Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1910-03-17
DOM ESTIC.

At an election in Hiawatha, Kan.
the commission form Of government
was defeated by seventy-five votes.
August Van Heckl, aged As a
farmer near Kewaunee, ILL.,, fell dead
of apoplexy shortly after reaching
town.
Dr. James r. Hull, accused with
Mrs. Alma p. Vaughn of numbering
her husband, was released on $4,000
bond at Kirksville. Mo.
Wilson w. Lockhart of Belmont
Mass. an extra clerk, was arrested
charged with completely in the Ma
tiOnal City bank fraud at Cambridge.
DR.. Robert e. Graham, aged So.
president of the Missouri Saddle
Horse Breeders association, died in
his Office at Columbia, Mo-, following
an apoplectic stroke.
Rev. Watson w. Tranter, pastor of
the Methodist church at New Rich
mond, Ohio, was bound over to the
kenton county, Kentucky, grand jury
Moses Levin, wanted for embeMle.
ment Of $1,000 in Los Angeles, has
been arrested at Aberdeen, s. D. He
is alleged to have made away with
funds while receiver in bankruptcy.
H. II. Purcell, genera. freight agent
of the American Refrigerator Transit
company, dropped dead in his office IN
st. Louis five minutes after telling a
friend he had never felt better in his
life.
There is crepe on the main en-
trance of the Bronx zoo, New York
Cheke, the only two-horned male rhi-
noceros in captivity, is dead after a
long illness. He was valued al
$4,000.
The game of mumblepeg has caused
the loss of sight to Elmer K. Hamil
ton, years old of McKeesport, Pa
With a. companion the boy was play
ing the game, when the knife used
struck him in the eye.
Walter Dagen, so years old, who
was expected to be the chief witness
for the state in the prosecution Of
former county commissioners indicted
at Tiffin, Ohio. recently for alleged
grating, has committed suicide.
p. A. Baker, national superinten
dent of the Anti-Saloon league, exon
Grated State Superintendent Morrow
of Detroit from charges that he hae
suggested colonization of voters II
win a local option election last year
Il always was the black sheep o
the family, and mamma will be gla,
to be rid of me, l know" FifteeI
year old Florence Doctor wrote thes,
words on slip of paper before sh,
drank poison and died at Fort Wayne
Ind.
After evading the California au
thorities for several months, Claud
Baker, alias Dan Smith, was arreste,
1t Fargo, \. d. He is charged witt
escaping from the state school a
Whittier. A California official is com
ing for him.
Idle curiosity TO know what wa
passing over the wires under he
charge resulted in Pearl McDaniel,
telephone operator at Columbia, Mo
in the employ of local exchang sc
hearing a message that told OF he
mothers death.
Julius Venner, alias Alexande
Klein, alias Johansen, has keen ider
tilted at Mobile. Ala. as August Peter
sen. who is alleged to have murdere,
his wife, Sophie Johansen, in Ne,
York, Feb. Z last, and concealed tn
body under the floor.
James Smith, woodsman, wa
eaten by wolves in the woods nea
Springfield. No., after fighting des
perate battle for his life. A broshe
circle of FIVE dead wolves, with 81
empty repeating rife.
Gen. Arson Mills, the American
boundary commissioner declared tn
dispute oyer the Mexican-AmercIal
boundary has not been decided an,
that the report that the commisslol