Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1881-05-20
GENERAL NOTES.

IHE bears in the provision trade gave
the bulls another tight squeeze
The Wisconsin state treasury has dur
ing the past month disbursed 50 $50 as
bounty on wolves.
IHE senate of Pennsylvania has adopt
ed resolution looking to the transfer of
The dust of William Penn from an Eng
lish churchyard to Philadelphia
THE legislature Of Michigan has passed
the amendment to the new liouor-tax bill,
which provides for a $500 tax on spirit re-
tallers and $200 on beer sellers.
A PARTY of Tennesseeans are about to
start for Montana with three hundred
head of fine breeding cattle The trip will
consume three weeks, and the cost Of
transportation will be $4,000
THERE is good authority for the state
ment that the Northern Pacific Company
and Henry Willard will compromise on
the basis of the retirement of Pres dent
Billings and the surrender of half the di-
rectorships.
The officers of the Chicago and Alton
road have secured term of four years in
the penitentiary for X. G., Crawford. a
confidence operator, who swindled Ed
ward Tucker of Springfield, ont of $4J0
on an Alton train.
CORNELIUS j. VANDERBILT was brought
into court at Brooklyn to answer to a suit
for $3l0 due on diamond stud purchased
in 1870. His counsel stated that he had
paid $l60,O00 of old debts since he came
into possession of means.
Col. THOMAS A SCoTT, of Philadelphia.
who last week was stricken by paralysis
for the third time, and whose death was
momentarlly expected, has risen from his
bed, and his physicians lave hopes that
he may recover
ON Sunday the pope appointed the Very
Rev. John McMullen, vicar general of the
archdiocese of Chicago, to be bishop of
the new diocese of Davenport, and the
Very Rev. kfllian c. Flash, Of Milwau-
kee, to be bishop of the diocese OF La
Crosse, Wis.
The rolling mill at Atlanta, Ga, has
been forced to suspend by the failure of
the Citizens bank. Its operatives, four
hundred and fifty in number, have at
tached all the material and machinery to
pay their wages for April
TIE resolution of the Illinois senate to
adjourn sine die on May q, was amended
by the house by an extension for three
days. 1t is safe TO assume that there will
be no quorum for the three days in dispute,
Dpe Will uTdW SlD duulllO0al DIV
the change.
HE quartermaster at Yankton has IS
sued 81 400 rations to sufferers by the
flood. Captain Clagne, who was sent by
General Terry on tour of investigation,
reports that the officers at Fort Randall
saved seven hundred persons from possible
starvation.
ELIAS III. ALLEN, a negro citizen OF
haadvillo pa hos
against the school directors directing
them TO admit his minor children to the
public schools of that CITY. A separate in
stitution has heretofore been maintained
for colored pupils.
The statue of Stonewall jackson in Me-
tairie cemetery, New Orleans, was unveil-
ed in presence of several thousand persons,
among whom were the widow and daugh-
ter of the illustrious soldier. General
Fitzhugh Lee delivered the address, and
Jefferson Davis responded to calls by
brief speech.
STRIKES have become so popular in Can
ada that the Caughnawega Indians have
taken a hand. For plotting RATS of tim
Der down the Lachine rapids, they demand
an increase to $3.50 per day, with the con-
dltion that no white man be employed.
The reds assaulted a timber agent for hir-
ing some French Canadians
TIE son of Broadway stage driver
found in dilapidated trunk which he had
purchased cluster diamond brooch lost
by Mrs. William H. Vanderbilt at Sara
togs, and valued al g, 2,000 The youpgster
| in returning the prize. said he did not ask
a reward, but hoped the affair might aid
his father in securing an easier job.
A partv residing alocg the Hooking
Valley road. in Ohio, chartered car to
attend concert at Logan. While run
ming through the mining town OF Gore a
crowd of ruffians emptied their reyolyers
into the coach, and son of Edwin Booth
was shot through the lungs. Two arrests
have been made. and threats of lynching
| are frequently made.
REAL ESTATE agents in Chicago are
building high hopes upon the belt-railroad
project, which seems destined TO give the
lands surrounding the city a wonderful
BOOM The most important transfer
within the city during the week was that
of one hundred feet on Market street,
near Monroe, which viii lead 10 the
speedy erection of stately stores on the
site of the coal yards
II Is evident that the Utes are prepar-
ing to resist the execution of the treaty.
The matter has been complicated By the
Indictment of Agent Berry and Commits
sioner Meacham at Denver, for completely
| in the murder of Jackson. the freighter.