Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-03-06
TELEGRAPHIC.
GENERAL NOTES.

THE Massachusetts, house has passed
joint resolution providing for biennial
sessions of the legislature.
A NEW and rich discovery of lead ore
has been made by Stephen KlaIs, q
German miner, on land three miles east
| of Galena, Ill.
KEEN & HAGARTY, wholesalers at
Baltimore of tin and Japanned ware,
made an assignment Wednesday, the
trustees bond being 100000. The
liabilities are placed at $350,000.
NEAR Williamsburg, Pa, Wednesday,
sled containing nire boys and girls
dashed down a hillside and came in
collision with passing wagon. All
were wounded, five quite seriously.
THE Egyptian garrison at Kassala, in
the Soudan, made sOrtie against Ell
Mahdi's forces, and were disastrously
repulsed, losing twenty eight officers
and $50 privates.
THE floor of a tenement house in Co
senZa, Italy, gave away at an early hour
Sunday morning, carrying everything
with it to the cellar. Sixty of the oc-
cupants of the building were injured,
twenty of them dangerously and eight
fatally.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR has signed an exc
cutive order, throwing open to settle
ment the greater paI Of the Winnebago
and Crow +, servation, in Dakota, en-
bracing some 600, 900 acres. The rush
to the reservation has already begun,
and the land will soon be teken up by
settlers.
1 Z. p. LEsPENAsSE, of Harverstraw
N. y, who is paying an election wager
by carrying pig and a rooster to
Washington, reached Baltimore Mon
day, and expresses himself as being
greatly pleased at the manner in which
the people have treated him aleng the
route. The fowl and porker together
weigh 80 pounds.
GEORGE BANCROFT the historian, ma
tive Of Worcester, Mass, has signified
his desire to present that city fund of
$4,000 to form "The Aaron and
Lucretia Bancroft Scholarship Fund"
the income to be devoted TO the liberal
education of some one scholar from
Worcester
MISS MARY M. FLETCHER, of Burling-
ton, VT, founder of the Fletcher Free
Library and the Mary Fletcher Hospi.
tai, the latter being the largest bonefac-
tion ever given the public by single
individual in Vermont, died in the
hospital ia that city yesterday, from
congestion of the lungs, after brief i'll
ness
PRESIDENT ARTHUR has approved the
findings and sentence of the court
martial in the case of Colonel A. Z.
Morrow of the United States army,
charged with duplicating bis pay oc-
counts, by which the latter is deprived
of all right 10 advancement in his
grade for two years.
n DECISION was rendered by the at
torney general of the state of Iowa that
state oil inspectors must brand all oil
inspected with its actual quality. In
srectors have been recently in the habit
of rejecting all oils not up to the test of
100 degrees and branding the rest with
that figure, whatever its quality might
he. 1t is thought that the decision will
cost the Standard Oil Company $500,000
annually.
A CLOSE obsarver5 of events at
Springfield predicts that neither General
Logan nor Colonel Morrison can be
elected senator. Logan, he maintains,
desires u continuance of the deadlock
Till the session ClGScs, belicving that the
next legislature will undoubtedly be re-
publican, and MIR. Morrison feels that if
there is no election he will be IT cogniZed
hy President Cleveland as senator de
jure from Illinois, and havea voice in
parcelmg out the patronage. The geR-
tlcman believes that in case vacancy
occurs Governor Oslesby will appoint
Milton Hay, of Springfield.