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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-10-19
FOREIGN.

A LONDON dispatch states that nego-
tiations between France and Chiaa are
virtually suspended.
WALTERS, the broker for Warden, the
London & River Plata bank defaulter,
has failed for 100000
The great Northern Telegraph COM
pany has taken contract to lay cable
from Japan to Corea,
Two daughters of the millad0 of Japan
died within forty-eight hours of each
other. OF ten children only one sur
wives.
A FEW gentlemen have contributed
sc, 0O0 to pay the preliminary expenses
of Il six months mission of Moody and
Sanlley at lslington
FATHER SMELDER has been sent from
da, to adjust the QnGbec university diff
Guilty
DELLA II. n. Brown, of Rome, sends
out an appeal to the people of the Uni
ted States for penny contributions in
aid of the sufferers by the earthquake at
lsChia.
"PLUNGER" WALTON charged his
trainer with poisoning Girotie before the
recent race for the CcsarewitCh stakes,
but a veterinary surgeon testified that
nothing was wrong with her.
SWISS officers who were sent out to in
vGstlGatc the matter, report that the
French have erected several military
posts in the neutralized portion of Sa-
voy, and n spirited protest will made.
HENRY NJ. STANLEY says the inhabi-
tants of the CoAgo basin of Africa are
born traders, and that French mission
aries follow them up closely.
AT meeting of the Spanish cabinet,
the foreign minister threatened to resign
unless France gave the apology desired
for the insults offered to King Alfonso.
SOLICITOR GUY. of London, reports the
receipt of t300, for the defense fO'Don-
nell, the murderer of James Carey, and
the entire amount has been expended in
bringing witnesses from the Cape of
Good Hope. O'Donncll complains of
the severity of the prison rules.
The treasurer of the Irish National
league at Dublis has returned to the
donors at San Francisco, a draft sent for
the benefit of the families of the Phoenix
park murdercrs. on the ground that the
league would be placed i'll the attitude
of encouraging assassination should 1t
disribu te the money.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-10-19
The Chicago Races.

CHICAGO, Oct. 16.-Sixth day of the
Chicago driving park fall trotting-
third pacing meeting. Weather cold
and bright, and the track hard. TIE
unfinished 2:26 class, postponed from
yesterday, when three exciting and
closely contested heats took place,
Prince winning the first and Index
second and third; to-day Index won
the final heat and race. Kitty Van
fell within two lengths of the
finish with blood streaming from
her nostrils, having choked down
and ruptured a blood vessel. Her
driver, Ray Warner, was thrown
heavily to the track, striking on his
head. He MAS carried insensible into
the club house.
In the unfinished 2:23 pacing race,
Broheat polled, yesterday; Jordan,
taking first; Billy NJ, third. To-day,
Billy NJ, won the fourth heat in 2:24f.
In the next heat there was
every appearance of foul play.
His driver pulled him and
Jordan beat him out in 2:30.
This. with the fact that the reg
ular pool betters made Jordan the ia
vorite at 100 to so before the heat, in
spite of Billy NJ. having won the heat
before in the best time of the race, led
the judges to declare it no heat, and
John Campbell was put up to drive
Billy NJ the next heat. To put 1t IN
the mildest form, it mist be said that
he drove very clumsily, for, after Jor-
dan broke at the turn and fell several
lengths to the rear, Campbell allowed
his competitor to come TO even terms
with him on the far side of the track,
supplemented by letting his horse go
to pieces in a tangled break on the
stretch and was beaten by Jordan IN
2.S0. The judges, however, awarded
the race to Jordan and announced
that they would investigate the mat
ter after the days racing was over.
Free for all pacing was won by
Richball with ease in straight heats.
In class 29, the trotting was won by
Monroe Chief.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-10-19
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

JAMES NEWELL. of st. Johns. Ninn..
was killed by runaway team on Thurs
day.
A TRAIN of nine ears on the Louisville,
New Albany and Chicago road ran into
the draw of the Calumet bridge, Tues
dav. but no one was injured.
BY the collapse of a granary floor on n
farm near Moorhead, Mimi, eight men
were buried alive III oats, and four of
them were sutfocated.
JoHN Il. NIXON. once a leading hat
ter in New York, dropped dead of heart
disease in mine near Tombstone, Ari-
zona.
4 4 FRIEND who called npon Miss JeG-
ME Noon, At Scranton. Penn, last week.
stated that she had been reported dead.
Miss Noon fell to the floor and remained
unconscious until Thursday, when she
died from the shock.
THE aged wife of Robert Capples, of
Tecumseh. Mich. died some years since
from an overdose of strychnine. He
never recovered his peace of mind, but
went to her grave Wednesday and ended
his career with razor.
THE failures are recorded of W. II.
York; Deuison 4 Crane. private bankers
at New Hamburg, Ontario, and Edward
Deslauries. a clothing-dealer at Kanka-
kee. Illinois. Business has been resum-
ed by George William Ballou & Co.,
stock brokers in New York.
FIRE at Granville, Iowa, at o'clock
Sunday morning, destroyed the build
ings occupied by w. A. Prince 6 Co.,
as a general store. and c. l.. Messick,
drugs. Loss, $1,000; partially insured
in the Firemau's, of Philadelphia, and
Oskaloosa. of Iowa. The fire originated
in the drug store from some unknown
cause.
WHILE the 1880 up train on the CHI
csgo, Milwaukee 4 ST Paul road, iSnowu
rs the Flying Dutchman. was entering
Dubuque Monday, it ran into team be
longing to j. Randall, that was being
driven across the track, and disabled so
they had to be killed. The d river W as
thrown violently from the wagon. sus-
tanning serious but not fatal in iuries A
coal shed near the track hid the train
from the driver. and he claims that no
warning was given by the engineer.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-10-19
New Weather Signal.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 16.-Alva II.
Doan, clerk in the pension office has
invented a method of displaying
weather signals III the country for the
benefit of farmers. which may be
adopted by the signal service bureau.
1t provides for a system of signal flags
to be known as farmers signals. Flags
which are to be displayed from the
sides of tie United States mail cars,
which pass rapidly and continuously
over the country on the
great net work tracks Flags will
signal information as follows
white meaning clear Weather, a blue
flag fair weather, a red flag doubtful
weather, and black flag stormy
weather. The signals can be ordered
up from Washington by telegraph.
The cost of the entire system, it is
said. will be insignificant.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-10-19
Three Mysterious Wells.

About eight miles from Kingston,
Ont, and 400 yards from the river st.
Lawrence, rises lofty granite ridge,
on which are three wells carved out
of the solid rock, which have defied
the queries of the Oldest inhabitants
as to their intended use. These cyl
inders, only four feet deep and a foot
or more in diameter, were hewn out
of rocks which the keenest tempered
tools of modern times would scarcely
clip, and from top to bottom they are
as smooth as the finest polished Scotch
granite. They always contain CO.
pious supply of pure water, which
must be supplied by rains. as no sur
face water can penetrate them. The
popular idea is that therein former
savages pounded their corn, but the
diameter of the holes and their dis
proportionate depth renders that i'm
probable.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-10-19
The Merrill Failure.

MERRILL, Wis, Oct. 16-The News
has made an investigation as far pos
sible into the failure of the Merrill
Manufacturing company, and says
the general feeling is very bitter to-
ward Col. G.. K. Pier, the senior mem
Der and business manager of the
company's affairs. John r. Phelps,
who has claim of upwards of S15,-
900 against the company, is very bit
ter in his denunciation. He says that
in the spring of 1882 he
SOLD THE COMPANY LOGS
amounting to 100000, only IS, 900 of
which has been paid Phelps, in the
presence of G. w. Mihill and Colonel
Colman, the other members of the
company, proposed to Pier, that the
latter should turn over certain piles
of lumber in the yard as security for
the debt. Pier refused, stating that
the creditors should share alike He
then took Phelps through the yard,
and pointed out or the best piles in a
place where it would be likely to es-
cape detection, the word Sold, "
written in red paint. Mihill admits
that he assisted Pier in the marking,
but declares that he thought that they
MIGHT ESCAPE THE ATTENTION
of creditors and thus avoid alarm,
and the subsequent issuance of attach
ments never entered his mind He,
however, does not know his partners
object III the matter. Had Phelps
noticed the marks before, he says he
would have suspicioned fraud and
taken out an attachment; that other
local creditors would have followed
his example, and secured themselves
before outside creditors became aware
of the companv's condition.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-10-19
LATEST TELEGRAMS.
SHiNGTON.

SECRETARY FOLGER intimates that he
will soon issue call for 3 per cent.
bonds.
THE president and all the members
the cabinet are at present sojourning in
Washington.
SENATOR EDMUNDs states that imme-
diately upon the organization of the
senate he shall resign the position of
president pro tenn.
SECRETARY FoLGER has decided to ac-
cept 81, ,2j0 from A. G. Hesing, of Chi
cago, as a compromise on judgment
or.$80,0
THE commissioner of patents has de-
Cided that Edison was a year behind
Sawyer & Mann in bringing out the in
candescent conductor for the electric
lamp.
SECRETARY FoLGER, in letter to
George Sturgcs, of Chicago, gives a at
great length his reasons for declining to
issue distinctive series of gold certifi-
Gates for the commercial emporium of
the west.
APPEALS in addition to that filed by
A. G. Bell, have been filed in the patent
Office by other parties in interest against
the decision of the examiner of interfer-
ances in the celebrated telephone case.
SECRETARY FRELINGHUYsEN has adj
vices that quiet prevails at Canton, and
that Counsel Seymour is alive and well.
A cablegram from London says that the
story of the assassination originated in
a reading room in town in the north
of England,
SECRETARY FOLGER has received infor-
nation from Port Townsend, Washing
ton territory, of the capture of eleven
Cinnamon who, in violation of law, land
ed on the coast near that port. The
United States officers at that port are di-
rected to return the Cinnamon to the
place from whence they came.
Capt John Pressed has been ordered to
the command of the navy yard at Mare
Island, Cal, Nov. /, by which time he
will have been promoted to the grade of
commander. Commander Frederick V.
McNair, now member of the naval eX
amining board, has also been ordered to
Mare Island navy yard, as captain of the
yard.
ALI. of the cabinet are looking well
except Gresham, who is sallow and pale
from chilIs, and is just out from several
days confinement to his rooms. Lincoln
is brown and fat. Chandler has the real
brown Of jolly tar. Teller always
looks dry and hard as n stick of we'll
seasoned timber. Folger, who was the
inv lid of the cabinet six months ago,
appears to have fully recovered his
health. Hiseyes are clear and his color
solid and good.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-10-19
Chicago Market.

CHICAGO Oct 16.-Flour- Quiet and unchanged;
regular. Wheat-In good demand; closed strong,
higher, 91A for seller October; 1914 for seller
November; 951sG9514 for seller December; 95ls
for seller January; 03A for seller May; No.
2, Chicago spring 91s4@99; No 3, Chicago
spring, s10s2; No. red winter, 100 Corn
Steady with fair demand, 4734 for seller cash;
4724ea4738 for seller October or November 461I
for seller December; 46J4 for seller the year;
451% for seller January; 4s1a04S7s for seller
May. Oats-Quie,, steady, 27zs@2s for ssller
cash 2s for seller October; 2s1602s5s for seller
November; 2s34 for sSller December; y for tell
er the year 80 for seller May. Rye-Dull, 50
Barley-Firmer; GIG Flax seed-l.33. Pork
Demand stronger, 1o1oQ1o25 for seller cash;
f0221691025 for seller october and November;
102O0 10. .2215 for seller December; ioi5010 .i711
for seller the year; 1072l761O.75 for for seller
january; 10. s541o s716 for seller February.
Lard-Steady with fair demand, 7.42IzG7.i5 for
seller cash or October ,221407.25 for seller No
vember aud December; 11507.I71z for seller the
year; 7.271S1T.30 for seller January; 7.35Gz371l
for seller February. Bulk Meats Demand fair
shoulders, 40; short ribs 655 short clear, e.7j.
Butter Quiet and unchanged Eggs-Good de
rnand 2l022 Whiskey-Steady and unchanged
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-10-19
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
The Effect Of the Ohio Elec-
ton upon the Admls-
tratiOn.
4 Thirsty Senate---Ben. Butler
and Senator EdmundS.
The Hippodroming Office Holders
The Virginia Senator's.
Miscellaneous Washington ,ews.
THE OHIO ELECTION.
A Blow to the Administration.

~ Do" TO Ifl9 AOTllIllStFdllOns
WASHINGTON, Oct. 16.-At the
white house and in the departments
the Ohio election is producing a deep
impression. Gen Arthur was conf
IDENTIFY looking for success. He relied
on Ohio to denote the return of the
tidal wave of last year, and give him
a start on the presidential track. The
disappointment is genuine. Appre-
hension has been awakened about the
elections to follow. The departments
are gloomy over the result. Nowhere
else is the significance of an election
more sagaciously interpreted. A
variety of reasons for the defeat are
given, but one, which for obvious
reasons is not much spoken aloud, is
forced on the minds of employees of
every grade. 1t S the disapprobation
felt for the administration in the re
publican ranks.
The cold blast in Ohio has come
from the rural districts, the republi-
can strongholds, where bosses do not
rule, and where action is intelligent
and independent. \ prominent Ohio
republican in tie government ex-
planned that, whereas heretofore u
full vote was a republican victory,
this time it was a democratic victory.
There has been q change among the
voters," he said 1T is where out
side questions are least exciting that
we suffered most n Ohio 1t was not
the temperance question in the cities,
but dissatisfaction with the party and
the administration. in the country dis
trict, that has defeated us. The re-
turns show it." The idea in the de
partments is that the state is lost, and
will 60 democratic at the presidential
election.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-10-19
Stocks

NEW YORK, Oct. 16.-The bears re-
newed their attacks this morning,
Northern Pacific dropping II per cent
to 254; preferred 53f to 5S4; and Ore
gon 2 to I; Oregon Transportation be-
came steady and large blocks were
sold at 42@nt@42t. Other active
stocks firm, and after slight decline
advanced to per cent.
WALL STTEET, IL a. m.-Whea
Market variable and unsettled; pric es
however, show no radical change !;
trading very quiet. Stock market
strong; subsequently sharp drop
was made on the market in Oregon
TRANSPORTATION Continental declined
to Sc. and the whole list weakened
Vanderbilt's shares were better sup
ported. At one time, there was 4 diff
ference of II per cent. cash North
ern Pacific preferred lent as high as
81 per cent. per diem. Threes, 100
bid; 4ls, 114E; IS 1914; Pacific 6s, s5;
129 bid.
Money easy at2@24 per cent. prime
mercantile paper 6@7; foreign ex-
change dull and weak; bar silver,
11e5: governments strong and higher
state bonds dull; railroads weaker
after IL.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-10-19
Death as His Bride.

UPPER SANDTsKY, O., Oct. 1G.-A
startling sensation was created here
tonight by the deliberate suicide of
Fowler Berry, senior partner in the
dry goods firm of S. +. Berry q Co.
It is impossible TO get the full particu-
lars owing to the intense excitement,
but as near as we can learn they are
as follows: He dressed himself this af-
ternoon in his wedding suit prepara
tory to starting tonight for Cincin-
natl, where it is said arrangements
were being made for his marriage to
an estimable young lady of that city,
on Wednesday. About & o'clock he
walked into his store, and after all
were gone to supper, bolted the front
door, went to the carpet-room upstairs,
and, laying his head upon small roll
of carpet, drew his revolver, which is
a 32-caliber, and, placing it immedi-
ately behind his right ear,
SENT A BALL THROUGH HIS HEAD.
When his brother Foster returned
from supper he was astonished at find
ing the door fastened on the inside.
Upon the arrival of one of the clerks
a WlDuOW g1doS " dS DIOhCl IlAC ISSl
part of the store, and going upstairs
the terrible discovery was made. 1t
is believed death was instantaneous as
he still held the instrument of death
in his hand. The ball passed clear
through his head, and lodged in the
carpet underneath. a note addressed
to his brother was found at the head
of the stairs, which stated that he de
ceased was washed, dressed, shaved,
and all ready to be placed in the coffin.
He had even taken the precaution to
button his overcoat close around his
throat and tied handkerchief around
his head to prevent the blood from
soiling his clothing. When the news
was carried to the home of his parents,
who were still sitting at the tea table,
the scene was heart-rendlng and can
be better imagined than told. The
cause of his rash act is unknown. He
was a young man of fine business
qualifications and irreproachable char
acter. and this sudden freak of his has
cast gloom over this entire city.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-10-19
Effect of the Telephone on Hearing
and Attention.

= 1t has been assumed by some that
the effect of constant use of the tele-
phone is injurious to the ear. The
Springfield Republican finds just the
opposite to be the case with operators
and others there. One of the young
girls in the central office there says
her hearing is constantly improving.
When she began this work she blum
dered sadly; now the ear is drilled to
catch the faintest sound. and her sense
of hearing is remarkably acute. 1t
must be noticed that the regularity of
this schooling of the ear is largely re-
sponSible for the good results. If an
operator We're to take a switch board
only one day in the week and do all
the work required on that day, the
practice would doubtless be detrimen-
tai, because it would be exhaustive to
both the muscular and nervous make
up of the ear. The systematic use of
the telephone seems to develop the
hearing above its normal acuteness,
but does not make it technically alb
normal. One benefit from using the
telephone is evident to both sub
scribers and central Office operators,
that of cultivating the attention,
process which is reckoned as the third
or intellectual method of developing
the sense of hearing. A good snare
of the difficulty which people find in
working telephone comes not from
any defect in the machine, nor from
deficient hearing, but from inability
to fix the attention on what is heard.
This trouble readily disappears by
practice in listening closely to what is
said over the wire. Indeed the atten-
ton may be trained to an abnormal
development, as in the case of the
head operator at the central Office,
who has been in the telephone bust
ness for four years; she has so accus-
toned herself to fix her attention on
the machine before her and to abstract
her attention from her surroundings,
that when she is in her home she
often fails to hear when she is adj
dressed by members of the family.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-10-19
Milwaukee Market,

MILWAUKEE, Oct 16.-Flour-In light demand.
wheat-Q Quiet and steady, 91ss: 1885 for seller DC.
tober; 9i34 for seller November; 959s for seller
December. Corn-Quiet, a shade lower; No. ?
49, Oats-Scarce and wanted; No q 30. Rye
Nominal No. l. 30; No. 2, .3. Barley Stronger,
No 2, 62; extra No. 3, 52l4, Provsions-Duil;
mess pork 1925 for seller cash; 10 IS for seller
January Lard-Prime steam, 7l5 for seller
cash; Z 30 for seller January. Live hegs-Steadyi
42014 CO. Butter-Quiet, Cheese Unchanged
Eggs-In fair demand. Recepts-Flour, $1,000
wheat, $4,000; barley, 5000. Shipments - Flour
23O0J; wheat, 1900; barley, e5,0O0
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-10-19

A MEETING was held few days ago
in Madrid to consider the best way of
celebrating the anniversary Of the dis
covery of America. The debate was
very lively, the proprietor of La
Epoca explained plan which he had
formed, laudable in theory, but diff.
ticult to act on. He proposes to in
vite to the festivity all the editors of
the Madrid papers, the heads ofparties,
the ex-ministers of colonies and navy.
and those who have represented Spain
IN America, the chief ex-captains gem
eral of Cuba and Porto Rico, the
chief bishop of the Indies, and all
those who represent in consular and
diplomatic capacity those beautiful
countrieH which, together with Spain,
cont - seventy million of Spaniards,
the deputies and senators of the
Antilles, the American congress,
and all noble descendants of the
viceroys.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-10-19

THE building of II new city hall in
Richmond may destroy what was the
house of Edmund Randolph, who was
governor of Virginia and member
of Washington's cabinet. 1t was in
this house that Elizabeth Patterson
received u letter from her home at
Baltimore, telling her of the arrival
of Prince jerome Bonapartc She ut
once resolved To capture him, and on
the same evening took stage for
home. She did become his wife, and,
but for the interdict of Emperor
Napoleon, would have been queen of
WCStphalia.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-10-19
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The Romance of Il Hat Band.


Another young woman employed
in a hat factory has made a match by
writing her name on the band of the
hat. She was Miss Ada S. Beach. of
Bethel, and is now Mrs. Henry G.
Seglr, of New Orleans. Mr.. Segur
discovered the name in the orthodox
way, a year after it was written, and
opened a correspondence Miss Beach
received the letter and replied. Last
January he came to Bethel, met Miss
Beach, and an engagement followed.
They will make an extended wedding
tour before gong to New Orleans. 1t
is said that all the girls in the Bethel
and Danbury hat factories now en-
ploy a good part of their time in writ
ing their names on hat bands after the
example of Miss Beach.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-10-19

VICTORIA FAIR of ~ New York
museum, has four legs and four arms.
The additional arms are each about
six inches long, with an imperfcctly
formed hand at the extremity, and
they arc attached to the abdomen. In
front of the normal legs are two inn
perfect legs, which fold across the
body. Her mother and father are full
blooded South Carolina negroes. The
babe is said to be about / / months old,
out looks older.