Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-12-16
DOMESTIC,

The home Of Morrison Cabiness OF
Axton, Va, was burned and three
small children cremated.
The court of appeals at Lexington,
KY, affirmed the life sentence given
Beach Hargis for the murder of his
father.
Arthur Cane, of Garrison, N. D., a
carpenter, fell from a scaffolding
sixty feet to the ground, broke his
leg and arm but will recover.
The automobile of Mrs. H. H.
Rogers, Jr., was struck and badly
damaged by a surface car in New
York. Mrs. Rogers tainted but was
not injured.
The condition Of Hamilton NICK.
Twombly a director in many Of the
Vanderbilt lines, who is i'll at his
home at Madison, N. J., is reported
serious.
Edward Hostetter Of South Bend,
Ind, forgot to extingutsh the gas in
his room and was found dead in his
bed, having been asDhyxiated. He
was 40 years old.
Lee Eyre, jailed &C Ottumwa for
bootlegging, tried to commit suicide in
his cell by swallowing broken glass.
An attendant seized Eyre and made
him cough up the glass.
Severia VentOla, a Columbus, Ohio,
fruit dealer, who was arrested last
June in connection with the Black
Hand raids and later released under
$4,000 bail, was rearrested and held
in $4,000 bond.
Fletcher Harper of New York is in
a critical condition at the mansion OF
Eugene S. Reynal, suffering from IN
juries sustained when his hunter fell
while jumping a fence and rolled on
him, crushing a number of bones.
Attorney l.. F. Sutton, acting under
the cOntributOry dependent law, has
applied in the Juvenile court at Clin-
father the three-year-old daughter OF
Bert E. Hunt, whose wife committed
suicide Nov. 81, 1907.
The national executive committee
of the Council of Jewish Women, in
convention in Pittsburg, elected Miss
Sadie American of New York as a
delegate to the international white
slave traffic suppression association
to be held at Madrid next May.
Miss Margaret Bacon, who was to
have been bridesmaid for Miss Caro-
Ign Fall at the latter's marriage at Ell
PasO, Texas, Mahlon Everhart of
Pueblo, Colo, was found dead in a |
bathtub at the Fall home and the
wedding was postponed
Interest in the tragedy in the
Illinois Central station at EastOn, H.,
where Mrs. Ruth IsChmael attempted
to kill the agent, Thomas ROyston,
and ended her life with a bullet, now
centers in a letter which the woman
told her brother would explain every
thing.
Six young men, charged with en-
bezzling amounts ranging rom $4,000
to $4,000 from national banks in In,
diana, were taken to Fort Leaven-
worth prison to begin sentences OF
five years each. Oscar F. Cochrane,
formerly a beekkeeper in the Ameri- !
can National bank of Indianapolis, |
who embezzled $1,000 from his bank,
is of the number.
Il believe a law should be passed |
all newly weds" to live
with their parents until they have
been married a year at least" Judge |
Petit made this declaration in Chi
cagO, after hearing testimony in the
separate maintenance suit brought
by Mrs. Mary Leva against her hus-
band, Henry Leva, bookkeeper for the
Kabo Corset company.
AS sequel to a previous en-
counter several weeks ago when DR.. |
T. c. Coleman stabbed William Var
berry. the latter shot and killed Cole
man at Malta, Ark. The trouble
originated because Yarberry charged
Coleman with refusing to permit his
wife to become a member Of a local
church, threatening to shoot the
minister.
Samson Axiom died of a wound re-
ceived in a fight with Emmett Helens- !
burg in front of the Axiom Branch
church while a service was in prog
ress. The young men Quarreled over
q leaping contest and opened fire on
each other. The preacher, the Rev.
William Skinner, took up his inter
rupted sermon with the remark that
if twenty of the roysterers outside
were killed it would not matter.
Helenshurg escaped to the woods with
a shotgun.