Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-03-28
GENERAL NOTES.

SMALL pox has closed the Ashland,
Pa, schools.
DIR. MARY WALKER is writing book
her sex.
A SOLID train, consisting of thirty one
cars loaded with corn, contributed by
farmers of Sedgwick county, Kans., and
business men of Wichita to the sufferers
i'll the Ohio valley, started for Ohio, Fri
day
CHARLES c.. Brown, recently of the
United States Lake Survey, has been ap-
pointed professor of civil engineering in
the Rose Polytechnic Institute at Terre
Haute.
THE Cincinnati Price Current has re-
ports from the winter wheat belt, indi-
eating good average condition in Ohio
and Indiana, fairly good promise in Illi-
nois, with some damage by frost in Mis-
souri,, and by dry, cold winds in Kansas;
but the loss IN any district is not ire
parable.
A. PETERSON, an avowed polygamist,
is on trial at Salt Lake City for register
ing and voting in violation of the Ed
munds law. Seven polygamists are on
the jury, who swore that they believe d
polygamy was revealed, and that they
would obey God rather than the U. S.
congress.
THE meeting at Helena recently, to
prepare articles of incorporation for a
railroad thence to BeRton was largely
name Helena & Benton Railroad" was
selected, the capital stock beiug fixed at
So, 100000, divided into $4,000 shares
with par value OF 500.
AT meeting Sunday in New York,
of the Central Labor union delegates
from the butchers union, it was assert
ed that the shipment of beef from the
west was materially injuring their busi-
ness and driving them out of employ
ment. They say that the beef butcher
ed in the west is chemically prepared
to keep from spelling, and that most of
it is impregnated with ether and is dam
gerous to health. 1t was decided to in
vestigate the matter.
WIN. DUHRING, a prominent oil opera
tor and one of the stockholders of the
Pocahontas coal mine in West Virginia,
in which 153 miners recently lost their
lives in the explosion, has hit upon a
novel plan of extinguishing the fire,
which is still raging His idea is to have
an engineer locate five of the nine cham
bers and then drill wells or holes through
the top of the mountain, an estimated
distance of 500 feet; through the open
ings thus made it is proposed to intro
duCe streams of water until the entire
mine is flooded and the flames are
quenched. \ gang of rig-builders left
for the mine Saturday, who will employ
the oil methods of drilling wells. With
in a week The drills will be in operation,
but it will be fully two months ere the
mine will be flooded. Mr.. Duhring says
the cause of the explosion is still mys-
terry.
A Columbia, S. c., dispatch in regard
to the tornado says: Between 4 and s
O'clock terrific tornado, accompanied
by deafening peals of thundeS, appalling
flashes of lightning, and torrents of rain,
passed over the country two miles
northwest of this city, demolishing sew
eral residences and large number of
barns and outhouseS, uprootiag trees,
and destroying everything in its track,
which, fortunately, did not exceed a
quarter of a mile in width. The storm
extended into tthe adjacent county of
Lexington, where great damage was
also done. The only casualties so far re-
ported occurred when the residence of
G. T. Taylor, five miles from Columbia
was blown down, in which Mr.. Taylor
and his wife ana son were all severly in
jured by falling timbers. Four residences
near Taylor's were also demolished, but
the inmates escaped with slight bruises.
Il is feared that further reports of more
serious damage in remote localities OF
adjacent counties will be heard to-
night