Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-08-15
1'ELEGRAPHIC.
GENERAL NOTES.

THE estimated expenditures of the
Pos: Office Department for the last
fiscal year will exceed the receipts by
So, 000, 600.
THESt. Paul and Omaha Road las is
sued a circular stating that passenger
rates over its road in Iowa are reduced
to 3 cents per mile to conform to the
new law.
In the county elections Monday in
Utah the Mormons elected all the off.
cors.
A PROCLAMATION ordering quaran
tine against Texas cattle was Issued
Tuesday by Governor Crosby of Mon
tana.
THE Eight Ohio Republican Congress
sional Convention took fifty ballots at
Springfield Tuesday without reaching q
nomination. A resolution that delegates
were entitled to vote as their conscience
may dictate was voted down.
THE wheat yield of Manitoba this
year is estimated at 8 500, 900 bushels.
The prevalent disaffection does not ap-
pear to have spread to the growing
grain. nor did 1t prevent the sturdy far
mers from attending strictly to bust
ness.
Two heavy business failures are re-
ported from Pennsy lvania-the Kimble
Coal and Iron Company at Riddlesburg,
with 500 900 liabilities, and the live
stock firm of Holmes, Lofferty & Co.,
Pittsburgh, with 100000.
THE Agricultural Department at
Washington announces an improvement
in the coEdition of cotton since last re-
port, and that the corn average is high
er than in any August since 1880. Oats
have fallen off a fraction, while barley
and buckwhcat are up TO the average
The prospects for large crops of tobacco
are favorable.
AT a Sunday-school picnic near Now
eaqua, Ill. Thursday Miss Emma Bond,
the victim of the Taylorville outrage,
was in attendance, and attracted gen
eral attention. She walks with difficult
ty, but otherwise is gaining strength
rapidly.
ONE hundred and fifty R1en in the
LabeIle Nail Mill at Wheeling, were
discharged Friday, the mill owners de-
Gliding to procure their steel bars from
PiUt3burg, doing away with their forge
department. If other mills adopt this
plan, 5000 persons will be thrown out
of employment. The new movement
has caused Consideration at Wheeling.
In report to Governor Hamilton on
the Texas fever DIR. Paaren recon-
mends that most of the southern states,
with Missouri, Kansas, and Indian Ter
itory, be proclaimed 2s infected, and
railroad companies bs prohibited from
bringing cattle from those p aces inGo
Illinois until Nov. 1, unless they certify
that the shipments are healthy and have
been outside the Effected districts for
sixty days
A MUSCATGNE Iowa dispatch of the
9th says: Judge Hayes of the seventh
Iowa judicial district, has rendered an
important decisionsas to the iurisdic-
tion of justices of the peace under the
new Iowa prohibitory liquor law. Judge
Hayes holds that justices have no juris-
diction to try, derermine or pass judg-
mGnt upon cases under this law, other
than to hold preliminary trial and
bind defendants over to the district
court. The decision is based upon the
opinion that the penalties of the new
law exceed the jurisdiction of Justices
I,y this decision all liquor cases com
mraccd here under the new law are
dismissed. The question is one of great
inheritance, and will be appealed to the
supreme court.