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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-02-04
WIRELESS AGAIN
PROVES ITS WORTH

New York, Feb. 1.-The famous
Scotland Hghtship, anchored off the
highlands of Navesink and marking
he entrance to New York harbor, was
run into and damaged by the schooner
Perry Setter during a heavy snow
storm yesterday. The lightshIp callel
for immediate assistance and in re
Spouse the revenue cutter Mohawk,
which was lying at anchor off Temp
kinsvine, Staten Island, rushed down
the bay under full head of steam.
Information Of the collision was sent
to the office of the United Wireless
Telegraph company in this city by the
wireless operator on board the Clyde
steamer Arapahoe, which was coming
into poIt rom Jacksonville.
Captain Chichester Of the AraDahoe
sighted he Iightsh.p in the storm anu,
seeing the signals Of distress, went
alongside He was informed that the
Perry Setter had fouled the bow Of
the lightship. but the extent CT the
damage was no. stated. The Perry
Setzers rail and quarter were dam
aged.
Soon after The collision the snowfall
ceased and the Observers on shore
discovered two large schOOners anCh-
cred near the Iightsh.p. One Of these
was the Perry Setter, bound from
Philadelphia to Boston. Soon after
ward the tug Reliance came up the
lower bay towing the water-logge,i
schooner ]. S. Lamprey.
Evidently the damages to the light,
ship were not serious, as she still re
manned on the station after assistance
reached her. l. was learned that the
school Lamprey sprung a leak and be
came water-logged in the gale off
Sandy Hook.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-02-04
LATE NEWS CONDENSED
BADGER BRIEFS.

Lawrence Kelly of Oconomowoc,
was sentenced to one year at Waupun
on being found guilty Of burglary,
having entered the residence of DR..
Donnelly
The navy department has con-
tracted with J. K, Joyce of Chicago
for supplying materials for 500
horses to be delivered at New Or
leans and sent TO italy
The residence of A. D. Robinson OF
Racine, father Of Bishop Henry D.
Robinson, was entered by burglars
while the family was absent Seven
teen dollars in money and consider
able jewelry were carried away.
Albert Robarge, son Of a home
steader uear Merrill, was killed at
Tomahawk by falling under train on
which he was employed as brakeman
Friends Of G. D. Jones are urging
him to become a candidate for the
office Of regent of the University OF
Wisconsin from the tenth congress
sional district
James Normington had his left arm
caught in the extractor Of the Marsh
field steam laundry The arm was
ground to a pulp TO the elbow, Al
though 81 years Of age he will re
cover. Detective John bennington OF
Milwaukee is a son.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-02-04
DOME

Miss Mabel Sturtevant, a Missouri
girl was awarded the Braun prize as
the best student of European and
American universities.
Sheriff O. O. Cummins has caused
the arrest Of four young men in Har-
risburg, Ill, and one in st. Louis.
John Greer confessed TO a number Of
burglarie8 and assaults upon persons.
Through the extinction of life in
tercst Yale college has come into pos
session Of the residuary estate Of
about $1,000 Of Dr.. F. w. Pearce of
Edgartown, Mass, who died some
years ago.
New York police were asked by Ed
ward Perrine Cole, an attorney Of
Cleveland, O., to assist in the search
for Joseph Freeman, a prominent art
dealer in Cleveland, who disappeared
two weeks ago
A loss estimated at from 100000 to
$4,000 was caused by a fire which
destroyed ten buildings at Princeton,
N. J. Students worked like beavers
helping the people to carry their
goods from their stores and homes.
Sherman w. Morris, alias Frank
ShercIffc, was acquitted of rObbing a
sleeping car on the Northern Pacific
on April 16, 1908 He will be taken
to Colorado to serve a twenty year
term for murder in the second degree
The condition Of Joseph Letter, who
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-02-04
ship COMPANY
BRINGS ACTION
DEMANDS So Ooo, 900 FOR DAMAGE
FOR SINKING STEAM
SHIP REPUBLIC.

New York, Feb. 2.-Counsed for
the Oceanic Steam Navigation Co.,
owners of the White Star line steam
ship, Republic, filed libel In the
United States district court against
the steam hip Florida, of the Lloyd
ltaIlano Line, which ran down and
sunk the Republic off Nantucket light.
ship.
Damages amounting to $1,000 100
for the loss of the ship and 100000
for the loss of cargo and effects of
passengers and crew were claimed.
1t was asserted in the libel that tn
collision was due to no fault on the
part of Captain Sealby of the Repub
lie, but wholly to the faults of the
Florida, which, it was alleged. did not
keep a proper course, had not suf
! ficient lookout, did not give ploper
| whistles nor pay heed to the Whistles
of the Republic; that the Florida
| failed to indicate her change of helm.
that she was proceeding at an immod.
crate speed and did not stop or back
| her engines.
| The assertion was made that when
! the officers of the Republic first heard
the whistles of the Florida in the fog
the Republics engines were run full,
! speed astern and that her helm was
put aport. Shortly afterward the
Florida appeared broad OF the Repub.
lies port side, tearing down at high
| speed, and her railing hit the Republic
at right angle below amidships.
1t was also ascertained that at the
time of the collision the Republic was
running at reduced speed, that the
captain, two officers, a quartermaster
and a seaman we're on the bridge
! with two lookouts.
The Florida 1t is declared struck
the Republic nearly a square blow and
made a cut extending below the water
line, starting the bulkheads.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-02-04
OBITUARY.

John 2. Murphy, vice-president OF
the Milwaukee National bank, died
at his home in Philadelphia at the
age of 80 years.
Frank Kummrow, a well known
citizen Of Wausau, stricken on the
street with an apoplectic stroke, died
without regaining consciousness.
William White, fireman on the ia
nous locomotive, John Bull" during
the centennial exhibition at Phila-
deIphia, is dead in Peoria, Ill. at the
age Of "a.
J. s. Glenn, who was widely identi-
fed with the development Of the oil
lands of Oklahoma, died at his home
in Tulsa Mr.. Glenn was associated
with T. S. Barnsdall in the Barns
dali Glenn blanket leases in the
Usage nation and was one of the
most extensive operators in the south
western field
Andrew J. Aikens, general manager
and part owner of the Evening Wis
consin, died, the result Of a paralytic
stroke. Mr.. Aikens was 80 years OF
age. He had been a newspaper man
for sixty-fve years and connected
with the Evening Wisconsin of Mil
waukee about fifty-five years. He is
said to have been the originator Of
patent insides" in 1863 and after
wards founded newspaper unions fol
the printing of patent insides" at
Chicago, New York, Cincinnati, Nash
Vile Atlanta, and Memphis.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-02-04
100 REPORTED
KILL Ed BY QUAKE
TOWNS OPPOSITE GIBRALTAR
SAID TO HAVE SUFFERED
BY SHOCK.
MADRID DIsCREDiTs sTORY-8AR
cELONA UNMOVED AND EV-
ERYTHING NORMAL.

Gibraltar, Feb. 1.-Centa, on the
Morocco coast opposite Gibraltar, and
Tetuan, twenty-five miles from Tan
gier, were badly shaken in an earth
quake yesterday morning. Over 100
persons are said TO have been killed
or injured. The American battle
ships Georgia and Nebraska are at
Tangier, which is not far from the
scene OF the reported disturbance. No
word has been received from there to
confirm the report.
Madrid Discredits the Report.
Madrid, Spain, Jan. 3I.-No further
news has been received here regarding
the reported destruction of the village
of Romara, in Morocco. Natives com
ing into Tetuan declared that this vii,
| lage had been buried under an ava.
lanche of earth and rocks and that the
dead and injured numbered 100
| These statements are similar to previ
Gus reports received a week ago.
No Shock at Barcelona
! Madrid, Spain, Jan. 31.-All com
munication with southern Spain and
with the city of Barcelona is uninter.
rupted and normal and reports eman
ating from England relative to a dis
astrous earthquake and tidal wave al
Barcelona are untrue. There was q
slight earth shock at Totana in the
province of Murcia, but no serious
damage was done. The walls of only
few houses were cracked. Slight
shocks were also felt in the neighbor
| ing village of Olias.
At both Totana and Olias the inhab
itants fed panic-stricken to the
suburbs, fearing that a disaster was
upon them such as devastated Mes
sina, Italy.
The seismic disturbance was regis
! tered on the instruments of the insti,
tute at Valencia.
1t is reported that the moment the
quake occurred the sun was hidden by
dense gray cloud, which, however
disappeared Immediately, while a
shower Of hailstones as large as wal.
nuts covered the ground to a depth
of several centimeters.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-02-04
GARY AND FRICK
MAY Be CALLED
SPECIAL SENATE COMMITTEE Elk
PECTED TO QUESTION NUM-
Der OF PROMINENT MEN.

Washington, Feb. When the
special senate committee charged with
the investigation of the presidents au-
thority for permitting the absorption
of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Com
pany by the United States Steel Cor
poration resumes its inquiry next
Tuesday, it is eXpec ed that there VIII
be a number of important witnesses.
Among these may be Judge E. II.
Gary and Henry c. Frick, representa-
tives of the Steel corporation who
laid the question Of merging the two
concerns before President Roosevelt
and Lewis Cass Ledyard, said TO have
originated the MOnger idea to take
Tennessee Coal and Iron stock out Of
number of loans which were being
pressed for payment by New York
banking institutions which held them.
According to the testimony 81
George w Perkins Of the firm of ]. p
Morgan & Co., given 10 the committee
late in the session and made public
yesterday, Mr. Ledyard was the first
to suggest that the Steel corporation
take over the Tennessee concern. Mr.
Ledyard is described as the lawyer Of
the partnership which was in difficulty
over loans it had secured on Tennes-
see Coal and Iron stock Thus far i'm
the hearing before the special commit
tee this partnership remains nameIess,
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-02-04
TAFT SEEKS A TREASURY HEAD.
Talk About George M. Reynolds of
Chicago for Place Rev'l ed.

Talk About George M Reynolds of
Chicago for Place ReV'> ed.
Washington, D. c., Jan. 31.-Presi-
dent-Elect William H. Taft, contrary
to the general understanding, has not
yet offered the portfolio of secretary
of the treasury in his cabinet, to any
body. Repeated mention of George NJ.
Reynolds, president of the Continental
National bank Of Chicago, in this con
nection has led the friends Of the
president-elect to make this assertion
unequivocally with the qualification
that Mr.. Reynolds may be one of the
men whom Mr.. Taft is considering for
this place.
1t is understood in Washington that
Mr.. Taft will choose an Illinois man
for this post if he can find one who
measures up to his standards. To
that end he has had several prospect
i've candidates in Illinois looked UP
by his friends, with a view to Offering
the portfolio of secretary of the treas
ury upon his return from Panama.
This was his determination when he
left for the isthmus, and inasmuch as
Mr.. Reynolds name was first men
toned for the post before Mr.. Taft
reached Panama, the rumors that
Mr.. Reynolds has been selected are
not believed to be final
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-02-04

tuition at Washington, D. c., is haV'
ing constructed for surveying pur'
poses. 1t is claimed for the boat that
it will be Influenced only by the
earth's magnetic poles.
To build a toll line from La Crosse
TO Viroqua, taking in West Salem
Bangor. Sparta, Melvina, Cashton
Westby, Chaseburg and Coon Valley
is said to be the plan Of the La
Crosse Toll Line company, a tele
phone concern, the capital Of which
is $4,000. Bangor, Sparta and West
Salem capital is said to be interested
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-02-04
LATER.

Robert A. Taft, son of the president
elect, is in the infirmary at Yale uni
versity, suffering from acute indiges-
ton
Advance sheets of Wiltzius' catholic
directory of Milwaukee show there
ara 14,235,451 catholics in the United
States, an increase Of 358,025 for the
year.
An Associated Press dispatch from
Vienna. Austria, declares there is no
truth in the report that forty-five per
sons were killed in a railroad wreck
in Galicia.
Two hundred and fifty young wo-
men, taken on a special train from
Boston, have replaced the negro wait
ers in an Atlantic City hotel.
Private Barry of the Sth regiment
at Fort Robinson, Neb. was shot and
killed when he dared his cOmrade and
supposed friend, Private Thomas. TO
fire upon him.
A bill prohibiting the wearing OF
hatpins in excess of ten inches was
passed by the lower branch of the
Oregon legislature, which defeated
the bill to abolish the whipping post.
Two young women of Dayton, O.,
who were attacked by an unknown
man in that city, defended them
selves with hatpins. They drove off
the assaiIant.
Claude VanderwaII, a patient at the
state insane asylum at Kalamazoo,
Mich, stood an hour in a courtroom
with his arm outstretched and with
out moving a finger. His body grows
rigid when he is spoken to.
The body Of Thomas Kirnan, a pr,
vate of company E, 18th infantry, of
the United States army was found in
the lower bay at New York The sol
dier's skull was fractured and robbers
are believed to have killed him.
President Roosevelt announced at
the dinner given in connection with
the chiIdreu's conference at Wash
mgton that he would send a message
to congress advocating a federal chill
dren's bureau.
For the first time in the history Of
the United States circuit court Of ap-
peals in New Orleans an argument
was presented by a woman Yesterday
when Mrs. Jennie Benedict Gessner Of
New Orleans appeared as attorney.
Threc-yearold Harry Barbich poured
gasoline on a hot stove in Brooklyn
and he, his grandmother, Mrs. Rebec-
ca Goldberg. and her daughter, Sarah,
were burned. The ambulance taking
the child to a hospital was turned
over in collision with street car.
Miss Bessie Love, a stenographer
at the risk of her life dragged her
roommate. Minnie Brooks, from their
burning apartment in New York and
both were carried down ladders from
the fourth floor Twenty others es-
capped by fire escapes.
Wearing white robes, sandals and a
white hood, a young negro visited
several houses and saloons in New
orleans chanting that he had been
sent to warn men that the world was
coming to an end in three days. He
was arrested.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-02-04

Washington, Jan Boy voting an
appropriation of 100000, over and
above the amount originally reported,
the house made a liberal provision
for further experiments by the army
with balloons and airships for use in
warfare. The subject gave rise to a
spirited debate which continued most
of the session. The opponents of the
proposition sought to encompass its
defeat by raising all sorts of parlia,
mentary points, but the chair in elab-
crate opinions overrruled these and
thus paved the way for the incorpora-
ton of the provision in the army ap-
proprietor bill. Mrs. Frances Folsom
Cleveland, widow of the late PresI-
dent Cleveland, and Mrs Mary Lord
Harrison, widow of the late Presi-
dent Harrison, were granted the
franking privileges during their life
time by the provisions Of a house bill
that passed by the senate.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-02-04
Guilty in Land Fraud Case.

Guthrie, Okla, Jan. SD. H. Hal
lock. a wealthy Woodward county
ranchman, has been found guilty of
subordination of perjury. It was
charged he induced Kansas students
and school teachers to come to Okla
homa and file on homesteads as
dummies" and later had them turn
their claims over to him.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-02-04
Park Where President Died.

Washington, Jan. S1.-The house
committee on public buildings and
grounds has appointed a subcommit-
tee to investigate a report upon the
proposed purchase of the Oldroyd col
lection of relics of Abraham Lincoln
and the real estate surrounding the
house in this city in which the mar
tyred president died. The house is
now owned by the government.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-02-04

, were among the witnesses called In
the dissolution suit against the $780,.
100000 Hartman railway merger. All
the witnesses stated they did not have
personal charge of the traffic of their
companies.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-02-04
OVER AMERICAN TARIFF
Germans Want Action of Congress
Crisis for Porcelain Trade.

DJTJT Ea8-
Crisis for Porcelain Trade.
Berlin, Germany Jan. 31.-The anxi-
ETY. with which German exporters have
been awaiting the expected revision
OF the American tariff schedules has
again become acute, owing to the cry
of alarm raised by the firms in the
porcelain industry. According to con-
fidendal reports received here by
some OF these firms, strong pressure is
being brought to bear to have the
American congress alter the tariff on
porcelains so as to include besides the
ad valorem duties a specific duty ac-
cording 10 weight
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-02-04
Pottery Men Testify.

Pittsburg, Feb. 2.-Thomas l. Nape
of the Thompson Pottery Co, w. e.
Wells of the Homer Laughlin China
Co and William c. Watson of large
pottery firm Of East Liverpool, o.,
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-02-04
MARTHA FINLEY is DEAD.
Author o. the elsie" Books Passes
Away at EIkton, Md.

EIkton, Md, Jan. 31.-After several
weeks illness, Miss Martha Finley.
the author, died yesterday at her home
in Elkton at the age of 81 years: Miss
Finley was born a, ChIlicothe, Ohio,
April %. 1928. Her girlhood wa spent
at South Bend. Ind. Her best known
works are the Elsie" books. She had
lived in Elkton for the last thirty
years.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-02-04

LOO class, while the provision for
the payment of the necessary ex-
penses of division superintendents,
railway mail clerks and others while
away from headquarters was stricken
out. AS amended the bill was passed.
1t carries over 1894 100000.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-02-04
GIVEN EDITORS POSITION.
Joseph A. Arnold of Indiana Given I'M
portant Place.

Washington, Jan. 31.-The position
Of editor Of the department OF agricul-
ture, regarded as one of the most de-
sirabIe positions in the department
has been given to Joseph A. Arnold Of
Indiana Mr.. Arnold has been an as
sistant editor for a number Of years
He succeeds George William Hid OF
Minnesota, who, because Of i'll health
has been made an assistant editor I'M
der Mr.. Arnold.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-02-04
MORGAN FOR MORE ART.
Sails on Annual Trip II Secure Mas
terpieces.

terpieces.
New York, Feb. q. Pierpont
Morgan will sail upon his annual trip
to Europe next Wednesday, according
to Wall streets unconfirmed reports.
1t but presages another of Mr.. Nor
gan's frequent artistic and social jour.
neys abroad, during which he inva.
riably picks up many paintings and
pieces of sculpture and is usually the
boon companion of King Edward for
some weeks before his return In the
spring.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-02-04

o dark, sad millions, patiently dumb
Waiting for God, hour, last, has come,
And freedoms song
Breaks the long silence of your night wrong!
Arise and flee! shake off the vile restraint
OF ages! but, like Balymenas saint,
The OppresSor spare,
Heap only his head the Goals of
Go forth like him. like him, return again.
To bless the land whereOn in bitter pain
Ye tOiled at first,
And heal with freedom what slavery cursed
Whittier 1885,
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-02-04

A pinch of salt taken before meals
stimulates digestion
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-02-04
The Proclamation.

Il order and
mated be
hereby
in I'd
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Spokane until something had been
done, as he expected that residents of
this community would take some ac-
ton in the matter AS soon as it be-
came known. the matter was taken up
by numerous citizens. but it remained
for Mr. Herring to solve the problem
Mrs. Cullen is evidently not a Grim
inal ignorance of the law is her ex-
cuse and in this question she is not
blamed. She is now duly grateful to
the people of this city and wish them
to know that she appreciates their
kind services. With an elder daughter
working in local laundry. she will
now be able to make both ends meet
and as she receives assistance from
her husband who lives in Montana. it is
not expected that the Cullens will ever
prove to be county charges.
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py Victor were almost driven out OF
Brussels.
King Leopold, though importuneo
by his daughter and her lover to give
his consent to the divorce and remaf'
riage. remained obdurate, and refused
to listen to the proposal.
Belgian ministers alarmed at the no
ton that their country might be hand
ed over to France through such al
alliance. eXerted all their efforts TO de-
stroy the happiness of the lovers
Scandals concerning the prince ant
princess were circulated. If, by accl-
dent. they~-both CHANGED to be away
from Brussels at the same time ai
sorts of unkind rumors were scattered
broadcast concerning them.
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
of the buyers enabling them to stock
up on low priced cereals.
Adams county, known as a banner
one for, producing good crops will not
produce half the yield it did last year.
while Franklin. Douglas, Lincoln,
Morrow, Gillian. Klickitat, Asofin and
this one are known to be short And
as ample proof that the farmers are
right and know what they are basing
their statements on. James j. Hill, re-
cognized as authority, comes out in his
report and tells the people not to risk
very much on this seasons crop as it
will be short His information is
obtained from agents who look into
this matter very carefully and his re-
port on the crop outlook is taken by
all. to- be the correct one.
Farmers may be seen on the streets
today in little knots talking over the
present situation and one group. COM
posed of some of the most prominent
grain growers in this locality, stated
that they feared the statements of Mr..
Peterson might injure the merchants
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-08-31
AmuSementS
A. the Majestic


Patrons of the c.taJaslic were gwen
an exceptionally good entertainment
last night and that they appreciated
it to the full was evinced by the
amount of enthusiasm displayed
Everyone received encores and in the
case of Russell and Grey an ovation
was accorded them at the conclusion
OF their stunt. They are without
doubt the head liners of this weeks
performance and give an act that is
best said in their own words, lone
Of culture and refinement" Some OF
the + songs are clever and the dane
ing turn was very pleasing. They
are both artists and deserved the APP
plause they won. Professor VALID
stein in his trick roller skating per-
formed some difficult feats and as he
skated among llrives sticking up
from the floor, the audience was given
a rare exhibition Of q favor;te pas
time Daniels and Mack. in a COM
edy sketch close an unusually good
bill and in their turn. "Nellie's Chap
erone" they portray the life of the
Irish with al its wit and humor. The
moving pictures were IN keeping with
the entire program and 1.-The Bach
e or's Misfortune" provoked roars of
,aughteT from the audience Those
who attend the Majestic this week
2Till not be disappointed