Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-01-30

burg. Since the epidemic started
nearly month ago an average of fifty
cases a day have developed.
Rysterical because her brother had
received reformatory sentence, Mary
Fenyon, II years of age, threatened to
jump out of one Of the windows at the
courthouse in Minneapolis.
A Louisville and Nashville passen-
ger train was derailed near Frankfort,
KY. Several passengers were injured
but no one was killed Among the
passengers were many legislators.
( At Kansas City, Judge Wallace's
Sunday closing crusade received an
other impetus when the grand jury
returned 142 indictments against per
sons accused of working last Sunday.
New York saloon keepers are still
excited over the threatened raise OF
81 barrel in the price of beer, al
, though one prominent brewer has
stated that there will be no increase.
While trying to intercept two burg
lars who had been ransacking a
neighbor's house, Justice of the Peace
Martin F. Moore Of st. Louis was shot
and possibly fatally wounded. One
suspect IS under arrest.
AS a reward for saving the life Of
! Mrs. c. c. Thompson and daughter of
| Chicago, nineteen years ago, w. r.
Gearhart of Madrid, Ia, was the benef-
ciary of the will of Mr.. Thompson to
the extent of $4,000.
Casimir Duzicki, a Polander, was
! killed in a street fight at Detroit
when two groups of foreigners joined
! battle Duzicki was stabbed through
! the neck and ran half a block from
, the scene before he dropped dead.
! Final settlement of the Thomas w.
Evans estate, which has been in the
! courts of America and France for
nearly ten years, has been made, Attor
ney Arthus B. Huey of Philadelphia
paying over to the heirs S700,00O
Reese Thomas of Cambria, Mimi,
was burned to death while starting a
! fire with kerosene. His brother Will
: liam was severely burned. They were
wealthy bachelors, and resided alone.
The house and all contents were des-
troyed
| Mrs. Beatrice Metcalf, who is al
legged to have shot at Samuel r. Ham
! i'll, attorney for John r. Walsh, at
! Chicago, but who says she fired the
shot in an attempt to end her own
life, is now at the home of her sister
| in Indianapolis.
An exhaustive investigation into the
widespread belief that persons con-
nected with financial institutions and
public service corporations have been
guilty of illegal acts will be made by
a committee appointed by the grand
| jury in New York
John Ball, 70 years old, said to be q
! descendant of the brother of the first
president of the United States and one
! of a number of heirs to the Joseph
Ball estate Of Philadelphia, which is
! said to be worth $10O,OOO0OO, dropped
dead at Hartford City Ind.
The bodies of Peter Caplett ana
Miss Annie Marrier, who drowned
| "ItILC ohdIluS Ou d pOuu DIT WOICSSL6I,
Mass, were found. It is thought
| that they skated into open water in
the dark. The young people were
clasped in each others arms
Among the passengers on the
steamer Mongolia which arrived at
San Francisco from the orient were
ID, M. Stevens, advisory secretary to
the Japanese government, and Benito
Elgarda and Pablo Ocampa, delegates
to congress from the Philippine
islands.
Alfred Mahan, of Bennington VT,
charged with the murder of his
year old niece, Ethel Mahan, has been
sentenced to life Imprisonment. 1t is
charged that Mahan mistreated his
niece and killed her to prevent her
from telling. A defense of insanity
was offered.
Fifteen years ago Miss Hattie Jane
Battles LETT Fltchburg Mass, for New
York. Joseph A. Battles, her only
relative here, died a week ago, leaving
$50, 600. Through a newspaper report
Miss, Battles in New York learned OF
her uncIes death and telephoned Il
lawyer that she Will come to Fitchburg.
Marie bernardo, the Cleveland girl
who murdered her lover when he tried
10 force his way into her room, has
been removed from the Ohio peniten-
uary to Mount Carmel hospital, wnere
she will remain until the birth of her
CHI i'd She will then be taken back 10
the prison.
A dynamite bomb was thrown
against the house of Thomas Nicholas,
captain of the Mohawk iron mine near
Aurora, MINI. The explosion tore one
SIDE of the house into splinters and
threw Nicholas, his wife, and four
children from their beds. A baby
sleeping with its parents was badly
injured.
John R. Walsh was found guilty On
! "a counts of the Indictment for misap-
plying funds of the Chicago National
bank. The motion for a new trial viii
be argued Jan. %. W. J. Onahan de-
clares the verdict is monstrous, that
Walsh's enemies would not have de-
cided against him, and that it is non
sense to assume he planned to wreck
, the concern he chiefly owned.
INDUSTRY.