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Charlevoix county herald., 1908-01-25
A Grape Cutting.

lower cut squarely across and close
under the bud; the upper cut slanting
and an inch or two above the bud. In
this way the cuttings can be planted
right side up. Currant cuttings are
made six or eight inches long in the
same manner, but they contain several
buds.
Cuttings may be tied in bundles.
with the lower ends even, and buried
Charlevoix county herald., 1908-01-25

problem OF great
Importance, mas
much as it means
to t h e o W II e +
whether or not
the potatoes so
stored shall re-
tain their color,
freshness a n d
weight for from
two to six months.
The proper To-
cation for a pota-
to storage house
Of large capacity
is a factor that is
often overlooked,
says Orange Judd
Farmer. 1t can
nauar ba bI1iIt on
Charlevoix county herald., 1908-01-25

bushes with only
a little labor. They
are grown COM
mercially from
cuttings of the
pre- Sc mt ca
sons growth. All
that is necessary
is to put the
ripened wood in
the ground where
it will start to
Charlevoix county herald., 1908-01-25

pucch &c C,ttiroe grow HtAI year
and form plant
which will be suitable to transplant
one or two years later. Grape cuttings
are made with either two or three
buds. Well ripened, short jointed
wood should be selected. Make the
Charlevoix county herald., 1908-01-25
What One Farmer Has Learned

We have learned by experience that
wood ashes sprinkled on a cows back
are good to remove lice, also that
by leaving said COW in the rain that In
addition to lice part of the hair aud
hide also moved; and we have further
learned that pure pine tar is good to
assist nature In replacing the hide.
Charlevoix county herald., 1908-01-25

The snow of winter protects the
roots of trees; the bare ground is
more dangerous than the snow-covered
ground.
Charlevoix county herald., 1908-01-25
PROPER STORAGE FOR POTATOES.
Suggestions Which May Prove vaIua-
BILE in Preparing for Another Season.

The storing of potatoes, particularly
on the farm, in proper manner is a
Charlevoix county herald., 1908-01-25
PLANTS FROM CUTTINGS.
Grape Vines and Berry Bushes EasIty
Propagated.

Every land owner can easily secure
nice lot of grape vines and currant
Charlevoix county herald., 1908-01-25

in moist sand over
winter. Tho ends
will callous over
and they will be
ready to put out
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-12-31
uPSETS WHOLE TOWN.
Mysterious W.-1an in Black Rings
Door Bells and Then Vanishes.

Mysterious W.-nan in Black Rinqs
Door Bells and Then Vanishes.
This town rs in the throes of excite
ment over a great scare which has
aroused some of the more supersti-
tious resfdents, says a Bowling Green,
Mo, dispatch to the New York Her
aid. woman wearing a flowing,
witchlfke garb Of black appears after
the evening shadows have fallen at
the front doors of houses and rings the
door bells, and just before the door +
answered suddenly disappears.
The last "apparition" was seen only
asst week when it knocked, with three
ravenlike taps, at the front door of the
home of Rev. NJ. Gardner of the Cum
berland Pre- 5byterian church. The
story goes that the minister had on
previous occasions discredited the
story Of the ''spook" and had tried TO
quiet the fears of the skeptical citi-
zens.
The legend of the woman in black"
dates back three years. 1t is said that
on one late wintry night when the be-
lated town bus was being driven from
the railroad station an object resembl-
ing a woman in black seized the reins
of his horses. When the driver
jumped from his seat it vanished.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-12-31

husband when she screamed suddenly
and grasped her left leg. As passen-
gers stared she cried family: 81 am
bleeding; it is in my coat Tnen she
tainted.
The train was stopped at the next
tation and the unconscious woman
was carried to a bench on the plat
form, leaving a trail OF blood behind
her. Mr.. Belcher. frightened and mys-
tilted as to the cause of the accident,
bent over his wife and found six
inch cut in the calf of the leg. Band
aging the wound hastily, he sum-
moned a physician, but before the
doctor arrived the wound continued
10 bleed so freely that a policeman
found 1t necessary to improvise a
tournlquet with the aid of his night
stick
Examination of Mrs. Belchers coat
III the meantime revealed the point of
a sharp penBnife sticking through
the SILK lining. 1t is supposed that
some one who had a hand in making
the garment, which is sealskin, left
the knife by accident in the folds,
where 1t was sewed up unnoticed
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-12-31
HELD IN TEXAS On
MURDER CHARGE

Hot SPRING., Ark, Dec. 27.-Chtef
of Police Moore was advised last night
that A. E. Bannister is under arrest
at Amarillo, Tex, and held for officers
here under a warrant charging him
with the murder of Mrs. Ada Reich
ers, and the kidnapping of her S-year-
old daughter, and that he would refuse
TO return without requisitfon.
Mrs. Reichers was murdered in a
Kirk street cottage here last June af-
ter she had arrived from Texas In
company with three small children.
The murderer used a machinists ham
mer with which he crushed her skull.
The murder took place in the after
noon, after which two of the small
children were taken to Wilmington
park, and abandoned The eldest, a
nine-year-old girl, was kidnapped and
taken to Birmingham where she was
deserted. Governor Pindall will issue
a requfsition on the Texas governor at
once.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-12-31
OBITUARY..

Conway B. Daniels, aged f1fty-eight,
a leading business man of Eau Claire
and formerly manager of the Phoenix
Manufacturing company, died in a hos
pital at Chicago.
George Fletcher, a district freight
agent of the Southern Pacific railway
and a prominent member of the Bohe.
milan club, died suddenly at San Fran
cisco of heart disease.
Former Congressman Eugene F.
Loud died in San Francisco. He was
born in Abingdon, Ma s., in 1S47, went
to California in 1860 and fought in the
civil war. He was elected to congress
and served the fifth California district
for twelve years.
John Shelby Barrow, assistant gem
eral passenger agent Of the Erie rail-
road, with offices in New York, died
at Newark, N. J., of heart failure fol.
lowing Bright's disease. Mr.. Barrow,
who was born in Baton Rouge. La,
fifty-@even years ago, had been with
the Erie for ten years.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-12-31
RESERVATION TRAGEDY.
Four Indians Reported Killed and One
Injured.

Washington, Dec. 27.-Four Indians
were killed and one injured at the res
ervation at Aneth, Utah, according to
advices received by the bureau if In
dian affairs yesterday from Superin-
tendent Shelton of the Ship Rock In
dian agency in the northwestern por-
ton Of New Mexico. Accompanied by
physician, Superintendent Shelton
has left for the scene of the trouble,
the nature of which is unknown to the
officials Of the Indian affairs bureau.
Denver, Dec. 27.-Aneth, Utah, the
Indian reservation where, according to
the Washington dispatch, four Indians
were killed and one injured, is located
in Utah, just north of the Navajo In
dian reservation and near the Colorado
line. The place is far from telegraph
communication and is the local United
States army division headquarters in
this city it is reported that nothing
has been heard of the killing.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-12-31
LABOR AND INDUSTRY.

Ten tons of turkeys have beer
shipped from Whitewater for the holi
| days
w. E. Smith of Fond du Lac claims
to have perfected device to prevent
the flicker of moving pictures.
Plans for a bascule bridge over the
river at Sheboygan have been com
p,eted by the Milwaukee Bridge com
pany
thousands of pounds of suckers are
| being caught in the Marinette river
and sold to the larger city trade as
whitefish.
Henry Cox of Rock county has re.
ceived a consignment of $50 Angora
goats, which he will fatten on his
farm.
The business section of Warman,
Saskatchewan, was destroyed by fire,
with a loss of 100000. The town was
named after Cy Warman.
During the year the Northwestern
and the Wisconsin Central roads have
paid out over $I,0000OO in wages in
their shops in Fond du Lac.
The interstate commerce commits
sion declares that allowances for the
transfer of sugar from refineries to
the trains are essentially rebates and
in violation of the law.
The general store of P. Augers &
Son at Saxon, Wis, was burned down.
the loss being in the neighborhood of
$4,000. Light insurance was carried.
The official investigation of the mine
explosion at Mariana, Pa, on Nov.
Is, which resulted in the death of Isl
miners, had started at Washington,
Pa, by Coroner Sipe.
International Harvester company
representative told the house ways
and means committee that his cor
poration needs no protection and is
indifferent to a removal of all tariff.
The Cleveland railway company
MED in the United States circuit court
a cross-petition in the receivership of
al the traction system. The petition
a ked possession of its fines and files
claim for s1,0OO,OO0.
Plans have been prepared for a
three story addition to the plant OF the
Wisconsin Knitting Mills company, or.
ganized two years ago in a small way
at Manitowoc. More than 100 hands
are to be employed.
To Acknowledgement Is ascribed the
failure of the Almena, Wis, Farmers
Store company, which failed with
about $4,000 liabilities. against about
$4,000 assets. The stock was held by
farmers, to many of whom the store is
also indebted for loans.
The Silver Dart, the fourth aero
plane built by the Aerial Experiment
association at Hammondsport, N. Y,
made two successful flights. During
the longest flight the machine covered
a mile and three quarters. and a COM
plete turn was made.
The next annual meeting of the
Wi7consin Clay Manufacturers asso-
citation Will be held in Milwaukee on
Feb. 10 TO u, with headquarters at
the st. Charles hotel Prof 4 V. Blein-
niger, ceramic chemist, in charge of
the United States geological survey
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-12-31
PURELY PERSONAL.

DR.. A. F. Heising was elected presi.
dent of the Dunn County Medical So
ciety.
Judge A H. Reid of Rhinelander
was suddenly taken i'll with pneumo,
MIA while holding court there.
Congressman Morse has aeppointed
Frank David of the town of Rock as
midshipman in the naval academy at
Annapolis.
The senate will soon make plans
for placing the busts of Roosevelt and
Fairbanks among the busts of vice
presidents there.
The Chattanooga chamber of com
merce adopted resolutions requesting
President-elect Taft to reappoint Sec
rotary Wright of the war department.
Clyde NJ. Reed of Wichita, Kansas,
was appointed superintendent of the
division Of railway adjustments of the
postofffce department in success sion to
Jo-eph Stewart.
President RooseveIt's order dismiss
sing Capt. Solomon Avery, Jr., from
the army was received at San Fran.
cisco. Avery was convicted by a court
martial of Incorporating funds.
Jasper Oglesby, youngest son of
Richard J. Oglesby and a brother of
the lieutenant governor of Illinois, has
become a motorman on the traction
line between Springfield and Bloom
ington.
Nathaniel Reid, relative of White.
law Reid, ambassador to England, who
has re1ided in Walworth county more
than half a century, celebrated the
ninety-seVenth anniversary of his
birth.
The Rev. w S. Ament, the famous
missionary in China, has reached
Honolulu on his way to New York to
be treated for blood cIot on his brain.
He was unconscious on the voyage
most of the way to that port.
Postmaster General Meyer, accom-.
panied by his son George L. Won Mey.
er, left for weeks hunt in North
Carolina. They will be the guests of
the Houstonvilie Shooting club of
HOustonville, N. c.
DR.. o. S. Davis of New Britain,
Conn, elected president of the Chicago
Theological seminary, has not yet an.
nounced whether he will accept. One
of his conditions is the raising of $40,-
900 for seminary work.
Maj. ]. F. Gaze of Portage has been
appointed director of public works OF
the Philippine islands, with a salary of
$4,000. He was born in Columbia
county and received his education In
local schools and the University of
Wisconsin.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-12-31
TRAGEDIES.

Deb Moore, the alleged moonshiner,
shot while resisting arrest by three
officers near Wheeling, West. Va, died
from his wounds.
An insane negro, Macy Hunley,
armed with a shotgun, ran amuck at
Buxton, Iowa, and shot and killed Yer
ME Watkins.
William Graham, a negro, was
hanged at Concord, N. c., for attempt.
| ed assault on Miss Pearl Tucker, a
10 year old white girl
Clark Crandall, SO years of age, and
one of the pioneers of Milton juno.
| ton, Wis, was asphyxiated by escap.
ing gas from his coal stove.
Frank Bryant, &c years old, was
hanged in Sangamon county Jail for
the murder on Aug. "a, last, of Thorn,
as Brady, 70 years old at Springfield,
H.
John Fritz, generally known as the
''iceman" and we'll know character
in Peshtigo, took his life with a shot.
gun. The mans head was half torn
away by the shot
Vicente Florczik and his wife Rosya
were butchered by an unknown assas-
sin at their home in Wilmington, Del
Their Iifeless bodies were found in
separate beds.
Standing before a mirror in the bath
room Of his apartments, Col. Henry
b. Marchbank, prominent stockbrok-
er, of Joplin, Mo, sent a bullet
through his brain.
In view of 300 curb brokers, H. B.
Suydam was shot in a struggle with
an inventor in his Office in New York
City following demand for money.
William R. Kelley, cashier of the
Union Pacific railroad at Omaha, com
mitted suicide. Officials declare that so
far as the auditor had gone Keeley's
accounts were in perfect condition.
James B. Harmon, IS years old, shot
and killed Miss Maud Hartley. Is
years of age, on the street of Somer-
vile, Mass Miss Hartley had recently
informed Harmon that she did not
| care for his attentions.
Burrell B. Treat. an insurance man
Of Rockford, H., who tried to commit
suicide at Pecatonica ny cutting his
throat and then repented and called
the doctor, was a graduate of Be.oit
college in the class of 1891. He was
also member of the Phi Kappa Psi
fraternity.
James Jenkins and Jack Portella,
both Negroes, and Lee Chung, a China
man, were hanged in jail at New West,
minister B. c. Jenkins assaulted and
murdered Mrs. Mary Morrison at Ha,
zlemere; POrtella killed a mulatto wo,
man at Vancouver, while Lee killed
another Chinese.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-12-31
DRUNKEN MAN
KILLED FOR BEAR

Chattanooga, Tenn, Dec. 27.-Mis-
taking a drunken man clad in long
buffalo overcoat, for a bear, Thomas
Deckmar, a well known farmer, Friday
night shot and killed Thomas An
drews, near Lafayette. Andrews had
been in Jail but was paroled by the
heriff to go home Christmas. In
stead of going home, he got drunk ana
sat down to sleep in a doorway Deck
mar was. called, the family thinking
Andrews was a bear. Deckmar prod
ded the form with his gun and getting
no response, fired. A coroner's jury
exonerated the slayer.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-12-31
PRESIDENT GOMEZ
IN FULL CONTROL
HIS AUTHORITY ACCEPTED EV-
ERYWHERE-A REVOLUTION
WITHOUT BLOODSHED.

Caracas, Venezuela, Dec. 27.-The
presidency of Juan Vincente Gomez is
recognized by the country at large, of.
tiCialIy and unofficial y and Venezuela
is through with one of the most pop
ular revolutions in the annals of the
republic, a revolution in which not a
drop of blood was shed.
The authority of President Gomez
is accepted as supreme. Even General
Celestino Castro, brother of the former
president, who was chief of the de-
partment of Tachira, has turned over
to the new military commander Of
that district all the arms and ammunir
ton in his possession. CeIestino Cas-
trO's acceptance of the new regime is
regarded as final and conclusive evi-
dence that his brother Is no longer
facter in the present situation.
Jose de ]. Paul, who was minister
of foreign affairs in the Castro cab.
met, received a dispatch from Cipri.
ano Castro at Berlin reading as fol.
lows:
Declare the Dutch warships pirates
Suspend payments to the powers under
Washington protocols / am forward.
ing you solution of the difficulty"
This communication has been re.
ceiVed here with ridicuie.
Castro Feels Better.
Berlin, Dec. 27.-Senor Castro Went
low FD q h,
his entry into DR. IsraePs hospital
He made an excursion for several
hours in an automobile. He tns.
walked an hour through the forest at
Grenwald and returned to the hos
pital. Castro says he feels compare
lively well, bat will remain under OBJ
servatton for some time
Has Not Yet TumbIed
Caracas, Dec. "a via Port of Spain.
Dec. 27.-The government has in its
possession a cablegram from Castro
which seems to Indicate that the for
mcr president rs not yet aware Of his
overthrow. The message reads:
@If Dutch warship again appears
at Laguaira make an attack on one
side with three of our ships
Conditions here are apparently sat
isfactory. A decree has been issued
permitting the trans-shipment of
merchandise at Trinidad; opening
navigation on the Meta river and abol-
ishing the salt transportation monop-
oily. President Gomez has moved in
to the Mira flower palace Students
yesterday burned Castros picture
which hung in Vargas hospital.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-12-31
BARON COTE KILLED.
Fierce Encounter With RevoIutionists
Near Moscow

Moscow, Dec. 27.-Baron Cote
chief of the secret police, was killed
and Colonel Muraki wounded in a
fierce encounter ye -terday with revo
lutionists intrenched in a suburban
villa. The villa was taken at four IN
the afternoon, after holding out 20
hours.
The attacking party was astonished
to find only one body inside the build
ing. which was identified as that of
a well known revolutionist, Terhernoff,
who, with a eomrade named Sidorkin,
fired 80 rounds of ammunition. Ter
hernoff killed himself with the last
round. Sidorkin was captured, seri-
ousiy wounded. The government cas-
ualties as far as known was two killed
and five wounded.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-12-31
DOM Sic.

A flock of 5000 gulis, following q
boat loaded with fish, clouded the sky
of the New York battery.
Four men held up the Chicago
Portland special of the Oregon Rail.
road and Navigation company near
Portland and robbed the express car.
Robbers raided the State Bank of
Ceresco, Neb., overpowered a boy who
surprised them at work, demolished the
vaults. secured $4,000 and escaped.
Edward Parks of Grand Rapids.
Mich, who threw a bottle during a
baseball game and killed Willie Haver.
kamp, was found not guilty of man
slaughter.
Mrs. Isabella J. Martin, convicted
of conspiracy in the dynamiting of the
home of Judge Ogden in Oakland.
Cal, was sentenced to Imprisonment
for life
a. B. Smith or Ventura, Cal, was
arrested on the charge of forging
tnree notes, totaling $1,000, which
were found in a cavity of his wooden
leg.
The home of Miss Elizabeth B.
Este of Brooklyn has been plundered
of everything, even furniture and car
pets. in the absence of the family in
Europe.
The actua. selection of a jury in the
trial of Beach Hargis for parricide
has begun at Irvine, Ky. OF the first
twenty-four examined eleven were &C
cepted by the prosecution.
Further Importation of absinthe in
TO the United States may be prohibit.
ed. \ recommendation to that end
has been made by Dr. Harvey W.
Wiley, chief Of the bureau of chemis.
try.
Three Cinnamon, alleged to have
been struggled into this country from
Canada, were taken from their place
of cOncealment in a sealed freight
car in the Grand Trunk yards in Chi
cago
Several thousand dollars viii be
sent by the Alaska Packing company
of San Francisco to the relatives OF
sixty Chinese lost when the fishing
steamer Star of Bengal, on which they
We're working was wrecked.
The fourteen members of the house
committee on interstate and foreign
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-12-31
STATE SATISFIED
WITH TESTIMONY
WILL NOT ACCEPT CONFESSlO
FROM NIGHT RIDERS IN Elk
CHANGE FOR LENIENCY.

Union City, Tenn. Dec. 27-That
the prosecution is satisfied with the
evidence presented against the eight
alleged leaders of the n ght rider clan
of Reel Foot lake, now in progress
was indicated by yesterdays develop,
ments. 1t was reported that three
more men under arrest, charged with
beng members of the band, had ex,
pressed a willingness TO turn state
evidence, should the indictments
against them be quashed. Yesterday,
however, it is declared, at a confer
ence of the prosecuting attorneys and
friends of the men. that the state at,
torneys refused to accept the confes-
sions under the provisions named.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-12-31
RUMOR OF ANOTHER LINE.
Reported at Racine That Electric
Railway Will Be Built to Chicago.

Reported at Racine That Electric
Railway Will Be Built to Chicago
kenosha, Wis, Dec. Pit is re-
ported here that plans are under way
for another electric line between
Milwaukee and Chicago by way of
Racine, Kenosha and Chicago.
The company, which has asked the
state rate commission for permission
to build from Kenosha to the state
line, is said to be made ND of nArsnps
antagonistic TO the Front road.
This company, it is claimed, owns
a right of way between Kenosha and
Waukegan, valued at over 100000.
The company making the applica-
ton is composed Of Chicago men and
the officials of the company are
George G. Wilcox, president; Frank
Grover, secretary and treasurer, and
Volney Foster, Jr., of Evanston, vice
president.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-12-31

laboratory in Pittsburg, and W. D.
Richardson of Columbus, o., will ap-
pear on the program.
Farmers engaged in the dairy bust
ness in Kenosha ceounty as well as
those in Lake county, H., are forming
an association to contest the demands
of wholesale dealers in Chicago that
they furnish pasteurized milk. A meet
ing was held at Antioch, H., and it is
said that 500 farmers from the two
states were present The organization
is considering the erection of bottling
works sufficiently large to take care
of all the milk now sold by the mem.
ber5 to Chicago wholesalers.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-12-31
Visit Panama Women's Clubs.

st. Louis, Dec. 27-Mrs. Philip E
Moore of st. Louis, national president
of the federation of womgns clubs
and Mrs. John Dickinson Sherman OF
Chicago, Will sal from New York Jan
.uary % for Panama for the purpose
of visiting the womeR's clubs there
and advancing the work The visit OF
the two clubwCmen had the endorse
ment of the government officials who
caused the clubs 20 be formed in Pan.
anna over year ago.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-12-31

commerce who are going to Panama
to inve tigate the canal work, sail
from Charleston, S. c., on Dec. %,
on the Panama line steamer Alliance.
The steamer Catalone, inbound
from Boston, collided with and sank
the British steamer Daghestan, south
of Gedney channel The crew Of the
Daghestan was saved and the Catalone
was not greatly damaged.
William J. Dingee of San Francisco
whose responsibility as a bond man
for former Mayor Eugene E. Schmitz
was questioned, withdrew as security,
and the attorneys for Schmitz sup
piled in his stead the names Of seven
persons who guaranteed $4,000 bail
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-12-31
Two at [ ono Price 6.

Springfield, H., Dec. 27.-John G..
Crabtree of Christian county has sold
Hedgewood Boy (2:02H) and Lady
Maude C2:03H) TO Richard Wilson Of
RushvilIe, Ind. for the reported con
sideration of $4,000.
Hedgewood Boy and Lady Maude
are full brother and sister, bred ana
raised by ]. c. Henry of Tayforville,
who still owns their sire, Chftwood.