Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-01-21

International Harvester company Tor
violation Ct the antitrust laws.
With the testimony of two alienists
which the prosecutor riddIed, the de
Tense at the trial of Thornton Jen-
kins Hams closed its case.
c. A. Metcalf of Chicago figured in
an automobile accident at Milwaukee,
in which his machine was badly dam
aged and he sustained severe burns.
The Great Northern will enter Win
nipeg over its own roadbed by mid
summer and made application to ex-
tend it's line to the western boundary
Of Manitoba.
The Cassidy committee, investigat-
ing the Catskill water deal, found that
millions had been eXtraVagantiy eX-
pended without regard to the results
obtained
Duke" Emelio G. Sera, Italian no
bIeman practicing medicine at New
Britain. Conn, was raided and the
doctor and a young girl were ar
rested.
A Spokesman for five New York gas
companies subsidiary to the Consoli-
dated stated they would not supply
gas at 80 cents until their individual
suits were settled.
MAGISTRATE Otto H. Droege, whose
scandalous conduct Of the night court
was exposed, was removed from office
by the appellate division on charges
prepared by the New York bar aSso-
citation.
Coroner Newlen of Des Moines, has
presented a demand upon President
Bell of Drake university to deliver to
the jury certain letters found among
Dean Towards effects after his sud
den death
Mayor Cutchin of Roanoke, Va,
who ordered the police to enforce eV-
crv Sunday law and ordinance, was
obeyed. No cigars, cigarettes, to-
bacco, fruit, confections, toilet articles
or other merchandise was sold.
DR.. w. w. Guth, formerly of Cam
bridge, Mass lately chosen president
of the University of the Pacific, at
San Jose, a Methodist college, was in
augurated in the chapel of the school
grounds in the presence Of almost 2
600 people.
Spurning his advances in the alb
sence of her husband to defend her,
Mrs. J. r. Conklin, at LeavenWorth,
Wash. shot and killed Lloyd Weaver,
fireman on the Great Northern rail
way Weaver was rOomer in the
ConkIin home.
AS the result of all invitation eX-
tended over the telephone by Dr. G.
T Poole to Rev. J. F. Shepherd to
meet him opposite the postOfftce and
come armed that they might shoot 1t
out" DR.. Poole has been arrested at
Webb City, Mo.
Mrs. Sarah Costerlin was found
dead. from burns and other injuries
in her home on the Shark river shore
near Asbury Park, N. J., and the
county authorities are investigating
the case on the theory that she was
murdered.
S'0tA'5
is battling with a flock Of magpies to.
keep the birds from devouring his
pigs. His sly of 100 porkers has been
repeatedly attacked during the past
few days by the birds, made bold by
hunger.
y tragedy was enacted in the
waters of Ponkapoag, in Canton,
Mass, when William L. Meehan lost
his life while fishing through the ice
and Mount d officer William Matter
also was drowned while attempting toI
rescue the fisherman.
Judge Windes ordered a writ of
mandamus ordering the board Of re-
view of Chicago to assess taxes and
penalties Of $7OOO,OOO against ma
jority of the stockholders Of the Inter
national Harvester company.
A northbound passenger train
crashed into the rear of a freight
train on the st. Louis and San Fran
cisco railroad at Walnut Grove, Mo,
resulting in the death of Dewitt
Davis, Is years old, and severe in
iuries to a number of trainmen.
Franklin McVey, chairman of the
Minnesota tax commission and for
nerly professor of economics at the
of Minnesota, was chosen
president of the University Of North
Dakota. President Merrifeld Will re-
ire after twenty-five years of success
ul work.
A fine of 81 600, the return of the
property embezzIed. or the value
hereof. and Imprisonment for one
ear was the penalty imposed upon
A. Ensign and Charles w
ensign. father and son, who con
Iucted a bank at Northeast, Pa, and
we're convicted of receiving deposits,
moving the bank was about to fail.
Dhe elder Ensign is about so years !
# age.
VARIOUS LEGISLATURES.
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