Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-10-24
TELEGRAPHIC.
GENERAL NOTES.

! A CITIZENS meeting at New York
Monday night nominated ex-May or
Grac2 for the mayoralty.
AT Shenando, Falls, the drouth has
made water so scarce that families arc
allowed but a couple of quarts per day.
THE coal combination in Pennsylvania
has ordered a suspension of mining one
week in November and two weeks in
December.
SAMUEL TUDOR, paying teller for s. s.
Davis (the Cincinnati banker who failed
| Monday, is defaulter for $4,000 and
caused the crash.
J. SILVER & Co., cl.thing, and James
G.. BaIlie & Co., carpets ind groceries,
both of Montreal, made assignments
Monday. The former owes $36, 900, and
the latter $4,000.
JAMES SEGG & Co, proprIetors of the
MapIevilie Mills at Burrellville, r. l.,
made an assignment Wednesday, their
liabilities being between 100000 and
$500,O
RUBEL's Rock, that famous obstruction
in the Ohio River near Louisville, was
shattered by blasts Thursday, operated
by government employees.
SEVENTY acres of cedar timber have
been destroyed by fire in Big Egg Har-
Dor Swamp, N. j., and an extensive
cranberry bog is threatened.
AT Harrisburg, Pa, Thursday Miss
Lizzie Wallace stepped from the cars
III front of moving train. Harry Eos
ter rushed to the rescue, but both were
cut to pieces.
THE first Number of a weekly paper,
called the Anti-Prohibitionist Or. ".
Shurlev, cditor-in-chief), was issued at
Dubuque, Iowa, Saturday.
THE Hungarian arrested at Liverpool
on disembarking from the steamer Lord
Give, from Philadelphia, for having
dynamit: in his luggage, is q miner. He
made satisfactory explanation of his
reasons for having the dynamite, and
was rclGa'ed.
THE drouth in the south has continued
for eleven weeks, and cattle have to be
driven long distances to procure water.
The cotton and other crops are burnt
up, while turnips, the main staple for
stock feel, are complete failure.
4 RECEIVER John W. Harrison, of st.
Louis was appointed Thursday for the
Carbondale Coal and Coke Company,
wit1 valuable mines and railways IN
jackson County, lllinois. The last
showing stated the assets to be S792, 600;
liabilities, $85l 900
The Fall River mills closed Monday,
rendering 10000 persons idle. II. II.
Fishers pipe mills at AlleHtown, Pa,
has suspended operations, throwing 800
persons out of employment. IL. B.
School & Co., barbed-wire manufac-
turcrs at Pittsburgh, have notified their
800 employees that wages will be reduc-
ed 10 per cent.
A DARK SKINNED woman calling her
self Mollie Young is at Macon, Ga and
claims To have escaped from slavery in
Cuba, whittier she was taken twenty
years ago by attaches of Dan Rice's cir
Gus, who stole her from her home at
Louisville and sold her to a wealthy
Spaniard, who treated her as y beast of
burden. She escaped by concealing
herself in box of fruit on ship bound
for England.
TIE Power River Cattl" Company, of
Wyoming, has concluded to establish a
shipJil depot at Superior. 1t has
secured a large tract of land in West
Superior on deep water for transfer
yards and a shipping point, and also
tract "a GOO acres on the line of the
Omaha Railroad, about six miles south
of Superior, for feeding or grazing pur
poses. On the latter tract it has al
ready commenced the erection Of cat
tie shed 100 feet wide by 800 feet long;
also large barn, boarding house and
a dwelling.