Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-09-19
TELEGRAPHIC.
GENERAL NOTES.

So far this year 2, 2,3S4 miles of new
| railroad have been laid in this country.
| A SEVERE drouth in the South is Sc
riously affecting the cotton crop.
BURGER, HURLBUT & LIVINGSTON,
an extensive sugar-refining firm of New
! York City, have failed.
| A PHILADELPHIA judge ruled Thursday
that the occupant of a house may cut
telegraph or telephone wires if stretched
over his roof without his permission.
SERIOUS damage has been done the
past few nights in Nova Scotia by frosts.
| Uncnmfortably cool Gather was report
ed throughout the east generally Sunday
night.
JOHN C. S. HARRISON, the insolvent
Indianapolis banker, paid ito court
Saturday his entire 8alance of 800, ,44S,
as receiver OF the Banking Company,
and was released from further liability.
VICTORIA MoROSINI, who cloped with
her fathers coachman, Ernest j. Schill-
ing, voluntarily returned To her paremtal
mansion ut Workers, with her husband,
Sunday morning.
TIE Internati sIal surveying party
north of the old line. This decision
throws portion of the town of Nogalei 4.
A. T on Mexican soil, which occasions
much excitement and CONSERVATION
among the Americans.
AT Wheeling, w. Va, Saturday night
Belmont Lodge of Iron Workers resulv-
ed t. sever their connection with the
Anna lgamated Association because of
k,. ,c Ia,
advance in wages.
S. ID. SLoNER and Mrs. w. J. Scott
were married Wednesday night at Burn
side, Ill and after the wedding diuner
seventeen of the guests were taken
seriously i'll, three uf whom are not yet
out of danger. What causef the pois-
oning can not be determined.
A HEAVY thunderstorm did damage
Thursday afternoon in Massachusetts,
to wns, particularly at Madden, where a
number of trees were prostrated and
windows blown in. Lightning struck
in many places, damaging houses and
shocking the inmates,
THE democrats of the Third Pennsyl-
vania District have nominated Samuel
J. Randall for reelection TO congre IS,
and the republicans of the Fifth New
Jersey District have likewise renomina-
ted William Walter Phelps.
THE Baltimore association of "Old
Defenders" who took part In the battle
of North Point in 1912, has disbanded,
rs the constitutional requirement that it
be continued as long as five members
are left to carry on the organization can
not be fulfilled because of the death of
the veterans.
The Edgar Thompson Steel Company
ct Pnt.burg Thursday notified the EN-
ployes that unless they accepted Ie-
ducton in wages the mills would be
clOsed. There is great distress in Pitts
burg because of the number of factories
and mills now idle, and the appropria-
ton for out-d door relief is already ex-
hausted, with six months yet to run.
THE proposition of the Chicago Live
Stock Exchange to practically demon
strate whether Lleuro-pneumonia is con-
tagious or not, by suppl ying ten head
of healthy cattle and guaranteeing the
expense of exposing them to the con
tagIon said to exist among certain
Illinois herds, was heartily endorst d,
Weduc day, by the Omaho Live Stock
EXChan.t.
SOME excitement was created among
the sC'el lists in session 1T Phtladel-
phia Wednesday by Nc. whitehouse, of
New York, desiring to deliver a lecture
on the Egyptian Pyramids under the
auspices of the association. White
house created a disturbance by speaking
against the wishes of the gathering, and
a motion which he made was promptly
negatlved.
GOVERNOR HAMILTON very properly
declines TO interfere with the sentence
of the court in the case of the murderer
jacobson, who killed his employer on
the street some two or three weeks ago
because the latter refused to pay him a
dollar that he claimed was due him.
jacobson will accordingly be hanged in
the Jail In this city next Friday.
THE San Pablo arrived with Hong
Kong dates of August IA aud Yokohama
August 30. Information has reached
Canton of a frightful inuudation in the
kiang Sal province. The news is dated
from King TAX, chief of the center of
the pottery manufacture, and one Of the
four great markets of the empire. the
floods la: ted four days. The entire
country is submerged 10 the depth of
sixty fe t. 1t Is believed fully 10000
persons prrished. 1t is feared pestilence
would follow.
Hon. HENRY b. ANTHONY, the veteran
United States Senator of Rhode Island
ana editor of the Providence Daily
journal, died at his home in Provi-
dcuCe. Mr.. Anthony was Native of that
state, and was in the 10Th year of his
age He WAS Governor of that state in
lS49 and 1850. and was elected United
States Senator IL 1859, and
was four times reelected.
He was the senior member of the SEN
ate, and was three times chosen as its
President pro tenn. HIS present term
would ha e expired in 1889.
THE Western Unioa Telegraph CoEa-
panN's quarterly statement shows net
revenues for the quarter ending June
30 of 81 651 ,379 Amount of last div
idend paid, 81, 399 500; surplus July l,
after paying current debts and interest
81 l51, ,46S The usual dividend of II
per cent. was declared payable on the
18th OF October next. The books will
| close Sept. 20 and reopen Oct. 9.
George |. Gouli was elected Vice Presi-
dent of the company, in place of Au-
gustus Schell. deceased. Sam Sloan
was elected member of the Executive
Committee. in place of Mr.. Schell