Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-09-10
From Our Local Exchanges.
The Richlsrd Republican.

SclS Il ItllSI HUH SOUIt SuIut WHO
wants to operate at our county fair:
canesrack men. baby rack men. men
who want to play the soap and
money trick " on credulous rustics;
another wants to do some professional
running and jumping for the society.
still another wants to go up in a ba-
loon for the establishment of the nat
ives all for the slight consideration of
$500, or will make two aScensions for
an even 500. and to still better show
his iberality he offers TO give any one
who wishes to be Joined in holy we'd
lock in mid-air, free ride and clergy
man to perform the ceremony thrown
! in. Such generosity ought not to go
unrewarded. And lastly comes a let
ter marked - personal from the Pink
erton Detective agency of Chicago. af-
ter solemnly printing out the many
dangers to a rural population Of being
"fleeced " by gamblers bunko steerers.
SharpS and pick-pocketS. offers TO send
any number of detectives to arrest
all such rascaIS on sight. all at the very
lowest rate. How SoliCitouS they all
are for the welfare of the ruSticS.
The DodgevIlle Chronicle.
y dispatch received by Mr.. Nicholas
Arthur, Of this village. last Saturday.
brought the sad intelligence that his
son Peter had died at Los Angeles,
California, that morning. Peter was
one of Dodgeville'S most promising
young men,-intelligent. industrious
and Self-reliant-and the news of his
death is received with sincere sorrow
by all who knew him. He served his
apprenticeship at printing in this of
flee, after which, in 1891, he went west.
and for the past two or three years has
been foreman of daily paper at Los
Angeles, where he died. Up to the
time of our going to press, no particu-
lars as to the cause or manner of his
death had been received.
Married, at the brides residence. on
Monday morning. August 30th. by
Rev. VIM. Charles, Mr.. ). W. Reese
and Miss Jennie \. Owens, both of
this village. The wedding was a quiet
and unoStentatiouS affair, very few
outside of the near relatives of the
contracting parties being present. AZ
ter partaking of an elegant breakfast.
the happy couple took the II Il. m.
train for short visit to friends in Mil
waukee, Racine and Chicago. Nh.
and Mrs. Reese are among our most
prominent and highly respected citi-
ZenS, and in common with our COM
munity in general. The Chronicle has
great pleasure in rendering them con
gratulationS upon their happy union.
with its wishes for its long continued
prosperity and happiness
Arena Correspondent Of Dodgeviue Chronicle.
We have been stricken in this vii
lage with death and disease. since
last iseue, as we have never been ahlict-
ed before. As we write this TUESDAY
morning., two of our families are pre-
pairing loved ones for the grave and
two funeral professions will soon be
forming. Only last Saturday, another
sorroWfm procession wendell its way
to Gods acre, only to return with the
sad knowledge that one of its number
had been stricken by accident which
was likely to prove fatal, and in not
yet determined whether it will or not;
while only half mile distant another
loved form was being forced by the
approaches Of death into the dread
angels presence with unmistakable
power.
This little victim passed away early
Sunday morning, almost at the instant
that it was whispered throughout the
village that still another was then
battling for life, and that
the unequal contest would in all pro-
liability soon be over. This case is in
the Doctors family and the anguish
of hearh is as yet in no wise abated
Still another and another WreStIeS with
seeming defeat, only a moments walk
away, while in the opposit side Of town
one family is watching beside the bed
of one stricken with typhoid fever.
while at least three other men and
several women are quite sick and but
few of our number are entirely well.
Taking it all in all, it is a week of
sorrow and anguish with no present
sign of mitigation or relief as new
cases developed daily.
The disease is some sort of a bowel
complaint of the nature Of bloody liuX,
and unless attended to at the very be
ginning, ScOrns all Oppositions Of med
ical skill, generally ending, in the cases
of children, in spinal meningitis and
death. Our older people generally get
well after serious battle with the
disease
Add to this another case of decline
that seems to be surely approaching
deaths portals, and YOU will have a
partial conception of our weeks woe
which, added as it is to the last few
weeks of death and sorrow which have
Immediately preceded the present
scourge, makes it the saddest season
in our history.
SO far as, it passes but scarcely be-
yond the village limits, and is identical
in its nature with the affiictiOn in the
section Of Spring Green, two years ago,
where it batfled all medical skill.
The Cassville Current.
Johnnie Motto was the the first boy
to suffer on account of jumping on the
cars. He fell from car and splinter
ed his arm but is getting along finely,
The Libbie Conger, going down and
the Sidney, going up the river met at
CasSville Thursday, The rise of water
in the river has made navigation
easier for the boats, and will soon
make the river lively with large boats
again.