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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-08-03

\ WEEK ago, the question whether
the Egyptian cholera would become
an epidemic in all the Orient was held
To depend upon the success of the eff
forts to keep it out of Cairo Now
people are dying of cholera at the
rate Of seventy or SO Il day at the
Egyptian capital. and the plague is
devastating all the surrounding ham
lets. The English seem to recognize
with promptucss their responsibility
in the matter, for General Evelyn
Wood has been sent back in haste to
take charge of the crisis, and doubt
less all that the resources of CiViliza
tiou can do toward iutcruing the dis
ease will be douc. But successful us
this may he in keeping the cholera
confined to Egypt, il can do precious
little toward subduing it's ravage it
that country. \ revolution. foreign
conquest and Il plague all within the
year, makes indeed a gloomy record
for the wrctchcd land of the Phar-
unhS
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-08-03
GRIM

4 STRANGER, without provoCauon,
shot down n brakeman named skinner
and James Gambre, passenger. on
Missouri Pacific train near Denison.
Texas, Wednesday The murderer
jumped from the train aud escaped to
the woods.
THE two Barnard brothers. charged
with murder and arson, We're released
from the Vernon (La.> Jail Monday night
bv n crowd of armed men. They cap
tured the guard, forbidding the sheriff
coming near them and broke the lock of
the Jail The whereabouts Of the prison
crs is ur rknown.
lr is found that l.. ID. Mccoy, the
mayor of Andrew. Iowa. who absconded
year ago with the papers of the Hut
Chius' estate, of which he was guardian,
and leaving a wife. who became insane,
and three children in the poor, house,
had a previous wife and child in Arizona,
who have waited all these years for his
return.
IL Windon, Mimi. the depot was en-
tered and an effort made to break open
the safe, hut was not successful. The
mail pouch was rippsd open and mail
matter scattered round: express pack
ages We're opened, but nothing missing.
The City hotel and the Hyatt house were
also visited and catables taken.
Mrs. William IL, Archibald, of Maple
Plain, Mimi, disappeared short time
ago. Her husband became possesor of
a letter passing from his wife to Frank
Smyth of that place. He at once sought
out Smyth and compelled him to open
the letter and read it to him The letter
solved the mystery. The case was at
once placed in the hands of an attorney.
Smvth has disappeared. the presence of
a large crowd of men in the village with
gallons of tar and ostrich feathers smote
his brave heart. His victim. Mrs. Archi-
bald, is in Boston without money or
friends.
WILLIE GoSS, ten years old. was COM
mitted to the State Industrial School
Thursday. by Justice Brice of Green
Bay, ON conviction of larceny, in roo
blng the store of Louis Scheller. While
T in court the boy confessed to having en-
+ tered Scheller's store five times at early
hours of the morning and stealing
1 change from the money drawer; to hav-
/ ing twice entered the insurance office of
/ Z. h. Ansorge; to setting fire to the out
house of Mr.. Rescb's residence and to
/ the barn of the American Express COM
( pany, all within the past few weeks.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-08-03
Chicago Market.

CHICAGO July 3l.-Flour-D Dull and unchanged;
Regular. Wheat Irregular; fairly active; 1C0ls
a 1ol for seller July; 1olA4 for seller August;
l.03aSMl .G31t for seller September 1051sfor sell
Ter October; l.06l4 for seller November; 1.Oo3sGI
1.Ol for seller the year; No. ,, Chicago Spring,
1913; No. Chicago spring, SGiS6s7; No .,
red winter, 1.o5@lOS Con-In fair demand;
easier; 55as8asls for seller cash and July; 5oasG
5oal for seller August; 5o}eGb5t9s for seller Sep
tember; sol "a 5aas for seller October; 4Sa4 for
seller the year. OatS-Easier; @i4 for seller
cash; s24 for seller July; s'la for seller August
eits for seller September: a6s4 G9G5s for seller
OStober; 26as for seller the year Rye-Quiet
unchanged, 56ls. Flax seed-Quiet l.32 for
seller cash. Barley Quiet, - bid for seller Sep
temher. Pork In fair demand. but lower; 13.Oo34
@l3S1a for seller cash I30oa4 for seller July
and August; 1850 I397ls for seller September;
llG5RHoSts for seller October; l2,65G1 12.70 for
seller the year. Lard In fair demand, but lower
S17@SSO for seller cash July and August; 5000
S92ls for seller September; S97l2 for seller oc-
tober; s7isls ~ for seller the year Bulk Meats
In fair demand; shoulders. ESQ; short rib, 7.65;
do clear, Sto Eggs Unchanged. Butter-U n
changed Whiskey- Steady and unchanged
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-08-03
The Louisville Exposition.

LOUISVILLE, July 31.-The exposi-
ton is in a far more forward state
than the most sanguine hoped for,
and tomorrow at noon, when the
president starts the machinery the dis
play will be fuller, comaratively
speaking, than was the centennial
when president Grant performed a
like service there. The change from
day to day has been phenominal
even to those accustomed to such
matters and had the exhibitors shown
but half the energy characterizing the
management the exposition would
have been the first one on record to be
ready when the inaugural day comes.
The display tomorrow will not be so
satisfactory as usual because the
greatest show there will be the inn
mense crowd Of people ready
to greet and honor the presi-
dent. The city is filed to overfowing
already with strangers. The city is
one mass of founting flags, both in
the business and residence portions
and the portraits of Lincoln, Garfield.
Grant and Arthur greet the eye on
every hand as if it we're northern
city instead of thoroughly southern
one.
The presidential party arrived this
evening at o'clock, a few moments
after General and Mrs. Phil Sheridan
reached the Gait house. A battery of
artillery on the river front fired a
presidential salute on the arrival of
the party at the depot Besides Pres
dent Arthur there were present Secre-
taries Folger and Lincoln.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-08-03

women in the United States fail to un-
derStand how great is the number of
the sum of agony suffered picture the
unSpeakable horror of even one of the
three thousand doomed to that hideous
death. The lost were merry-makerS,
they We're in the main, people well-to-
do They We're off for summer of
pleasuring In the midst of unusual
enjoyment, their summons to instant
death came. All of the thousands
lost. lived long enough to know that
death was coming and was inevitable
They were denied even the poor relief
of striking back" accorded to the
men doomed in battle, and even to Suf-
ferers fighting against hopeless dis
case. They could not even resist, but
only helplessly and miserably die,
leaving no tangible sign even of a
grave to remind men that they had
lived. The sum of the mental agony
endured by that army of men and
women, can not be compassed by any
widest flight of imagination. From
exceptional happiness which other
men looked on and envied, to excep-
tional and utterly hopeless misery
NucEtdt HleH SuuulCFtu, tIlOSe Sull-
mer-dwellers We're hurled in an in
stant of time Not ten of them, not
twenty, but three thousand
Ischia, or more specifically, CaSSa-
micciola, where were the mineral
springs and the hotels, was peculiarly
an Italian resort. This cloud burst of
bereavement floods III Italy therefore,
vastly more than elsewhere. In Ma
pies and Rome and throughout the
cities of the kingdom, hundreds of
home-circles are broken and other
hundreds quite blotted out, but the
cities of Italy will not be alone in
their Sorrowing. 1t is probable that
when all details are known, homes in
all quarters of Europe and homes in
the United States will be forced to tell
of loved members swallowed up at
ISchia. 1t is not reasonable in view
of the recent inceSSant exodus of
American tourists to Europe, to expect
that America escaped unscathed from
that death-harveSt in the Mediterra-
mean.
Why was this unSpeakable horror
visited upon the world! Men can on
ly grope on in the darkness of their
ignorance and helplessly ask, Why2
While humanity lasts, occasions will
continue to arise for the same anx-
ious query. And its answer will
never come to men.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-08-03
GENERAL NOTES.

RYE harvesting has begun in northern
Indiana.
FIFTYFIVE persons died of yellow
fever at Havana last week.
THE secretary of the treasury has de-
cided that the department has no au-
thority to receive trade dollars the same
as standard dollars.
AT Portsmouth, Va, on Tuesday even
ing, during the performance of Nathan
q Co. S circus, the canvas took fire from
the oil lamps. causing panic, i'll which
many people were injured.
The Massachusetts Legislature ad-
journcd sine die on Friday. after the
longest session on rcCord-2O6 days.
THE iiftieth anniversary of the settle
ment of Dubuque, Iowa. will be cele-
brated in that city on the Sd of Septenl-
ber next.
THE remains of Carl Meininger, of Gin
Clnnati, We're reduced to ashes at the
L"moync Crematory, near Washington
Pa, on Friday.
DUQUESNE, 4 5-year-old trotter. owned
by Paul Ii. Haslle, of Pittsburgh made
a mile i'll that city yesterday in 2:114
Buffalo Girl won the pacing race. her
best time being 2:124
CHARLES f. UPTON, president of the
defunct City Bank of Rochester, n. Y,
has been sent to the county penitentiary
for six months. under the new criminal
code, for oVerdrawing his accounts. 1t
Will be remembered that his oil specula-
tions cost the bank $3.50, 600
BIDS were opened at the treasury de
p!rtment for Il heating apparatus for
the custom house at Cincinnati as fol-
lows: Samuel j. Pope & Co., Chicago,
1928, ,S79; j. 7. Marshbank & Sons, Har-
riSburg, $l44 ,S32; Bartlett, Hayward &
Co., Baltimore. $146,4 ,46S: John Lyon.
Washington. $1l6,S47; VIM. Kirkop &
Son, Cincinnati, $151,1 11G.
THE secretary of the treasury mas re-
ceived a draft for 81, 400, drawn by the
Exchange National Bank. of Atchison,
Kan, on the First National Bank of Chi
cago, and signed Unknown Debtor, -"
with the following request: Please
place the amount of the enclosed draft
to the credit of the United States for
the benefit of the same" 1t was cred
tied to the Conscience Fund
The Sioux Indians held their annual
sun dance at Rosebud Agency, Dakota,
yesterday afternoon. 10000 being pres
ent from all parts of the reservation.
Orders came to United States agents
McGillicuddy and Wright this year to
prevent its occurrence, but it was inn
possible. Major Wright leaves for
Washington this evening on official
business, and during his absence his
son, w. II. Wright, of Chicago, will
have charge of the Rosebud agency.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-08-03
4 GREAT CRANBERY PATCH.
Eight Thousand Acres in Pike County
TO BE Reclaimed and Cultivated.


\ correspondent of The Philadel-
as follows: Within the last month a
large tract of upland, forest and
swamp, about 5000 acres, lying in the
towns of Shohola and Blooming Grove
have been sold to H. Herbert Thomp-
son, of New York. by William H.
Kempt Mr. Herbert has made a
thorough examination of the tract,
and will at once begin operations for
its improvement. The land adjoins the
celebrated park of the Blooming
Grove Association on one side and the
Kilgour Blue Stone Company ON the
other. Included in this tact are the
famous Shohola Falls. one of the
most picturesque of Pike County, 5
many fine scenes, and Shohola Greek.
The purchaser intends to drain the
swamp that supplies this creek with
water. The plan proposed is to cut
down the crest of the falls and deepen
the channel above the precipice for
some distance.
Tine wettest portions of the tract
after the drainage is completed will
be used for vast cranberry marsh
The bog and soil are particularly well
fitted for the growing of this berry.
which is already found i'll con
siderable abundance on the land.
Many hundreds of acres. now two wet
for tillage. will be made dry and the
deposits of leaves and sedges for hun
dreds of years have turned into the
richest plant food that can be imagin-
ed. When drained and turned up to
the sun it will make perfect soil for
the growth of onions and potatoes.
the fertility of which will not be ex-
hausted by many successive years of
tillage
The cranberries raised on these
lands viii find a ready sale in Phil
adelphia and New York. Much valu-
able oak and pine timber now out of
reach in the depths of the bogs will be
secured for market. thus insuring the
buyer another and certain soErce OF
revenue. The streams and lakes in
the vicinity are full of fish. and in the
swamps and forests there are plenty
of deer and other game. Philadel-
phia and New York capitalists have
( looked over the higher portions of
Pike County to find suitable locations
+ for accommodation of persons who
are afflicted with hay fever. as large
I portion of Pike County is 100 feet
above the sea level. and the upland
plains are swept by winds laden with
+ the balsam of pine, spruce and hem
+ lock. 1t is an ideal section for per
sons troubled with catarrh or pull
monary complaints.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-08-03

OUR readers may not be- aware how
rapidly Judge Lynch is uSurping the
functions of the regular cNccutioncr
IN this country, Since the first of
last January siXty-livc criminals have
been hanged by due process of law,
while scvcnty-one have been hanged
nr shot without it, In January there
were six, in February fifteen, in March
three, IN April eleven i'll May seven,
in Jun" nineteen, and July ten. The
South furnishes thirty six of these,
and of this number twenty two were
negroes or the thirty five lvnchcd
in the North, sixteen, or almost one
half, came to their end in parts of
Montana, where there is no law ad
ministcrcd
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-08-03
The Canadian Boundary Quarrel.
THE REGATTA.
Minneapolis to Have a sensati

Minneapolis to Have a Sensation.
MINNEAPoLIs, July 81. -Prepara-
tions are complete for rowing regat-
ia at Lake Minnetonka, tomorrow
Six men viii start. Hanlan, Plaisted.
Riley. Hosmer, Lee and Teemer are
expected OF course, Hanlan will
win, and for a second Hosmer and
Teemer are favorites. Gaudauer and
Parker are not allowed to row, owing
to an unfortunate misunderstanding
with Manager Comings. The race
will be rowed In two heats, three men
each, and Thursday the best two in
each heat viii row final decisive heat
The indications are for an immense
crowd. The contestants say Mime
tonka is the finest body of water they
ever practiced on and promise to give
the crowd specimen of their best eff
forts
The Grand Opera house was packed
and jammed tonight to hear Henry
Ward Beecher's lecture ON Uses OF
luxury and beauty" Thelecture was
in Beecher's best vein, and the audi
cnce was highly pleased
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-08-03
The Cattle Trade Threatened.

WASHINGTON, JUL. 31-It has been
reported to the treasury department
that the British parliament is consid
ering measures looking to the inter
diction Of cattle from foreign coun-
tries where the foot and mouth disease
prevails, and that an attempt will
probably be made to have it apply to
importations from the United States.
1t is stated at the treasury depart
ment that such an application would
be entirely unwarranted, as a
thorough investigation Of the subject
just concluded mas shown that the
foot and mouth disease does not pre-
vail among the cattle of this country.
Steps will be taken to bring this fact
to the attention of the British govern
ment to the end that orders in the
council on the subject may not be
made applicable to the importation Of
cattle from this country
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-08-03

| Secretary Lincoln Determined to
/ Stop Hazing at West Point.

Secretary Lincoln Determined to
Stop Hazing at West Point.
WASHINGTON, July 31.-Cadet Har-
tigan, of the first class at West Point,
just dismissed for hazing uew cadet.
was one of the best students in his
class, and the summary action taken
III his case will, it is believed, cause
the cadets to understand that Secretary
Lincoln is III earnest in his determine
ton to stop hazing. The report of
Col Merritt, on which the secretary
acted, sets forth the circumstances of
the case A new cadet was Oh post as
a sentinel at Fort Clinton. About II
o'clock at night a number of masked
cadets and some in white sheets sur
rounded him and continued to annoy
him II various ways. At length he
called the corporal of the guard, and
they dispersed Soon after they re
turned. Cadet Hartigan had on a
sword, and on approaching the post
was challenged. He then personated
the officer of the day. obtained the
countersign, and proceeded to correct
the sentinel in his methods of chal-
lenge. After many petty annoyances
Hartigan ordered the sentinel to face
outward on his post, when accom-
plices of Hartigan seized him from be-
hind, covered his face, and threw him
into the deep ditch around the fort,
bruising him considerably. Hartigan
was recognized by the sentinel. Tive
others were also recognized-namely;
Cadet Clarke of the first class, and
Cadet Williams of the third. The
part they took in the matter, beyond
the fact that they were about the SEN
tinels post at the time, IS not very
clear, and Col Merritt recommended
that their punishment be left TO the
authorities of the academy.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-08-03

SPAIN and Mexico are having seri
ous trouble about an old debt which
the latter owes to citizens Of the for
mer, and Spain has recalled her Min
istcr from Mexico in consequence
Both hatiops are quite poor enough
now without going to war, but, il
blood must run. the best way to settle
the difficulty would be with "A Span
ish buII-fight
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-08-03

If one half Of what we hear about
the fashionable Summer-resorters at
Newport is true, we are justified in
the opinion that Newport swarms with
aristocratic cranks. 'Aw-ris- stock
raw-see' is, next to an idiot asylum,
the lightest and Aightiest Of all Amer
lean institutions
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-08-03
PRESIDENT MAKERS.
Emery A. Storrs Tries his
Luck at Initiating a
Boom.
A Sensible Summing Up OF the
Outlook i'm Ohio.
Other Views of the Buckeye Sit
uation.
EMERY A. SToRRS.

He Believes Arthur and Foster the
Strongest Ticket.
NEW YORK, July 3l.-A dispatch
from Saratoga SEs1Hes says: Su0lling
through the Grand Union hotel YES
tertay your correspondent met Mr..
Emery y. StorrS, of Chicago, and
stopped for brief conversation.
Among other things, in answer to the
query Have You amy knowledge of
conference between the republican
managers looking toward 4 settlement
upon a candidate for the next cam
paignl' he said:
such conference, but | am rather of
the opinion that the ticket Arthur
and Foster has been talked about in
pretty influential quarters, and ii lot
alone and not too ooprominently doomed
Will stand good chance of being
approved at the next national eonven-
ton
LOGAN AND LINCOLN
What do YOU hear about Gen. 10
gan and Robert T. Iincolus"
Il hear nothing about Gen. Logan
as candidate for the presidency here.
| lear very much about it III Illinois.
| hear something about Mr.. Lineom'S
candidacy in Illinois, and something
IN the same line here, but III the East
| think il Is fair To say that neither of
those gentlemen has the strength that
Gen. Arthur clearly has.
CHARLES FOSTER.
What do you consider Fosters
strength rs 4 candidate"
Il think Foster of Ohio would hc
an exceedingly fortunate nomination
with Gen Arthur. The so-called stall
wart portion of the party in Ohio and
elsewhere would vote ticket headed
by Arthur, and Gov. Foster has the
confidence not only of the Garfield
republicans in the state OF Ohio, hut
elsewhere throughout the country.
1t would look like substantial recon
ciliation, and | doubt not would actu-
ally be that. | do not understand
that there has ever been any serious
difference between President Arthur
and Foster Moreover, Foster has Il
strong personal following in Ohio.
The state is not dead, and anyhow an
other nomination would Doubtless
strengthen us very much. However,
il is very early i'll the day to forecast. "
Do YOU think that two men com
ing from the east would satisfy the
weSt2"
Ohio is not in the east :
Ii is SO considered now.
L have always thought that these
geographical questions or considers
tions have been very largely overest
mated, If Gov Foster were nominated
ON the ticket with Gen Arthur he
would be nominated asa western man.
OF course | have not been expressing
my own views here at all further than
would say that such ticket is among
the probabilities and is quietly mueh
talked about.
THE TARIFF
What of the tariff"
Il think the tariff will cut II very
conspicuous figure.
What will the republicans have To-
do with reference To the tariff to
win. I"
The republicans have got to be-,
what they have always practically
been, III favor of the protective sys
tenn. | think that if the democratic
party repeat their platform of 1850 Il
tariff for revenue only--thcy are surr
To be beaten, even with Ben Butler as
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-08-03
CRAVEN CAREY.
Dogged TO South Africa by an Invin-
chile who Avenges the Informer,s
Victims. Shot and Almost Instant
ly Killed as He Was Leavin. the
Steamer at Port Elizabeth.
AN AvENGERS'S DEED.

LONDON, Aug. "A sensation was
produced i'll the House of Commons.
last evening, by an official announce
ment that James Carey, the Irish in
former, had been shot aud killed bv
members of the Order of Avengers
of the Irish Society of Invincibles
From the official information given by
the Government, it appears that the
man who has killed Carey is
named O'Donnell The Govern
ment had often received pri-
vate information concerning mcdi-
tated attacks upon Carey, and had
many suspected Invincibles under
surveillance, but the officers had no
knowledge about any person answer
ing ODOnnell'S description. Carey it
turns out, was bound for Port Eliza
beth, Africa. He had regained a good
deal of his self-possession and spirit,
and was pretty well convinced that
his identity and destination were both
unknown. He was passenger aboard
the MelroSe Castle, owned by Donald
Currie. There is no reason to suppose
that any soul aboard, when the ship
left London
KNEW ANYTHING ABOUT CAREY
The murderer was soon identified as
a stranger who had boarded the Mel
rose Castle at Cape Town, and booked
himself for Natal No one knew his
business, and on board the vessel he
had shown no interest III the man he
killed. He loitered about until Carey
went ashore, and then walked after
him and
SHOT HIM DEAD
on the dock. The prisoner O'Donnell
refused to make any statement In
vestigation here shows that a man
answering O'Donnells description
booked himself from London to
Cape Town aboard the ship
Kinfauns Castle, another vessel
of Donald Currie's line, which left
London several days before the Mel
rose Castle did. The Kinfauns Castle
at Cape Town with the Melrose Castle
for Natal. 1t puzzles the officials how
ODonnell ever learned that Carey
was To leave for Cape Town by the
MelrOse Castle. He seems to have
been SO completely informed and SO
absolutely determined, that he choose
to go ahead and wait at Cape Town,
rather than risk the governments
keen inspection of the persons who
boarded the Melrose Castle at London.
The Canadian Boundary Quarrel.
WINNIPEG, Man, July 30.-The
Manitoba special policeman sent to
Rat Portage have determined to arrest
all the Ontario specials, and serious
fighting is anticipated The Winni-
peg field battery and the Winnipeg
cavalry are ordered to be in readiness
to go to Rat Portage to assist the Man
itoba specials. An Ottawa dispatch
yesterday contains an order for Fort
Osborne Barracks to be got ready for
fifty mounted troopers ordered here
form Regina