Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-05-02

count OF reduction OF wages ~ per
cent.
A SAN FRAScIsco dispatch of April
Goth says six thousand Cinnamon
are now employed in the construc-
ton OF the Southern Pacific rail-
way of California, which is being
pushed forward at the rate of three
miles day. The track is laid to Mari
copa.
A ST., LOUIS dispatch of the 2Sth says
that Judge Cady, of the Grim
inal court, to-day, fined about
fifty lottery vendors. from five to eight
hundred dollars each, for selling lottery
tickets of the Missouri state lottery, and
committed them to jail TIL the fines are
paid. The aggregate fine amounts to
about $4,000.
b BISMARCK special under date Of
April 2Sth says: General Sheridan and
General Terry left this morning on the
steamer Big Horn, on y visit to Forts
Yates, Bennett, Sully, Hale, and Ran
dali. They will come out at Yankton.
Sheridan will also take notes as to the
conduct Of the agencies on the river.
cablegrams
THE New York Tribune of the Goth says
the friends of Col. Jno. Groesbeck,
brother of the Hon. VIM. S. Groesbeck,
Of Ohio. and brother-n-law Of Gen.
Joe Hooker, are greatly distressed over
his unaccountable disappearance from
the Fifth avenue hotel, in this city,
where he has lived for many years. He
left the hotel two weeks ago, saying he
was going west, and since that time all
trace of him has been lost. His per-
sonal effects he left in his room.
A SAN Francisco dispatch of the 24th
states that there was disastrous hurri-
cane at the Friendly islands, March g.
The Roman Catholic Chapel. Wesleyan
Parsonage, English Consulate, Govern
ment warehouse, many business build
ings and two-thirds Of the dwellings
were RACED to the ground. The cocoa
nut crop was destroyed. Tie bark
Queensland, forty-two days out from
Newcastle, Australia for Auckland, is
feared to have been lost with all hands.
The Pacific mail steamer Alaska COM
pleted repairs at Honolulu, and sailed
for Yokohama, April 20.
A WILKESBARRE, Pa, telegram Of
April 28th says that after four days en-
tombment, the miners imprisoned at
Sugar Notch by the fall Of the roof Of
the mine, were released this morning.
The men sustained life by the meat of
Il mule, which the boy sent to give them
warming had fortunately taken With
him, and stream running through the
| ,,.1t.f, nf
the laborers have been constantly ut
work, night and day, and finally these
have succeeded iii making Il
channel through fifty foot of black coal.
These men suffered little from confine-
ment, and they and their rescuers were
loudly cheercd as they reached the sur.
face of the niue.
A CINCINNATI special telegram Of the
Goth says that the case of &. G. Wash
burn, Of Minneapolis, Mimi, against
the Western Insurance company, Is on
trial before II Jury. The suit is one OF
seven begun in this court to recover in
surance ON the famous mills in Mime
apolis. The seven insurance companies
that have been sued here contest then
liability on the ground that the fire oc-
cured after the explosion. Testimony
has been introduced, however, to show
that smoke was seen issuing from the
windows of the mill before the explo-
sion. The present trial is understood
to be test case. The amount Of the
policy is $1,000.
TIE Chicago Union Veteran Club at
its meeting April Goth, adopted the fol
lowing resolutions:
Resolved, that the Union Veterans
club, of Chicago, most heartily approve
of the manly moral courage exhibited
by our distinguished comrade Senator
Logan, iii declining to accept the code
dmAo rs II means of refuting vile
calumny which needs no retutation,
and in thus setting at defiance barbar-
Gus custom by one whose personal
courage has SO often been demonstrated
i'll defense of his country.
A New York press dispatch of the
9th, states that the preliminary
papers have heen served in suit
which S. b. Chittenden and Gen. But
Ter agreed should be brought to test the
validity of the reissue Of United States
legal tender notes in time of peace.
The suit has been brought in the United
States circuit court for the southern
district of New York, and is founded on
u genuine transaction, in the regular
course Of business. The trial of the
action may not take place for month
at least, but whatever the decision by
Judge Blotchford may be, the defeated
party will appeal to the surreme court
of the United States. in time probably
for argument at the October term.
Senator Elmunds will be associated
with VIM. Allen Butler, in arguing The
validity Of the re-issued notes. Gen.
Butler, it is understood, will make the
principal argument for the defence.
A NEWARK, New Jersey, dispatch Of
April 9th says that the Sunday law was
generally observed here to-day. Ac.
cording TO agreement, most all places
of business were closed, with the excep-
ton of drug stores and telegraph Of.
fees. Constables in large numbers met
trains from New York on arrival and
prevented delivery Of New York pa.