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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-02-01
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IA SHtEGTON.

THE house committee on pOstotfices
and post roads have agreed to report IA
vorably a bill fixing the rate of postage
at cent per three ounces on newspapers
and periodicals sent by Others than the
publishers or news agents.
THE senate committee on public lands
recommended the repeal of the timber
culture act. Senator Ingalls, bill to pro-
mote the efficiency of the general land
office was ordered reported favorably.
In the contested case of Garrison VS..
Mayo the house committee on elections
decided to report that Mayo shall retain
his seat on prIma facie right until tried
upon its merits.
IT was reported about town Tuesday
that ex Governor Fletcher, of Montana,
was to receive the appointment to the
vacancy caused by the resignation of
John G. New.
IT is understood that the Office of AS
sistant Surgeon General of the Army
will be abolished. The Secretary of War,
in speaking of the subject, stated that
while he did not know of proposed
bill to that effect, still such movement
would meet with his entire approba-
ton.
REPRESENTATIVE HARDEMAN reported
fayorably from the subcommittee of
the house 10 the committee on terrltor-
les bill providing that no territory be
admitted to the Union as state unless
it has permanent population equal to
that required by congressional districts.
The subject was considered by the full
committee without action.
SENATOR GARLAND has reported fa-
vorably from the committee on judiciary
his bill to provide that hereafter ma
jority of Justices of the supreme court
of the United States shall constitute a
quorum thereof. No member of the
court shall sit at hearing or partici-
pate at decision on any cause in the
decision of which he acted in a court
below.
TIE senate has confirmed the following
nominations by the president:
Receivers of public moneys-Michael
III. Fitch, Pueblo, Col; Warren G. Will
Its, Denver; Paul G. Stettin, Crookston,
Mimi. s-general-Norman Ill.
MeIdrum. Col; Martin l.. Chandler,
Mimi. United States Marshals-David
B. Russell, Eastern district of Kansas;
JOS. III. McGee, Western district of Mis-
souri,. Registers of land ottices-James
II. Chase, Ironton, Mo-; Richard Har-
vey, Central City, Col; Adam E. Bloom,
Detroit. John Q. Tufts, Indian agent,
Union agency, Indian territory. Chas.
Lyman, chief examiner of the Civil-ser
vice committee. Postmasters-Car
Nelson, Cassopolis, Mich; Farley Crow,
Crow, Mich; James Blackmore, Leslie,
Mich; w. f. Hunter, Elgin, ILL.,; Solo
mon Ii. Keeler, Medford, Wis; VIM. p.
Forsyth, Jefferson, Wis.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-02-01
GENERAL NOTES.

DIPHTHERIA is epidemic at Paspebiac,
near Quebec.
VICTORIA, B. c., savings banks have
So, 100000 deposits
SOUTHERN Indiana reports winter
wheat in fine condition.
BALD mountain, N. c., is shaking and
rumbling frequently nowadays.
BLACK diphtheria has caused three
deaths at Stonewall, Manitoba.
SAN FRANCISCO is to have special sig
nal Office for the Pacific coast.
CANADIAN vessel captains are organ
izing a society all along the lakes.
LONDON had 1873, 656 births, 80. 579
deaths and 81, marriages in 1888.
A LARGE party of Chicago and De
troit capitalists are looking over the va
zoo, Miss, lumber delta to buy timber
lands.
LEADING Georgians say Gen. Long
streets removal from the United States
marshalship has been decided on.
AT meeting of the Louisville eXposi-
ton directory, $50, 900 subscriptions
were reported received. Col. b. II.
Young was elected president.
IT is reported that Miss Booth, Marshal
of the Salvation army, is about to marry
a wealthy American now in Paris com
pleting his law studies.
\ COMELY woman with plenty of
money is in West Bend, Wis, claiming
she owns the town. Her costume is
nightgown and fur cape. She is thought
to be from Milwaukee.
THE iron manufacturers of Portland,
Oregon, have been given notice of a re-
duction of 12t per cent. in wages. 1t is
believed that the majority will accept
1t affects 420 men.
| THE wife of DIR. f. r. Thompson,
aged twenty-nine, beautiful and intelli-
gent, but victim of the morphine habit
was found dead in her led in New
Haven, Thursday.
| A CoURT-MARTIAL has been ordered
to meet at San Antonio, Feb 4th for the
trial of Capt A. S. B. Keyes, of the
Tenth cavalry, charged with duplica-
tlons of his pay account.
EDWARD ROBERTS. of CINCINNATI, has
brought suit against Drs. William Ayers
and Sattler, occulists, for $50, 900 for the
loss of his eyesight while under their
treatment.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-02-01
Indiana Indications,

INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. %, The repub
lican state convention meets June
10Th. The peculiar feature of Indiana
politics is that each party is now with
out boss. There is a remarkable
apathy among candidates. The gov
ernorship goes begging, SO far as
prominent republicans are concerned.
Some time ago Major Calkins wanted
to be a candidate His desire is now
torpid. Gresham don't want il. Col.
Dudley absolutely refuses Dick
Thompson declines to be announced
as candidate. Ex-Lieut Gov Cam
back would be good timber, but he
has gone over to the prohibItiouists.
The office is not sought by a single
man of prominence in the republican
party. Those who want 1t the people
don't want; and those the people
want are too wise and too shrewd 10
pilot the doomed vessel. The under
tone talk of republicans here is con
cession that the state cannot be car
ried this wear.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-02-01
CauScS of NcrVouSneSs.

The maladeS which above all others cause ncr-
vousEeSS are dyspepsia, biliousness and constlpa-
ton The great Sympathetic nerve which con
meets the epigaStric region with the brain. is al
ways njuriuuSly affected if the stomach and bow
els are disordered; a permanent arrangement of
the functions of those organs reacts by sympathy
upon the entire nerSoIs system. HoStetter :
Stomach Bitlers, in restoring tone and regularity
to the digestive apparatus, and overcoming con-
ST patton, permanently remedy the nervous COM
plants which originate in alimentary weakness
ar disturbances. They are the very best ners inc
that can be used. BY eradicatiDg the exciting
Causes of nervous weakness, they permanently
overcome the disability itself, But this Is not all
BY checking the malsdes which cause nervous
ness they build up anew the system weakened
and depleted by nervous disease.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-02-01
CRIME.

DANIEL DONOVAN has been arrested
near Baltimore, and Identified as the
person who beat Joseph RyHar to death
with billiard cue in a New York saloon.
HERMISA SCHLoPP suicided in Buff
falo, New York, by taking rat poison,
because his love for young lady was
not reciprocated.
KATE GILLEAs, indicted for child
murder, pleaded guilty in court at Du-
buque. Her sentence has net yet been
pronounced.
WILLIAM WooDMAN, under Indictment
at st. Louis for passing gilded nickels
for $5 pieces surrendered himself in
New York Saturday. and was sent to st.
Louis.
FREDERICK SILGAR was found guilty
at Murphresboro. ILL.,, OF murder in the
first degree. This was his second trial
The first time he was found guilty, but
on appeal the verdict was reverse J. Sill
gar brutally murdered a MN with a
club.
WEEKS, who last fall shot his daught-
er at the Hotel Artesian, Aberdeen, ID.
T., was released on his recognizance
Wadsworth, the embezZling Northwest
ern railroad agent at Aberdeen failed
to appear owing to a blockade and his
case was postponed.
A COWBOY named Love, badly worst
ed in q rough and tumble fight with the
proprietor of a saloon at Big Stone, Tex,
went outside and commenced shooting
promiscously with pistol at'the saloon.
Charles Little, standing near the door,
was fatally wounded in the stomach.
The sheriff was present, but the MUIR
derer escaped.
JACOB SHAFFNER of New York, while
on his way to Las Vegas, N. Mex, to
visit his brother George, on learning of
the latter's death became insane and
jumped from the train at Springer Sta
ton, n. Mex. He was found frozen by
parties from Las Wages.
THE sheriff arrested and placed in jail
at Youngstown, Ohio, William Cluse,
charged with setting fire to Noah Bios
ser's barn in Beaver township. Thomas
Kelley, a reliable citizee, says he saw
Cluse fire the barn Cluse is one of the
rioters whom Blosser recently testified
against in court. The citizens were re-
strained with difficulty by the sheriff
from hanging Cluse
l.. REEVES and L. c. Turner repre-
senting themselves as travelling doctors,
who have been IN Omaha ten days, were
arrested there on complaint of Sheriff
w. d. Cannon of Memphis, Tenn, for
obtaining money under false pretenses
from numerous parties in and around
Memphis, where they will be taken for
trial. They have been operating all
through the south, and are bold pair.
ABBE 7. j. HILLIARD. a Catholic mis-
sionary from the diocese OF Marquette,
was found in an alley last Sunday night,
in one of the hard districts in the South
division of the city of Chicago, in the
grasp of a robber. He had large sum
of money on his person. The able was
placed in cell for safe keeping, the
police stating that he was heavily under
the influence of liquor. The abbe was
arrested under almost similar circum
stances a month ago.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-02-01
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

AN engineer was burned to death in a
fire at Head House No. ,, Pittston, Pa.
WITHIN three weeks, Mr.. Kearney, of
Superior City, lost his wife and three
children by diphtheria.
A FREIGHT train was wrecked in
Kings tunnel, on the Cincinnati South
ern road. No lives were lost, so far as
known.
NATHAN d. MoREY and Lodewick E.
Green were sutfocated at Saratoga, New
York, Saturday, by the fumes of gaso-
line.
A MAN whose name was not learned,
was killed by falling embankment on
the Northern Pacific grade. near Supe-
rior Saturday.
A FIRE DESTROYED six tenement houses
on the levee at Cairo. Ill, Tuesday. Loss
about 81. .000 Rose Smith, an aged ne
gress, was burned to death.
JOHN MURRAY, aged Il, while his faith
er's residence in New Orleans, was on
fire, Tuesday, took his little brothers and
sister out, returned for clothing, and
was burned to Death.
REV. BARTON LOWE, an aged Metho-
dist minister of Winchester, Ohio, at
empted to cross room, fell into fire
and burned his head and face until he
cannot survive.
WHILE a safe was being hoisted into
the second story of building at Canton,
Ohio, the chains broke and the safe fell,
crushing Renhold Rochers and William
Miller, fatally ipjuring both.
AT Birdsborough, Pa, Tuesday, lo'
of giant powder cartridges. placed IL
the Philadelphia & Reading signal tower
to thaw, exploded, wrecking the tower
killing James Kenncy and seriously In
iuring Benjamin Trout.
A BOILER exploded at the Walker 8
st. Louis Ice company's warehouses;
at Deeue. ILL.,, killing Charles Lyon anc
badly injuring Patrick Kearney, labor
ers, and the engineer. The boiler hal
long been considered unsafe.
DELLA PePE, colored woman VIII,
was subject to epileptic fits, while alon'
in her house in st. Louis, fell into tn
fire. Before she was discovered she ha.
] nurned to death. her face and the uppe
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-02-01
GOVERNOR GRANT.

The Brilliant Young Executive of
the Centennial State Ruthlessiy
Explodes a Pet ProtectIonist The
ory.
CHICAGO, Jan. 29.-''Times are
little dull in Colorado" said Gov. j.
B. Grant, of that state, yesterday at
the Palmer. II will take the lead in
terest, In which am largely interest
ed. as an illustration. Last year we
shipped 10000 tons of that metal from
Colorado. The price has fallen off
greatly, probably due to an overpro-
duction. Were it not for the 40 per
cent. duty Spanish lead would under
sell the market. 1t can row be land
ed in New York for from 81. 60 to 81. 20
a ten, and with the duty removed,
they could sell it for s2.70 and make
profit, which is much below the figure
at which we can afford to cell it. And
right here let me call your attention
to something. 1t is clear that the
manufacturing interests of the land
have imbued the industrial classes
with the idea that free trade,
or any reduction in existing
duties, means a lower rate Of
wages, and any movement to
modify the tariff is met promptly
with a cry of reduction of wages,
which carries conviction to the labor
ing classes. Now, had the duty on
lead been lowered and the price
fallen. the lead interests would have
reduced their mems wages, and 1t
would have been ascribed 70 med
ding with the tariff on lead. Yet
the tariff has not been changed, and
still the price is considerably off.
Wages, however, remain as before.
Now, what / wish to point out is, that,
after all, upward or downward prices
are due to natural causes and the con-
ditiop of trade, and that there is more
talk than truth abouG trade being de-
pressed by tariff agitation am a
manufacturer, and my interests lie in
retaining the high tariff; yet l must
admit that there Is a great deal OF
humbug employed in connection with
this subject. And it does seem strange
that the people of such states as Iowa,
Kansas, Nebraska and Minnesota
should vote for the retention OF a
system in which they have neither
profit nor benefit"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-02-01

THE Eau Claire Free Press: The
praise of General Farchild by the
Milwaukee Sentinel, and its appear
ance in the role of advocate of his
nomination for the presidency, must
dispel all doubt, if any ever existed,
that the Fairchild boom has for its
real objects the two pointed out by the
Free Press as early as the month of
August, 1883, viz: l. To enable the
bosses to manipulate the Wisconsin
delegation in the republican national
convention; and 2. To waste his
strength as candidate for the United
States senate, in order to insure the
choice of one of their own number.
AS the press of the state is now awak-
enisg to the obvious truth and force
of those predictions, the Free Press
will nap little lor ger over the sub
ject and then resume its place in the
discussion of the interesting and time
ly topic.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-02-01

THE laborers i'll the protected in
dustriss are waking up. The iron
miners ut Port Henry were notified
last Saturday that their wages would
be reduced on Feb /, l. per cent.
The met Sunday, talked the matter
over and resolved to demand u reduc
ton in the price of wood and house
rent, both of which is furnished them
by their employers. This is good.
Why should not this demand be ac-
corded theml 1t is III strict conform
ance with the ideal system that has
been talked to them for the last twenty
years. Let the cost of living be regu-
lated by the wages, of course
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-02-01
The Lift to Trans-continenfaI.

NEW YORK, Jan. 29.-J. Pierson
Morgan, Cyrus w. Field, Jay Gould,
Russell Sage, Frank Worth and other
capitalists. have formed syndicate 70
aid the Oregon Trans Continental and
to put a stop to the bear batting which
stocks hare suffered for several weeks
past A revision of the Northern Pa
cific direct Try is looked for soon and
the property is to be developed and
protected from the raids of the bear
clique. A favorable effect on the en-
tire stock market is now looked for.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-02-01
SMELLS BE-LUD.
Senator Sherman Shakes the
Sanguiniferous Shift.
Indiana neutrality-suspicious.
Downcast.
Other Items Of Interest,
Sherman's Speech on the Danvale
Riots.

Sherman's Speech on the Danvnle
Riots.
WASHIRGToN, Jan. %. = Senator
Sherman in a speech on his resolution
fer an investigation into the Danville
! and Copiah county alleged election
disturbances insisted that they de.
manded investigation of the causes
which led to them. He declared II
the duty to PROBE the facts TO the bot
tom. He said the allegations Of the
resolution were founded upon state
ments in the public prints aud the al
legations of witnesses aud their truth
was verified by Malone, The Copiah
county proceedings he claimed were
founded upon the reports in the pub-
lie prints and the failure of the state
officers and authorities 10 act. II
these statements were true then
in both these states there exist
ed organized conSpiraSies to subvert
the freedom of election. The crimes
were not ordinary crimes, They were
the organized effort Of the majority to
overthrow the constitutional privilege
of citizens. He had no desire 10 re-
new old StriteS or to stir up sectional
strife, but he deemed 1t duty 10
thoroughly investigate and give the
facts 10 the world. and to discover
what if any, legislation was needed
and could be passed 10 prevent such
outrages and such conSpiracIos, and
to maintain the essential rights of cit
izenshlp.
MAHONE'S SPEFttu
was similar in character to the address
he recently issued To the public CON
corning the Virginia situation lie
briefly reviewed the history of Nm-
GINA since the war, and said ~ no
time in the glorious history of Nir.
ginia, until the late canvass aud elec.
ton for the legislature, had the senti
ment found a seat with any party,
that political ends may be achieved
by such fostering methods as
gave rise to the Dauville
massacre. The faction leaders for
their own purposes had set on foot a
shotgun scheme to compel irreSolute
and timid voters To endorse at the
polls principles which already had
been repudlated. In conclusion, Ma
uOuc S"tlG, 10 ulSCpNGE lHe GROSS Nlo-
lations of human rights which had
been committed in Virginia during
the late political campaign and
to find and apply RENE
dy take to be the object of the
proposed investigation | have no
fear the state Will suffer by the III
qEiry. On the contrary am conf
dent she will emerge from it free from
all stain upon the reputation of the
majority of her people, while upon
violent faction will be found the re
sponsibility and blood of her muir
dered citizens. Here, whero the
breath of freedom has ever inspired
devotion to the God-given rights to
men, here in q government founded
on the ever living basis of equal rights
Is the place to set on foot the investi-
gation of such iiagrant acts of moral
turpitude and crime, in cantraven-
ton of the constitution and laws Of
the union, and TO reach out for
remedy
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-02-01
A Cure for Neuralgia.
From the Lancet.

The latest agent introduced for the
relief of neuralgia is per cent. So
luton of hyperosnic acid, admins
tered by subcutaneous injection. 1t
has been employed in Eillroth's clinic
in few cases. One of the patients
had been a martyr to sciatica for years
and had tried innumerable remedies,
including the application of elecTici-
ty no fewer than 200 times, while for
a whole year he had adopted vegetar-
ianism. Billroth injected the above
remedy between the tubcr ischii and
trochanter, and within day or two
the pain was greatly relieved, and
eventually quite disappeared. 1t
weuld be rash to conclude too much
from these results, in the face of the
intractibility of neuralgia to medifca-
ton, but if it really prove to be as eff
cacious as considered, by perosmic acid
will be a therapeutic agent of no mean
value.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-02-01

AN exchange makes this pat COM
ment: The New York Herald takes
column to argue that congress has
no constitutional right to act in fur
therancc vf the ends which Senator
Sherman's southern outrage" resolu-
tons have in view. The Herald
ought not to worry itself about this.
1t has seen enough OF the republicans
and their methods to know that the
constitution, in their opinion, is an
obsolete document, and that their
present agitation of the subject is not
to provide a remedy for any alleged
evils in the south, but simply to re-
vive and excite the old sectional pas
sions on which their party has always
depended for continuance in power,
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-02-01
LATER.
Overturned a Lamp

ELKHoRS, Wis, Jan. 29.-At four
o'clock yesterday afternoon, julia,
the G-year-old daughter of Martin
North, took lamp and went into the
cellar to get some apples. The lamp
was overturned, setting her clothes on
fire. She ran out screaming, but the
family were in a distant part of the
house and did not hear her. The child
ran to the we'll to get water, but fell
as she reached it. Her clothing was
entirely consumed and she was horri-
bly, burned. A few minutes later she
was discovered by the family. She
managed to tell how the accident oc-
CARED, and then became unconscious,
dying few hours later.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-02-01
Chicago Market.

CHICAGO, Jan %. = Wheat-9iGs2 for sellsr
January, closed at s11s; el&Gs2H seller Febru-
ary, 92G93 for seller March closed al 921s: $3.50
for seller May, closed at eSss; ep7zG1oo5z for
saIler Juze, closed at eei4 No. Chicago Spring,
s1Gs1A, closed at 81; No. Chicago Spring, SIG
LOG. Corn-501sG51Ss for seller cash, closed at
5i4; 5lAG5i5s for seller January. closed at 5f14;
5I7s152 for seller February, closed at 5i7s: 80
52lz for seller March, closed at s..
The Drovers' Journal reports: Hogs-Receipts,
81 ,oOe; shipments, 700; steady on best; coarse
packing. 5.5o95 %; packing and shipping. GO
as Is; light, 5.50Gs. 90. skips, 40oG5- 3. Cat
Receipts, 5000; shipments, 700; shipments.
$50; export grades 6.4o07.15: good to choice
shipping 560Ge %; common to medium 4SoG
$50; Texans. 5ao15.75- Sheep-Receipts, 5000;
shipments, 800; best steady, Others, $50 In
ferior 20 fair. 2.75a4oo per cxt
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-02-01
p. r. Wreck.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Jan. %
a passenger train on the Nashville &
Chattanooga railroad was wrecked
this morning, and the engineer killed
outright and the fireman fatally in
iured. The conductor and five train
hands were badly hurt. The engine
and three cars were entirely demolish-
ed. The wreck was caused by a
boulder as large as box car, which
rolled from the mountain and fell
down a few seconds after the watch
man made an inspection, and just be-
fore the train arrived.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-02-01

THE coasting fun of the boys Is scor-
ing its usual number of victims. At
Wayesboro, a day or two since lady
was run over and her limbs broken,
and four boys were horribly mangled.
AT Bloomington, ILL.,, a coasters sled
ran under the horses feet of a passing
team and one boy had his eyes gouged
out and his head crushed and was
fatally hurt. Another was also severe
ly if not fatally injurcd.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-02-01
LIQUOR Legislation In Iowa.

DEs MONIES, Ia, Jan. Ex-senator
Domains bill providing for the repeal
of the wine and beer exemption clause
is under consideration now. 1t ex-
tends the prohibition to wine and
beer, classifying them among the
stronger liquors. Some republicans
oppose it as not severe enough in it's
penalties. Others, and democrats op-
pose it on the principle that prohibito-
ry legislation is unwise and impractl-
cable
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-02-01
Gable Catches.

Count Won Usedom, German
diplomat, is dead, aged 70.
The mother of the late Sultan
Abdul Aziz is dead at Constant
nople.
Henry George had large audi
ence at Liverpool, England, on FRI
day evening.
Emperor William is up and about
again. but will not be able TO go out
for few days.
The remains of Herr Lasker ar
rived at Berlin yesterday about ] a.
N. Members of societies, journalists
and several ladies met the train.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-02-01

LAKE GENEVA, Jan. 29--Last night
at about o'clock wostory frame
dwelling, owned and occupied by Ed
ward Averill, was entirely destroyed
by fire. Loss about 81, 500, insur-
ance, $400. The family went out for
the evening, leaving a hot fire in q
wood stove. The intense heat must
have ignited the adjoining wood
work.