Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-02-27
Some News Notes

In the presence of many senators
and large gathering in the galleries
Senator McCumber of North Dakota
read the farewell address of Washing
ton
The Missouri Pacific railroad shops
at Sedalia employing 500 men, and the
Iron Mountain shops at Little Rock
employing 1900 men, have been closed
and will not open until March 6.
While Mrs. Jenny Griffin of st. Louis
was shopping, four burglars drove a
moving van up to her home and looted
the house of everything. Even two
stoves with fire in them were taken.
The Indian appropriation bill re
ported to the senate carries SO 1926, 600,
an increase of $1,610,00O over the to.
tai appropriations made as it passed
the house.
A general conference with repre-
sentatives of II southern railroads
has been asked by the national ofic-
ers of the brotherhood of locomotive
engineers to consider the proposed
cut in wages March /.
Northwest England and north Ire
land was swept by hurricane, which
left death and destruction. IN the
Mersy river a schooner was capsized
and eight men were drowned. Several
small steamers are reported in dis
tTess.
Charged with having administered
a beating to Jennie Sutton, aged Is,
with a pick handle, Rev. P. D. Run
J an, Baptist minister, principal Of the
West Derry, Pa, schools, was fined
$40 and costs and deposed Gy the
board. The services of a physician
were required for the girl.
A letter has come to Fee from
Mulai Hafd, sultan of the south, an
nouncing a massacre of infidels. It's
reading was saluted with the firing
of 200 guns. Hafd says among other
things, that the stream where his men
are encamped is overlooking with the
blood of the French.
Official announcement was made at
ST. Petersburg by the minister Of the
interior concerning a plot which was
frustrated two days ago by the police.
The object was the assassination OF
Grand Duke Nicholas, second cousin
of the emperor, and M. ChtchegloVioff,
minister of justice. The announce
ment ascribes the attempt to the So
cial revolutionary party.
Insane with rage because she OBJ
jected to him scolding one of their
children, H. U. Stoneburner, promi-
nent and wealthy Colorado farmer
shot and perhaps fatally wounded his
wife. He then placed the revolver
against his own heart and committed
suicide before his six little children
seated around the supper table.
Right Rev Henry Yates Satterlee,
D. D., for the past twelve years
Protestant Episcopal bishop or Wash
ington, died of pneumonia, aged 65,
Satterlee was formerly rector of
Calvary church, New York. He WAS
a religious writer of note and had
been elected but declined to accept
the bishoDric of Michigan and bishop
coadjutorship of Ohio.
Keeling with fatigue and after fac
ing death a score of times on the
treacherous ice of Maumee bay,
rescue party of five men arrived at
Toledo from the lighthouse, bearing
the body of Captain Delos Hayden
who died on the 18th. The rescuers
travelled fourteen miles over thin ice
and frequently narrowly escaped
drowning.
Saved from drowning after a terri
bit struggle in the icy water of the
MonongaheIa river at Elizabeth,
Penn, only to be run down and
killed by a train on reaching shore
was the fate Of J. w Draper and F..
B. Garrett, two government employees,
F. Sto1er, a companion who saved
the mon from the wafer, was also
hit by the train and probably fatally
injured.