Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-10-22
News Boiled Down
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
Five hundred ghetto children IN
New York, gayIy dressed, form huge
American flag and sing patriotic
songs before a large crowd at a har-
vest festival
A mail pouch containing eight reg
fstered packages for the east disap-
Deared at Salt Lake City. 1t is be-
Heved to have been stolen off a.
truck at the Denver & Rio Grande
depot.
It is reported that James Oliver
}Irwood, the author, who recently
gent into the Hudson bay wilds for
Detroit publishing firm, has been
killed by Indians in the Lac La Rouge
country.
JF. McCIintock, a Duluth travel
ing man, lost his watch on Northern
Pacific train Just as It pulled into
Fargo. y. D. A man feigning drunk
enness reeIed against him in the aisle
Of the car.
The captain and five Of the crew,
supposed TO have been lost when the
British schooner Sirocco was wrecked
oft the Florida coast Oct 1, were
landed in Boston by the fruit steamer
HOratius
William VI. Potts, football player,
injured in game Oct. 3, is dead at
Cannonsburg, Pa, after having been
unconscious for a week, He was Il
years Old. During a game with the
high school eleven he was kicked on
the head
PostOnice Inspector James e. Stu
art Of Chicago, began an nVestiga-
ton involving the sending of an al
legged bomb through the mails, the re
cipfent of the bomb being, it is
claimed. d city police officer or an
army officer.
Ricardo Flores Magon, reputed
leader Of the Mexican revolution
movement. is i'll in the county Jail at
Los Angeles, Cal. 1t is said he has
consumption Application will be
made to the federal government for
his removal TO a sanitarium.
Experts at the Bronx 700 in New
York are puzzling over a strange new
monkey from Java, which is the near
est so far seen to the longsought
missing link" The creature is sup,
posed to be a species of gibbon. 1t
stands three and half feet high.
The handsomely appointed offices
Of the Standard Stock and Grain com
Dany in Jersey City were raided by
Jersey City police and twenty-seVen
persons found in the rooms were ar
rested The charge made against the
concern is that it maintained a dis
orderly house.
A copy of the secret code Of the
Standard Oil company is lost, &C
cording to police who have recovered
a vaIise stolen from w. A. Ledbetter,
general attorney for the Waters.
Pierce Oil company in Oklahoma
The code was in the yaIise when
taken.
Suits against seventy milk dealers
and grocers were filed by City Prose,
,cutor George II. White of Chicago
on charges Of selling milk and cream
below the standard in butter fats
selling skinned milk without labelling
1t as such, and selling mixtures OF
milk and cream not properly labeled
Three men are dying and ten are
suffering from more or less serious
wounds as a result of a riot between
miners and outside men at Enterprise,
nine miles from Fairmont, w Va,
last night. The riot is said to have
been the outgrowth of grievances be
tween two factories.
Private Joseph B. Klein, company
A, First regiment L n. G.. of Chi
cago. has been indicted by the Kanka,
keo county grand jury on the charge
OF murder. Klein, it is charged,
stabbed Earl Nelson. Is years old,
with a bayoDet when the boy boarded
the soldiers train, on its way o quell
the Springfield race riots.