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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-10-17
TELEGRAPHIC.
GENERAL NOTES.

COMPLAINTS are made at Buffalo of
shortage in grain cargoes, chiefly on
vessels from Toledo.
The st. Louis Malleable Iron Company
has emerged from itg financial cloud
and has resumed work.
JOHN F. STEINMAN, the Oldest mer-
chant in the .tate, and soldier of the
war of 1912, died Sunday afternoon at
Lancaster, Pa, aged 80.
REFUSING to accept reduced wages,
1000 men in Oliver Brothers & Phillips
rolling mills at PIttsburg were locked
out Tuesday morning.
THE Manitoba and Northwestern and
Manitoba and Southwestern railways
have been granted land subsidies of 6,400
acres par mile by the Canadian govern
ment.
JOHN JACOBS, a cigar peddler at San
Francisco, has fallen heir to property in
England vaiucl at So 100000.
MITCHELL & SCRUGGs, extensive ag
ricultural implement dealers at Dallas,
Texas, have failed. A branch hoase at
Forth Worth has also been closed.
A REVENUE cutter brings news to San
Francisco from Alaska that the whale
catch is oil EOOd average, ana thau new
volcano has been discovered and the
Kowak river fully explored.
CANADIAN Pacific officials and the
japanese Steamship Company are
negotiating for line of steamers be-
tween China, Japan, and British Col
umbia, and if e.tlblished freight for
London and Liverpool will be carried
over the Canadian Pacific Board.
MILWAUKEE had high-toned we'd
ding-General Alexander McCook, of
the United States army, to Miss Annie
Colt, OF that city. Among the guests
present were General w. Y. Sherman
and General Anson q. McCook, of New
York
The Pennsylvania Line notifies the
b. 81 0. road that from Oct. 18th it will
not be permitted to run trains over the
Pennsylvania tracks between Baltimore
and New York. Neither passenger tick
cts nor baggage from the west. by way
of the b. 81 O., will be received by the
Pennsy lvauia company.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-10-17
CABLEGRAMS s.

ADvICEs from Hong Kong state that
business is at complete standstill.
Commerce is raralyzed.
THE French Minister of Commerce
has located the site Of the exhibition in
1899 on the Boi5 de Roulogne.
IT is reported at Cairo that French
man-of- war has been ordered to occupy
ajo0rat, a seaport town on the gulf of
Alden.
TWENTY SEVEN persons wGr9 killed
and 400 injured by the cyclone in Cat
ania on the island of Sicily. The dam
age will amount to S., 100000.
AT Birmington, Monday, James Rus
sell Lowell, American Minister TO Eng
land, delivered the opening address at
the Town Hall as President of the Medi
cal Institute, his subject being Democ-
racy.
DELEGATES representing Eagland,
America, France, Portugal, Spain, Hol-
land and Belgium will attend an inter-
national conference ut Berlin ii No
vomber, at which all questions relating
to the Congo country will be consider
ed.
THE first portion of the British ex-
pedition up the Nile, en- route for the
Soudan, has passed tho first cataract.
The camel corps is encamped at the
Pyramids waiting for orders to advance.
a VIENNA dispatch asserts that the
Cabinet of Great Britain has informed
the powers that in its opinion, the sus-
pension of the sinking fund by the
Egyptian Government is iustifiable
in the present condition of the finances.
A DISPATCH from Rome of the 18th
says; To-days official bulletin of the
cholera for the last twenty-four hours
i'll various parts of Italy is as follows:
Naples City, fresh cases, 800; deaths, 43S
Province, fresh cases, 10; deaths, 10.
Cunro, fresh cases, 10; deaths, 8.
Caserta, fresh cases, 25; deaths, T.
Genoa, fresh cases, so; deaths, 10.
Parma, fresh cases, 8; deaths, Z.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-10-17
Irish Logic.

''Is there a ford here " asked an
English gentleman who, IN making a
tour in the west of Ireland, was sud
denly stopped by mountain stream.
"Oh. to be sure, yer honor, said an
honest native. "There was ford.
"When was it, asked the gentle
man.
"Before the bridge was built, yer
honor" replied the goed-humored
Hibernian; "but after the passengers
used the bridge, 1t got out of habit"
"Well, :" said the traveller, now
that the bridge is broken down, |
suppose the ford may have got into
habit again. Is it safer
'sTo be sure, yer honor-all but IN
the middle. But that is nothing; and
if you can swim, why, there is not a
better ford in the country"
"But | cannot swim" replied the
gentleman.
Then, yer honor, retorted Paddy,
"the only safe way that | know OF IS
as soon as you get out Of your depth
to walk back again.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-10-17
FROM THE CAPITAL.

THE Director of the Mint estimates
the amount of gold and silver coin in
the United States Oct. At 1915, 100000
OF this sos 100000 is gold; $ls2 00e,00
standard silver dollars, and $75, 900, 600
subsidiary silver. This is gain from
Oct. 1, 1888, of $35 000,0 900, $4,000, 900
being gold coin, $22,000,0 600 silver. In
addition to coin in circulation Oct. the
mint and essay offices held bullion for
coinage amounting to gold $53, 600, ,000
silver $5,000,000, making the total
amount of United States coin, and bull
lion available for coinage in the country
Oct. 1 $S73,000,000 of which $610, ,000, 600
is gold and $263 900, 600 silver The
amount of gold coin outside the Treasury
was about S., $50. 600 less thau on Oct, 1,
1888, while the amount in the Treasury
was $20,000,000 more. The amount of
silver in hanks and general circulation
is about IS, 100000 less than in 1888, and
the amount in the Treasury about $751;
100000 more. The amount of outstand-
ing gold and silver certificates is nearly
$4,000, 900 more than on Oct. 1, 1888.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-10-17
GOVERNOR CLEVELAND.
The Great Reformer Works Steac
lily On, Regardless of Politics.

The Great Reformer Works Stead
lily On, Regardless of Politics.
ALBANY, Oct. IA Gov. Cleveland d
was busy at his desk as usual this
morning and while he no doubt felt
considerable interest in the res Ilt of
the ballot in progress in Ohio he gave
no outward evidence of it. He has
completed his preparations for his
New York trip, leaving here to-mor-
row morning at 40 a. m. in the St.
Louis express and arriving in New
York at 1890 a. m.
ALBANY, N. Y, Oct. 14,-The peo-
pie here took great interest in the
Ohio election, and Gov. Cleveland OBJ
served his daily routine. In the ex-
ecutive chamber the governor was
busy at his desk during the morning,
and went to lunch at the customary
hour, 2 P. NJ, returning soon after
3 o'clock. During the afternoon he
received number of callers and re-
tired to his private room, the execu-
tive chamber beixg given over by the
governor to the use of the committee
of state officers and others arranging
Ioi GAlS SlSeIC . S-Nhlbi' al Sio Nci ~
fair and cotton centennial at New Or
leans. Governor Cleveland received
no special advices duling the after
noon. He left the executive chamber
for his mansion on Eagle street at $3.50
p. M, remaining there throughout the
evening, where he received Western
Union bulletins of the result in OHIO,
in COMPANY with his private secreta-
ry, Col. Daniel S. Lamont Prepara.
tions for his trip to New York to-mor-
row occupied large part of the even,
ing, and the governor retired about
midnight.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-10-17
Maud s.

HARTFORD, Oct. 14.-Maud S. at
ter. pied to lower her Cleveland record
of 2:094 at Charter Oak Park, this
afternoon was a failure. The first
heat this morning was made in 2:30.
Half an hour after the second trial
was made the mare started three
quarter post at a jog which was a
gradual increase, until she was going
at wonderful gait. When ''go" was
given she was trotting with
the regularity and evenness Of ma
chime. The wind was blowing almost
gale, but she reached the quarter
post in 334, the half in 1:064, and
round the three quarters in 1 40, with
out a skip or a waver. The mare
came down the last stretch at the same
machine-like gait, but the time at the
wire was only 2:124 1t is estimated
that the wind made the track at least
four seconds slow.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-10-17
NO. II

tody OF the treasury officers for over
forty five years. Tley were sent to
President Van Burea by the Imaum
of Oman, whose capital city of Mascat.
in Ara 5ia, on the Persian Gulf, is the
most widely known of all Arabian
cities to outsiders. The Imaum WAS
the dude politician of Arabia, the boss
dandy of all the Bedouin kin, and,
having found that Martin Van Buren,
was two fold sharper, keener, suhtier
and sanaier than he was himself, he
sent these diamonds and pearls TO him
as tribute TO superior genius and
morality. 1t takes a pretty smart
scoundrel to discount an Arab cut
throat of the higher class, but the
Dutch PATRON of Undertook could
do IT, aud the 1maum of Oman allowed
he could take the cake-and the diS-
monds too. But after he took them
he did not know what 10 do with them.
He had an elephant on his hands.
de could not accept them for himself,
although he wanted TO do so, as the
constitution expressly forbade any
person connected with the govern
ment accepting any present or decor
alton from any foreign power or
potentate, without express authority
of congress. This authority congress
would not give. In fact, it was mex
pedlent at that time to ask for 1t. So
the jewels were finally turned over TO
the treasury, where they are how.
But the Imaum's GIFT is not all.
There are in the collection superb
jewels received at other times and in
various ways. TurquoiSes blue as
Syrian summer skies, emeraldS like
the reflection of Ireland'S green turf
in her crystal waved lakes; ), rubies,
oriental rubies that flash world of
liquid crimson light till the eye grows
dim with gazing; sappalres; pearls as
white as the foam of the sea and opals
that simmer with resinous radiance
as only the precious opal can; all these
are there There are many beautiful
and many quaint ornaments, Eelcd
brooches and rings and sword hits;
be-dlamonded crosses brought from
the Malay isles by Wilkes, and lots of
other rare and valuable trinketS.
They have no definite owners and are
placed in the treasury vaults because
they are too valuable to throw away,
and nobody dares to claim them, be-
cause nobody has a right to them.
What disposition to make of them is
puzzle. Congress alone can auth
orize their disposition, and congress,
although asked several times to do
so, has declined to take any notice of
them.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-10-17
Bismarch'S Cigar Story.

Prince Bismarck tranSacts most Of
his business with cigar in his mouth,
and in the memoirs of Herr Maurice
Busch, his late secretary, may be
found a characteristic auecdote of
how this Prussian statesman claim
ed and enforced his privilege
of smoking at the sitting of the
Military Commission of the Diet at
Frankfort The story is given IN the
Chancellors words:
"While Rochow represented Prussia
at the Diet, Count Rechberg, the presl
dent who represented Austria, was
the only member who smoked at the
Board. Rochow, who was a great
smoker, often longed to light cigar,
but did not dare. When / arrived,
however, l asked myself why Prussia
should not do as Austria did. So at
the first sitting | drew out cigar and
asked Rechberg for light, which ne
gave me, stupehed at my GOODNESS.
The other delegates were not less
amazed, and wrote 20 their respective
governments for instructions. But the
subject WAS a serious one, requiring
reflection, SO six months elapsed with
out their obtaining an answer Mean
while, Bothmer, the Hanoverian, who
was a great friend of Rechberg, took
the liberty of lighting up 10 be even
with me, seeing which, the Saxon,
Nostitz, produced cigar 10 b. equal
with HIM. There remained now only
the delegates of Wurtemberg and
Darmstadt, but these two were not
What was to be done2
Could they let their colleagues blow
clouds in their faces without blowing
back2 The Wurtemberger was the
first to decide that the honour of his
country was involved, and he brought
out cigar in his turn. | think | can
see it now-an indetinable cigar, pale
yellow, thin, taperIng, and enormous
ly long He smoked it bravely, with
all his might, and almost TO the stump,
thus giving a magnificent example OF
devotion to his country"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-10-17
the freight were caught in the wreck

the freight were caught in the wreck
and roasted to death.
Upon opening ventilator in tigers
cage in Forepaugh's circus at Water
bury, Conn, Wednesday morning,
Richard Clark was seized by one of the
animals, two others Immediately at
tacking him also. He was dragged inside
the cage and horribly mutilated before
being rescued, the tigers having been
beaten off by iron bars.
THE Ontonagan river in Michigan has
risen to point higher than known for
90 years. The whole country in the
vicinity of Ontonagan is flooded, and
nearly all the bridges are washed away
or badly damaged, causing thousands
of dollars of loss.
AT. tDelavan, Mclean county, Ill, on
Monday, Lewis Walden, aged 13, led a
heifer to the creek to drink. As she
drank the boy stood with an arm around
her neck. The animal suddenly threw
her head around, the horn striking the
boy in the breast, near the heart, and
plunging into the body its entire length,
killing the boy instantly.
A CALUMET, Mich, dispatch of the
Sth says fire broke out ON Saturday in
the dry portion of the Hecla branch of
the Calumet and Hecla Mine and is still
raging. 1t is the timbers on the six
teenth level, LOO feet underground,
and above the present workings, which
are at considerable graater depth.
The smoke arising from the flames is so
dense and sitting that the fire can not
be reached, and endeavors to extingushi
it are necessarily attended with extreme
difficulty and danger. Its origin is not
known. When it was first discovered
John Rapson and Thomas Gribbe were
sent down TO start the pump at the
eleventh level. AS they did not return
a rescuing party was sent to their relief.
They saw Rapson, who had been suf-
focated by the heat and smoke, but
could not reach the body. Subsequently
the rescuers fifteen in number, were
overpowered by the fumes arising from
the burning timbcrs, and the men were
dragged out senseless. Restoratives
were applied in time to save their lives.
Ga Monday, Rapson's body was recover
ed, but that of his unfortunate comrade
still remains in the mine. There are so
men in the lower levels, but as plenty
of air can be got to them but little ap-
prehension is fel6 for their ultimate
escape. Work is suspended at the mine
for the first time in its history, all the
shafts are closed, and the most strenuous
efforts are being put forth to subdue the
flames
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-10-17
The DynamiterS.

QUEBEC, Oct. 14.-Four men sus-
pected of causing the explosions in
Parliament building, Saturday, rang
ing in age from 40 to so years. They
all occupied the same room In which
were two double beds. Madame No
Ian, the landlady, not understanding
English, could not make anything out
their conversation. Two of the men
seemed too kave all the linen
they had with them no
their persons. They were
in the hotel paying for each meal as
they partook of it and also of paying
for their beds each morning. Taurs-
day last the youngest of the party left
taking with him heavy valise and
did not afterwards return. All seemed
to be well supplied with American
money which it seems they had
some difficulty in getting exchanged.
for Canadian money to pay for their
beard. Saturday afternoon the guard
ian of the Quebec Ger tai depot, at
Lewis, stated that lc had Friday
heard men speaking In reference 10
the intended explosion in front of
the station, and that he at oHce COM
manicated what he had heard to the
police.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-10-17
Had a Picnic.

Everything was ready and they
were about starting for the picnic
when heavy rain-storm came up.
isn't it too provoking, George9' she
said.
George agreed with her.
1--WE can't go in the rain" she con-
tiuued, but the folks are away, and
if you like. George, we can spend the
afternoon in.the parlor. We will have
it all TO ourselves. You can hold a
skein of worsted for me, and we can
look at the album together, and l will
show you some lovely sketches and
The parlor," interrupted George,
leading the way.
In the evening friend asked George
where he had spent the afternoon.
AT picnic, he replied.
I'm all the rain2 What kind of q
picnicY"
"a regular picnic"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-10-17
OCTOBER ELECTIONS.

The states Of West Virginia and
Ohio held their elections yesterday
and fortunately got through, SO far as
heard, with small list of casualties.
The excitement, especially in Cincin
natl, was intense, and shooting Vas
frequent throughout the city during
the day One man was killed and
three or four woundCd-alI shot by
L. s marshals.
The result of the vote is all the dem
ocratS could hope for, or expect,
in both states. In Ohio the repub
lican state ticket is elected and the
majority will be from :, 500 to 5000,
loss Of fully half of the republican
majority of October, 1850 and nearly
down to this Tildcn vote of 1876. The
average republican majority in OHIO
since the war at the October elections,
preceding presidential elections is
ll,226. The full returns Will fall sew
pral thousand below this. At this
writing Il a. m y the returns from CAS-
towns and wards show a republican
gam Of lO,2la, over the vote
of 1883. This is doubtless fully
half the vote of the stata as ii covers
nearly all the large towns aGA cities.
Give the republicans an equally large
gaia on the rest of the vote Of the
state, or % 49O in the state, from
which deduct the democratic ma jorlty
of tSS3 IL. 529 and there remains y
republican majority of 1861 IN the
state. The associated press dispatches
clam for the republicans from $1,000
to 10000 but the clam is based
upon the assumption that the
vote will be rs large in
the country towns as IN the great
cities, al uuwarranted assumption
but of course purpoSely made to boom
Il failing cause.
In West Virginia the returns are
very meagre, because not at all salts
factory to the associated press. bat
euough is given to show 10, 600 major
ity for the democrats, which majority
will doubtless let up to 5000 in 4
day or two.
1t thus appears that Mr.. Blaine has
large contract on his hands yet
more than he will be able to meet
within the three weeks of the canvass
remaining Never in the HISTORY OF
this country was a more bitter
and corrupt canvass made than
was made by the corruptionists
in Ohio. Mr.. Blaine, Gen. Lo
gan and all the party leaders
in the country, have worked in the
state for month, and no doubt spent
a million dollars-all of which was
taken from the U. S. treasury-to
carry the state, and then they got il
by largely reduced majority. The
field these fellows now have to cover
is q much larger one, and when it is
heard from in November, a national
democratic victory viii be the an
nouneement.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-10-17
The Grow tn Of the Worlds National
Debts
New York Tribune

Michael G. Mulhall, the well-known
statistician, has been III this country
attending the meeting Of the British
Association. \ Tribune reporter ask
ed him what branch Of his subject he
was investigating at this time.
Il have receatly," responded Mr.
Mulhall, been making close study
of the debt of nations from the treaty
of Utrecht in 17l3t to the present time
What has been the increase since
then2"
THE total national debt of the
world, not estimating local debts of
and kind, i'll 1918 was $595. 000, 600.
In 1868 they had risen TO 81, 600,
600; in 1893 to 81, Si5, 500, 600; in 1916,
to s., 1S5, {, 000, 600; III 1913, TO S., 245,
0OO. 900; in 1870, TO $40, 150, 00o, 600,
and in 1881, | find that they have
reached the awful aggregate of $27,
155, 600, 600.
1.-The increase then has been greater
of recent years.
Yes, from the Treaty Of Utrecht
till the French revolution, period Of
eighty years, the debts Of nations rose
50, $50, 000, 900; that is almost $50, 900,
600 a year. During the ensuing
twenty two years, down TO the battle
of Waterloo, there was a rise of
s., $40, 600. 600. or nearly 5000, 600, 600
per annum. From Waterloo down to
the present the increase has been $50,
600, ,00), 600, or almost $500, 900, 600
yearly. 1t may be fairly said that 60
per cent of the existing debts stand
for war expenditures, and 40 per cent.
for reproductive works.
How do the debts of the several
nations of the world compare with
their wealth.
The debt ratio to wealth per cent,
at the present is as follows: United
Kingdom, S /; France ll.9 Germany,
: 2; Russia, ~; Austria, 1873; Italy,
1876; Spain, 206; Portugal, 2S.5,
Holland, 81; Belgium, 81; Denmark,
3 o; Sweden and Norway, 2 0; Canada,
5 6; Australia, 1873; the Argentine
Republic, 70; Uruguay, AS; total
%. The national debt Of the United
States, when compared to the wealth,
of the country, is only % per cent.
lower than that of any country IN
cluded in my inquiry
After studying the subject, what
are your conclusions"
II do not see any reason for alarm.
1t will be be borne in mind that since
1913 the increase of wealth in Europe
has been four and half times greater
than the growth of debt. If debt
goes On increasing from now TIL 1900
at the rate of 5000, 900, O0Oa year, and
public wealth at &, zoe, 900, 600 year,
Europe will be richer at the end Of
the century than at present. The con
clusions which may draw are four
namely: That national debts are not
to be viewed with such horrors as
grandfathers and grandmothers enter
tanned regarding them; that they offer
a convenient mode of investment for
British capital, and are generally Sc
cure that the increase OF debt IN Eu-
rope has not injured the working
classes; that we may expect 10 see the
national debts increased at least $780,
600 900 a year during the rest OF the
nineteenth century"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-10-17
4 Cyclone Photographed.
Rock County CMinn) Herald.


The Herald has received a fine pho
tograph of the cyclone which passed
through Miner county. Dakota, Aug.
%, taken at Howard, Oak. The cy-
clone, it will be remembered, was
first discovered about o'clock on a
bright afternoon, when, with the ex-
ception of a few heavy banks of
clouds. the sky was clear and the sun
was shining pleasantly. Suddenly a
monstrous funnel SHAPED arm shot
downward from one Of the clouds
ard moment later the cyclone was
formed and vas moving slowly across
the prairie, carrying destruction to
everything in its course. The cyclone
remained in sight about two hours.
The photograph is a great curiosity
and, undoubtedly, is the only photo
graph of a cyclone ever taken.