Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-01-23
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DOMESTIC.
A block of the business section OF
Sydney, Neb., was. destroyed by fire;
loss, 100000.
Chicago bankers do not favor Sena-
tor Aldrich's currency bill, declaring
that it's provisions will not relieve the
money stringency.
Paul Bowers, IA years of age, shot
and killed a negro burglar who broke
into the home of his father at Aver
ton, near Grantsburg, Penn.
A rear end collision Of freight
trains occurred on the Alabama and
Mississippi railway, killing three per-
sons and injuring twelve others.
A report of the Pennsylvania mine
experts attributed the disaster at the
Monongah mines, Dec. 6, to dust ex-
plosion caused by blown out shot.
Fred Otto of Miles, Ia, travelling
dispatcher Of the Chicago Great West
ern railroad, was killed at Egan, Ill,
while assisting in clearing wreck.
Fire in the business section OF
Albion, H., yesterday caused a loss of
100000. 1t is suspected the fire was
started by an incendiary. About one
third of the loss is covered by insur-
ance.
The condition of Mrs. Frank P.
Glib Of Warrenton, Va, who, it is
stated, accidentally shot herself, con-
tinues grave. Frank P. B. Glib, the
woman's husband, denies a report OF
domestic trouble.
Georgiana Dickinson, wanted as a
witness in the murder case Of Mrs.
Helena Whitmore, whose body was
found in Lampblack swamp, Harrison,
N. J., on Dec. &c, has been arrested in
Cambridge, Mass.
A negro giving the names of Bow
man and jackson is held by the po-
lice Of Buffalo, n. Y, as answering
the description of a negro who fatally
shot j. l.. Carpenter, storekeeper on
Superior street, in Cleveland.
Attorney General Hadley Of Mis-,
souri,, resumed the hearing in his
quest for evidence in his suit to an,
null the charters Of sixty-seven insur-
ance companies alleging the com,
panies are in conspiracy to control
rates.
Information that Andrew Carnegie
will erect a $5v,vv0 building for Bates
college at Lewiston, Me, for the study
of science, providing a similar sum
is raised to support the science de-
partment, has been received by Presi
dent Chase.
At New York, Mrs Ruth Kim, a
pretty little Japanese widow, has
brought suit against Jim Fook, a
Chinaman, claiming $4,000 damages
for breach of promise. Fook denies
that he ever proposed to the Japanese
widow.
Deprived of reason by a blow on the
head, mumbling and declaiming bits
of verse, but unable to tell his name,
man believed to be G.. A. Ackley, a
composer of songs, was taken to the
Central Emergency hospital at San
Francisco, where he died a few hours
later.
The governing board of the Army
Canteen association, a body Of men
who hope to induce congress to repeal
the law which prohibits the sale Of
beer and light wines at army posts
and soldiers homes, is taking active
steps to organize branches in every
state in the union.
Dr. Charles Francis Stokes, the navy
surgeon whose appointment by Presi-
dent Roosevelt to the command of
the hospital ship Relief which caused a
commotion between the line and staff
omcers Of the navy, has arrived at
San Francisco from the east to take
command of the Relief.
A would be highwayman was over
powered and captured by switch
man of the Los Angeles-Pacific railway
company at Santa Monica, Cal The
highwayman a chauffeur, was identi-
fed as Ferdinand Dutilleui, formerly
of Scranton, Pa. He says that he
was without work and without funds.
The finding of a human skeleton in
a tunnel under one Of the Oldest
buildings in Rawlns, Wyo., has
cleared the mystery of the fate Of
Slapjack Dave Parker, who escaped
from Sheriff Lemons in 1868. The
legs of the skeleton are in iron
shackIes, and by these shackles Will
liam Daley, who led the posse that
searched for Parker in 1868, identified
the bones.
Cardinal Gibbons says that the new
laws relating to marriage in the Cath
Ollie church which have recently been
issued by the holy see will not change
in any important particular the exist
ing laws in this country. The new
laws are aimed to prevent hasty and
i'll advised marriages. The new regu-
lations will, it is said, not be an
nounced until after Easter.
FOREIGN
Over 100 persons applied to Berlin
bncniraIc for treatment following