Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1881-07-22
GENERAL NOTES

JUSTICE CLIFFORD. of the United States
supreme court. has suffered the amputa-
tion of his foot for gangrene.
HENRY WILLARD and party have return
ed TO st. Paul from a trip to the end of the
Northern Pacific track.
CINCINNATI reports a temperature of
over l03 degrees, the highest for nine
years. Thirteen deaths from sunstroke
are ehronicled.
THE winning four % the Minnesota
boat club have resolved to enter for the
national regatta at Washington in Sep
tember, and will practice on White Bear
lake.
The directors Of the De Lesseps ca na
company have practically completed the
purchase Of the Panama railway for $l7.
500 900, and the canal is TO follow closely
the line Of the track.
THE Manitoba and the Northern Pacific
railway managers have appealed to the
courts for possession Of the Pelican Val
ley in Minnesota.
The mercury in ST. Louis rose above
100 degrees Nine policemen were forced
to give up their beats, and the morgue
was crowded with corpses of those pros
trated by the heat
THE bridge of the Santa Fe road across
the Rio Grande at FL Paso was completed
on Saturday. One hundred miles of the
line has been located between FL Paso and
chihuahua.
THE papal bulls for the conservation of
DIR. McMullen. of Chicago, as Bishop of
Davenport, have arrived. The imposing
ceremony will take place in the Holy Name
cathedral on Monday, July p.
Mr.. VANDERBILT has telegraphed Cap
tain Stone to give Maud S. another trot
against time at the Pittsburgh tracS on
Saturday. The ladies of the Smoky City
gave the victor mamouth bouquet and
two wreaths of flowers.
THE health authorities at Milwaukee
have discovered in a Polish family, on
Railroad street, two cases of smallpox of
the most malignant character, and have
vigorously quarantined the house
POSTMASTER PEARSON. of New York has
made arrangements to receive the foreign
mails at quarantine, whence they will be
hurried to the postoffice by tugs and wa
gons, thereby, frequently gaining a train
on matter destined for the west,
ii is almost certain that a receiver will
be appointed for the Manhattan Elevated
Railway of New York, and there is some
possibility that the Metropolitan will have
a like fate. IN view Of its war with the
New ork company.
DIR. GREMER. health officer at Erie, Pa,
seht bv messenger to Rochester opti-
eian can OF deviled ham swarming with
trichina, to be tested by the microscope.
Ii developes that the man intrustcd with
the meat could not stand the temptation,
and devoured it, He has experienced no
i'll effect
The will OF John Burnside, famous as
N richest IN | f,,,,,J
in New Orleans, bearing date of 1897, and
search is being made for later document.
After some liberal bequests to relatives,
and 5000 each 10 several charitable in
stitutions, the bulk was willed to Oliver
Brine, of irginia.
MEXICAN papers announce that General
Tiburcio Montiel. with four hundred
armed men. is en!eavoring to bring about
Il revolution in the state of lthako. The
General claims that twenty Of his men
are engineers. and that he is going into
the interior to settle some land difficult
ties.
PASSENGER rates from the seaboard 10
the western cities are wholly demoralized.
The war was commenced bv the Boston
and ALBANY road, which made reduction
OF 81, and was sustained hy similar rates
on the Erie, New York Central, and Bal
timore and Ohio until the fare from New
York 10 Chicago is now $40 by the Amer
lean lines and Sl4 by the Canadian.
TwKLVE THOUSAND persons waited at
the Pittsburgh track until : o'clock in the
evening to see Maud s trot against time,
and were rewarded bv Witnessing dimin-
ution of her record to 2:l09, the greatest
achievement of the turf. She was driven
by Robert Blair, who walked away beside
her with uncovered head, amid the wild
est cheers. 4 purse of s, 500 was handed
over to her manager