Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1910-04-28
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Joseph Blount stabbed his wife,
Bertha, and then cut his throat, dy-
ing shortly afterwards, at Niagara
Falls, N. Y.
Tim O'Neil, negro, who shot and
killed Jailer Temple, was shot and
killed by the officers in a fight in
Meridian, Miss.
Henry Fravil, real estate dealer
of Barberton, Ohio, shot and killed his
wife and attempted suicide because
she refused to live with him.
Harry L. Morris, the young society
man arrested at Cleveland, Ohio, on
. charge of blackmail, was indicted
by the federal grand jury on three
counts.
Edward Altemus of Jersey City, re.
Gently found guilty under the state
laws of running bucket shop, has
been sentenced to two years impris.
onment.
e. B. Boone was shot and PROBABLY
fatally wounded by William D. Bates,
an official of the Texas Oil company
at Houston. Domestic affairs caused
the shooting.
DR.. Cohen, an itinerant physician
for whom search had been made since
the death of Thomas Pile, a wealthy
farmer, near Calf, Mo-, was arrested
at Kirksville, Mo.
Two sons of Philip Badali, a
wealthy Italian of Williamsburg, Pa,
were found dead in bed. The youths,
one IS and the other Is years of age,
were victims of poison.
Praying for years that he might
die and join his wife, who died a
number of years ago, Samuel Ash, SO,
of Ada, Ohio, is dead He has been
blind for several years.
The "wets" at Rochelle, ILL.,, have
brought suit to contest the recent
election which resulted in tie vote
leaving the town dry. Illegal voting
and intimidation at the polls are al
legged.
In his mothers home at Martins
vile, Ind, Fred Ullery shot and prob
ably fatally wounded Emma Riddle
and shot himself through the neck.
Ullery may recover No motive is
known.
Suffering from her teachers al
legged intimation to her adopted moth
er that she was not getting along
we'll in high school, Is year old Mil
dred Stewart of Pittsburg drank pois-
on
William Westlund, Norwegian
miner, who was killed in the North
Kearsarge mine of Calumet, Mich,
was found to have had $500 in his
pocket. Westlund was supposed to
have been poor.
The surgery department of the Los
Angeles county hospital has supplied
John Schilheimer, a Long Beach
rancher, with part of calf's lower
jaw to replace maxilary bones de-
stroyed when bull gored him.
4 league of women which wilt
watch white slavery developments
throughout the country and aid in
ne suppression of the traffic has been
orlned by New York clubwomen. 1t
is to be known as the National
Leaguc for the Moral Protection of
Women.
Patrick j. Cummings of Attleboro,
Mass. has been found guilty of using
the mails in scheme to defraud by
persuading a score of men in different
parts of the country to become his
agents in the sale of jewelry but re
quiring each one to put up $1,000 to
secure the goods.
Nellie ,Christman. laundress or
Ann Arbor, Mich, claims TO be an
heir TO an estate worth $204,000,000
in America and Sweden. Her attor-
.ev claims the business section Of
Wilmington, Del, is built on grounds
leased by her great-grandfatner. now
worth $4,000 900. and that the leases
run from 80 to 1000 years. and that
certain books have disappeared from
the registrars Office in Wilmington
showing the existence of these leases
Stocks and bonds, all of them IS