Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-10-22


ex x-president of the road, were arrested
Tuesday On bench warrants issued on in
debtedness found against them by the
grand jury for bribing Doodle aldermen
to support the Broadway railway fran
chise.
One workingman was killed and five
others terribly injured by the falling of
a cage in one of the shafts of the new
acqueduct at New York city while the
men were descending TO their work Tues
day morning.
IN arranging for the enforcement of
tine oleomargarine law, the revenue com
missioner is puzzled in regard to taxing
olso oil. The question will be at once re-
ferred to the highest officers of the gov
ernment.
Now it is probably secretary Whitney,
who will get his head pounded. He has
had the audacity to ask some return from
the Boston iron works for the money it
was getting from the government and
the concern has been insulted and failed.
The mistake of Mr.. Whitney is in suppos-
ing the government should have some ro
turn for its money. That is great mis-
take. Nothing was ever further from
the mind Of the Boston iron works and
John Roach than that of returning any
equivalent for the money they get.
They are great American industries. Is
not that enough!
TnERE ARE Il hundred anxious attorneys
working to get up n contest of Samuel j.
Tiden's will, as there il money in it,
The public would not be concerned in it,
however, except for the fact that nearly
the entire estate is left To three or four
public libraries. The courts have been
very slow in this country to break wills
where the estate goes to the public but
ihese suits necessarily reduce the public
bequests. After II while rich men, who
SEQ that their estates go after they die to
make food for lawyers to fight over, will
adopt the much wiser policy of disposing
Of their fortunes while they live.
DunrNo the 1884 campaign the people
were told daily by about five thousand re
publican organs, TINT the business in
terests of the country were sure to go to
tho dogs if the democrats elected presi-
dent The State journal .Old its dozen
subscribers this story every day. In its
issue of last evening, 1T says:
With local exceptions the season has
been II prosperous one To the agricultu
ralist tho product of the wheat crop alone
being estimated from the latest returns at
the handsome aggregate of 457O00,OO0
bushels Though the price of that cereal
thus far in the season has ruled eXcep-
tioRally low, tho promise of a large de
mand for export is extremely iiattering.
The value of the export of wheat for
September was $l4,2S2, ,52S, against
$S,0O7, ,l3 for the corresponding
month last year. and for the
three months ending September 30 1t was
Si0,9G7,033, against $25,439,44 for tho
corresponding quarter of 1888. The
bank revenue in New York city is uuusu-
ally low, indicating that the unemployed
capital which has been kept on deposit
by tens of millions for the past two or
three years has found profitable invest
ment in the improved financial condition
OF the country. The manufacturing in
torcsts OF the country are constantly i'm
proving, not by any sPasmodic impulse
but by Tint sure and steady increase
which shows the proper and hoalthful
ratio between supply and demand.
Which time did the paper lie? Well it
don't make any difference. II mover told
truth except by accident, or through
ignorance.
WHENEyEE republican federal office
holder has h,s official pate cut off, he be
gins To pose As a martyr of violated civil
service. One of these chaps got under
the democratic axe down in Chicago, last
week, and after his head was in the basket
instead Of accepting the situation like
man he began to pose rs martyr and
sent whining letter to Gen. Doubleday
who sent it to the civil service commits
siouers with his whine, as it
was one of his friends who was beheaded.
The civil service commissioners replied
giving the geneaal some ideas of the civil
service law that neither he nor any other
republican seems willing To learn. The
law had not been violated, the case did
not como under the law and if it had the
conduct of the discharged official suf
hcently established the propriety of the
renewal.