Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1914-07-25

moa, and the Aunau islands, and was
beached. Lieutenant Beall, in charge,
cabled the navy department at Wash
ington that there we're no casualties.
Domestic
The first bale of Georgia's 1914 cot
ton crop, and the earliest ever re-
ceived in the history of the local cot
ton exchange, arrived at Savannah.
1t was grown at Donaldsonville in De
catur county, and is believed to be the
first cotton baled east of the Missis-
sippi.
Federal Judge lands of Chicago
sentenced the nine officials of the Barr
& Widen Mercantile agency who were
found guilty Of violating the federal
postal laws and of defrauding count
less persons out of a sum of money
estimated at between two and three
million dollars. The court eXcoriated
several for the part they took in the
frauds.
The federal board of mediation and
Cancellation will meet in Chicago in
an effort to settle the differences be
tween SO railroads west of Chicago
and IS 900 engineers and firemen on
these lines who threaten to strike.
Prohibition forces lost their battle
for the insertion of plank favoring
the resubmission of the prohibition
question to a vote of the people at the
Iowa Republican convention at Des
Moines The convention did adopt a
plank indorsing the present liquor
laws and commencing their enforce
ment.
Union miners and sympathlzers
numbering several hundred destroyed
nearly everything at the three mines
of Mommoth Vein Coal company, at
Prairie Creek. Ark, and engaged a
force of non-union employees in a bat
tie that waged from six o'clock until
noon. Dynamite and fire were used
to destroy the structures. The loss
Ii G5illNdLGu dL p4OUsONV
Charges that American meat pack
ers and railroads out of New Y ork are
in a conspiracy to ruin the independ-
ent meat packing interests of South
America are made in letters from A
II. Benjamin, representative of two of
the largest South American meat pack
ers, to the interstate commerce com
mission and the department of agricul-
ture at Washington.
Seven miners we're killed in the
Balkan mine at the Alpha location.
near Iron River, Mich. A drill hit
quicksand Seven were overtaken
and killed by the quicksand.
The federal grand jury at Seattle,
Wash, returned indictments under
the Sherman antitrust law against the
members of the so-called halibut
trust. which controls most of the half
but caught in the North Atlantic,
North Pacific and Bering seas and
sold in the United States.
Nine members of the Barr-Widen
firm were found guilty of using the
United States mails to defraud by
jury in Federal Judge Kenesaw Noun
tain, Lands court The scheme by
which the Barr-Widen firm mulcted
the unsuspecting out of more than So
100000 within q few years was daring
and wide In It's scope
Theodore Roosevelt issued a $500
word statement at Oyster Bay, n. Y.
accusing District Attorney Charles s.
Whitman. who has aspired to lead the
Progressive party in the gubernatorial
campaign in New York this fall. of
being tricky and lnsincere. He de-
clares Whitman, If elected. would be
AS undesirable as was Governor Dix"
Two-year-old Nancy Carpenter heir
ess to millions and niece of United
States Senator Henry A. Dupont of
Delaware. wcS drowned in q shallow
pool on the estate Of her uncle, Pierre
s. Dupont at Kennett Square. near
Philadelphia.