Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-08-05
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
Two unidentified men employed on
the Northern Pacific railroad at LlV-
Ingston, Mont, were blown to pieces
By the premature explosion of dyna-
mite.
VIII Mack, the negro who criminally
assaulted the daughter Of a farmer
near Pelahatchie, Miss, was hanged
at the courthouse, in the presence OF
5000 people.
Chauncey, the 11-year-old son of Mr..
and Mrs. Samuel Ford of Rockfalls,
H., died from tetanus, the result of ac-
cidentaIIy shooting himself in the
hand by pistol on July 5.
"GoOd-by" was all that was left by
the suicide D. Fremont Pollock, clerk
and a prominent member of the Pres
byterian church at Garner, Iowa. He
committed suicide in his room by TAX
ing carboIic acid.
Robert Brit, a well-knOwn farmer Of
Sac county, Iowa, drank from bottle
he supposed contained medicine, but
which proved 10 be filled with wood
alcohol. His death followed few
hours later. He was 81 years old.
The claims for services in the OF
yuse Indian war of 1847 and 1848 in
Oregon, filed by nine claimants, will
be allowed by the government at the
rate of $3.50 a day during their service
period
Mischievous boys soaped an incline
track on the Brooklyn rapid transit
system in Brooklyn causing a heavily
loaded fat-car to slide off and crash
into a trolley car, fatally injuring a
woman.
Theodore Greenwald, the missing
treasurer of the New Lebanon Comm
school district, blew out his brains in
the New York Central station in the
Branx. He had been missing for
week.
Mistaking a turkey buZzard for
turkey, seven Italians, who killed and
ate such bird are in a critical condi-
ton at Des Moines, Iowa. The men
have been employed with Rock Is
land work gang. They may recover
The governor Of Iowa pardOned
Anna Myers Of Mount Pleasant, con-
victed of burning her daughter-in-law's
home. Her lawyers cOntended that
she was walking in her sleep at the
time she committed the crime.
Without warning q solid wall of
water z feet high swept down the
Colorado river at Austin Texas. This
food was followed by further rise of
9 feet. Hundreds of pleasure camp
ers along the river had to fee for
their lives.
The Louisiana game commission re-
ceived news that about 100000 birds
on the breeding grounds maintained
by the commission at Battledoor, Au-
dubon and Breton islands, off the
southwestern coast Of Louisiana, had
been killed in the storm.
James Comstock, Jr., 10 years old,
and Benjamin Curtis, Sc, we're
drowned in the Kalamazoo river, near
Marshall, Mich, after floating down
six miles from Marengo. Both we're
standing up IN a boat fishing when it'll
capsized. Bo,h bodies have been re-
covered.
August Carlson, aged 20, farmer
who lived near Stanton, Iowa, was
struck by the train and instantly
Killed. Stanton was deaf, and did notI
hear the approach of the train. He
had j wife living in Sweden, and sev-I
eral OF his children are believed toI
live in St Paul.
Patrick J. Lynch, SO years of age,
steward of the Elks' club, was muir
dered at Beaumont, Texas. The body
was found by the porter. There we're
nine terrible gashes on the head and
forehead. Several arrests have BEEN
made.
After a conference at st. Louis BEL
tween D. J. Keefe, United States com
missioner of immigration, and John H.
Curran, chairman Of the Missouri
state immigration commission, it was
announced that Missouri will establish
an immig, Ition bureau at Ellis island,
New York.
Deep Sky, a Sioux chief, ambled upI
10 the marriage license bureau in New
York and got a license 10 marry Adele
Rowland, a pretty New York girl, p
years old. Deep Sky halls from South
Dakota. This is the first I-cn~e :,
issued at the New York bureau TO a
white woman and a fullblooded In
dian.
The murder OF Mrs. A. F. DCrranceI
of Helena, Mont, shot by a m: might
visitor to her room in the Parker
house, at Hot Springs, Ark, will be
written in local police annals as an IN
solved mystery. The police have ar
rested nine suspects, but there is moth
ing to connect any one with the trag-
edy.