Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1881-06-17
GENERAL NOTES
uRrNG the month Of May l,2S7 persons

DURING the month Of May l,2S7 persons
died in Chicago.
THE shore end Of the latest Atlantic
cable has been landed at Penzance
TIE hull Of the wrecked steamer Vic
toria was towed down to London, Ont,
for inspection by experts.
A HEAVY frost at Watertown, n. Y.
damaged the crops and gladdened the
heart Of Nennor.
THE first carload Of new wheat reached
st. Louis from Fort Worth It graded
No. 3 red winter, and brought $3.50 per
bushel at auction.
THERE are nine cases of smallpox at
Hull, Pike county, Ill. and DR.. Rauch
and others are taking precautions to pre-
vent the spread of the disease.
4 FIvE-MILE race for s. 1000, in eighteen
foot lapstreak boats, has been arranged
between Hanlan aud Ross, and will proha-
bly, take place near Toronto.
THE International Typographical Con-
vention is in session in Toronto, Canada.
Delegates from all parts of the United
States and Canadas ale present.
THE Chicago board of trade contributed
g. 494 to the Dakota sufferers, which was
handed over to General Sheridan, who
promptly seat it to its destination.
TIE duke Of Athol, the head Of the
most prominent family in Scotland, is in
specting the public institutions of Chicago
in the quietes. possible manner.
LoRILLARD has purchased Aranza, a
noted thoroughbred of Bonnie Scotland
stock. for $4,000 Her owners were
Nashville parties who bought her for $3.50
rope, where she intends to remain for sew
eral years and educate her daughter.
STATISTICS in preparation bv the census
bureau show that skilled labor in the
United States is better paid and more
steadily employed than in any country Of
the world.
| GENERAL WICKHAM, OF Virginia, APP
peals to the republicans of that state 10
stand squarely by their colors. 4 meeting
of the state central committee is called for
June 29 to decide the question OF calling
q convention.
THE steamer Glenlogan, from New York
| for Para, Pernambuco, and Bahia, took
fire at sea, and had to be abandoned. The
crew aud passengers were rescued and
landed al Forializa, Brazil.
The Texas Pacific has been completed
into Tom Green county. about three hun
dred miles east of FL Paso, which point
will be reached by the end of the year, as
two miles OF track are being laid each day.
/ AT the end of last week there were 124
cases Of smallpox and sixty-three cases OF
Ityphus-fever in the New York hospitals.
Fifty-three new cases of smallpox and
thirty-two of typhus-fever developed dur.
ing the week.
PRoF. S. B. EVANS, of the scientific
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waiting among the ruins of Tezceco, has
discovered the largest representation of the
human figure ever found among Mexican
antiquities.
/ New YORK blacksmiths and wheel
wrights are abost 10 strike for ten pei
cent. higher wages and fifty-nine hours
work per week, reasonable demand
Some cigar makers want from 80 cents Il
81 per 1000 higher wages and have struck
therefor.
The republicans of the Second distric
of South Carolina refrained from voting
at the special congressional election 10 FL
the vacant seat OF Mr. O'Connor, claiming
that Mackey wrs really elected last fall
In consequence, Samuel Dilable wa
chosen without opposition.
4 Bos1oN paper tells the incredibl,
story about an absent-minced man from
Salem, Mass. who left his infant son in thI
Eastern Railroad depot in Boston, Mon
day evening, and did not miss him unit
he reached home, and was asked what b,
had done with that precious darling.
He took the train back.
TIE president of Mexico has signet
contracts for two roads from The Ri,
{ Grande TO the capital. both schemes bein,
backed by American capital. One line j