Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-02-07
HISTORY OF THE WEEK
MISCELLANEOUS.

4 WciS hullB hV iIliihll'pb'ioi ""li. ~1th'
A F1REat st. joseph, Mo, last week,
destroyed $3.50. 600 worth of property.
THE lockout at the Ashland, KY,
iron works throws 1000 men out u en-
ployment.
The lower house Of the Louisiana
legislature repealed the charter Of the
Louisiana lottery by a vote q 90 to 90
last week.
THE editor Of the C0urier ut Bloom
ington, Ind, is on trial for the murder
Of County-Attorncy Rogers on Christ
mas night last.
Gov. MARKS, Of Tennessee, issued a
proclamation Jan. 3lst repeating the
charter Of Memphis. This action was
taken to iortify the city against its cred
itors.
4 MADAME LACArELLE, II pcdestrlcnnc
who has exercised herself great deal
throughout the northwest, is trying to
walk 300 quarter miles in 200 quar-
ter hours in Chicago
TIE reported grops earnings Of the
| Dcs Moines and Fort Dodge (lowa) road
for 1878 are $2ll, 627, against $l48,434
in 1877. The next earnings for 1873
were $75,s05, against $l8,766 in 1877.
TIE statement il made that the pro-
duction Of coal in Nova Scotia has de.
creased from 7G8,322 tons to 5i1 1888
in five years, and the number Of mines
being worked has been reduced from
thirty to tween, in Il similar period
MICHAEL l.. SurLIvANT, who was for
| years known aB the greatest farmer IN
Illinois, died Jan. 3Olb. n pennies man.
lie owned u larm eight miles square,
but had run into debt until his liabll-
ties exceeded the value Of his property,
An Emirn, N. Y. dispatch Of Jan. 30
says: a new locomotive while making
il trial trip to-day ON the Clean, Brad
ford and Warren railway, exploded its
boiler, killing the engineer, fireman,
and four others. The engineer was
tom to pieces, and blown eight miles.
TllE directors Of the First National
Bank, Of Saratoga, n. y, have made II
cmll on the stockholders for % per
cent. on each share owned by them, to
mako az I'LL deficiencies and contin-
gcncics consequent on the alleged bad
management Of cashier l.eakc, who
has resigned.
TIE Louisiana senate Jan, 3lst by IL
close vote, pissed the bill to repeal the
license Of the louisiana Lottery Com
pany. This will kill that wtlLknown
enterprise Of chance, and close what
has been, for nearly ten years, Y power
| ful organization.
SENATOR CiRlsrIANCY has accepted
the mission to Peru. He will resign
his scnt in the senate, and il is expect
cd that the Michigan legislature, now
in session, will elect OK Senator zach
ariah Chandler to fill the vacancy.
A BUILDING used as tailor aud tim
shop and laundry, attached To the state
reform school near SC. Paul, Mimi, wac
burned February End. Besides the
building 100 cords OF wood were also to-
tally destroyed. Loss $l7 600; insured
for 5000.
A SAN ANTONIO, Tex, special to tho
bandits recently robbed three women
and two mon on the Mexican side of the
Rio Grando, then bound them To trees
and left them to starvc. When found
the bu2zards were lowering around
them. Three Of the bandits were cap
tured.
TIE magnificent estate owned by OK
Governor Washburn, in Dane county,
Wis, md known ns "Edgowood Farm"
which he generously offered last year
M Il gift to the state for public chnrita-
lln ,,r al, t1nrnnunu Inns mat
been accepted by the legislature. fhc
property is located near Madison, is
very valuable, and will 30 used ~ i
school for INDECENT boys,
A WElJANp, Ont. dispatch Of Fob,
2nd says This a. NJ. the west
bound train on the Canada Southern
railway while standing on the Lyons
Creek bridge near this station, was run
into by another west bound train en-
CINE and caboosc. Eighteen cars were
smashed and the bridge also consider
ably burned. Goo. Tyler, brakeman,
was fatally injured.
A CINCINNATI associated press dis
patch Of Feb. md says the committee
appointed to receive and audit claims
Of dcpostors against Arch Bishop Pur-
cell have already received evidences of
Indebtedness amounting 10 over II mil
lion dollars, exclusive of interest, and il |
is known that MI claims have not been
presented. Property already III trus-
toes hands Ia meet claim is estimated
worth about 5000 600.
TIM committee which went to Texas
with the remains of the late Congress-
man Schleiehcr shy that tho funeral in
San Antonio was M imposing one, and
that people came from IL distance oil
forty miles on ponies to be- present. II
is minated that Mr.. Schlcichcr's sue
cessor will be his son-in-lnw, an ex.Goy-
ernor Of the state, who il popular in
that section.
TIM steamship GtV 81 Para, from Rio
Janeiro and Para, arrived ut the port Of
New York, brings from the latter place
100 destitute Americans who had come
down tho Amazon from Stantonce,
port on the Madeira, whore Collins \
Co. have been engaged III building 4
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