Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-04-04
NORTHWESTERN NEWS.
The Latest Local Happenings in Four
Great States.
WISCONSIN.


OSHKOSH has u character who fought
with Napoleon.
MINIATURES is to be heated by steam,
after the manner Of Detroit.
MILWAUKEE has abandoned the
scheme TO organize ball club.
The Rock county Agricultural society
will provide two prizes for military
companies to compete for, the first be
ing 500 and the second prize $50.
IT is reported that Hon. w. ID. Wash
burn, of Minneapolis, has been i'll Mass
achusetts negotiating with the Gushing
heirs for the purchase of the st. Croix
Falls water-power. If the result Of the
visit is favorable it will hasten the pro-
posed railroad 20 TAYLOR Falls.
THE total bonded Indebtedness Of
Fond du Lac is 100000. OF this S75,-
900, bears eight FER cent. interest and
commences to fall due in 1881, in ten
annual payments of $500 each. The
compromise bonds are for $4,000, bear
six per cent. interest, and fall due in
1884 and 1855.
IOWA.
w. \. COLEMAN, the abSconding book
keeper Of Burlington, is believed to be
in Canada.
A STRANGE and fatal disease has made
its appearance among the cattle in
Wright county.
A GERMAN woman Eamed Koch, of
Muscatine, was so badly frightened by
a tramp that She has gone insane
II, T., II
while duck hunting i'll keokuk town
ship last week. and died instantly.
TIE supreme court OF Iowa decides
that railroads are not liable for damage
done by sparks from locomotives.
Coz. INGERsoTIs engagements in Iowa
have been postponed on account of
business calling him to Washington.
JOHN MACE claiming to be brother
of Jem Mace, the pugiliSt, was arrested
for drunkenness, at Dubuque, Monday.
The depot building Of the Keokuk
and Des Moines division Of the Rock
Island road ut Sand Prairie, or Nincen-
mes, was destroyed by fire the other
morning.
ROSE CANGLEY, daughter Of Mr..
Cangley, Of Clifford, aged 20, is missing
from Eldora, and there are remors of
her death recently under suspicious cir
cumstances.
A SHIPPER 1T Lofty station recently
shipped eighty-five hogs that averaged
in weight five hundred pounds. Thirty
five of the lot averaged five hundred
and forty pounds.
}. S. BENEDICT, merchant at Upper
Corton, Iowa, has made an assignment
for the benefit of his creditors. His
liabilities are stated to be about $40, 600,
and assets about twice that amount.
+. NJ. DAVIS, of Clinton, has brought
suit against the water-works company
Of that town for $4,000 for damages
caused as alleged BY defendants failure
10 put out II fine which destroyed his
property in 1876.
THE latest at Council Bluffs is litter
of pigs, each one of which is an expert
rat-catcher. They crouch at the hole
till rat appears, when it rs snatcned up
in way that would do credit to ter
rier. The pigs devour the rats with Il
genuine relish, too.
THE Muscatine Journal is informed
that the severe cold Of the present
winter killed nearly all the fish III keo-
kuk lake, and that their dead bodies
Ene ITS shores in Muscatine island,
where they have been cast up by the
waves. The farmers on the island are
gathering the fish, which are mostly
bass, weighing from two to five pounds,
and feeding them to their hogs. 1t is
estimated that a wagon-oad can be
found for every ten feet along the shore
for distance of mile.
AN important suit was commenced
III the United States court at Daven-
port, some time ago. against a number
Of citizens Of that place, for the recov-
cry of upward of $3,000,000 based on
matters growing out of the construction
of the Davenport and ST. Paul railroad.
The suit was brought on behalf of the
bondholders against number of gen.
tlemen who were interested in the con-
structicn party. II was claimed by the
bondholders that on account Of Il de-
fective organization of the construction
company, its members were individu-
ally liable for the debts and defaults of
the corporation. The defendants filed
plea setting up the facts upon which
they relied, showing that the company
was legal corporation, notwithstand-
ing the defects. Judge Love, on Satur-
day, at Des Moines, sustained the plea,
thus deciding the case in favor Of these
defendants. The effect of this decision
will be to relieve all these parties from
any individual liability for debts of the
corporation. and dispose Of the whole
case practically.
MINNESOTA.
The state Milers' Association will
meet at Minneapolis, April s.
The Brainerd Tribune says that Major
Ruifee, 50 far as the Chippewa nation is
concerned, is governor Of Minnesota.
FoRTY-oSE tramps are locked up in
the st. Paul calaboose, and that place
and Minneapolis are badly afflicted
with the tramp nuisance.
An eighteen-months old child Of Pat.
rick Stearin, Of Lakville, Dakota coun-