Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1880-12-03
THE NEWS BUDGET.
A Summary OF Events During tho
Past Week.
Latest Events.

\ estimated nj seven million bhshes.
JAMES l.. PuaH il the unanimous choice
of the Alabama legislature for senator.
A LOUISVILLE negro died Of lockjaw,
caused by wound in his heel from nail
in his shoe. .a
The body Of Mrs. Noyes, of Warren,
Pa, was cremated at Washington, Pa, on
Thanksgiving day.
Az Austrian has challenged DR.. Tanner
to forty-Iour-day fast. maintaining him
self on beer.
The body of General j. J. Byrnes, who
was recently murdered by Indians in
Texas, has been brought into Fort Worth
HoS. WALTER MANcH. OF Muncic, Ind,
who has been named for the neuatorahip,
il unconscious from a paralytic stroke.
The entire stock Of the new Chicago
Driving Park, 100000. has been sub
scribed and directors will soon be chosen.
CHARLES READE has forwarded TO the
Central park commissioners, New York,
| cuttings from mulberry tree standing nj
Shakspeare's grave.
| TIM new census OF st. Louis was com
pleted last night. and shows n population
Of $50, 9l5 The gain on Salomon's emu
merationis 1900, and the prees declares
itself satisfied.
Lynch, the negro candidate for
congress from the shoestring district OF
Mississippi, has served General Chalmers
with notice of his intention 10 contest
the seat.
PRESENT from Queen Victoria TO the
president Of the United States was rcceiv-
Cd AT the white house on the 9th inst, in
the shape Of massive desk made from
tmbers OF II. NJ. $. "Resolute.
THE will Of William leverich, of New
York, which left nearly $3.50, 900 ~ Anna
Dominick, his old landlady, and only
small amount 10 relatives, has been set
aside on the ground Of undue influence.
TmE postmaster general pleads for mail
communication with Mexico and Central
America. He recommends that money
orders range from five to one hundred
dollars, the fee for the former To he five
cents. A personal investigation OF the
British system Of postal savings banks
and tclegraphs has impellrd Mr. Maynard
to recommend their establishment in this
country.
Tng Northern Pacific has secured from
syndicate Of American and European
bankers the sum Of forty million dollars,
by the sale Of bonds at prices ranging from
ninety cents to par Director Wright re-
ports the rails laid within thirty miles Of
the Yellowstone, and predicts the compile
ton ~ the road within three years.
Steel rails will soon be shipped around the
Horn, To be laid on the western end, the
metal Tor three hundred miles having been
purchased within the p ast ten days.
lr can be stated for certainty that Gen
cra Garfield has assured Secretary Sher
- III Iauie ~ haya hi ~ rau n n ut
the head of the treasury, and that the see
rotary replied that he should contest the
Ohio senatorship to the end. The next
question in this controversy is whether
the president-elect will be able 10 main
tain the neutral position To which he
stands pledged in this prolonged struggle.
JAMES {. WATsoN. the eminent astron-
omer, and director of the Wa4hbnrn oh
aeryatory at Madison Via, died nj his
residence nj the state university on the
9th inst. after n few days Illness. Pro-
feSsor Watson was taken with a violent
cold and congestion of the bowels in the
morning and at noon the doctors despair
ed OF his life In the afternoon he was
somewhat better, but was taken worse in
thc night and died nj & o'clock the next
morning. Professor Watson assumed
charge IL the Washhurh observatory ut the
state university q year and halt ago,
going there from the Michigan ohserva-
tory, with which he had been connected
some twenty years. A deep gloom pre-
walls in Madison at his unexpected death,
and oar state university and the cause Of
science throughout the world have sus-
tanned great loss by his death.
Tux frigid wave of the 22na and & 23rd
Of November seems to have been very wide
in its range Reports from y, Y, say that
at White Plains. the Champlain canal was
frozen over, the ice being about two inches
thick Thirty loaded boats were frozen
in The thermometer was 2 deg. below
zero AT Poughkeepsie, the river was
| full OF ice Al 81 Catharines, Ont. ice
from two to three inches thick formed in
wells and the canal, ,. At Toledo, il had
the effect Of bringing navigation at the
head of Lake Erie To a sudden and some
what premature close Ice 10 the thick
ness Of four inches was formed in the river
and bav AT Chicago, there was ice in
The river and all lake navigation is prac-
tically closed. The thermometer marked
from zero To 10 below. At Milwaukee,
the thermometer marked ) below zero,
Vessels arriving were badly iced At ~.
Paul, six degrees above 10y Vincent, two
above Breckenridge. eight above
Nankton twenty above II, Garry,
twcnty.three below Edmonton, twelve
above. Ia Crosse, seven above. Al
st. Louis, very cold and ice formed on riv
crs