Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-04-11
THE HISTORICAL HOPPER.
In Which is Ground out the Local Events
OF the Northwest.
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public schools at Brainerd.
In Faribault county $4,000 acres of
fertile land is being offered at fifty cents
an acre, cash down.
The commissioners Of Mobiles county
have resolved to issue bonds to the
amount Of $1,000 TO pay the floating
debt of the county.
THE lumber mill owned by Calkins 4
Mcdonald, at Otsego, Wright county,
burned on Monday night Q. last week.
Loss estimated at $1,000 with no insur-
ance.
A FIRE at LIE Roy. on Monday night,
destroyed four buildings, the opera
hall, two shoe-shops, and McTigue's
building.
SOME of the young bucks of Glencoe
send their washing to Minneapolis for
the sake Of the shine, SO says the Regis
ter.
JOHN RElcHLE, charged with forgery
at Lake City, has been arrested in Mil
waukee and lodged in the county jail at
Wabasha to await trial.
THE Litcntield Independent saws: The
business Of the st. Paul & Pacific road
is now immense-more than the COM
pany has facility for. Lumber orders
from this place have remained untitled
for two weeks for want of cars.
HASTINGS Union: DR.. Edward Thorne,
formerly of this city, died at Constan-
tine, Mich, last Monday. Mr.. Thorne
was one of the old settlers of this city,
and will be remembered rs an honor
able and upright man by many of our
old residenters.
WeO I,hos Resie,o: A gentleman ut Eau
Claire, Wis, writes us that he is going
to make an endeavor this spring to
take a small steamboat up the Mime
sofa river to Big Stone Lake, and says
Il am going West to get a boating
chance instead of Il farm
AT the village election in Wells, the
following We're elected: Village council,
.. Southwick, president; ]. w. Merri-
man, Z. ID. Rogers and b. Holmquist,
trustees; G. w. Slade, recorder; +. $.
Leavitt, village justice, and =. j. Adams,
constable. The temperance ticket was
elected by small majority.
JOHN TEMrANY, of lie Roy, Mower
county, has just been appointed by the
secretary of war to the position of head
veterinary surgeon of the Ninth United
States cavalry, which regiment is now
located at Santa Fe, New Mexico. The
rank IS the same as that of sergeant
major, and the pay 500 a month.
A BOY by the name Of Louis Hender
killed large wild cat about two miles
from Hokah last Monday. The boy
was in the woods at work when his dogs
freed the animal, and he went to aid
them in killing it. The cat sprang from
the tree at the boy and dogs, when they
succeeded in putting an end to its life.
The Davis County Commercial has
suspended.
The work OH the new capitol will be
resumed the 10Th of April.
Dies MONIES brick-makers turned ont
100000 bricks last season.
Miss MARY SALMON, of Charles City,
has gone to Dubuque to enter con-
vent.
MR. AND Mrs. SAMUEL EAsTERLY cele-
brated their golden wedding at Anamo-
ga a few days ago.
The reporter says great many i'm.
provements will be made in Mt. Pleas
ant during the coming summer.
PRAIRIE fires are making things warm
in Northwestern Iowa. Farmers have
watchers out day and night.
The Sioux City Journal says large
party OF Bostonians passed through that
city recently on their way to find home.
in Dakota.
A YOUNG man named Sims, ageo
about "a, whose home is at Atlantic
lost his arm by being run over on the
railroad track at Council Bluffs.
Hon. S. II. MALLORY, of Charlton, is
making preparations to build house
which is to be, it is reported, one Of the
most elegant and costly in Iowa.
THE Davenport ladies', who five years
ago took charge of the public library 81
that city, will in May turn it over to the
original association Of gentlemen.
Mr.. JOHN ]. HAMILTON, graduate
Of the state university i'll 1877, has
taken editorial charge of the Bloom.
field 3ftpu6aica's, eccrotary Of state
HulPs paper.
THE Iowa City Press has been investl.
eating the matter and finds that for two
years past the latoiing men of the city
have averaged only three days work a
week.
HARRY CATE, Of London, Eng, and
Charles Cate, of San Francisco, broth
ers, who had not seen each other for
thirty years, me: accidentally at Des
Moines. Neither at first recognized the
other.
TIE people in the neighbornood 81
Monroe, this state, noticed, about II
O'Clock one night last week, that it sud.
denly grew for some time nearly as
light as day, although there was ne
moon, auroral display, nor any visible
cause of the brightness.
A CHESS club has been formed al
Davenport. II is the intention to make
the club q permanent institution. In o
month or SO it is proposed to have q
ala.. .a,,~,a With living rinpaa