Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-02-21
CURRENT EVENTS.
MISCELLANEOUS.

PAODtOcps
THE recent reports about yellow
fever in the south are emphatlcaily
denied.
THE snow storm in Canada on the
18th inst was ihe worst one Of the sea-
son.
EDWARD Il. THOMPSON, retired com
modore OF the u. s. navy, died in Phil
adelphia Feb. 18th.
NINETY thousand hogs had been
packed mt Des Moines, Iowa, up to Feb.
18Th this season.
Ir is runored that coal companies
will soon raise the price Of coal from
so cent to 81 per ton.
RowELL, the British athlete, is enroute
for America to contest the pedestrian
championship with O'Leary.
PATRICK SMITH was sentenced on Feb.
ID, at Richmond, to be hung March 10,
for the murder Of John Q. Lay III New
Kent, last month.
Vicar GENERAL kUNDIG, Of Milwau-
kee, Wis, who was recently Frustrated
by paralysis, has recovered his usual
health.
TIE seventieth anniversary Of the
birthday Of Abraham Lincoln was cele-
bratcd by the various Lincoln clubs on
the 18th inst.
THE Tennessee legislature is again in
session, and the holders Of that states
bonds are trying to effect u compromise
ut 60 per cent.
THE liabilities Of the SayIes Manu-
featuring Go. ut Norwich, Conn, are
800, 900, most Of which is said to be
covered by available assets.
The NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., struck with
the paucty Of the governors salary, has
been endenyoringto raise the same from
~ 600 to $1,000.
TIE people who live along the Hi
nois canal are excitedly discussing how
they can get rid Of the horrible stencil
that comes from Chicago.
TIE pastors of Catholic churches in
Pennsylvania have given notice that all
Catholics belonging to the labor secret
societies which succeeded the Molly Ma
CURES, will be accommodated
Hon. XAClIARIA CHANDLER was unani-
mously nominated for u. =. senator
vice Christiancy resigned, by the rcpub-
llcan caucus Of tho Michigan legislature
Feb. 18th.
Tile Dominion parliament assembled
Feb. 18th at Ottawa. Joseph Garderc
l}lnnchot was elected speaker of the
house of commons. Both sides sup
ported him.
| A MISPLACED switch mt Cincinnati on
the 10th inst. threw locomotive into
an oil tank car which exploded and ~
disastrous fro ensued causing the COM
plete destruction of twenty freight cars.
LATEST advices from Alaska state
that the Indians have arisen q, nldsse
against tho whites who nro fleeing for
their lives. The American settlers AFRO
anxiously awaiting the arrival OF n ship
upon which TO escape,
POSTMASTER GENERAL KEY declines To
rccstnbish tho Spring Garden Ala. Post
IOilice, closed on account Of maltreating
Special Agent Williams, who had ar-
rested tho postmaster for specializing in
stamps,
TIE grand charity ball in New York
on the 10th inst, was II very successful
affair. Nearly $4,000 was realized as
net proceeds, all,of which will be de-
voted to charitable objects.
CnAs. McGllA was hanged ut Glove
lnnd, o., Feb. 10, Tor tho murder of
Mary Kelly Dec. >, 1877, The execu-
ton was pronounced the most humane
and systematic Of amy TINT ever occur
red in Ohio.
TnE Northwestern Dalrymcn's assoc
citation after holding n very profitable
session of three days duration ut Chicn-
go, adjourned its 18th annual meet
ing OH the 18th inst.
THE secretary of the Minneapolis,
Mimi board OF trade has just COM
pleted " compilation of statistics of
building improvement, IN that city dur
ing the past year. The total is over
$1 100000.
THE first Northern Pacific locomo-
tive and train crossed the Missouri
river on the 18th inst. A number of
invited guests occupied General Rosser' 3
car, and several tlat-ears were loaded
with people.
THE Erie railway, under the manage
mont Of President Jewott, has just
gained control of the Atlantic u Great
Western railroad, thus securing n
closer connection with the trade of
Chicago and the northwest.
Dom PEpRo of Brazil has given toward
the Washington monument II stone
weighing nearly eight tons, to "pcrpct-
uatc tho memory Of the industrious IN
thcr Of the American republic, for
whom ho chorishes tho warmest admi-
ration
Tins building Of the Rogers Locomo-
tive Works, Mt Patterson, n. j., used rs
II millwright shop, and for the storage
of patterns and models Of locomotives
in al parts of the world, and filled with
machinery costing about $4,000,
burned tonight. Total loss, 100000;
Insurance., $4,000.
ErnRAlM llYsrER and wife living at
Summcrville, Me-, left homo one day
last week to do some trading, leaving
three little children ut home alone.
During the parents absence the house
caught iiV and the three children, the
vnunCcst lint pipht months pprishel in