Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-04-18
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MISCELLANEOUS.

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fare from st. Louis to the seaboard was
reduced to $l2 on the | 1th inst.
TIE Home Fire Insurance company
Of Newark, N. j., reinsnred its risks, and
closed business April 18th.
A FIRE ut Wabasha, Mimi, on the
18th inst, destroyed the Campbell house
block. Loss, $4,000; insurance, 81 900.
TIE British steamer Ontario arrived
in New York April 18th under n char
ter TO embark mules for South Africa.
MARCH earnings OF nineteen western
railroads show an increase over the
same month last year Of $263OOO.
JOIN Z. PHAIR, hanged ut Vermont
last week, left statement asserting his
icnocence,says dispatch Of April 18th.
THE republican state convention, Of
Kentucky, held in Louisville April
10Th, nominated Walter Evans for
governor.
AT Windsor, VT, April 10th, John r.
Phair was hanged in the state prison
for the murder of Mrs. Ann Il. Freze,
at Rutland, June ., 1874,
New ORLEANS has established twenty
days quarantine against all vesels from
Mexican and South American ports M
II preventive against yellow fever.
A New York dispatch Of April 18th
SAYS General Richard Taylor, Of the
confederate army, died here Saturday.
He had been i'll for some weeks ut the
residence of s. l.. M. Barlow.
THE gross earnings of the Chicago &
Northwestern railroad for March. NJ an
nounced April 1lth, we're 81, 10l 600, as
against 81 005,SSf during the same
month in 1873.
Ara meeting held April 18th, Sen
ator Window was made president of
the national emigration aid society
The officers Of the association say their
appeals for aid have met with generous
responses from philanthropists north
and south irrespective of party.
AT Ottawa, H., heavy rain pre-
vailed during April 8 and 10th. At
Marseiles, Gum Creek, very small
stream, ordinarily, became clogged
near its junction with the canal and the
water rose several feet, flooding many
dwellings, compelling the occupants to
seek safety on higher ground.
TIE will of Nine. Elizabeth Patter-
son Bonaparte devses all her real and
personal estate equally to her grand
Sons, Jerome Napoleon and Charles
Joseph Bonaparte, who are also
made executors. The real estate il de-
vised for life to her grandsons and after
wnrd To their children.
A CONFERENCE of trunk managers was
held la New York, April ll,h, to fix
new rates. Tho conference resulted in
the trunk lines fixing IN arbitrary rate
on live stock 1T GO cents per 100 pounds,
on hasis of Chicago to New York. The
new schedule went into effect April
l4th.
THE mercantile agency Of II. q. Dun
& Co., gives the number of failures in
the states and territories Tor the quar-
ter ending March 81, 1879 at 1924, with
liabilities of $43, 1865. For the quar-
ter ending March 81, 1879, the failures
were 1886 and the liabilities 49,, 079,-
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JOSIAH BACON, treasurer of the Good
year Dental Vulcanite Co., Of Boston,
who had shortly before arrived in San
Francisco. was found dead in his room
at the Baldwin hotel, Sunday afternoon,
April 18th. Az no fire arms were found
in the room, and IA death evidently re-
suited from pistol shot, the whole af-
fair was profound mystery.
Tue funeral OF Gen. Richard Taylor
occurred in New York April 10th. The
pall-benrers were Hon. Hamilton Fish,
Chas. OConnel, Secretary VIM. Nj.
Evarts, ID. ID. Withers, VIM. A. Travers,
Geo. Ticknor Curtis, August Belmont,
Chas. i. Perkins, VIM. Constable,
Ahram =. Hewitt, Senator Bayard and
Mayor Cooper.
A DEApwoop, d, T., apccial / >ys that
ON the 10th inst II party of
seven Indians attacked Sergeant
Kennedy, late signal observer ut Dead
wood, and private soldier named Ba-
der, of the 81 cavalry The two men
were eating lunch ut Mispah, 45 miles
from Fort Keogh. their destination,
when fired upon. Bader was instantly
killed and Kennedy badly wounded.
The latter crawlcd into the bushes and
kept tho Indians OF with six-shooter
until assistance arrived. Bader was
scalpod. Kennedy will probably re-
cover.
TnE eleventh annual report of the
Pittsburg, Cincinnati, & st. Louis rail
road company, for tho year ending
Dec. 81, 1878, was made public April
nth. The total earnings of the road
ARE shown to be $,176,370; increase
over 1877, SIS 40S; operating expenses,
| 81 1859 ,607; decrease, $33,306, rs com
pared with the operating expenses Of
1877; net earnings for 1873 were 81,
lS6163.
AN official vote Of Cincinnati was
announced April 10th, and stands as
follows; Jacob, republican, for mayor
4l2 majority; Boyee, republican
board of public works, 260 majority
Foraker, republican, judge OF
Superior Court, 722 majority; kumler
rep, City Solicitor, 9is majority; Knorr
rep, City Treasurer, ILL majority;
Wilson, dem, Judge OF Police Court
$50 majority; Murphy, rep, Prose
cutting Attorney Police Court, 7ol ma
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