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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-05-20
Kansas Also Suffers
T|LLMAN SCORES
ANDREW CARNEGIE

Washington, D. c., May 16.-An-
drew Carnegie was the target for Sen
ator Tillman yesterday in the discus
sion of the iron and steel schedule.
Reading from the testimony of Mr..
Carnegie before the ways and means
committee, concerning profits in the
steel industry, Mr.. Tillman declared
that Mr.. Carnegie had made a vast
amount of money by favoritism in
legislation.
Il will not say by dishonesty" said
Mr. Tillman, because he has only
taken advantage Of the laws we pass
But he has made more money than
the entire bunch Of us here put to-
gether and there are some very rich
men in this senate. He has given
away more money than all the demo
Gratis of this body possesses-ten
times as much, I expect"
Saying Mr.. Carnegie had taken his
great wealth from the pockets of the
people, Mr.. Tillman added:
Il use nails and wire fencing and
other products of his corporation, and
when l buy those things, he takes out
of my pocket and puts it in his"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-05-20
BOLD BANDITS ROB
TRAIN, GET $4,000
HOLD UP TRAIN ON GREAT
NORTHERN, ESCAPE WITH
BOOTY.

Spokane, Wash, May l7.-Posses
are securing the country between Col
bert and Meade seeking trace Of the
bandits who held up passenger train
No. 5, and seCueed more than $4,000
worth of booty late Sunday night. me
robbers escaped without leaving a
clew to their identity.
To aid the pursuit the Great
Northern, on whose road the robbery
occurred, has offered 4 reward OF 5
600 for each bandit captured
Twelve persons were injured dur
ing the affair, which was one OF the
most daring of its KING that has Nap
pened in this section of the coun
try. The disaster happened when
the engine and mail car running
wild down the track after being rihed
of the mails, collided with the re-
naming cars of the train The ban
dts detached the engine and mail car
from the train, ran them down the
track a considerable distance. aud
then after the registered mail mad
been opened they sent the engine back
to collide with the cars standing on
the track.
The bandits, of which there were at
least six the party, made their at
tack just after the train left Colbert.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-05-20
FOREIGN.

The Allan line has introduced a
mixed smoking room on its steamship
Virginian on the voyage out from LiY-
erpool. A number Of women took ad.
vantage Of the privilege to smoke
cigarets there.
A dispatch from Tangier to the
Daily Telegraph says 1t is reported
from Mogador, 125 miles from the
city of Morocco, that a party of
American tourists has been carried
off by natives near Agadir. Agadir,
or Santa Cruz, is the most southern
port of Morocco. 1t is twenty-three
miles southeast of Cape CHR.
Ali Fahuy Bey, secretary of the
Turkish legation at Belgrade, and
Mile. Ludovica Milnecka were found
dead in a room of a hotel in Semliu.
across the river from Belgrade. The
couple were lovers and it is evident
that the tragedy was prearranged.
The secretary apparently shot the
young woman and then committed sui
eide. A sum of money was laid out
on the table in the room, with the re
quest that they be buried in the same
grave
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-05-20
LATE NEWS CONDENSED
WISCONSIN WAITS

While coasting on his bicycle, Orion
Sutherland of GAINESVILLE, was thrown
by a dog. He had a shoulder dislo-
Gated and sustained cuts and internal
injuries.
The residence of William F. Koch,
merchant near Osceola, burned. ORR
gin Of the fire is unknown. The fam
lily escaped but lost all their wearing
apparel
Edward jenkins, colored, was shot
in the shoulder by Police officer
Kramer at Fond du Lac, while trying
to escape after having been caught
vobbing a cigar store.
The hand car stolen at Woodboro by
Wendell and Aagard, the escaped pris-
oners from Rhinelander was found
near Heafford junction. No trace of
the fugitfyes has yet been found.
James Fitzgerald Of Milwaukee, was
fined $25 and costs on conviction of
breaking into a freight car and steal,
ing lamps and other parts Of an auto
mobile. He is sick and friends will
pay The fine.
State Banking Commissioner Bergh
issued a charter to the Farmers and
Merchants bank of ShullsbuTg. The
capital is $4,000. It's president is
Henry George and cashier John P.
Williams
Montgomery Hardware company,
leading merchants at Wausau for
twenty-eight years, sold out to William
Sell Hardware company. James
Montgomery, its head, will form a
company TO handle pulp wood lands
Clarence Doane, Is years Of age
disappeared. No clew to his where
abouts has been found. He was
the son of Charles Doane and lived at
Trout Falls. The lad had declared
his intention to go west but was told
TO stay at home by his parents
Acting Secretary of the Navy Win
thrOp announced the contracts fOl
constructing a commandments house
and six houses as officers quarters a
the greet lakes training station, North
Chicago, were awarded to James
C0rse of Racine, Wis, for $1O8,OOO
Engineer E. A SchOenberg, while
holding his Chicago to GAINESVILLE
train on a Harvard, H., siding to per
NIT a northbound train to pass, step
ped from his locomotive and was
slammed against his own engine by
the incoming train Though badly
bruised and battered it was found al
the GAINESVILLE hospital that no bones
were broken.
A COW owned by Adolph Jesse OF
OcontO Falls was killed on Sunday be
cause she showed signs Of rabies
The family of five persons has been
using the milk taken from the cow
Ten cars were ditched in a train
wreck at Pine river, caused by a log
falling across the track. Passengers
had to be transferred on all trains
Monday.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-05-20
STATE BANKS SHOW
HEAL THY INCREASE
LATEST REPORT INDICATES AN
INCREASE IN RESOURCES OF
OVER 100000.
Madison, MAY II.

MduISOu, May Il.
Pursuant with request recently
made by state Bank Commissioner
Bergh for reports Of the financial
standings of all state and mutual
savings banks at the close of bust
ness, April %, the reports have been
submitted and from an abstract OF
the reports compiled IL IS noted that
the number of banks have increased
by two institutions to 45S since the
last report, February ;.
The combined resources Of the 45S
banks are $131 929 ,O21.2O, showing an
increase of $2OS6,239.54 in about
three months, the last total amount
having been 9,842, 1916. Tn 5
notable increase was attained par
TALLY by the extraordinary increase
Of loans and discounts which amount
ed to $2,973, 4SO4S. The total loans
and discounts in April were $S6,4S4,-
1880. Bonds were also a favorable
item of increase in the resources,
these having risen in number and
therefore in value by S971,924g7.
| The increase in the resources would
have been greater had it not been in
fuenced by the decrease of $1.7T.-
1886 in the total amount due from
! banks.
The figures indicating the amount OF
currency and cold cash held by the
many banks are interesting. viz:
United tates and national currency
$3,488. 5O65y; gold coin, $2,O45. 82789:
silver, $533,117.22: nickeIs and pen
MES $66,71S.5O. The real estate
holdings of the combined banks ag
gregate total value of 1889. 1917.
The largest item in the column OF
liabilities is that of time certificates
of deposit whereby the banks are in
debted for ,5S8,9SOS6; the increase
since February's report is S1.S25.
S43.03. The savings deposits arc
noteworthy-$23,44 1881. An in
crease of liabilities to the value OF
1898 29284 is shown in the item of
undivided profits which in the last
report amount to $2,144,448.38 The
largest decrease in the liabilities is
found in the amounts subject to
check, that in the last report being
$35, 007,529.52 and the amount of de.
crease $714673.32.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-05-20
Suicide by Strychnine,

Oconomowoc, Wis, May 16.-Rich.
ard Kent, a young man 27 years OF
age, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Kent, prominent farmers in the town
of OconOmowOc, and residing three
miles north of this city, committed SUI
icide by taking strychnine He left
the house shortly after dinner to go
to work in the fields and the parents,
not seeing him at work made search
for him, finding him lying dead in a
pile of straw in the barn. DespOnden-
CIV is the cause Of his act.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-05-20
NEW CORPORATIONS

Articles Of incorporation were fled
yesterday in the Office of Secretary
Of State Frear as follows:
A. Lange Manufacturing company.
Milwaukee, capital $4,000; incorpora-
tors, Arthur LANCE, Emil Dietrich, Os-
car Lange, George Dietrich.
Grau-Harlmann Tool company, Mil
waukee; capital $4,000; incorporators,
Louis H. Grau, Frederick Hartmann,
William H. Grau, Jr.
Lewis Curtis Land company, Lake
Geneva; capital s25, 900; incorporates,
Harriet Curtis, Belle Curtis, James E.
Brett
Oostburg Evaporated Milk company,
Oostburg; Capital $4,000; incorpora-
tors, Jacob P. Dame, j. P. Brill, John
Theune.
Amendments 10 articles of incorpor-
alton were fled as follows:
Southern Land & Investment COM
pany, increasing it's capital stock from
$4,000 TO SIS, 900.
Waukesha Modor company, increas-
ing its capital stock from So, 900 to
100000 and the number of it's direct
ors from three TO five.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-05-20

Madison, May 17.-Fearing that the
Egan bill, relating to the recording
and publishing of articles of incorpora-
ton would be killed, Senator Hudnall
moved that it be laid over and the
motion prevailed. The motion to in
definitely postpone was made by Sen
ator Blaine who said he failed to see
what good results could be accomp-
lished by the publication of articles
of incorporation. The original bill
provided that the articles shall be
published in two papers in the county
where the corporations are formed,
but Senator Sanborn, chairman of the
senate committee, submitted an
amendment that publication in only
one paper be required.
Any man arrested for violation of a
city ordinance in cities of the third
and fourth class may demand a jury
trial under the provisions of com
mittee bill, S9Sa, which was advanced
to engrossment in the assembly yes
terday morning.
The judiciary committee bill making
it burglary to break into a ginseng
garden, which was on the calendar
for engrossment, was killed.
The Laycock bill, 4S6a, relating to
compensation for publication OF cleo,
ton notices and information to vot,
ers, went over until tomorrow.
Action on the Reader bill PISA, re
lating to the maintenance of perma
nent landmarks, and the Twesme bill
317a, providing for colored primary bal
lots, was deferred until Thursday.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-05-20

restaurant in Nassau street, New
York, and paid 30 cents for a meal he
had eaten thirteen years ago. At that
time he was on his way to board a
steamer for Germany. and after finish
ing his meal, rushed out without
thinking to pay his check.
The murder of Jim Ezell, at Russell
vile, Ala, has been cleared by the
confession Of Mrs. Waltrop, his
mother-in-law aged 70 years and Mrs
Ezell his wife. The shooting, ac-
cording to this confession was done by
NJ. P. Notes, the women conserving.
AS motive, Mrs. Waltrop now in jail
says she thought Notes would be a
better manager.
The explosion of a stick of dynamite
carelessly or maliciously placed in a
stove caused the death of two men
and serious injury to three others at
the Peterman Coal mine near Freder-
icksburg, Ohio.
The gov eminent is preparing for
the second probe of the alleged town
lot frauds in Muskogee, for which
Gov. Haskell and a number of promi.
nent Oklahoma men were recently in.
diCted. A new grand jury assembled
and was sworn in for duty.
The United States circuit court OF
appeals decided that the earthquake
of April IS, 1906, was not the cause oil
a fire occurring after the earthquake
The decision affects several hundred
suits pending against insurance com
panies for losses suffered in the great
| fire.
After serving thirty-one years in the
penitentiary, William P. Glyndon
convicted of the murder of a Il yeal
old girl, was pardoned by Gov. Carroll
! Glyndon, who is 70 years Of age
served in the civil war as a member
of the personal bodyguard to Gen
Sherman.
After searching for five years for hi:
little daughters, Seba, II years anC
Jane, 9, J. n. Wallace Of EI Reno
! Okla, met them on the street here
but they ran away from him. He IA:
begun habeas corpUs proceeding:
againts his wife who lived in Milwau
kee five years ago when he got di
vorce il Oklahoma, until a few month.
ago when he says she fed here
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-05-20

set a record by fasting sixty days, is
said to be dying in Jefferson City, Mo.
An engineer Of a local passenger
train and two section hands were
killed near Bonita, Tex, when a his
souri,, Kansas & Texas train left the
track
With the intention Of devising a
system to obtain higher wheat prices
and advocating a law to prevent cor
ners in grain. growers of grain from
many states met in Springfield, No.
Ten thousand tickets have been is
sued for the funeral service over the
body of Heinrich Conried, which viii
be held in the Metropolitan opera
house in New York.
Friction which has existed between
| the Canadian Pacific railway and the
Federation of Mechanical Unions on
the eastern lines of the system has
| been settled on an amicable basis.
| W. NJ. Stone, joint ticket agent OF
the Wichita Valley and Texas Central
railways, was found dead in his room
in Stanford, Tex, with a bullet hole
in his head. 1t is supposed that he
committed suicide.
Because she wore high-heeled shoes
when she was injured by a fall from
a street car, Mrs. Anna Peterson OF
Oakland, Cal, has lost her suit for
damages against the Oakland Trac-
ton company.
A dispatch received at the state
department in Washington from the
American legation at Tangier repeats
d telegram saying the rumored cap
ture Of an American traveller near
! Agadir is untrue.
Mrs. Dora Richardson Thomas, who
when Is years DID, was married tC
General Cassius NJ Clay, obtained q
divorce from her third husband, Sam
ueI Thomas, in Lexington, Ky. She
is % years old.
l Claiming complete lapse Of memory
a mysterious stranger has arrived al
Mcneil, Ark. with the only means Of
J identification being the letters H. A
W" on his linen. He says he re
members he was a professor at {
university in Texas.
Alfred w. BeadIeston, so years old
head Of the brewing firm of Bead1e
ston & Worz, New York, and Miss
Helen F. Hazard, daughter of E. c
/ Hazard a manufacturer OF food prod
} ucts, were married at Red Bank. n
= J. The bride is p years old.
At the final business meeting Of
: the eighteenth annual convention Of
the general society, Daughters OF the
! Revolution, in Boston, the most i'm
pOrant subject for action was the
election Of managers to succeed those
whose terms expire this year.
Between 100000 and 100000 {
year has been saved in insurance pre-
miums in New York since the install
latiOn of the high-water pressure fire
lighting system in that city, accord
! ing to the statement of Arthur Win
Jams general inspector of the New
| York Edison company.
D. z. Curtiss, a shoe dealer Of De
} troit and member of the Michigan
house Of representatives was asked
to leave the legislative hall;
and told by Speaker Campbell
not to return at the present session
This action followed a visit by Cur
tiss-said by him to have been prop
er-to the home Of Sidney Hail. jour
nal clerk of the house, when Han was
absent.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-05-20
OBITUARY..

Clinton c. Hutchinson, known as
the father Of irrigation in the west, is
dead at Portland Ore, aged Is.
Mrs. Mary L. DaIzell, wife Of Repre-
sentative DalzelI of Pennsylvania,
died in Washington after a long ill
ness.
Dr.. c. NJ Thompson, formerly q
resident of Chicago and prominent
among the Knights of Pythias. is dead
at Elk Rapids, Michigan.
LiIvati Singh. professor of English
literature in Isabelle Thoburu col
lege, Lucknow, India and the most
widely known native convert in the
Methodist church in India. died in
Augusta hospital, Chicago.
Henry L. Palmer, former president
of the Northwestern Mutual Life In
suranCe company and until week be-
fore his death the supreme head of
Masonry in the northern portion Of
the United States. was buried at Mil
waukee.
Jose Austin Arrange, leader of the
independence movement in Panama
and secretary for foreign relations in
the present cabinet, died suddenly
from heart failure Senior Arrange
was the first president of the provi-
SiOnal government
The Rev. DR.. W. D. Thomas, former
president of Gale college at GaIesYille,
one Of the most widely known Presby-
Il
dropped dead on a train on the Chi
cagO, Milwaukee and St. Paul rail
road at Camp Douglas. Wis. He was
IS years of age.
News has been received of the death
OF Edgar Thompson, king of one OF
the Fiji islands, who left his home at
Albion, near Carmi H., twenty-five
years ago in search Of adventure.
Some years after his departure
Thompson's sister, living in San Fran
cisco. received a letter from him. tell
ing Of his wanderings and stating he
had been married TO a young princess
of one Of the Fiji islands and had
been crowend king. Inquiry through
the United States consular department
verified his story.
William Campbell died at his home,
Evanston, III, from the effects Of
wounds received in the blockade al
Vicksburg. in the civil war. Bullets
in the right thigh, chest and left arm
had caused trouble for years after the
close of the war and led three weeks
ago 10 the Illness which resulted in
his death.
Mrs. Corne,ia Thompson, Rio. Wis,
aged 81 years, wife of Thornton
Thompson. died suddenly OF heart
failure. She is survived by her hus-
band. one son. Bert, manager OF the
Hanson company, general store, and
two daughters. Mrs. Fl. A. Hanson
and Mrs. J. F Robertson.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-05-20
DOM STIC.

Lightning struck a cotton warehouse
at DanCyviIIe, Tenn. and 400 bales OF
cotton were burned panic in a
negro church may result fatally to
several
Louis Fleitas, a prospector. who
died in his lonely hut near SiIverton,
Col, kept a diary in which he wrote of
the progress of the disease to which
he sucCumbed.
While walking on plank extending
INTO a pond at the farm home near
Grand Forks, N. D. the year and a
half old child of Mrs Amelia Ehuert
fell off and was drowned.
Mrs. John Deas, wife of a we'll
known farmer residing at Camden,
Fla. fifteen miles from Jacksonville,
was attacked by an unknown negro,
who was later captured by a mob of
citizens and lynched.
Four men are under arrest in Chi
cago charged with the murder Of
Harry Tetidbohm. a non-union team
ster One of the prisoners, B. c..
Nagawrecli, confessed, naming Karcz
as the man that did the shooting.
Boys attending public schools in
BayonEe. \. j., have been found under
the influence of liquor The school
board blames the police for excise
law violations and a committee has
been appointed to investigate.
\ petition now in circulation in
New York for signatures, asking that
further steps be taken to prevent the
recurrence of massacreS in Turkey of
christians, will be sent soon to Presi-
dent Taft at Washington.
Judge William F. Cooper died in
New York at the age of go years. He
was a brother of Duncan B. Cooper,
recently convicted at Nashville Tenn.
with MS son. Robin ]. Cooper, of kill
ing former Senator z, W. Carmack.
Henry Eggert, Il years old, of
Brooklyn. n. Y, who weighs 365
pounds, refused to go to school be
cause he was afraid he could not get
out Of the building in time if 4 fire
was discovered in the structure.
Secretary Dickinson's first annual
report of war-department affairs will
include the tentative plan for army re-
organization now being drafted by the
general staff 1t is based on the need
of a regular establishment Of $4,000
enlisted men.
Schuyler HOlley of LOgansport. Ind.
was killed by trap he had prepared
10 kill a chicken thief. He had ar
ranged 8 pistol so that when the door
of his chicken-house was opened it
would be discharged. He forgot to
disconnect the trap.
Robert Johnson, negro, was struck
by a southbound Mobile and Ohio
train at ArteSia, Miss He was hurled
onto the northbound track, apparently
unhurt. when another train, travelling
in the opposite direction, ran over
him, killing him instantly.
With impressive ceremonies the flag
of the Second Maryland Confederate
regiment. returned to them by the One
Hundred and Twenty-third Ohio in
fantry. into whose hands it had IA len
during the civil war, was placed in
the keeping of the state of Maryland.
That a hitch has occurred in the
wedding plans OF Miss Nora Iselin and
Count Col,oredo-Mannsfeld, was ap-
parent last night. 1t is said that c..
Oliver iselin has refused to either set
tie the counts debts or make a mar
rage settlement on his daughter.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-05-20
Montana Has Quake.

Great Falls, Mont, May 1o.-A dis
tinct earthquake shock was felt here
last night at s:15 and it was also felt
at Choteau Havre, Wagner and other
points, showing that it prevailed gen.
orally over northern Montana VIII
no serious damage was done the
shock was sufficient 10 throw things
from shelves in stores and there was
some breakage of glassware.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-05-20
BROKER ARRESTED
ON FRAUD CHARr'

washington, May I6.-CharIes
ton Foxwell, a mining stock broke
was arrested here yesterday and VIZ
locked up in the poll station la
night, charged with being a fugiti'
from justice. Herbert Moseley trea
u"er of t;,~ Copper company, BostO
Mass, who is complainant, allege
that Foxwell by various schemes
lieved his company Of more tina
$4,000 and informed the police ths
the broker had victimized mar
other concerns in Virginia Canad
New York and Massachusetts, to IL
extent of $4,000 or more. Foxwe
denies the charges against him.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-05-20
NO USE FOR WHALE9oNE,

4 wonder if that there Shack
ton Teller found any polar bears
try the whalebone trick on" muse
the sailor, as he slipped a sundae.
What's the whalebone trick" Il
druggist inquired
THE whale5Cne trick is a ne
use for the whalebone what learnt
from an Eskimo up Bafin's bay way
said the sailor. Me and the Il
kimo worked it on a fine bear. Tn.
feller's skin, by crinus, fetched fot
dollars and a dozen bottles of lin
juice at the traders.
What we done first was TO free
six or seven balls Of blubber, ea1
about the size of your fist. We b
Tered out these here balls and coil
inside EN- twelye-inch strips
whalebone. Then, disguised as sea
we got up close to a bear and sc
tered the balls on the ice.
"The poor critter swallowed th
blubber balls calmly But in alb
ten minutes they melted inside +
the whaieDone strips sprung
straight. and the bear, with :
lay down and twisted in the ;.
He roared. he summersetted,
stood on his head and tied kno
his hind legs.
"A cruel trick it was, and
what | never repeated. AS 500
he was dead We skinned him,
hide fetchin' US, as / said, four
oleons and case of scurvy Gu
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-05-20

Simpson charged his wife with smek-
ing. chewing and swearing and the
judge forthwith issued a decree or
separation.
Judge Goodiand is the oldest circuit
Judge In Wisconsin and has issued
more divorce DEGREES perhaps than
any circuit court jurist in the United
States.