Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-08-11
GENERAL NOTES.

A PARTY Of fifteen Russian Jews, mostly
Old people, were recently sent back from
New York
BRIGHr's di-ease swept of Rear Ad-
miral David 5. McDougall at San Fran
cisco.
GEN. BUTLER has proposed to the dem
ocratiC Managers in Massachusetts that
they ratiiy his nomination by the inde-
pendent republicans.
TnE election in Utah went over be-
cause of the non-arrival of the commits
sioners, and Governor Murray is given
power TO fill all important Offices by APP
pointmept.
EDWARD l.. OWEN, a stock-broker of
New York, has brought suit for IS ,C55
against Rev. Stephen H. Tvng, Jr., for
margins on disastrous speculations in
Wall street.
The republican state committee of New
York has fixed the date of the convention
for the Goth of September at Saratoga. 1t
is surmised that this is rot as early as
Gov. Cornell desired
rHE 7th regiment of Wisconsin militia,
Colonel Gabe BAuck, will Oh August %
go into camp for week at Oshkosh or
Green Lake. ~.
T. b. BAIPD. of Columbus, O., became
exhausted while swimming at Long
Branch. bat was saved from drowning by
a bather
WM. LARRABEE, of Fayette, was the
permanent chairman OF the Iowa repub-
liCan convention. The nominees are:
Secretary of state, J. \. T. Hull; auditor,
}. l.. Brown; attorney general, Smith
q PhprSnA OF
ger, supreme court bench, judge Suvers.
THE SpragGe mills at Augusta, Me,
together with other property belonging to
the estate. has been sold for Sl5l, 900 to a
representative of Boston and Augusta
capitalists.
THIS Union ?, Cifc and the Southern
Pacific are enGeavCring to beat each
Others time in the transp rt&tion of over
land freight. Two trans loaded with tea
came over the former route from San
Franc isco TO Chicago in six days and a
fraction.
THE following ticAe, has en- nomi-
naed by the Oaio prohibitionist<: s c.
retary of state, Ferdinand Schumacher,
Akron; supreme court judge, John n.
Il Rosenboroush, Fulton county; member
of board Of public worts. Carmi Alder
man, LawreLCe county.
JOHN l. BLAIR. the railway king. states
that company has been Organized. with
a capital of 81. .C00, ,000 10 bridge the Mis-
souri, river at Blair, Neh., giving connec-
tion to his roads in Iowa and Nebraska
and stfording the Chicago an& Northwest
ern road access to its allies west Of the
Missouri.
SoCGkTY at Long Branch is gossiping
ever the hastv marriage of Louis Mills
and Miss +. /. Lstv, of Brooklyn. owing
to their having missed the last train on
Saturday evening The case was referred
10 eS Senator Thurman ard Sam Ward,
who urged that matrimony WAS the proper
s,lution o: the difficulty.
The Indiana stSte democratic conven-
ton met at Indianapolis with Hon ohm
+. Cotfroth. o. Lafavettc, in the chsir.
Ex-Gov. Thomas A. Hendricks. from the
| coumittee on resolutions. re ported Mat
form, which denounced the republican
party and d. eia-sd aliesilEce to The prif-
ciples and tea hings II Thomas jeff rsoa.
A stand was taken against sumptu4ry leg
isl tiion, but 1t was r. commended that the
proposed prohibitory amendment be sub
mitted 10 the people. The following nom
inatious were made Secretary of stale,
w. r. Myers, OF Madison county audi
tor. Mr.. Rice, Of Floyd county; attorney
general, Francis I. Hord, of Bartholomew
county clerk Of the supreme court,
Simon z. Sherwin, of Csss county super
intenient of public instruction, John W.
Hoicomb. of Porter county.