Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-11-04
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Three persons were fatally injured
in windstorm near Decatur, Ill
Thirteen others were slightly hurt.
Isaac NcCom charged with the
murder of William Toney and Charles
Simpson Of Sioux City near kadoka
last summer, entered a plea Of not
guilty, at Pierre, s. D.
East-bound passenger No. Ii, on the
Rock Island, was wrecked near Nicola
Iowa when it struck horse, just as
it VAS lntgri1g town. The passen-
gers we're badly shaken up but none
was seriously injured.
The debate between Mrs. Hum
phrey Ward and Mrs. Mildred Garrett
Fawcett on woman suffrage which
took place recently in London is said
to have brought in quite snug
amount Of money.
A posse returned to Vinton, New
after shooting to death Charles Will
Eams. a negro, one Of two robbers
who held up a hotel at Vinton. All
of the Jewels and money taken from
the hotel were found on the negro.
AS the result of quarrel over the
nossession of a parrot, Charles Bum,
of Anderson, Ind, shot and fatally
wounded his landlady, Mrs. Robert
Nelson and then ended his own life
bv sending two bullets through his
brain. The woman had filed an atti-
davit charging him with the theft Of
the bird.
TWO engines on the Milwaukee, pull
Ing extra trains, were wrecked at
Doubleday. Iowa, by a head-on COLI
sion. A defective switch caused the
accident. No one was seriously hurt.
James Opal superintendent of No.
8. a branch Tamarack mine, at Calu-
met Mich. was killed instantly by
falling into a shaft.
Ten men are dead, two are injured
and one is missing as result of an
explosion in mine No. 10 of the Rock
Island Coal company at Harborne'
Okla. Nine bodies were recovered.
The men are believed to have gone
beyond a dead line" with lighted
lamps in entering the mine, the lamps
igniting escaping gas.
Almost an octogenarian, Jasper
King OF Little Falls, Mimi, walked
seventy miles in two days. The aged
man was LETT with Charles Davis OF
Clear Lake while a relative went to.
the Dakota fields. Later the old man
left his home and clothed in only a
pair of overaIls, a jumper and pair
of shoes without laces, he wandered
seventy miles and stopped but once
for food and drink.
Fourteen years in the state peni-
tertiary is the penalty Wyatt H. In
gram, Jr., of New Orleans, clubman,
mus. pay Tor embezzing $4,000 OF
the .unds OF the Hibernia Bank and
Trust company. The jury after hear
ing the testimony only twenty min
utes brought in a verdict Of guilty on
two charges of forgery. Ingram is
the son OF n Baltimore importer and
is said TO have been short as much as
100000 at one time.
When John Hames, jailer at the St.
Paul police station, entered a cell TO
give Timothy Campbell drink o.
wafer. he was suddenly attacked by
the prisoner and forced against the
bars. Campbell hit Hames' arm ana
tried to. gouge his eyes out. During
the struggle that ensued, Hames
foored the man and held him down
until officers came to his rescue. It
took three officers to remove the man
to the county jail. and there was an
other struggle before he could be
forced into a cell.
Chief Of Police Quinliven believes
that James Harrison, who is in hos
pi-al at st. Cloud. MINI. with frac-
tured arm, which he sust aimed While
trying to escape from a patrolman- IS
one Of a gang who operated at Rosby
'ast spring when a general store was
robbed One Of the robbers was shot
in the arm and side, but managed TO
get away Harrison has two bullet