Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-03-10
GEN ERAL NOTES

ILLINOIS has ] 400 convicts in the Joliet
penitentiary, and 3S4 at Chester.
Gov CORNELL created sensation bv
removing l.. ID. Pillsbury. superintendent
OF state prisons, and nominating Isaac V .
Baker, Jr., a worshiper Of Conkling.
The Iowa house of representatives, bv
vote of so TO |, passed bill appropriat-
ing $3.50 for the purchase of gold medal
for Kate Shelley, the Boone heroine
A bronze cast Of the face and left hand
Of President Garfield has been made in
New York for Ills family, and the mold
broken to prevent duplication. 1t repre-
SCENTS his features after death and plainly
dipicts his safierings.
The supreme court of Pennsylvania
sustains the validity Of the deferred In
come bonds issued by the Reading rail.
road company, and ii is believed that
President Gowen will now be able to take
the concern ont Of the hands of the re-
ceivers
The common council of Milwaukee has
passed resolutions TO erect a city hall, at a
cost of $3.50, ,0C0 on nearly the same plan
as the present courthouse.
REv II. w. Beecher had large audi
ence in Chicago the other evening, bat
kiCN ldAHt anu wis uudUit 10 HtlSH HlS
lecture. After being taken to his hotel he
rapidly recovered strength, and docs not
expect to cancel any dates
CHARLES ALBERT READ, who died re-
| Gently at his home in Newton, Mass, left
| s10 1000 TO the treasurer Of the United
States, to be applied TO the reduction of
the war debt. TO the attending physician
of the testator S5 900 is given, on a condi-
ton axprossaJ as FnllorS. tfPk,t 49,. / 4
Is severed from my body. as have a great
horror of being buried alive"
A coLoRRD woman of Council Bluffs.
who wss sold from her mothers arms in
Kentucky ihirty-eight years ago, has
traced her agent parent to Denver, and
they will soon meet.
4 PRoLo NGED conference in New York
between the Western Union telegraph
managers and the chieftains of the press
associations ended in banquet rendered
to the journalists. at which speeches were
made by Sidney Dillon, Whitelaw Reid.
Cyrus w. Field, and William Henry
| Smith.
The Standard Coal ard Iron company,
with capital of SIS, 100000 has been or
ganized in Boston by james q. Blaine and
! Eugene Hale of Maine, Governor Foster
/ Ames of Mass lchusstis. 1t is chiefly a
| consolidation of coal and iron companies
in the Hooking valley of Ohio. and repre-
sents thirty thousand acres OF mineral
| lands.
Is the Sprague divorce case, the e1-sen-
ator withdrew his counter bill, and the
complainant struck out all allegations ex-
cept that of ron-support. The custodian
at Canonchet testified that Sprague had
refused 10 maintain his wife, and the case
was docketed "a held for advisement until
the amount of alimony can be settled.
The girls were surrendered 10 the moth r,
| while William remains with his father.
TIE will OF Charles A. Reed. of New
ton. Mas, after .bequeathins 100000 TO
his family, gives $4,000 to the town OF
Salem and $4,000 to the city Of Newton,
the income from each gift TO be ussd in
giving picnics u chil:ren, scientific lee
lures. and relief TO poor widows. Hi:
physician was left $500 on condition that
he sever the testator's head from the
trunk. An amount not to exceed SO. .0Ot
is to go 10 the treasurer of the United
States for the reduction of the war debt.