Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-04-11
VERY LATEST NEWS.
Selected From Every Source and
Boiled Down.
MISCELLANEOUS.

ILL.,, have formed boat club.
THE Irish cricket team is coming &c
this country in the fall.
A FIRE at Oconomowoc, Wis, April
7th, destroyed $50, 900 worth ofproperty
The Straits OF Mackinac were still
frozen over on April 9th, and teams
were crossing daily.
THE report that Sitting Bull was rest,
less and insubordinate is contradicted
He is represented as quietly in camp.
THE wife of Jacob Morris, of Philo,
H., attacked her husband with bread
knife April LIST, inilicting fatal wound.
THE centennial celebration at Lexing-
ton, KY, on the End inst, was grand
affair.
A FIRE in Philadelphia on Sunday
April 9th, on Race and Crown streets
destroyed property valued ut $750,O00.
TIE trial Of the assassin, Buford, who
shot Judge Elliot at Frankfort KY, has
been set for Monday, April %, at n
special term of court.
ANOTHER fierce storm prevailed of
the Massachusetts coast April 1st, and
it il feared that many lives were lost Mt
sea.
! A HEAVY frost in the vicinity OF
Charleston, S. G.. on the 4th inst, des-
troyed vast amount of early garden
vegetables and growing crops.
"a g NJ, l....a Ronanor ~ Z,
took place mt Baltimore April 9TH.
The chief mourners were the grand
an,u roI Inrn,,n NonaIoap nI M an 81 90
Joseph Bcnaparte and family.
A PANIC, caused by an alarm of fire,
occurred in New York city grammar
school on the 23rd inst. Owing to the
Intervention OF the police the excite
ment was quelled before any one was
hurt.
A BOSTON special states that "the
coming twelve months will probably see
more done to advance the business in
terests of Boston than any similar peri
cd for long term of years.
For refusing to give his authority for
certain statements tolegraphed his
newspaper, Frank T.. Nevins, Spring.
field correspondent of the Chicago 1ri-
bune, was committed to Jail by the
speaker of the Illinois legislature.
A DISPATCH says the following is the
amount of hard wood that has been put
into tho streams tributary to Oshkosh,
Wis, during the past winter: Embarass,
100000 feet; Main Wolf, 100000
foct; Little Wolf, 1,000,0 feet; oak
ties, 10000; cedar posts, 10000; hub
timber, 10000.
A GREENvILLE, Miss. dispatch OF the
9th inst, says: Yesterday morning Matt.
Chrsmore, u we'll known sporting char
ncter, was found murdered in his bed.
His head had been crushed hy an iron
bolt, throat cut and body ripped open
tho entire length. Suspicion points
TO an associate, now IN JUL.
A Cincinnati dispatch OF April 9th,
says Prof. Vaughan, we'll known
throughout tho United States and
Europe as IN astronomer, linguist, and
arithmctician, died in hospital to-day,
this city, aged 5s, Prof. Vaughan was
born in Ireland, but came To this ooun-
try when quite young and for the past
20 years has been II resident of this
city.
TIE decoration of tho confederate
monument in Greenwood Cemetery At
New Orleans took place April 9th. Be
tween 5000 and 10000 persons were
present. local military organizations
and associations participated. A prom
incnt feature of the ceremonies was tho
reception OF delegations of tina Grand
Army of tho Republic and Union sail
ors and soldiers, who presented floral
offerings.
WALTER WATSON was hung ut New
sort, Indiana, April 3rd, for
tho murder Of Ezra Compton. in
January lust. Tho prisoner was accom-
panied to the scnilold by his young vile,
who took her leave Of him there. weep
ing bitterly. Watson was calm and self
controlled. He had experienced relig-
ion few days before. His neck was
broken in the fall and in nine minutes
his pulse ceased to beat.
A TORONTO, Ont, dispatch of April
Sd says, the largest party of emigrants
for Manitoba that over left Ontario
started this morning from Windsor. 1t
consisted of two special trains, contain
ing forty.eight cars. The capital mt
their disposal amounts to over u quar-
ter of million. A large number of
farmers left Plctou, n. s., yesterday for
Manitoba. Another party, numbering
100, leave to-day.
SOME interest is excited in the New
York iron trade by the fact that Mr..
Vanderbilt has bought. i'll England,
10000 tons Of steel rails at u price which
equals $50 per ton landed here, while
the price for tho beat American would
be $40 delivered. The rails are guaran-
toed for fifteen years, but the trade are
reluctant to regard this rs the reason
Tor paying $40 ton advance upon the
home prices, and wonder what the
other motives may be.
AN Omaha special of April 5 says Chief
Moses and number of Indian friends,
in charge of Nh army officer arrived
from San Francisco. A delegation OF
Indians for Washington leaves to-mor-
row to confer with the president and
Secretary Schurz, 10y whom they have
been summoned to the capitol. They
represent the principal tribes i'll Oregon
and Washington Territory, numbering
$500. They wish to adjust some old