STAMPEDE FOR
ROOSEVELT PROVES AN
UTTER FAILURE.
RIVALS RUSH TO MAKE The DE
cIsIVE VOTE UNANIMOUS.
The Vote.
Total


Chicago, June 19.-For president OF
the United States, William H. Taft
of Ohio
Taft on the first ballot; Taft by
7O2; Taft by the unanimous choice of
the convention.
Such is the record of the culminat-
Ing DAY of the republican convention
OF 1908, effected amid scenes of tu-
multuous enthusiasm and after a
nerve-racking, continuous session last
ing nearly eight hours.
As the buckeye state was reached,
the tall, gaunt form of Theodore E.
Burton, with student-like face and
severe black clerical garb, advanced
to the platform to nominate Ohio's
candidate. He spoke ferVentIy with
the singing voice of an evangelist,
which went ringing through the great
building. The close of his speech of
nomination was the signal for IOOsing
the long pent up feeling of the Taft
legions. Instantly the Ohio deIegates
We're on their feet, other Taft states
following, while the convention hosts,
IN the gallery and on the floor broke
into mad demonstration.
Roar of Megaphones.
Taft, Taft, W-H-Taft," came in a
roar from the Ohioans.
Megaphones seemed to spring from
concealed places and swell the Taft
tumult into thunder. A huge blue
silk banner bearing the familiar feat
Ures of the atesman-secretary was
swung before the delegates, awaken
ing a fresh whirIwind of enthusiasm.
The band was inaudible-a mere
whisper above the deafening volume Of
sound. For ten, fifteen, then 20 min
utes this uproar continued. 1t was a
repetition of the scene of Wednesday
when the name of Roosevelt threw
the convention into a frenzy; repeat
ed in intensity and almost in duration.
But there is limit to the physical re-
sources of the throat and lung, relays
had not been established, and at last
the tired voices died down to a hoarse
shout and at last subdued.
Just as the last swell of Oratory,
secOnding speech for La Toilette, had
died away, like a cyclone from a clear
sky burst a La Toilette demonstration
which swept the convention from it's
very bearings. 1t was the same deaf
ening wave of sound that had greeted
Roosevelt Wednesday and Taft i little
while before, intense and maddening
and with the vital ring of genuine en-
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-06-25

Of anything crooked in connection
with the construction OF the building,
was prepared to report 10 the coun-
Gil at its meeting TO be held next
Monday.
Critics affidavit Will make it neces-
sary 10 postpone the report until a
further investigation can be made.
Critic declares that a memoer of the
Cement Workers union came 70 him
and made him a definite offer of mon,
ey if he would testify that he knew
of defective material having been
used in the erection Of the walls Of
the auditorium.
1t is alleged that the man who
made the offer is an employee of a
company which is in competition with
the Raufs-Lewis company.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-06-25
HAPPENINGS OF A DAY
WASHINGTON.

Secretary Taft has telegraphed
to Representative Theodore e. Bur
ton of Ohio, asking him if he would
accept a designation as umpire Of the
commission appointed to adjudicate
disputed land claims on the isthmian
canal zone.
Two automobiles filed with pretty
girls decked with gorgeous merry
widow hats, dashed up to the White
house office building, loaded with tags
In the effort to raise funds for the
Washington play grounds.
That the test made on the monitor
Florida in Hampton roads with a
whitehead torpedo was highly salts.
factory and will repay the govern.
ment one hundred fold, was the oDin
ion expressed by Secretaries Met
calf and Taft who witnessed the test
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-06-25
ROOSEVELT


The abuse of wealth, the tyranny o
power, and the evils of privilege AM
faVOTitism have been put TO scOrn b.
his simple, manly virtues Of justice
and fair play. We pledge a continu
ance of the Roosevelt policies.
ANTElNJuNcTION-
The republican party will uphold the
authority OF the courts, but believes
the rules of procedure in federal
courts with respect to injunction$
should be more accurately defined by
statute, and that no injunction should
| be issued without notice.
LABOR
The same wise policy = will be
pursued in every legitimate direction
within federal authority to tighten the
burdens and increase the happiness
and advancement of all who toll.
THE TARIFF
The republican party declares for a
revision Of tariff by a special SEES
sion of congress Immediately following
the Inauguration of the next president.
We favor the establishment of ma:I-
mum and minimum rates to be admin
istered by the president.
MONEY!
An expanding commerce and III
creasing crop movements disclose the
need Of a more elastic and adaptable
system
TRUSTS
1ne federal government should have
gret ter supervision and control over
corporations engaged in interstate
commerce having the power to ere
ate monopoIies.
INLAND WATERWAYS
We call for a large and comDre-
hensive plan, just to all portions of
the country, to improve the water
ways, harbors, and great lakes.
REPUBLICAN LEGISLATION-
We commend the passage of the
emergency currency bill; the appoint
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-06-25
SHERMAN
NAMED FOR
VICE PRES

Chicago, June 19.-James s. Sher-
man Of New York was nominated for
vice president. He is So years old, was
born at Utica, is a lawyer, trust COM
pany president and head of a big can
ming company. He has been a con-
gresham for several terms. His
home is Utica-the old home If Ros-
coe ConkIing. He is an alumnus of
Hamilton college.