Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-05-16
GENERAL NOTES.

al DullillBlOu, lOHd, Oh lIle Sll hist.
three men suicided.
BUFFALO advices of the Sth inst. state
that the ice is all gone from the canal
and lake.
THE trial of Rev. DR.. Tamage, OF
Brooklyn, was closed on the 18th with
virdict Of acquittal.
RED LEARY, notorious thud, escaped
jail, in New York city, on the Sth inst;
the sheriff offers u reward of $1,000
for his return, dead or alive.
A WINNIPEG special Of the 9th
says that the troops ordered to
the scene OF the Canadian Pacific strike,
reached there at six I'm. All quiet so
far.
IN the Custom House cases on the
Sth, Judge Dyer overruled the motion
to quash the indictment, and also the
motion for n bill of particulars, Jury
is now being empanelled TO try the cases.
A Milwaukee dispatch of the Sth
says Chief of Police Kennedy left tor
Richmond this afternoon to bring back
Cohen, the forger. He took with him
the $500 reward offered for Cohens APP
prenenslOn by MT. oeSnltA.
The trustee of Racine college, Wis,
met at Racine on May 9Th and proceed
ed to elect Warden to succeed DIR.
De Koven, deceased. The choice of
the trustees is DIR. Stephen Parker Of
Elizabeth, n. j.
the champion sculers of Yale and Har-
ward, took place May 9th at Lake Quin-
sagamond. Distance two miles and
turn. Goddard, Harvard's champion,
won easily, beating Livingston, Of Vale,
by six lengths, in fourteen minutes and
thirty seconds.
GEN SHERIDAN is in receipt Of die
patches under date of May 10th from
army officers which indicate that migra-
ton into Indian territory is by no means
formidable, but confined chiefly to
small and poor families Of rowing
disposition.
A ST.. PAUL dispatch of MAY 18th says
the strike on the Canada Pacific was
ended Dy the men having been paid off
and quit. Noriotous demonstration af-
ter the troops arrived, five ring leaders
were arrested and fined.
Ar the business session OF the Inter
state Oratorlcal association at Iowa
City, Iowa, on the Sth inst, the following
officers were elected: President, G. E.
Morse, of Oberin, o.; vice president,
Miss Ida NJ. Miller, of Springfield, Mo.
secretary and treasurer, j. M. Dodson,
Of Madison, Wis. The next session
will be held at Oberlin, o., in May, 1880.
The contest was gratifying success,
netting the association about $500.
A DISPATCH from Rome, dated Nav
Sth, to the New York Freemda's journal,
announces that the pope has named
Very Rev Lawrence S McMahon,V G.,
OF Providence, to be bishop of Hart
ford, and Rev. John Nertin, of Negau-
nee, Mich, to be bishop of Marquette.
THE coal miners of Brazil and vicin-
lty, in Indiana, are on strike. A dis.
patch OF the l0th says one hundred
men went to Newbury this morning
and got z. Erlich's men out. Enrich
has about 60 men and is the larges
hitumlnous operator III this district.
The strikers have not got Cellars men
at Harmony out yet. Cellar loads 80
to 50 cars per day when running full.
Don't think they will get them out.
Only two or three mines in the district
are working and those only part.
A DISPATCH of the 18th saws the TWEEN
ty-tilst annual meeting of the North
American Smnger Bund will be held at
Music Hall, Cincinnati, Ohio. June 4
to 10 inclusive. Extensive preparations
are being made to render it one OF the
most successful gatherings held in the
United States. The chorus which has
been rehearsing for the past year, in this
and other cities, will number nearly |
: coo voices, each society having been
subjected to rigid examination before
being admitted. TIE instrumental mu-
sic will be furnished by the great organ
and an orchestra of over Il hundred |
pieces, MI under the leadership of Prof.
Carl Barns.
THE executive committee of the Mil
waukee driving park, in conference
met Cot. King, of Minneapolis, on the
Sth and arranged circuit that
will embrace Chicago, st. Louis,
Kansas City, Milwaukee and Min
neapois. Chicago purses will aggregate |
Sl5 600, and those other cities $4,000 |
each. The meeting will commence at
in August and will follow i'll
this order: Minneapolis, Chicago. Kansas
City, st. Louis. Minneapolis has sub
scribed contigent fund Of $4,000 TO
insure the success Of the meeting
A New York special OF Nav 9'h says
there arrived at the port of New York,
during the month of April, 1879, 1881
passengers, II ,60l Of whom were imml-
grants. During the corresponding pc
Rod of 1873, the total number of pas
arrived at the port was l0,3O7,
ot whom $500 were immigrants.
Of the arrivals at the port
turing the month OF April,
1879, there were from England, : 04O;
Scotland, $50: Wales. 40; Ireland, ,
l59 Germany. 374; Austria, 254;
Sweden, 675; Norway. $50; Denmark,
i5l; France, POI; Switzerland, 6l2;
SPAN, Il: Italy, GIL; Netherlands, 10;
Be GUM, So. Russia, 50; Poland. A.;
all other countries, As.
A SAN FRANCISCO Special OF the 9th says
the official returns of the vote III the city