Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-03-14

additional bonds Of $500 for examination
on Thursday.
A Green Bay, Wisconsin dispatch
OF March 9Th, says: A fire at
Green Bay, at 2 o'clock this morning
totally destroyed the Hartman hotel,
a large four story brick and contents.
The flames spread rapidly, and it was
with difficulty that the boarders es.
capped; some Of them were compelled
to make their exit by means of ropes,
extending from the windows to the
ground. Loss from $4,000 to $4,000;
insured for $4,000
A Springfield, Illinois dispatch
Of March Sth, says: The rail
mill Of the Springfield Iron company,
was destroyed by fire, tonight; loss
$4,000; insured for $4,000. Four
hundred men will be thrown out Of
employment, temporarily. The COM
pany will at once rebuild, and it is
thought the mill will be in operation
again by the first of April.
Both houses of the Minnesota legis-
lature have passed bill regulating the
grading and measurement of wheat.
The new system, to be known as Min
nesota standard grade, includes seven
grades from No. extra to No standard
and rejected standard. Grain must be
measured only in the legal half-bushe,
by the prescribed methods. The other
sections make n refusal of purchasers
or agents to grade or measure wheat as
alb owe q misdcmeanor, punishable by
fine or imprisonm ent.
VERY heavy rains swept over Cali
fornia last week. A dispatch says
Yuba and Feather rivers are high.
Outer levees of Marysville broke this
morning. The suburbs were placed un-
der water; inside Of the leyee protected
the city. Much damage was done to
property in the Russian river valley.
Six inches Of rain fell; the river over
flowed its banks and flooded the valley;
bridges were carried away; the North
Pacific railroad was washed out SO that
it cannot be repaired for several days.
A Los Angeles dispatch says the re-
servoir with 100,000,000 gallons of
water broke this morning. 50 far from
the city, however, that the damage is
confined to flooding streets and cellars.
AT Boston, March 9th, the stockhold-
ers of the Union Pacific railroad COM
panv, in annual meeting, elected the
following directors for the ensuing year:
Sidney Dillon, New York; +. Gordon
Dexter, Boston; Elisha Atkins, Boston;
Russell Sage, New York; Scion Hum
phreys, New York; Jay Gould, New
York; John Sharp, Salt Lake City; S.
III. ii. Clark, Omaha: David BOWS, New
York; James r. Keene, New York;
William l.. Scott, Erie, Pa; e. II. Bak-
er, Boston; Fred J.. Ames, Boston; Ad-
Olson Cammack, New York; and w. A.
III. Loveland, Golden, Col. The largest
stakeholder is jay Gould, who voted in
his own right upon l23,700 shares, and
on 10000 shares by proxy. Sidney Dill
lon holds 27,700 shares; Russell Sage
81 $50, Oliver Ames $4,000.
A MANlrowoG, Wis, dispatch says:
The examination of Nels Nelson, one
Of the charavari party through whose
agency Gadmond Olson was shot and
killed ut his own door, was finished to-
day. and Nelson was held to bail to mp
pear Mt the next term Of the circuit
court to be tried for manslaughter.
The district attorney then entered n
noHe proStqui as to the other
twenty defendants who comprised
the purity, with the exception
Of Martin Henderson, X. s. Knudson
and John Larson. The last-named
persons were armed with guns on the
occasion Of the charavari, and are held
for examination ON the same charge as
Nelson. The killing was probably
purely accidental, but the vigorous
prosecution they have undergone will
have II tendency to break up disturb
ances of that kind in this section.
Saws the New York Tribune Of March
5. Tho Vanderbilt will contest came to
nm abrupt conclusion to-day. 1t is
well known, though not generally ac-
knowledged, that the termination has
been brought about by compromise
which involved also the pending suit
of Cornelius Vanderbilt against w. III.
Vanderbilt. Some of the evidence
which the two plaintiffs Mrs. Lob nm
and her brother--were prepared to sub
nit in the event of the further contest
of their claim was told to Judge Rapal-
10, and on tho lattcr's advice negotia-
tions and compromises followed. Cor
nelius j. Vanderbilt is TO re-
ceive $l,000000 and his cxpens-
es in the suit in the supreme
court, and Mrs, Leban, now Mrs. Bar
ger, like amount and costs, and the
will Of the late Commodro Vanderbilt is
to remain uncontested. 1t is under
stood TINT all the other heirs have been
satisfied, and that numerous individual
heneticiaries by the memoranda left by
the testator with William II. Wander
hilt will receive their full claims.
FOREIGN.
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