Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-10-05
GENERAL NOTES.

II the bicycle tournament at Spring
field, Massachusetts, HighaEa made
twenty miles in &C minutes 81 seconds,
beating the record by 724 seconds. taking
purse of 81 900 and the championship
of the world.
BLANCHE GRAY, a girl of IS years,
whose weight is 5l7 pounds. was mar
ried il a museum i'll New York TO David
Moses.
AFTER satisfactory council with the
Gros Ventres and Assinaboines, Senator
Vest and Representative Naginnis cross
ed the British boundary at Regina, and
will be escorted by mounted police to
the Canada Pacific road, to return
home
WITH six Mormons in the grand jury,
Chief Justice Hunter, at Salt Lake, call
ed attention to the yiolasi sion of the laws
against polygamy.
HAIL-sTORM swept over southern
Indiana, from Carrollton to Lawrence
burg, Sunday afternoon, covering the
ground from two TO four inches.
SITTING BULL has caused an indefinite
postponement of the ceremony of unit
ing with the Catholic church at Fort
Yates. because he can not decide which
of his two wives to set aside.
THE Polish congregation at Nanticoke,
Pennsylvania, charged their priest with
financial mlSmanagement. Six hundred
members petitioned Bishop o. Hara to
remove him, and the congregation re-
fused to permit him to enter the church.
REV. III. Roor. bank president at
Valley City Oak. sued The Times of that
place for $4,000 damages for charging
him with perjury, emEeZzlement. and
stealing Sunday school coppers. The jury
awarded him cents.
THE banquet given Lord Coleridge by
the Chicago bar, was a brilliant event.
About thr.e hundred representative
men were present. Addresses were de-
livered by Judge Drummond, Lord Col
eridge, Melville w. Fuller, Hon. Z. b.
Washburne, Elliott f. Shepard, and
others.
LORD CoLERIDGE on Wednesday at
tended murder trial in Judge Smiths
court i'll Chicago, made a brief address
to the members of the board of trade,
called at the Calumet clubhouse, and
looked over the exhibits at the state
fair. At night he was given a ban
quet at the Leland hotel by Emery A.
Storrs.
In the colored national convention at
Louisville, Fred Doughlas urged the peo-
pie of his race to move toward the goal
of prosperity and education, ana to
compel the world to receive them as
equals lie thought it time that oGtra-
geous lynching be stopped, and that col
leges, the professions and trade-unions
welcomed She negro. 1t was resolved
that his address be sent to congress as
the sentiment of the convention.
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Charles RaalinS, Is years of age,
managed to steal ri !e across the At
lantic after good deal of trouble
Left am orphan in Liverpool when 5
years of age, he lodged in boxes, lofts
and stairways, depending alternately
on charity and the garbage cart food
to Keep him alive, and wearing any
thing he could get for clothing. jim
my Wclch, an old fellow-lodger,
came to this country short time ago,
and ever since then Charles has been
on the lookout to cross the pond. Pre-
Suming every steamer which left Liv-
erpool came to America, he got carried
to Germany once as a stowaway, and
had to 90 back to his old quarters by
the same method. Getting his bear
ings more accurately Y the next time,
he succeeded III re:ching Boston and
tiudin. his old friend who was de
lighted to Se> him