Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1881-05-06
will probably try the experiment of reduc
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will probably try the experiment of reduc
ing fares to five cents at all hours.
CONTRACTS have been made in Engls ne
| TO carry sixty thousand Swedes and Nor
wegians to the United States.
THERE are now 127 smallpox patients
and 107 typhus-fever patients in the
Blackwells Island Hospital, New York
HEcaT & Co., mercantile firm at Pc
cahontas, Ark, have failed for 100000
the collapse being the most important il
the history of that state.
JOHN L. FRENCH, chief clerk of the con.
tract Office in the treasury department,
has been asked to resign, and will be sue
ceeded by Henry d. Lyman, of Ohio.
ONE hundred compositors employed on
the English dailies of Milwaukee are out
on strike for an advance of FIVE cents
per thousand ems.
The strike Of the St. Louis street rail-
way employees has degenerated into a riot
Gus mob, which now bids fair to utter ly
fail in It's object.
ABOUT 100 Milwaukee printers are on a
strike for higher wages. and the Milwau-
kee newspaper owners find it difficult to
get out their journals in good shape and
on time.
OVER two thousand dogs were on exhi-
bition by the Westminster Kennel club at
New York, April %. Samuel J. Tilden
took the first prize for smooth st Rer-
nards.
AT the close of the spring meeting at
New Orleans. George Hakes, the owner OF
Moscow. was suspended from all tracks in
10 oh of MI Ia,
guage.
Mr.. JNo. X. BoIEs, of Hudson, Mich,
aud William McMichael, of Philadelphia
have been appointed by the President
members of the Board Of Indian Com.
missioners.
THE Texas and Pacific road, having
been baked in its efforts to amalgamate
the Iron Mountain, has opened negotia.
tions for the purchase of controlling in
terest,
JAY GOULD sent his check for 50, 400, ,O0C
the other day to Col. Tom Scott in a let
ter. If this sum had been paid in lawful
silver coin it would have required six full.
loaded freight-carsto to transport it.
WHITRLAw REID, of the New York Iri
bune, will no more be known as a frolic-
some bachelor. He was married to Miss
Elizabeth Mills, at the residence of her
father, Mr.. d. 0. Mills, in New York.
WM j. FLORENCE, the comedian, has
telegraphed a friend in New York from
London that John Mccullough made an
electric" hit as Virginins at the Drury
Lane Theatre Monday night.
GoULD's plan in regard to the south
western roads is said to be the formation
OF the Southwestern company, TO lease
and operate the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas and the International and Great
Northern as one line. and the Texas and
Pacific and the Iron Mountain as another
A SPECIAL train on the Denver and Rio
Grande road jumped the track near Ozirr,
New Mexico, ana rolled down an embank-
ment of one hundred and fifty feet. Seven
men and one woman were killed. and all
the other passengers injured. The wound
ed were taken to Denver.
The state census of Mississippi, which
was taken simultaneously with the Fedora
census, shows nearly the same population
| The total number of voters in the state il
240, ,720, divided as follows: Whites
l1O, lib; colored, 130,607..
The New York Herald says that the an
nual crusade on the part of hotel proprie
tors at the summer resorts against tn,
Jews has begun for the season. In tn,
announcement of the opening of the hote
at Bath, Long Island the clause is insert
ed-"No Hebrews need apply" Sucl
bigotry ought to condemn the hotel il
popular estimation.
THE hippopotamus which was 10 hav,
been placed upon exhibition in the Phila
delphia Geological Gardens, died las
week of pulmonary disorders caused b,
the unfavorable climate. 1t is said tha
there is now only one living hippotamu
in this country, and none for sale in tn,
markets of the old world Nevertheless
the Philadelphia society will immediate
ly take steps to secure another specimen
TUE annual report of the Chicago, Mil
waukee and st. Paul railroad has been Is
sued. Total income for 1880, $13, ,0S6, 11S,
81; gross expenses, 7,742, ,425.9S Ne
earnings, $5,343, ,69293 increased earn
ings over 1879, $3,O73, ,29S so; increase,
expenses over 1879. $2,26S, $50. 70; net in
creased earnings. 1904 ,66S IL; total valu
of property, S97 $50, IA; balance Of in
come account Dec. 81, 1880, 4,343, ,2S3. 1f
amount of common stock, 81, SD, POI
amount of preferred stock, $1.204, ,4S3
mortgage bonds, including $3,000,0O0 o
pre-existing mortgage debt on purchase,
roads, so, ,172000
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