Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-07-03
TELEGRAPHtC'.,
GENERAL NOTES.

UP to date this year 3,446 liquor IL
censes have baen granted IN Chicago,
the receipts aggregatiDg 81 445,S12.
JOSEPH TAYLOR, father of Bayard
Tay lor, died at his home in Kennels
Square, Pa, Monday, aged eighty-nine.
His wife aAd four children survive
him.
JAMES ID. FISH, ex-president of the
defunct Marine Bank of New York, has
been sentenced to ten years iHlprison-
ment in Auburn penitentiary.
THE board Of regents of the univer-
sity Of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, grant
ed degrees to 348 students-in litera-
ture, science and the arts, law, phsr-
macy, medicine and dentistry.
BRIGHAM YOUNG, Jr., and Bishop
Snow, have gone to the City of Msxico
TO ne goJiate for the purchase of large
tract of land in the Mexican Republic
for the occupation of Mormon colonies.
THE Rev. William De Witt Hyde, of
Paterson, N. j., has been elected Presi-
deht OF Bowdoin College; and Rev.
Joseph Duryea. D. D., of Boston, Presi-
dent of Union College.
TWO mysterious diss p. .ears2ces are
reported from st. Albion, Iow2-H. A.
Fritz station agent Of the ST. Paul
road, and a young woman whose family
live Ae4r there. There is also missing
800 % the St. PauPs money and 500
of the American Express company.
FOUR violent deaths and three cases
OF insanity have resulted among the de-
frauded depository of the Erie county
Pennsy l,ania) savings bank. The de-
fan ikns
tile business at Chatham, Ontario.
IT is stated on reliable authority that
Mr. Walker Blaine, son of Hon. James
q. Blaine, is to be married this sumEler
to Miss Elite, the beautiful and accom-
plishsd daughter Of ex-Gov. ID. ID. 7.
Farnsworth, of Buckhannon, w. Va.
The acquaintance was formed while
Miss Farnsworth was attending mu
seal school in Boston.
some unscrupulous people in San
Francisco are selling the water of
Owens Lake, in Californi?, at 81 pint,
under the name of tho "Water of Life"
The water of Ovens Lake is a strong
lye, and a goblet Of it would almost
kill man. But ignorant people buy it,
and drink small quantities of it, under
the impression that they are taking a
wonderful curative.
II. r. CREIGHTON, President Of the
Loan, Association of Dcs Muines, whD
recently failed, has disappeared, and it
il now stated that his liabilities are be-
tween $75, coo and $4,000, with assets
not over $i2 600. The losses fall upon
Eastern creditors and Iowa farmers.
THE National Woman's Relief Corps
has elected the following officers for
the national organization for the com
ing year:
Mrs Sarah f. Fuller. of Massachusetts, presi-
dent
Mrs. Lizzie d. A. Kinnie, of California, senior
vice president
Mrs Kent, of New Hampshire. junior vice pres
ident.
Mrs l.. A. Turner of Massachus etts, treas
urcr.
Mrs. Annie whittonger, of Philadelphia, chap
lain.
In field of corn on what is called
the Phelps farm, near Mason City, in
Cerro Gordo county, Iowa, on the morn
ing after the passage of the recent
cyclone, n boy baby was found. Tie
infant had on only night dress, and
lived but an hour or so after being dis
covered. No one knows whose child it
was, nor how far he came. The lorna
do undoubtedly dropped him in the
field. Up to the present time the mys-
terry of the waits parentago and home
is wholly unsettled.