Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-10-06
GENERAL NOTES.

SING SING prison reports net earnings
of $6,022 for September.
| s In the United States court at Pittsburg,
Judge Turnkey decided that a railroad
company must honor its ticket i, by who
ever sold.
A. B. HEPBURN declines the republican
nomination for congres ssman-at-large
from New York, on the ground that a
large portion of the republicans are not
satisfied with the work of the convention.
IT is stated that lease of the Iowa
Central road is desired by the Northwest
ern, the Wabash. and the St. Paul, and
that negotiations to that end are in active
progress.
THE farmers of Kansas have completed
their plowing for winter wheat, and much
| ground has already been sowed. Corn in
that state is beyond any possible danger
| from frost.
MANAGER VAN HORNE expresses the
opinion that the Canadian Pacific road
! will be extended to the summit of the
| Rocky mountains next season.
GENERAL RossER is at the head of a
project TO build railway from Winnie
| peg TO Hudson Bay. by which the grain
of the northwest will find its way to Liv-
erpool, and Hamilton Jukes will soon
| take out party of surveyors.
THOMAS FORTUNE. an engineer on the
Kansas Central road, while on a curve in
the woods at low speed, discovered a
toddliDg child on the track. After re-
versing the engine and opening the sand
box he leaped out upon the pilot and
grabbed tn. little fellow by the clothes.
THE republican ticket of New York
complete, is as follows: For governor.
Charles j. Folger, for lieutenant governor,
| b. Piatt Carpenter; for congressman, at
large, A. P. Hepburn; for judge of the
court Of appeals, Judge Charles An lrews.
THE threatened war of railroad rates in
the northwest will not break out very
soon. The Milwaukee 4 st. Paul railway
has been admitted to the Iowa road on
equal terms with the three other roads.
THE New York democratic ticket com
plete is as follows: For governor, Grover
| Cleveland, mayor of Buffalo; lieutenant
mira; congressman-at-large, Gen. Henry
w. Slocum; judge of the court of appeal,
| VIM. c. Ruger. Thomas NJ. Patterson
was elected chairman of the state central
| committee.
Ex-GovERNoR RAMSEY, OF the Utah
commiss on, states that the leading poiyg-
amsts offered to make no attempt to vote,
and have kept their word. The Mormons
can carry the elections by large MAORI
ties, and will probably nominate Mayor
Kane, of Salt Lake, for delegate in con-
gress. The effect of the Edmunds law
will BE- the eradication from politics of all
the able and wealthy men of the Mormon
church.
AN attempt is being made by Messrs.
Charles L. Wright & Co., ship-brokers, to
establish an American esmship line with
a new kind of vessel planned and patented
bv Captain Sundborg, lately of the Swed-
ish navy. The steamers will ply between
New York and the European ports, and
will be controlled entirely by American
capital According TO the plans as set
forth in the prospectus the new steamers
will have q displacement of 11.00O tons,
length of $50 feet. They are to have tour
decks, two of which will be for saloon
passengers. Each steamer is TO be moved
by two propellers, worked by two COM
pound engines of 500 horse power each.
Capt. Sundborg claims that he will b.
able to obtain speed of at least twenty
miles an hour, and more in good weather
The time for quick passages to Europe
will be five days.