Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-03-21

a NEW 1Okh uSpdlCl vi MdICn
18th says: A party of 81
New York street boys was started
this afternoon for homes on farms in
Kansas, by Whitelaw Reid, who used a
portion of a fund of $1,000 given HIM
by a stranger from the interior of New
England, for any charitable use he
might select. Mr.. Reid also sent west
six destitute families, numbering in all
AZ souls. These families mostly intend
to. begin life again on farms.
A BALTIMORE dispatch says Captain
Vaughn Of the British bark SOgiha has
lust arrived and reports that on Febru-
airy 18th. latitude as deg. II min.
north, longitude 16 deg. min. west,
ne spied u. s. man.ol-war, bark rig
gcd, with rudder head gone. He could
not understand the name but her COM
mander desired to be reported and re-
qucsted steamer be sent to his as
sistance.
A ST.. LOUIS dispatch Of March 18th
says: The United States court this
morning decided the case Of the Amer
lean Middlngs Purifier company against
the millers of this city, in favor of the
defendants, on the ground that the re-
issued patent does not conform to the
original and therefore is invalid. The
Minnesota cases follow the st. Louis
cases. The plaintiffs will probably APP
peal to the United States supreme
court.
A KENNEL SQUARE, Penn, dispatch Of
a 4, XII . of ttln
was entirely suspended out of respect
to the memory of Bayard Taylor, and
many of the houses were draped If
mourning. Governor lloyt and joint
committee Of the state legislature ar
rived early; also the grand chorus from
the ADJACENT towns. AT Cedar Croft, a
private burial service was held, the
parents Of Mr.. Taylor being too in.irm
to attend the regular ceremonies. The
funeral procession then started for Long
wood, where the remains of MIR. TAYLOR
were inferred.
MARCH Nth was IL great day for Lhe
hangnlan. John q. Pinkham was
hanged ut Concord, N. H., for the MUIR
der of Mrs. Marion Brey, near Burn
ham in Jan. 1877. Chinaman All Ben
was hanged at Maysville, Cal, for the
murder Of John McDanicls at Mays
Vile Park, last November Eugene
Lavcry, alias Archie Brown and James
johnson, was hanged at Portland, for
tho murder Of Louis Joseph last Au-
gust. VIM. III. Devlin was hanged ut
Lowell, for tho murder of his wife and
infant child on Dec. 9Th 1877. Henry
Gravolin was hanged ut Windsor, Va,
for the murder of Haliert o. White in
October 1876. Victor Nunez was hanged
Mt Pueblo, Col, for the murder of Louis
Rauscomb, Oct, 3, 1877.
A SAN FRANCISCO dispatch of the 18th
says the steamer California arrived from
Alaska this morning. She brings the
news that the Indians arc preparing for
war. Her British majesty's ship osprey
and the United States cutter IVoicos had
reached Alaska. The chiefs received
the Osprey cordially but informed the
commander that they could take the
lVoicoA whenever they choose. The
Ip0lcoH has gone to intercept n tlotilIa
of hostile canoes on their way to des-
troy the town Of Sitka. On boaid the
Ipoicon are the OSprey'S marines and the
gattling gun. The situation is very
alarming. The osprey remain until
relieved by the American man-ql-war.
The Sitka chiefs were given twohours
to produce certain woman witness to
tho Brown murder. They pretended
the woman was absent but hi much less
time they brought her in. She confess
cd to having seen Browns body after
he had been shot twice. The body was
then rolled up in blankets and thrown
overheard and weighed down by stones.
The osprey had not been in port five
minutes before the Indians brought up
Browns gun, axe, book, etc. The
California has three witnesses aboard.