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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-07-09
THE NATIONAL CAPITOL.
The President NetoeS Twenty More
Private Pension Bills and one Ap-
preparation Bill.
Mr.. Cleveland Gives his Reasons for
NetOin9 the Bill Granting Il Pen
sion to Francis Deming.
FitZ John Porter is Nominated TO be Il
Colonel in the Army of the United
States Other Nominations.
THE VETO POWER EXERCISED.

Twenty Private Pension Bi!lS and One Appro-
priation Bill Vetoed.
WASHINGTON. July THE president
to-day transmitted to the house a mes
sage announcing his disapproval of 20
private pension bills, and the bill provid-
ing for the erection of a public building
at Duluth, MINI. The last named bill is
vetoed, the president says because he is
entirely satisfied that the building pro-
vided for is not Immediately necessary,
and he adds that not a little legislation
is necessary to increase the miscalculated
appropriations, and for a correction of
the blunders in the construction of many
of the public buildings now i'll progress
of erection.
Lewis ScanIand, filed his declaration
for a pension i'll 1884, alleging that he
contracted chronic diarrhsa in the ilack
Hawk war. The records show that he
served from April Is, 1882, to May IS,
1882. In vetoing the bill for his relief the
president says: Il am inclined to think
it would have been fortunate thing if in
this case it could have been demonstrated
that a man could thrive so well with
chronic diarrhna for 80 years as
its existence in the case of this good old
gentleman would prove. We should then
perhaps have less of 1t in claims for pen
sions. The fact is in this case that there
is no disability which can be traced to
fortytwo days military service of fifty
four years ago, and | think little, if any,
more intirmity than is usually found in
men of the age of the claimant.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-07-09
DID NOT WAIT TO BE TRIED.

Wife Murderer Hallam Dies in the west Bend
Jail.
WEST BEND, Wis July William Hal
lam, who has been in Jail since April u
for the murder of his wife, in the town of
kewaukum, was found dead in his bed
yesterday morning. He had been affiict-
ed for a long time with a bone disease.
which caused sores all over his body
His mind has been affected for many
years. On April u. two officers sent by
the chairman of the towntO take him in
to custody, as his family and neighbors,
were afraid of him. He was to be taken
before commissioners for examination.
The officers allowed him to go into an
adjoining room to wash, when he seized a
revolver and fired through the
partition at one of the of
fcers, the ball going through the lapel
of his coat. Hallam then fired at the
other officer, who dropped to the ground
to save himself, when the bullet struck
Mrs. Hallam in the breast, killing her in
stantly. Hallam was taken into custody,
lodged in jail, and upon examination was
committed for trial. Sunday night,
when the sheriff and his family retired,
the man was resting easily, and said the
pains which troubled him most of the
time were all gone. His condition was
such that his death was expected at any
time. He repeatedly said that he would
not live to be tried. On one occasion he
attempted to commit suicide, but did not
succeed.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-07-09

tains 225,OOO names, which at the usual
ratio indicates a population of 100000.
The military guard of honor was re-
moved from the tomb of General Grant,
| in Riverside Park, Thursday. Hereafter
! the tomb will be in safe-keeping of the
park police.
THE flour output at Minneapolis last
week reached 14O,S70 barrels, against Ill.,
200 barrels the preceding week. The
market rules dull, at the lowest prices ever
quoted.
J. F. EVANS was elected Mayor by the
City Council of Council Bluffs, Iowa, to
fill the vacancy caused by the death of
Mayor Chapman.
ABOUT 1000 miners at Grape Greek,
| VermilliOn, ILL.,. who struck last month for
the Pittsburgh scale of wages, are now be-
ing forcibley evicted from the houses
owned by the company.
The steamship Saevia which sailed
from New York on Saturday had over 200
Western schOOl-te teachers on board. They
will remain abroad during the school
vacation, visiting various points of in
terest.
AFTER a consultation Monday, Chicago
and Bloomington physicians pronounced
Judge David Davis to be beyond re-
covery.
THERE are perhaps less than 100000
workingmen in labor unions and Knights
of labor organizations. What right have
these 100000 to denOunce 15,0OO,O 900 work
ing men not in such organizations?
MAcKERAL having struck in along the
coast of Prince Edwards Island, the
Canadian Department of Fisheries has
ordered three government vessels to watch
the fisheries there.
FOUE parties of nOn-union carpenters
at work in Chicago and jefferson were
Tuesday assaulted and driven from their
abor by gangs from the carpenters
union. contractor named Billargeon
had his right ear cut off with a steel
square.
WHILE a Lake Shore engine was Tues
day engaged in transferring a train
of freight-cars at the Chicago stock
yards striker lying fiat on the ground
threw switch and narrowly escaped
death from a Winchester bullet, which en-
veloped him III dust. crowd quickly
gathered and demanded that the deputies
deliver up their rifles, but the police of
Lake cleared the track.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-07-09
\ POOR DlPE.

A con stunt reader of the Sentinel and
one who has depended on that onc-sided
organ for intellectual food, wants to
know whether any newspaper has pub
Iishcd any Of the presidents vctoes, and
If 80, whut one, ms ho wants 70 get tlevc-
lands side 6f the cuscs aud has never
seen but one or two little extracts from
them in the Sentinel. The DEMOCHAr has
published about thirty of them, and Il
few other democratic papers have pub
lished portion of them. No rcPub-
llcnn paper has published any
Of them. They contain too much solid
truth for the columns of n republican
organ Then to publish the veto mes
snges in republican organs would show
that niuth-tcuths of all tho orguns have
said Of the vctoes was pure falscho"d'
There has scarcely been II word III the
Sentinel about the matter that would not
he proven false by publishing the vetoes,
SO Of course the Sentinel would rather
have its readers accept It's false stale
ments than to rcnd the votocs. The other
party organ, are in just the same fix.
Not II single one Of these messages have
ever bccn sent cut by that model partisan
lingo Jim associated press. or course,
that would be So IL the lingo concern is
controlled hy the two Tribuncs, Cincinnati
Commercial, Inter Ocean and Milwaukee
Sentinel It is reflex of the Blainism
Of theso organs and of nothing else.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-07-09
Inc Cities of the World.

The following statistics of the number
of inhabitants of some of the principal
cities in Europe have been recently is
sued. There gre nInety-two cities in the
whole of Europe each containing more
than 100000, but only four which have
more than 100000, viz. London. 1882
40: Paris, 2,225,91O; Berlin, 1.222. 500:
Vienna, l.l0S,11O. OF the other capitals,
st. Petersburg possesses S66'569; Constan-
tinople, 100000: Madrid. S67,2S0: Buda-
Pesth, 360.5S0; Warsaw, S39. $40; Amster-
dam: 3I7.Ol0; Rome, 5OO.470; Disbon, 246,
$40; Palermo, 244.990: Copenhagen. 234,
$50; Nunion, 230.020; Bucharest, 221.S00:
Dresden, 220,S20; Stockholm, los, 40:
Brussels, 16i, $50; Vince, 132 $50; Slut
gardt, 1890. In addition 10 these. Mos
COW contains 6I1.970; Naples, 1873. 3.110:
Hamburg. +Io,120: Lyons, 372, $50; Mar
sejlleS, 357,5S0; Milan, S2I. $40; Breslau.
252.9lO; Turin, 252, $50; Bordeaux 2Io, $50:
Barcelona. 2l5, 800: Odessa. 1850: Elber-
field. $50, 40; Genoa, 1880: Lille. III.
$40; Flosence, 10000; Riga, les, $40; Pra-
que, l62,52o; Antwery, 15o,e50; Adrian
ople, 10000; Leipsic. 1+9.oS0; Rotterdam
l4S,ooo; Cologne, l4+,77o: Magdeburg.
IS7,I20; Frankfort. 1S6 $50: Toulouse.
1S6 03O; Ghent, 1860; Messiua, 126, 500:
Hanover. 122.S40: Nantes, l2I.96O;
Liege, 115,S5o: The Hague, 1IS,460; Opor-
to, los, $40; and Rouen, I04,010.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-07-09

lr has recently been demonstrated that
i'll perfectly moist air no formation of
fog is possible, however much the tenn
perature is lowered, so long as the air is
absolutely free from dust, ard that the
more air is sufficiently moist, is charged
with such foreign particles, the more in
tense is the formation OF fog. If filtered
and completely moist air in glass hall
have its pressure diminished, only few
particles of fog will reveal themselves to
the most careful inspection, But if few
cubic millimeters of ordinary house air be
now admitted into this filtered air, very
fine, silvery, transparent fog at once forms
itself. of such density that even in the
ease of considerable area of ii the trans
parency of the atmosphers would be but
slightly affected. At this moment of its
formation, if a reflected image of the sun
or the reflected light of an electric lamp,
be viewed through it, the image will be
seen surrounded by an intensely lumin-
Gus blue or greenish light.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-07-09
FLESH In FRAGMENTS
Terrible Explosion in a Powder Mill
Near McCainSYille. \. J..
This Morning.
Ten Men Actually Torn to Atoms and
Fifteen Injured-Intense Excite
ment Over the Disaster.

WHITE House, n. j., July 2-The Ken
vile powder mills about five miles from
| Chester, blew up shortly after the men
| had gone to work this morning, complete
ly demolishing the building and killing 10
men and wOunding some Is .others more
or less seriously. The cause of the explo-
sion is not yet known.
MoRRIsTowN, n. j., July 2.-It is now
learned that the explosion reported from
White House, n. j., occurred at the At
lantic Giant Powder works, situated be-
tween McCainsville and Drakesville, n. j.
The explosion occurred in the building
known as the mixing house. The entire
works were demolished and will entail a
heavy loss. The conclusion was felt di-
rectly for radius of twenty miles, and
windows in the buildings from three to
five miles from the scene were badly
shattered.
The men were preparing for the days
work, and were all in the mixing house.
The ten men killed were all blown to
atoms, so that no distinguishabls remnant
of their bodies has yet been found. The
killed are:
George Ammerman, married.
George Hawhill, married.
George King, single.
L. II. Smith, single.
Henry Lauback single.
Charles Jackson, single.
Charles Milburn, married.
Theodore Ryan, married.
Joseph hlnner, married.
Conrad Lauback single.
j. z. Lumstead, the chemist, and two
Others with him, miraculousIy escaped un-
injured.
The small population of Kenville, the
railroad station of the village of McCains
ville is in a terrible state of excitement,
as the victims of the sad disaster all re-
side iii the neighborhood and many fam
lilies are suddenly bereayed. Ten years
ago light explosion occurred at the
works whereby two men were killed. Since
then the works have been exempt from
serious accidents.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-07-09
THE WISCONSIN CENTRAL.

Its New Line TO be Opened for Traffic July 10.
MILWAUKEE,, July General Passen-
ger Agent Barker, of the Wisconsin Cen
tral railway company, announced to-day
that the Central's new through line be
tween Chicago and st. Paul will be for
mally opened on Monday, July 19. Two
through trains viii be run each way be-
tween Chicago and Eau Claire. 1t is
stated that the time of trains between
Chicago and st. Paul will be somewhat
faster than that of competing lines.
Should the cut rates now in effect remain
unchanged, the Central company, it Is
said, will sell tickets at the cut rates, al
though taking no aggressive part In the
rate war
The Central company has made every
arrangement to give the travelling public
frst-class accommodations on the new
through line. The road has been
ballasted with stone and gravel, new
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-07-09
The Future Of the White Race.

Speaking of the white race" continu,
ed Mr.. Cannon, according to an Eng
lish statistician, they now number one
third of the population of the globe,
whereas two centuries ago they were not
more than one-tenth of it. They have
swallowed up Europe and are now enter
Africa at all sides. There are French
colonies at AIgiers. The English practi-
cally control Egypt, and the Dutch and
English have a strong hold upon south
Africa. We ourselves are trying to get
admission to the great Congo valley. The
white race has Australia and it has 4
stronghold on India. The Chinese race,
large as il is, does not grow. 1t is not n
colonizing race, and its emigrants return
to China, if possible, before their death.
OF all the white races the Anglo-Saxon
and the Anglo-American are the strong
est, and it seems to me South America Is
our legitimate field. A century from now
we will have 30O,O0O,000 people in the
United States, and already our emigrants
are pushing their way into Mexico j do
not say that this whole hemisphre will be
under the political government of the
United States, but Ipredict that its rul-
ing population will be Anglo-American.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-07-09
THE COMMITTEES.
Adverse to the Randall Tariff Bill.

WASHINGTON. July 6.-The ways and
means committee to-day ordered an ad-
verse report made on the Randall tariff
bill. Kelly moved TO strike out all the
administrative features of the bill but
the motion was lost, although Hewitt
voted with the Republicans and Reed and
Hlscock were absent.
motion was then made to report the
entire bill adversely, and upon the roll
being called all the democrats voted in
the affirmative, carrying the motion
The republican members abstained from
voting on the bill on the ground that
the bill contained meritorious features
along with the Objectionable provisions
which could not be disassociated under
the motion.
Morrison will prepare an adverse re
port on the bill, while the republicans
will not make report
The committee also authorized Becken-
ridge, of Kentucky, to report adversely
Flndlay's resolution declaring it to be the
sense of the house that the re7e enue tax
on tobacco should be removed.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-07-09
LOOK At THIS .fOR,

The following veto will show the people
juat what sort of jobs +" through this
congress. Gould a thinner claim be
trumpcd up against the government than
thisy How long will the people vote
hlindly for the party aud rc-clcct the men
who put through this sort of jobs:
10 tho senate:
hereby return without approval senate
bill number three hundred and sixty five,
entitled AN net for the relief of Martin
l.. Buudy'
by tins bill it Is proposed to allow III
the settlement 10y the United States with
Mr.. Bundy, who was lately paymastcr III
the army. the sum of seven hundred and
nineteen dollars and forty-sevcn cents for
the forage OF two horses to which he
claims he was entitled whilo in the cseryiCc,
and which has never been drawn by him.
The time during which it Is alleged this
forago was duo j. stated Ia be between
July H. lsG2, and April II, 1866.
This claimant was mustered out a~ pay
master on the last mentioned date. and III
lS13 certificate was issued that his uc-
counts having been adjusted, they cxhib-
tied no indebtedness on his part to the
snttcd States
subsequently, however, and in or about
the year 1872, 1t was discovered that by
reason of duplicate credit, which had
beer. allowed him 10y mistake, he was ac-
tually indebted to the government i'll the
sum of five hundred and tweuty-eight dol
lars and seventy two cents
After the fact had been made known to
him the claim embodied in this bill was
suggested To or invented by him. which,
If allowed, will not only eNtiuguish his
indebtedness to the government, but
tcave a balance due to him.
by the law and the army regulations
the forage upon which this claim Is based
Is ar should bo only allowed to those in
thr service who actually have used horses
IN tho performance of their duties.
And when thus entitled to forage il was
necessary to draw it in kind or in specific
articles permitted every month, and if
not thus drawn II could not afterwards bo
claimed. There seems to ba no such
thing as a communication of forage III such
eases.
There IS ne suggestion that the claim
ant named in this bill had or used any
horses while in the service II he did and
paid for their maintenance and at the
settlement of his accounts made no claim
for rcimhursement he presents Il case of
incredible ignorance of his rights or a
wonderful lack of that disposition to gain
every possible advantage which Is usu-
ally found among those who deal with the
government.
1t is quite apparent that the claim is
not valid, and the fact that it is made
long after the discovery of his deficit
leads to the suspicion that it Is insisted
on merely for the purpose of paying his
debt.
Though in this particular case it would
do but little more than to eNtinquish an
Indebtedness TO the government, the al
lowance of this claim would set prece-
dent which could hardly be ignored, and
which, If followed, would furnish another
means of attack upon the public treasury
quite as effective many which are now
III active operation.
GROVER CI.EVK Np.
Executive Mansion, July ;, 1856.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-07-09
FATAL FIRE AT DENVER.
The Aeadmey of Music Burned and one Man
Crcmated.

DENVER, July AT 1:15 this morning
fire was discovered in the Academy of
Music and before the fire departmint
could get to work the flames were leaping
through the building in half lozen
places, which few minutes later was one
mass of flames. The heat was so intol-
cradle that the fire department were
driven from the building, being unable
TO stand the intense heat.
1t now became evident that the acad-
emy was doomed and the tiremen devoted
themselves to saving the Rocky Noun
tain News building and the Goode and
McClintock's block, which were now on
fire on the outside. The flames
spread SO rapidly and the heat became so
intense that in less than fifteen minutes
after the discovery of the fire the wires
of the Western Union Telegraph com
pany, whose Office is in the block
directly across the alley from
the academy were melted i'll two and all
service destroyed. The operators man
aged to save the milestone and other
valuable instruments, though several of
the relays were destroyed. A hundred
engines could not have saved the build
ing, which was a mass of ruins within an
ground floor was occupied as a business
house, in which several men were sleeping
at the time of the fire, all of whom were
rescued by the tiremen except Tim
Ennight, an old man, a roustabOut in the
! saloon of John Kinavy. Ennight retired
at IL O'Clock last night in an intoxicated
condition, and was forgotten until so late
he could not be rescued and he perished
in the flames. The cause of the fire at
present is unknown. As near as could be
ascertained the losses are as follows: Z.
II. Hughes on academy of Music, S125,0O0;
insurance, S50,000; Rocky Mountain
News, $4,000; insurance, $25,O00; John
Kennedy's saloon and clothing, $4,000;
insurance, $1,000; Lazarus, tailor, $1,000;
no insurance. Goode block, 100000 in
surance, $500; Joseph Meskew, $1,000;
no insurance; McClintoc block, $2,5OO.
The smaller losses are estimated at
$4,000.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-07-09
The Physiology of the Liver.

The liver is the largest secresing organ IN the
human boiv and the bile which it secretes Is
NOR. liable 10 yitiatiou and mLssiirscriOa from
its proper channels than any other Of the animal
fluids Luckily FOR the bilious. however there is
an unfailins source OF relief from liver com
p,aiut, namely. HoStetters Stomach Bltters. q
medicine which for over q quarter OF a century
has been achieving thorough cures Of the above
mentioned ailments. fever and ague, dyspepsia
bowel complaints rheumatic and kidney af.ec-
rioo and disorders involving loss Of nervous vigor
and sfYortfs protection to thousands of persons
residing in districts Of country where that dire
s-ourge Is prevalent A remedy adapted 10
the medicinal requirements OF families 1t IS su
r,reuze!y desirable and as s means OF forfzfying
. iebiiitated system, It IS thoroughly to be de-
jzsj, ,--.,-
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-07-09
They Mike Missionaries.
st. Paul Pioneer Press.

A traveller recently returned from the
Fiji islands, and who brought with him
the skull and bones Of missionary
as curiosities, declares that the Fiiians
would again become cannibals if they
had the opportunity. Even now, he says
one cannot go into the interior of the Is
land with safety. The government for
bids people to go into the mountains for
fear they will get baked and eaten. All
the clothes the natives wear Is lion
cloth and the government encourages the
chiess in introducing civilized clothing
The women, though, have some modesty,
as is shown by the fact that only recent
Iy eight of them were sentenced by the
roko, for some ofense TO go nude for
four months. There il very little edn-
cation among the masses, but the mission
aries have established few schools for
children
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-07-09
GENERAL NOTES.

A PROFIT OF $4,000 for June, is report
ed by the managers of Sing Sing prison,
New York.
The graduating classes of Yale and
Harvard Universities number respectively
326 and 223.
THE condition of the Mexican revenues
is improving, the receipts showing So
100000 gain for the year.
THE new city directory of Chicago con
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-07-09

WASHINGTON, July 6.-Private dis
patches received in this city announce
the death at Mt. Pleasant. Iowa. of Col
George B. Corkhill. ex-district attorney
of this district. Col. Corkhill served IL
the Union army through the late war
and at the close OF the rebellion he wa:
made district attorney for one of the
judicial districts of Iowa Subsequently
President Hayes appointed him United
States district attorney for the district OF
Columbia, which position he held until
near the close of President Arthur
term. and since that time, has been en-
gagged in the practice of law in this city