Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1881-04-22
GENERAL NOTES

X. III. BAKER, Of Racine, Wis. is to be
rendered a government directorship in the
Union Pacific railway
Miss A. l.. ANDERSON, of INDIANAPOLIS,
has become insane from the effects of red
precipitate applied forty years ago by her
mother to destroy insects in the hair.
Miss HATTIE DEUELL, the starving sui
eide, at Iowa City, Iowa finished her work
at noon on the 11th inst, after fortv-seven
days of fasting
THE barn men of the Chicago West Di-
vision railway sent in formal request for
an advance of 20 per cent. in wages. and
it was speedily granted
RAINIER, negro who was lieutenant
governor of South Carolina, and represent
ed that state in congress, is working dill
gently on the streets of Charleston as a
laborer.
JoHN L. RAYMOND, the comedian, was
married in Philadelphia to Miss Courtney
Barnes, a daughter of Rose Eytinge. The
Bey. Robert Collyer, formerly of Chicago,
performed the ceremony.
THE iron and steel industries of the
United States are ,005 in num ber, with a
capital of $230,971 ,SS4. Pennsylvania
leads off with nearly half the product of
the country, Ohio taking second rank
PRoF. RICHARD A. PROCTOR has sued the
Wabash road for $4,000 for injuries re-
ceived in the wreck at iSwanwick, Mo.
The six actions already commenced on
this account cover claims of 100000.
THE remains Of the late Senator Matt.
IL. Carpenter were buried at Forest
Home cemetery, Milwaukee, Wis. The
attending ceremonies were the most i'm
pressive ever witne sed il Wisconsin.
A LADY and her granachild, the latter
suffering from smallpox, travelled from
New York to Boston BY rail, but were
hustled off to the pest-house in the latter
city by depot policeman.
SToCKMIN in the vicinity OF the Black
Hills estimate the loss by storms at 20 per
cent. In the Yellowstone valley the only
loss of any account was that of the Anglo
American Company who miss 30 Der cent
of their herd of ), 900 unacclimati.ed Tex
an steers.
JAMES BURNS, of Erie, Pa, has for
eighteen years been paralytic cripple,
his right arm remaining behind his head.
The other day he appeared on he streets
free from deformitv, and declared that he
was cured by the prayers of Father Ma
lony.
The funeral of Miss Deuel., wlo starved
herself to death at Iowa City, vas pri-
vate affair. and was attended by about
twenty personal friends. The face of the
dead was wholly devoid of repusive fea-
lures. Her sisters have been greatly un-
nerved by the disgusting occurrence, and
Mrs. Aylsworth will doubtless beprostra.
ted for some time.
\ terrible tale Of suffering for bod was
brought to New York by the steamship
Nebo. She encountered the bam Tiger
with crew of eleven men, who existed
for q week on strips OF leather spaked In
lamp-oil, then devoured the captains dog,
and for eight days had gone hungry and
meditated eating each other. Over the
ample stores given them they fought like
pack of wolves.
The trial of the czar's assassirs, at St.
Petersburgh. concluded Saturday. and the
court retired to consider the verdict At
go Sunday morning they returned with
verdict of guilty against the prisoners,
and sentenced TO death by hanging was
pronounced. On account of the noble
birth Of Sophie Piloffsky, her senterce will
be submitted to the czar for confirmation.
GEORGE NJ. PULLMAN took ont from
Chicago to the magic city which bars his
name two carloads of influential citizens.
to witness the starting of the CorIss en-
gine, of twenty-five hundred horsepower,
which came from the centennial Uposi-
tion and is now doing service in his mann
moth ear works. Visitors to the enten-
nial will remember this huge piece If ma
rhinery that furnished the motiyepower
in the machinery department
EDWARD O'DoNNELL now in New York
in a letter to O'Donovan Rosa, gives full
details of an attempt made by Mooney
and himselfto blow up the mansionAouse
in London. On the arrival ofthe Anstra-
LA at New York detectives found 4 man
named Coleman, but he proved not to be
the person wanted for participation in
the daring plot. 1t is positively asserted
that the genuine Coleman came over on
the Australia and was taken byaway
friends
DISTRICT ATTORNEY BLISS and Detective
Perkins, of st. Louis, are in Pittsburgh,
consulting with the federal authorities in
regard 10 the Missouri land frauds 1t is
conceded that the prosecutions in these
cases in the United States courts vii fail
because of an act of congress legafzing
the issuance of land patents without evil
dence of land cultivation. No less than
twenty-three citizens of Pittsburgh are
implicated in the issue of fraudulent
deeds, who will be arrested as soon al the
evidence can he secured to convict item.