Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-01-06
News in Brief.
JUDGE RAPALLo. of the New York Court
of Appeals, died Wednesday.

| JUDGE RAPALLo. of the New York Court
of Appeals, died Wednesday.
| NINE cables connect Europe and Ameri-
| ca. Altogether there are now in use 49,
| 600 nautical miles 20 cable.
/ EXPORTS from the port of New York,
exclusive of specie, for the week ending
Tuesday, were S6,025,00l.
DANIEL J. Manning, ex-secretary ofthe
treasury, died at the residence of his son
! at Albany, n. Y, on Saturday.
IT is estimated that as many as sixty
persons perished from hunger and cold
during the prevalence of the recent bliz-
zArd in Kansas.
UNUSUALLY severe winter and heavy
SHOWS are reported in various parts of
Europe. In Austria railroads trains are
blockaded.
TIE 16O saloons of Portland, Ore, pay
$4S 600 into the city treasury, and their
prOprietors pay 1892 900 for rent.
THE Judge of the Superior Court at
Cedar Rapids has declared the State Reg
istry law, passed by the last Iowa Legis
lature, unconstitutional.
The Lathrop memorial building at Al
bany, New York, erected by Mrs. Leland
Stanford as a home for working won ems
children, has been dedicated. 1t cost,
with its furniture, $75 600.
DUR1NG the year 1887 the miles of new
railroad built in the Northwest number
ed 1854. OF this the Manitoba built 942
miles.
HERBERT SPENCER is at BOumemouth in
very poor health it is said. The insomnia
which recently afflicted him has returned
and he can find no remedy for it.
The saIoon-men of st. Paul have come
to the conclusion that they have nothing
TO gain by continuing their fight against
the 81 600 liquor license which is soon to
go into effect in that city.
President CLEVELAND and members of
his Cabinet attended the funeral of ex-
Secretary Manning at Albany, n. Y, on
Tuesday.
The will of the late Mrs. Charlotte
Augusta Astor, filed at New York, Wednes-
day, bequeaths S16O,OOO for religious,
charitable, and educational purposes.
The bulk of her estate goes to her hus-
band.
PHILADELPHIA uses 100000 tons of
sugar in the manufacture of candy every
year. During the winter the candy
factories of that city turn out 125 tons of
candy every week.
A CALIFORNIA woman has established
claim in the Mexican courts to a tract of
land in Lower California, including por-
tiOD of the town of Ensenada, which is
valued at S1,00O,0O0.
Snow fell to the depth of six and eight
inches in Louisiana and Mississippi Sat
urday night. The en- jire Southwest and
Mexico appear to he SNOW covered at
present
The descendants and heirs of William
Weber, a native of Holland, Europe,
claim to have proved up their ownership
of an area sixty-six acres in extent, in the
very heart of New York City, valued at
S2O,0O0,O00.
VIM, WEBER, of Dover, N. H., is alleged
TO have proved his claim as one of the
heirs to sixty acres of New York city,
located South of Canal street, and now
valued at $40, 100000. A meeting of the
heirs will be held at New York January
20, next.
GOVERNOR ALGER's Christmas benefac-
tiOns to the poor of Detroit were large
ard bountiful. Needy neweboys to the
number of five hundred received suits of
clothes, and one thousand families were
each given barrel of -four and a cord of
wood or ton of coal.