Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-04-11


chant. No cause assigned.
INDIANS who are believed to be strag-
Cling Sioux and Gros Ventres from the
north are raiding the Yellowstone val
ley. They ran all the whites in the
vicinity OF Terry's Landing on the yell
owstone into the military posts, and
captured all the horses and cattle.
Johnson and Stearns' house in the val
ley was attacked by q band of seven
Indians. Johnson was killed and
Stearns badly wounded. Another band
Of Indians run off all the stage stock
Troops have been sent out from Fort
Custer, and two con- anies go from
Fort Keogh in pursuit.
A ST. LOUIS dispatch of April 9th
says the buildings occupied by APP
pleton. Noyes & Maud, Mack Il Co.,
and S. NJ. Hamilton & Co., 500,
502, 504 and SOC North Fifth street,
and the store of j. IL. Meyers, Wash
ington avenue we're burned last night
they cost 5000, 900 four years ago, and
were owned by the Mercantile Block
and Real Estate association. The APP.
pleton, Noyes & Maud building was
damaged about $4,000; the Mack &
Co., building, nearly a total loss--say
$50, 900; and Meyers g. Bros. store, in
jured in rear about $4,000. Total loss,
$500000.
A BELoIr, Wis, dispatch Of April 3rd
says:-The Rev. Henry d. Porter, a
missionary to China, was this noon mar
ried to Miss Elizabeth G. Chaplin, daugh-
ter Of President A. l.. Chaplin, of Beloit
College, at the residence of the brides
parents, DR.. Chaplin performing the
ceremony. After the wedding
numerous friends enjoyed a delightful
reception. The bride and groom de-
parted on the afternoon train for the
east. They return in June to spend the
summer here, and go to China III the
fall.
THE ship Niobe sailed from New
v..- Ar-:i o.d Coz Sydney, New South
Wales, with goods for the exhibition to
be held there in October next Among
the cargo were nine locomotives, ninety
nine organs, 403 packages of clocks,
dental goods, stamped ware and canned
goods. One-third of the cargo copsits
81 agricultural Implements, camp-stools.
sewing machines, and over 5000 pack
ages Of tobacco. There were also scales,
lawn-mowers and other goods. Owing
TO the postponement Of the exhibition
from August to October, another ship
will be sent out, and viii arrive previ-
GUS to the opening Of the fair.
SAYS Des Moincs dispatch of April
Bird: Reports from Davis City, Decatur
county, say the citizens in view
of the lawessness and crime
by the gang of desperadoes,
lead by Irving Tucker ard one Taiter,
on Monday banded together and seized
Tucker and hung him. latter was also
captured, and said he was ready to
swing if he was allowed to kill Topliffe
and Frisby, two citizens against whom
he had IL grudge, but he was taken from
the mob and placed in Jail. The mob
then went to the bagnio of Martha Nc
Lain, tore down the house and destroy
cd it's contents during the fray.
A TIME schedule of the special train
ordered by the national democratic
committee to bring Hon. John Whit
aker ongrossman-elect from San Fran
cisco to Washington, in time to take
part in the organization of tho house,
shows that the whole distance was made
in four days. fourteen hours and thirty
minutes actual running time. The
speed of the train averaged thirty-one
miles per hour between San Francisco
and Ogden and tifty-one miles between
Cheyenne and Sydney. The whole
time il the quickest ever made between
the Pacific and Atlantic.
Oh CRY, Pa, information says: The
month of March was one of unusual ac-
tivity in the oil-producing districts, de-
velopments having been pushed to an
unreasonable extent, when the low
prices current are taken into considera-
ton. During the month 23S wells were
completed, with an aggregate daily pro-
duotion of 5000 barrels. OF the wells
completed, POP were in the Bradford
district. The total production of the
entire field in March was LII 900 bar
rels; total shipments from the oil re-
gions l, llS,7S6 barrels, showing mn nc
emulation Of stock of 222 600 barrels
on the first of April. Eight hundred
and fifty wells were drilling and prepar-
ing TO drill.
A DISPATCH from Pttsburg, Pa, says:
"'rho coal-miners along the Pan Handle
Railroad arc all out on strike for i'll
creased wages. They have been getting
y cents, but want 3, the same rs the
Monongahela diggers. Mining is also
suspended ON tho CHARTERS Valley
Road. 1t is reported here this evening
that the Kanawha miners i'll West Nir-
ginia are considering the propriety of
suspehding work. 1t looks rs il the
coaldggers throughout this section of
country had combined to force employ
ers to concede the demand for higher
prices. The success of the Mononga-
hela miners has great encouraged
them"
uN the Sd inst, in the United States
circuit court at Milwaukee, Wis, Judge
Drummond issued the decree of sale Of
the Green Bay and Minnesota railroad
on foreclosure Of mortgages held by the
Farmers Loaa and Trust Company, of
New York city. The amount Of the
two mortgages held by the Farmers
Loan and Trust Company to secure
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