Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1880-08-13
GENERAL NOTES.

| I)ENhlbh ApNhIlN't Has ItluI Hcu W w"
York from his salmon fishing tour.
NoBoDl now doubts that the prisoners
recently arrested on suspicion are the
Blenders.
FIFTEEN Italian societies attended the
funeral procession of Pietro Balbo. the
New York wife murderer
TIE RI Rev. John A. Wattcrson was on
the Sth inst. consecrated Roman Catholic
bishop Of Columbus Ohio.
FRIENDS Of the victims of the Mamie
disaster at Detroit will sue the steamer
Garland. which ran down the yacht for
damages
! AFTER twenty-five years of suspended
labor, work was resumed on the great
Washington Monument at the Capital on
the 9Th inst.
Gro. AMIs, medical student Of Fort
Wayne, Ind, will attempt to fast thirty
days, beginning Saturday next. No one
expects he will accomplish tenth part of
the feat
A DISPATCH from Los Pinos states that
one hundred and thirty-five chiefs and
head men Of the Utes have signed the
Ouray treaty.
A LETTER received at the dead-letter
bIIlit, llNHl ltlSphi Hht ds, ''hNhii'h ~
heads of several parlor- matches and an
ounce Of powder.
| FoRTY railroad ticket scalpers held Il
secret session in Detroit, on the 9TH inst,
to perfect an organization for mutual pro-
lection against prosecution,
C;EN w. q. BUTLER, Of Carrolton, KY,
a soldier of the war Of 1872, and candi-
date for vice president on the ticket with
Lewis Cas- died on the 9th inst, aged 80
years.
SuKEY llARr, colored woman, aged
| 1iO years has Just died in Kinney, Tex.
| Az proof Of her great agcit is stated that
she nursel her mistress, now IS years old,
after her own sixteenth child was born.
GOLDSMITH MAIDS oldest colt killed
herself, on the 9TH inst. by trying TO jump
fence. She fractured her shoulder blade.
| II. n. Smith, the owner refused an offer of
$2O,0OO for her some time ago.
PRESIDENT HAYES has committed the
sentence ofStcphen p. Miriam, convicted
and CONDEMNED to death in the consular
court of Smyrna of the murder of Turk
sh subject, to imprisonment for life.
Tux coroner's jury in the cases of the
persons drowned on the yacht Mamie, in
the Detroit river finds that the disaster
was caused by the gross carelessness and
criminal negligence of g. ID. Horn, master,
and Ill w. Butt, pilot, of the steamer Gar
land, which ran down the yacht
| A MAIl-cARRIER has arrived at Fort
Robinson with intelligence that Turning
Bear, one Of Spotted Tails chicisa three
or four hundred Young warriors have
started on the WAR path, presumably against
the Recs, whose agency IL located two
hundred miles from Spotted Tails
GEN. WEAVER, presidential nominee Of
the national greenback labor party, has is
sued circular TO members of the party
appealing for contributions Of one dollar
ana upward To aid in deiraying the ex
penscs of the campaign from now until
! November.
! TnE Alabama state election occurred on
the Itlr inst. The fight was between the
allied republicans, grcenhackers and in
dependents, on one side, and the democrats
on the other side. The democrats were
victorious Nv fifty thousand majority, the
largest majority ever known in the state.
| A NINlrA. INDIAN TERRITORY, special
reports that last Tuesday, near Gibson
Station, two Cherokee boys, Cobb and
Cowan. re attacked by band Of Creek
negroes, aud killed and that the danger OF
serious conflict il imminent between the
I Gherokces and the Greeks. Three hundred
! Cherokccs are aroused and cnragcd The
negroes suspected the Cherokees Of hang
ing two Creek negro cattle-thieves on the
10Th Of July,
TuEunited Oil Co, line have completed
the laying If a thrcc.inch pipe from the
| Bradford region to Parker city, Penn oil
can now be transported in pipes from the
! Bradford field 10 iittsburg and Cleveland
at the rate Of 5000 barrels daily. This
new line viii also give the United Pipe
Line company use Of 100000 barrels
: of empty iron tankagc in the lower OIL
country.
A SPECIAL TO the Omaha, Tribune says
/ big nose George alias George Parrot, one
al the Elk mountain robbers Who about
two wears apo, laid plan to ditch and rob
the Union Pacihc passenger train near
! Carbon. Wyoming, and who killed deputy
sheriff Widdowtcld and Tip Vincent
scouts, whe tracked them % Elk mountain,
was brought here this morning dow" the
Missouri from Miles city, Montana, where
he was recently caught hv u ;, deputy
marshal Irwin lie was in charge u
sheriff Rankin. Of Rawlins, Wyoming,
train.
rur Denver iibpa,e's Santa Fe special
SAYS that news from III paso states that
Col. II. II Griersen had a fight with Vie.
terias band of hostile Indians, about lN
strong, Who attempted 81 pass north into
Texas on the Ill inst, between Fort Quit
man and Eagle springs. AZ four \. NJ
81 the It'll Lieut.. Finley aui thirteen
men III the Tcu,h cavalry arrived, and he
Immediately st ii work fartyfying his
position. thont ninc 4 NJ tile Indians