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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-11-19

Advices from the towns on the coast of
Texas inundated during the storm a few
days ago show that the calamity Is even
worse than first reported. Measures for
the distressed are being actively pushed
at Houston, Galveston and other cities.
Members of the local committee say the
calamity grows with each hour. All
tidings from the devastated. region make
the disaster far greater and more dis
tressing than was at first thought pos
sible. Nr. Lasker, of the committee, was
one of the thousand or more who fled for
their lives the night of Galveston's great
fire. He also recently visited the drought
stricken districts of Northwest Texas,
but declares that neither of these calami-
ties compares in point of suffering and
distress with what he witnessed at Sabine
Pass aud JohnSon's Bayou. The Mayor
of Orange telegraphed the Mayor of Full
ton asking for assistance to care for the
survivors who are crowding into that
place. The City Council appropriated
$500.
A dispatch from Orange says: ''The
steamer Lamar returned here last even
ing from Sabine Pass with GO additional
sufferers one-half of whom will go to
Beaumont as soon as trans pertation can
be obtained. The balance will remain
here in care of the local relief commit
tees. Ten additional bodies had been
found up to noon yesterday. The relief
committees of Orange have exhausted
all their supplies and funds. The
sufferers are constantly coming in
The relief committees have $50 now in
their charge, and $50 more were expected
last night from Johnsons Bayou. Unless
more relief comes Immediately great dis
tross will prevail. Many of the sufferers
are sick. The relief committees were
notified yesterday that $1,000 had been
donated by Houston, which is all the aid
that has been received outside of our
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-11-19
THE LATEST TELEGRAMS
WASHINGTON,

president Cleveland and the cabinet
officers who accom- panied him to Boston
have returned to Washington.
Mrs. and Miss Kelley, widow and daugh-
ter of exCongressman Kelley, of Oregon,
are in Washington for the winter.
THE engagement of G. Eustis. grand
son of Mr.. Corcoran, and Miss Eustis,
daughter of Senator Eustis, of Louisiana,
Is announced.
SENATOR SIBERIAN says there will be alb
sOlutely nothing done with the tariff
and finance at the coming session of con
gress.
GENERAL SHERIDAN, in his annual re-
port to the secretary OF war, remarks that
unless the status of the Oklahoma lanQs
be fixed by Legislation their advantages
will prove a continued temptation to ad-
YentUreTs.
The purpose of Secretary Manning's
circular anticipating interest on bonds is
to pay out at once, if the business of the
country requires it, $3,0OO,OO0, that would
otherwise not be paid until Dec. l, and
S7,0O0,0O0 otherwise not payable until
Jan. !.
SECRETARY MANSING has issued IN order
that hereafter no appointments of women
to positions as messengers, assistant
messengers, or laborers in the treasury
will be allowed. The order is intended
TO prevent women from being appointed
to positions in those grades and detailed
to other duties
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-11-19
zen "hAl. NOTES.

NATURAL &as was strdcl, Thursday, al
Muncie, Ind, and the people are greatly
excited over the discovery.
TuE volcano of Colima, in Mexico, and
volcano on lslns Blancas, off the Mexi.
can Pacific coast, are reported in state
of eruption.
II Is stated by the Cincinnati Times
that Speaker Carlisle will, at the expira
tiou Of his term in congress, remove TO
NMclta, Kan, where he has sons engaged
in business.
TuE Rackmon's union of Montreal. hay
ing made the discovery that man was
commanded to keep the Sabbath day
holy have decided to abstain from
Sunday labor.
IHE packers of Chicago are establish
. ing at the Union stock yards boarding
barracks to accommodate six thousand
men for the winter.
JUpGE GAgY has signed a bill of excsp-
tions III the case of the Chicago anar-
chists. Application for Supersedeas
Will this week be made to the supreme
court.
THERE was a decrease OF 4.7S2 tons in
the amount OF freight shipped eastward
from Chicago last week, doubtless due 10
the strike at the stock yards. The Penn
sylvauia roads secured S7.7 per cent. of
the tonnage.
TuE collections of internal revenue
since the system was organized in 1862
have been sufficient to pay tho national
debt at its highest figures and lsave 4
balance of over S6Sl, 100000.
TEE national butter, cheese, and egg
/ convention at Chicago, with seventeen
/ states and territories represented, voted
/ down a proposition 10 recommend legis-
lation making Illegal the adulteration of
| dairy products.
/ Tux European diffusion process of
/ making sugar, which has been tested at
| Ottawa, Has, by employees OF the nation
4 al department of agriculture, under the
! guidance OF Professor Wiley, has proved
| successful in the highest degree.
THE Minnesota and Northwestern road
/ has completed its grading between
| Chicago and Freeport, and tracklaying
I viii commence at once. The only re-
/ naming gap in the line from Chicago to
/ st. Paul Is between Freeport and East
/ Dubuque, fifty eight miles.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-11-19

and escaped injury, doing an the neces-
sary acts of avoidance while carry
ing out some dream purpose,
Just as waking purpose is fulfilled.
This hypothesis obviouly requires a very
full explanation of such an accident as
that by which Sleep-walker recently
came TO her death-nGmely, falling out
of an open window. 1t is not likely TO
have been part of the dream to get ont
of window. There must have been
some error IN the carrying out OF the
process; such, for example, as turning to
the right instead of the left on leaving
room. and thus walking through a low
window instead of through & doorway,
As a rule the senses are sufficiently on the
alert, TO enable The sleep-walker TO
take all precautions for safety. and when
he comes face to face with difficulty in
volvlng more than automatic or sub-con-
scious sSlf-cCntrOl, he wakes. We should
like to know more of the case which has
just ended fatally from some competent
medical observer who has studied the de-
velopment of this interesting disorder in
this particular instance. Surely prac-
titioner was consulted. No medical scru-
tiny and counsel, in sleep-walking there
Is the making of madness and in its in
ception this disorderly sleeplessness
ought to be staved
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-11-19
REMARKABLE EXECUTION.
The Cool Manner in Which Mexican Murdc,
Mt

The Cool Manner in Which IA Mexican Murder
er Met Death.
One of the most extraordinary execu-
tlons that ever took place in any country
occurred at sunrise yesterday morning in
New Laredo, Mexico. The victim was
Pedro Rosendez, the Mexican who as
sasinated his alleged mistress. Sonora 10
retia Goemez, and her daughter last Sun
day morning IN the passenger coach of
the Mexican National train as it entered
the station in New Laredo. RosendeZ
was executed by the legal authorities of
NuevO Leon three days after his crime
without the pretcnso Of hearing or trial
of any character. 1t is this fact that
causes great sensation along the bor-
der. He was led from jail about 6 O'Clock
by squad of six policemen. Just IA
they were ready to blindfold the prisoner
he asked them but to permit him to
smoke a cigaret. This privilege was
readily granted. The doomed man stood
facing the six Winchester rifles, deliber-
ately rolled his Spanish cigaret, struck
match, took half dozen whiffs, and then
raised his right hand as a signal for the
officers to proceed with their work. Of
the six guns four had been loaded, and
simultaneously as they rang out Rosendez
fell, pierced with four bullets. His brains
were scattered all around the spot where
he stood. In half an hour, before the
public at large realized that the execution
had taken place, his body had been cart
ed away.
The death warrant for this execution
had been telegraphed from Guerro, the
seat of the judicial authorities, and the
latter could have known no particulars
of the crime further than what they had
read in the local papers at Guerro, which
had telcgraphic account of the murder
Sonora GoemeZ. An investigation into
this remarkable execution showed that
1t was approved by President Diaz by
telegraph. The exc cution took place un-
der law that was passed by the Federal
Congress last spring, which declared that
any one caught in the act of interfering
with a railroad train should be shot to
death at once. This is the first execution
on the border under the new law Among
the more intelligent Moxicans the approx
al by President Diaz, nearly 1000 miles
away from the scene, is regarded as an
outrage on justice that nothing can CON
done. RosendeZ had many influential re-
latives, who were dumfounded on hearing
of his hasty execution.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-11-19
STATE MILITIA.
1t Has Some Good Features and Some Poor
Ones.

Ones
WASHINGTON, Nov. 15.-The adjutant-
gen ,ral has made public number of re-
ports from army officers who were de
tanned to attend and inspect the annual
encampments and evolutions of the
militia of the states of Alabama, Maine,
Michigan, New Hampshire, Minnesota,
Missouri, New York, Ohio, Kentucky,
Pennsylvania, Iowa, Illinois, Vermont,
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, In
diana, Kansas, Connecticut and
the Territory of Dakota. The
inspections were confined to the
states above enumerated for the reason
that the governors of the other states
failed to request the war department to
detail officers to visit the encampments of
their states. While criticising the details
of the various organizations, such as lack
of uniformity in clothing, poor attend
ance at roll calls, aud disposition to shirk
guard duty and other onerous duties of a
soldier the reports are unanimous IN
praising the physical qualifications of the
men who make up the militia, Their ex-
cellence in drill and tactics and the ear
nest manly efforts of the officers to i'm
prove their commands and maintain
high standard of discipline.
general complaint is made of the
poor quality of arms furnished the
militia, consisting in great part of old
badly worn and unscrviceable Springfield
| and Sharp's rifles. Most of the organiza-
tions showed much interest in target
practice, and the Maine militia is especi-
| ally commended for its marvellous skir-
uli.h firing. Several of the reports speak
| of crying need of athorough systematic
| instruction. The material is said to be
| splendid, and zeal and intelligence the
rule, but lacking direction. 1t is suggest
| ed that the war department should detail
officers to report to the governors of the
various states to be assigned to duty as
instructors solely, with no command what
ever, and if this plan should be adopted,
| it is thought that the result would be of
great value to the states. II is recon-
mended tina. closely neighboring states
accredited the visitors officially to the
state encampments, whose duty 1t shall
| be to take notes and report upon matters
| of interest to the militia. More strdy is
| found to be necessary by subalterns, and
| the use of dummies or blocks in tactical
studies is urged.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-11-19
TIRED or EXISTENCE.
i Boston Nan Take, His Own Iii

j Boston Nan Takes His Own Life
BosTos, Nov. 15.-Edgar Lombard, of
the firm of A. c. Lombard & Sons, one of
the best known shipping firms in this
part Of the country, committed suicide
this morning in strange manner at
Young's hotel while laboring under fit
of despondency caased by family
troubles About 1870 o'clock an
odor of escaping gas was directly
traced to Lombard's apartments, the
doors of which we're locked An en-
trance was effected through transom
when it was discovered the deceased had
entered his bath room and taking rub
Der drop ligh. tube had fastened one end
over the gas burner and then putting the
other end into his mouth lay down and
inhaled the gas until he was asphyIiated-
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-11-19
TGLErnoN@ E&Nr> TOO uI%u

The Patrons NiG order Them Removed
RoCuESrEK, \. Y. Nov. To- At meet
Jug OF Bell Telephone company subScrih
eas held tonight an association wa7 form
ed, consisting of lessoes. 1t was agreed
by these that they would order their tclc
phones removed. regardless of unex-
pred contracts. Ii was further agreed
that any new arrangement made with
the company would necessarily include
recompense for any loss Ivy reason of
contracts. The present members Of the
association consist principally of repro
scntativcs of business houses, aud il j.
thought the remaining four hundred
which represent private houses chiefly,
will JOIN the associatiuu. The trouble
grows out OF the announcement hy the
company that hereafter the rental would
be considered rs covering a fixed number
of conversations, and that connections
made over and above that number would
be charged for in addition to the rental.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-11-19
CIVIL SERVICE PROMOTIONS.
Decision in Regard to Them.

New YORK, Nov. 1j.-Thomas B. Harris,
one of the employees of the custom house,
was re-examined recently with a view Of
promotion, notwithstanding the fact that
his percentage was the highest, the pro
motion YVES gwen TO another man, ian
honorably discharged soldier" TO whom
it was clzimed the law giyes preference.
Harris wrote to President Cleveland to
know why he had been set aside
by a man far below him in the civil ser
vice examination. The case was referred
to Collector Malone, who in turn referred
ii to tho civil service commission. Yes
terday their decision was received. They
are of the opinion that preferences are
for adnis sion TO the classified service, and
do not extend to promotions therein.
They hold that in competitive eIamina-
tions for promotion in the civil service
those graded highest Ia the register
should in all cases be first certified by the
appointing officer.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-11-19
GENERAL NOTES.

The fashionable Philadelphia girl
plays poker, and plays for big money.
Two hundred thousand barrels of Con
cord and Catawba grap.s were received
in New York last week.
The Canadian Indians at Whitefsh
Lske and Lac La Biche are dying in large
numbers from an epidemic of measles
So virulent Is the disease that the agents
have not dared TO pay the annual treaty
money.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-11-19
STILL 4 MYSTERY.
The Police Fail to Find Mrs. wheuer's Mur-
derer.

The Police Fail To Find Mrs. wheller's Mur-
derer.
CLKSELANp, Now. I5.-Two DAYS earn
est work by the police has failed to clear
up the mystery surrounding the murder
of Mrs. Jane WHEELER last Friday evening.
Benjamin WHEELER, the woman's husband,
and Patrick Graves, a former tenant Of
Wheeler are still under arrest. The coro-
ner begsn the inquest to-day. Nothing
of Importance was elected as showing
who committed the murder. WHEELER in
his testimony made a statement, howevcv.
which does not agree with his story 70 the
police. When the police first went 10
his house, Nhcllcr asserted positively
that Patrick Graves and another man had
committed the murder, and that ke recog-
nlzed Graves As the. mad who assaulted
him. To-day before the coroner, WHEELER
said that he was not sure that Graves was
the man; in fact he could not tell who il
was. Numerous witnesses gave tcsti-
mony which would easily establish
an alibi for Graves. The coroner
will not render his verdict tomorrow.
The police are working on clue which
came into their possession yesterday. and
If Is said that one or two arrests will he
made tomorrow.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-11-19
Pension Decisions.


WASHINGTON. Nov. 15-A specimen of
the perpleXing questions which arise to
bother the pension authorities is furnish
ed to-day in the case of the widow and
minor heirs of David II. Smith, lately and
forcibly deceased. Smith served as an
artificer i'll the Twenty-fourth Indiana
Light Artillery during the war, and, in
1881, was granted a pension from July s.,
1884, of 81 per month for rheumatism.
Later in the year the pension was increas-
ed to Sc per month. On Jan. 4, 1882,
Smith was found dead. and an investiga-
ton proved that his wife had killed him
She was tried, convicted and sentenced to
the Jefferson Peniten5iary for life Smith
left four minor children under 16 wears
of age, and the question arose as to the
disposition of the pension. The law, with
out making an exception, directs
that the pension on the death
of the husband shall go to the wife. Gen
eral Black, after considering the matter,
determined, in view of the bad character
OF the mother, to give the pension to the
children. The case was appealed to the
Secretary of the Interior, who to-day de
clded that the law allowed no other course
than that laid down, and reversed the ac-
tIOn of the Commissioner, thus giving the
pension to the mother
In the same connection was decided a
case involving the claims of a father and
mother to sons pension. The latter
died, and the law demandiIs~that when
dependent father and mother are left, the
pension of the son shall go to the mother.
The course seemed plainly marked out.
The mother, however, has left her hus-
band twice and is now living in open
adultery with another man. She is par
tally supported, while the old father, her
husband has nothing. The Commissioner
considering only equities of the case. gave
the pension to the father. The Secretary
decided that the inexorable rule of of law
must be obeyed and over-ruled the Com
missioner's decision. He says that moral
considerations, however, upheld the Com
missioner in every way. The Secretary
is preparing a recommendation to Con
gress changing the law SO as to give the
department some latitude in cases of this
kind.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-11-19
Accident 20 sIeep-Walkers.

1t seems strange, on the first blush of
the matter, that so very few accidents be-
fall sleep-walkers- The proportion of in
stances in which any injury is sustained
by the subjects of this remarkable state
of semi-sleep Is very small The expla-
nation of the immunity Is doubtless 20 be
found in the fact that it Is state of
seui-sleeP in which the sieep-Ealker
makes his excursion. He Is sleeping
only so far as part OF his cerebrum
Is concerned The rest of his brain
Is awake, and therefore IL is real
ly not strange feat to walk carefully
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-11-19

WhitelaE Reds new Madison avenue
house in New York resembles royal pal
ace more than anything Else. 1t Is q
mass os costly marbles, cedar, mother-of-
pearl and rich frescoes-
The late Mrs. Stewart had peculiar
dislike for dark colors. All the Stewart
buildings were of the purest white, and
she herself avoided in her dress as much b
as possible all somber hues-
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-11-19
A Horrible Form

or malarial disease is dumb ague. Constant
drowsiness, sleep interrupted by chill, succeed
ed by a consuming heat, and that by an exhaust
ing sweat. 4 sensation as Of numbness from
cold, but no shaking attends it. Hostetters
Stomach Bitters invariably eradicates it, though
it is the most obstinate form Of miasma born dis
ease. To conquer it with quinine is as impossible
as TO battle down Gibraltar with a howitzer. Ma
larial disorders of every kind are attended with
arrangement Of the liver, fact evinced by the
saffron tint which the skin assumes in such dis
eases. For this symptom, well as for its cause,
the Btters is certain remedy. Constipation,
dyspepsia, rheumatism, and inactivity OF the
kidneys and bladder, are also relieved by this
| Gne alternative.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-11-19
SlhES AND CASUALTIES.

o. j. HALE, a prominent member of
the Milwaukee chamber of commerce was
found dead in bed.
PowDKR-HousK at Lake Hopatong, n.
j., was blown up, Tuesday afternoon. One
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-11-19

WASHINGTON, Nov. IA decision was
rendered by the supreme court in the
case of the town of Oregon, ILL.,, against
Eliza jennings, brought here by a writ OF
error to the United States circuit court
for the northern district of Illinois. This
was suit brought upon the coupons of
a series of bonds issued by the town of
Oregon as a donation to the Ogle d Car
roll county Railroad company. The va
lidity of the bonds was attacked by the
court below upon the grounds of various
infSrmalities and Irregularities, mostly
technical, i'll the proceedings which led
to the issue of the bonds. This
court holds that there was in
the execution of the bonds no
fraud or Irregularities; that the appoint
ment of the surveyor who issued them
was valid, and that the town is estopped,
by the recital in the bonds from assert
ing as against bona tide holder. that the
statutory conditions were not duly com.
piled with. The charge of informally
in the organization of the town meeting
which authorized the Issue of the bonds
is held to be without foundation. The
! judgment of the court below in favor of
| the bondholder it therefore affirmed.
Opinion by Justice Blatchford.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-11-19
Newport'S Pretty Girls.
Providence Journal.

The season has been singularly unsuc-
cessful from matrimonial point of view.
There have been no engagements an
nouuced, none cOnsummated, nobody
knows why, unless 1t be that the modern
men and naidens are too cool, too prac-
tical to enter into any Arrangement from
which there is nothing to be gained pc
cuniarily. Every man nova days means
to marry girl with money. Every girl
intends to marry only man with the
same delightful qualifications, and the
sweet old fashions of loving and being
loved have long ago passed out of the
world with the flowers arcadian. Perhaps
that is why there seems TO be fewer
matches than formerly, and why so many
of those that are made turn out so badly,
There have certainly been plenty of pref
ty girls in town this summer, bright
charming, accomplished, and undeniably
attractive; and why it is that, after seas
on extending over some three or four
months, these same lovely women return
to their city homes in the very state of
single blesssdness in which they left
them. who shall be wise enough to say?
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-11-19

NEw 1oRK, Nov. l5.-Eraucis McCsbe
the Doodle alderman, who was last week
sdIudged insane, secured his release on
bail from the Ludlow street jail, this af-
ternoor. The required bond was S2O,ONO
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-11-19

IllS.
A decision was also rendered by the
court in the case of the steamer Harris
burg and her owners, appellants, VS..
Emma Richards, ct al, appealed from
the United States circuit court for the
eastern district of Pennsylvania. This
was a suit brought to recover damages
for the loss of human life through al
legged carelessness and negligence of the
employees on board the steamer Harris
burg. The court holds that in the absence
of any national law giving right of action
to recover damages for the death of a
human being on the high seas or naviga-
BILE waters communicative Herewith. n
suit in admiralty in the courts of the
United States OF be maintained.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-11-19

WASHINGTON, Nov. IA decision was
to-day rendered by the supreme court in
the patent case of the Consolidated Safe
ty Valve Co, aPpellent, against Augustus
B.kunkee appealed from the United States
circuit court for the northern district of
Illinois. This was suit in equity
brought by the Consolidated company
to recover damages for m alleged in
fringement'of its patents upon an improv-
ed safety valve. This court holds that
the defendants valves do not infringe
on the Consolidated safety valve com
panys patents. The decree of the cir
cult court is therefore affirmed. The
opinion was rendered by Justice Batch
ford.