Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-07-25
GENERAL NOTES.

FIFTEEN new cases of yellow fever re-
ported IN Memphis July 2ls.
ST.. LOUIS quarantined against Mem
phis July 21st.
CINCINNATI established strict quaran.
tine against Memphis July 2lst.
SEVERAL hundred railroad employees
struck for higher wages in st. Louis July
21st.
TIE second annual regatta of the Mis-.
sissippi valley rowing association at
Keokuk, Iowa, closed July nth 1t was
Il grand success.
A MEMPHIS telegram dated July 1S,
says wholesale business was practically
suspended on account Of the new out
break of the yellow fever.
THE Memphis & Paducah railroad
ceased running trains July goth, and the
daily newspapers of Memphis began the
issue of half sheets only.
DISPATCHES of the 10Th and goth inst.
state that the CONSERVATION throughout
all the districts liable to yellow fever, is
beyond all description.
A VIOLENT outbreak among the strik.
ing weavers at Fall River, Mass, oc
Cured July 2lst The situation at the
several mills was very serious,
The lower house of the New Hamp.
shire legislature by large majority, on
the 18th inst, indefinitely postponed the
bill for the abolition of capital punish
mcnt.
A DIsrArcm from Texas July Is stated
that the quarantine regulations of that
state were SO vigorously enforced that ST.
I ,,,tl IN,
border.
A MEMPHIS telegram of the 10Th inst.
says the sudden cessation of business
consequent upon the outbreak of yellow
fever throws fully 10000 people out of
employment and upon the charity of the
world.
A New York telegram of July II says
stockholders of the Northern Pacific
Railway take the whole subscription Of
$2,000,000 for the construction of 1870
miles of road from the Columbia River
eastward TO Pend O'Reille Lake.
A DISPATCH from Fl. Benton, July 2lst,
gave the particulars of Gen. Miles dc.
parturc from that place the week previ.
Gus. Miles left the fort with 800 men.
An early engagement was then looked
for.
A DISPATCH Of the 2lst says At the
request of Representative Casey Young,
of the Memphis, Tenn, district, the sec
rotary of war Will forward to Memphis
10000 tents and rations for 90 days, to be
used in aid Of the sufferers from the yell
low fever
A SPECIAL OF the 2lst says boat has
started for Old Fort Peck, Gen. Miles
supply depot, with II battery of six Rod
man \ llotchkiss guns, 40 boxes Of
grape and $4,000 pounds Of revolver
cartridges, 200, 600 rounds of rifle car.
tridgcs and other supplies.
TEN new eases Of yellow fever were
reported in Memphis July Goth. Four
persons had died since the last report,
Arrangements were being made to get
the poor people out OF the city. DR..
Dudley ID, Sanders, acting president of
the board OF health, stated that the dis.
ease was not us malignant as in 1873.
4 CulcAGo telegram of July 18th says
Fire Marshal Benner, whom the council
recently restored, sent in his resignation
10 the mayor this morning, and IL was
accepted. His reason for resigning was
his unwillngness to obstruct the mayors
Administrations, Assistant Marshal Swe.
ME is now acting as chief marshal.
SAYS New Haven, Conn, telegram of
July 18th; John w. Mansfield, treasurer
of the Connecticut Savings Bank, attempt
cd suicide to-day. His physicians say he
is insane from overwork and heat. His
finances are all right, and Gov. English,
president Of the bank, says the depositors
can all have their money. This affair
caused considerable excitement
4 DISPATCH from Montreal, July Goth,
says 4 young man at present undergo.
ing sentence of six months in Jail, two
OF which only have expired, has fallen
heir to $i65000 by the death Of an uncle
in San Francisco. This uncle left "A for.
tune of $f94,oO0, to be divided among
three nephews. II IL needless 10 say he
awaits Liberation with impotence.
\ NEW YoRK telegram of July 2lst
says the brig H. Il. Munson, from Car.
denas, saw 4 brig flying the signals Of
distress, ran to her and found IL to be the
brig Akbar, from Havana for New
York, with captain and three men sick
with yellow fever and one man having
died the day previous, and her former