Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-09-28
THE LATEST TELEGRAMS
GENERAL NOTES.

| THE governor of Texas has not raised
! the quarantine against New Orleans.
! TExAs fever has appeared among cattle
in the vicinity of Mount Vernon, Ohio.
/ MINNEAPOLIS mills turned out 166 no
| barrels OF -four last week, against l4i,O0o
the preceding week. e
! THE frost of Wednesday night caused
mach damage TO the cranberry and to-
| bacco crops of Wisconsin
| 4 BUTTE, Cal. N an who began farming
| on rented land ten years ago has this year
| SCI, 600 worth of wheat 20 sen.
! LoNDoN.-Calvert Bros. of Halifax,
WOODEN factors, have failed. Their liza
biities amount TO over 100000.
TIE Standard Oil Company is said to
be shutting of production in the lew In
diana oil Islds.
TIE grand lodge of Odd Fellows has
refused to admit young men of eighteen
to membership.
THE widow OF Polk is in her 87th year,
and though rather feeble end forgetful,
maiD tainE an interest in the affairs of the
world.
GENERAL RosECRANs has been elected
president of the Society of the Army
Of the Cumberland, to succeed the late
General Sheridan.
SIMoN CAMERON is now nearly 80. He
has been spending the summer IN quiet
way at his country home IL Lancaster
county, Pennsylvania.
TEE name of Paso del Norte, the Mexi-
can town opposite Ell Paso, Texas, has
been changed to the City of Juarezo.
The town is also made a city.
SwITcHMEN in the Lake Shore and Wis
copsin Central yards at Ashland. Wis,
are Oh strike fer an increase of 25 cents
day in wages.
THE supreme court of Arizona has rem
dered cecisiou declaring that the At
lsutc and Pacific railroad is not exempt
from taxation by the territorial govern
ment.
Mrs. JOSEPH RIGGS, widow of the Wash
ington banker, and possessor of $1,000
coo in her own name, is about to marry
an Italian Prince.
The matter of opening the big Sioux
reservation to settlement will come be
fore the indians for fna. notion Satur-
day.
CoAL-M1NE owners in the Belleville, H.,
district are preparing to suspend October
1, rather than give their employees the de-
manded advance of = cent q bushel.
TIE Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire
men has indorsej the scheme of fedora
tion with the switchmen and engineers,
and voted an assessment of S. a month
on each member for the relief of the Bur-
lIDgtoa strikers.
CAENor's tour through France is even
more suocesssul than was expected, and is
characterized as "a spontaneous plebicite
against revision of the constitution"
ROME telegram to the Catholic News
announces a decree of the holy Office on
the Knights of Labor question, favorable
to that organization, has been forwarded
to Cardinal Gibbons.
GREAT natural-gas we'll has been
drilled at La Fontaine, ten miles south of
Wabash, Ind. Two flames burn nearly
one hundred feet high from the three
inch casing. The well Is perfectly dry.
For
LONDON. "A dispatch from Afghani-
stan says: "The ameer reports that his
troops have captured Fort ktmard from
the rebels, together with many prisoners,
including IshGk Khan's father-in-law."
TIE visible supply of wheat and corn
last saturday was, respectively: Wheat,
3l,378, ,221 bushels; corn, 8,602,854 bu-
shells. Since last report wheat increased
S50,531 bushels, while corn decreased
486, 313 bushels.