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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-03-23
sQUIBs

The family that is without a mus,ca
prodigy in these days does not amount to
much.
The toboggan was formerly the toe
boggan, so called because the toe was
used in steering it. The end of the toe
naturally got worn off in time.
Washington was guilty of just one joke.
He said one day, for instance, that Gen
eral Gates wac one of those things on
hinges that were always aiar.
OF course Solomon was the Nisest mau
A fellow with 700 wives has a chance TO
get instruction.
A mathematical genius has figured that
if aII the busties now in use should be
heaped in one great pyramid 1t would be
large enough TO completely cover up
Rhode Island.
The rapidity with which Anglo Saxon
literature is pouriEg into japan is illus
trated by the fact that $4,000 English
and 10000 American books were i'm
ported last year, an increase of nearly
100 per cent.
In addition to the good name be 70
highly cherished, Mr.. w. w. COrcoran has
left MS grandchildren $l,O00,000 apiece.
This should make their names gOod-on
the bottom of checks.
great deal of repentance nowadays is
done in broadcloth and ashes of roses in.
stead of sack-cloth and ashes.
what kind of tobacco is thisY' asked
the customer; 'long cut or fine cutY"
Connecticut" replied the dealer.
Phil Sheridan won't run. He never did
b.f IA lof hi m n iggr IN
now.
Kansas preacher in his sermon one
Sunday morning said that nobody not
an idiot would play progressive eucher."
The collection for defrayiug incidental
expenses of the church" amounted that
morning to seventeen cents.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-03-23
FIENDS IN HUMAN FORM.

Startling Discoveries of Inhuman Treatment
of ConyIctS in an Arkansas Coal Nine
It is reported that startling develop
ments have been brought to light at Coal
Hill, one of the mining towns where the
mines are worked by convict labor; near
Ft. Smith, Ark. A negro convict by the
name of Williams was fogged to death,
and further inquiry developed the fact
that Nose Harvey, white man aged 35
years has been kicked to death by fell
low convict who had been edged on to
the des sperste deed by warden Grafford-
and it was learned he was in the haiti of
making the prisoners fight. The body of
Mark Elder was exhumed and the bruises
and gashes on the body indicated vio
lent death. It has also developed that
prisoner by the name OF Hummel was
tied to post in the mines last summer
and beaten to death. As the investigs-
tion continues more horrible details are
revealed, and the citizens of Coal Hill
are much excited and threaten to hang
Graford and tear down the prison bar
racks.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-03-23
News in Rriet.

The Illinois State Supreme Court has
confirmed the annexation of Hyde Park
to Chicago.
CASPER DIETRICH. farmer, near Du-
luth, struck silver bearing quartz while
digging well.
The loss ocasioued by the recent storm
in the eastern states, is figured at
$40 100000
The strike of the Reading company's :
ooal-miners in Pennsylvania has ended,
the strikers returning to work st their
old wages.
HENRY BERGH, the famous humanitsr-
ian, and founder and head of the Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals,
died in New York, Monday.
REPoRrs from the East show that the
storm was even more severe and destruc
tive than was at first supposed.
IRE Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers of Lafayette, have sent a thou
sand dollars to Arthur, of Chicago, to aid
the striking engineers on the Chicago,
Burlington Il Quincy.
To better conserve the interests of
Americans engaged in mining and com
nerce, it is stated that Geaeral Bragg,
the new Minister 10 Mexico, will endssvor
to negotiate new treaty of friendship,
coHmsrce, and navigation.
THg papers estimate the business loss,
the contingent and actual pecuuiary out
lay which the storm will occasion in New
York City, at not less than seven millions,
and the loss to the states involved twenty
millions.
OK hearing of the death of the Emper-
or William, Frederick Schumacher, of
Cal, aged 81 years committed suicide. He
was German, and had often expressed the
| wish to die when the Emperor did.
The locomotive engineers of the Chi
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-03-23
Criminal.

CONSTANTINE OscER, agent of the Gund
Brewing Co., of La Crosse, has been ar
rested for embezzlement.
Jos. w. SYKES, of Chicago, who was on
trial charged with obtaining SIS, 800 on
fraudulent warehouse receipts was found
guilty by the grand jury, and given three
years in the penitentiars.
GEORGE W. LUsTED, q government pos
tai clerk raining between Milwaukee and
Lancaster, Wis, ha1 been arrested for
robbing the mails and has confessed his
guilt.
The ten Douglas county (Mo.) Bald
KnobberS who were convicted last Sept
omber in the United States Court at JET
fersop City, of whipping and driving
two homesteaders from Government
land, have been sentenced to from two 70
six months in the penitentiary.
JULIus QUINN, William Antwerp and
Joseph George, squatted upon some land
in Indian Territory where a cattleman
named George Delaney was feeding his
cattle. 10 get rid of the aquatters De
laney's cowboys fired the cabin, and as
the inmates came out they were shot
by cowboys concealed in the underbrush.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-03-23
The National Capital

Mr.. PHELPS, the American minister, is
coming home on leave for sixty days.
He sails April s. This is his first trip
home since he became minister.
THE only houses Mrs. Cleveland has
ever entered in Washington are the resi-
dences of the Cabinet officers, Colonel
Lamont's, Mr.. Bancroft's, aud the late Mr..
CorcoraD's.
The White resolution providing for a
congressional inquiry into the strike on
the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy rail-
road has been again discussed without
final results by the house committee on
commerce.
THE following nominations have been
made: Postmasters-John T. Cashen, at
New Rochelle, N. Y; Henry Brown, at
Tompkinsville, N. Y; Navy-Major
Charles Haywood, marine corps, to be
Lieutenant Colonel; Captain McLane
Tilton, marine corps, to be major; FIRST
Lieutenant Henry II. Costen, marine
corps, to be Captain; Second Lieutenant
Francis E. Sutton, marine corps, to be
First Lieutenant.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-03-23
Nn %
NU. %.

General Grant. l always sought TO pre-.
serve his simplicity and directness and
even ruggeaness of language; never to
betray my own share in the work. He
had no idea whatever of building up a
chapter OF book, or of treating a theme
so as TO lead up TO point, or TO make a
complete picture or argument. But the
book could not have been made what il is
without me. There was no one else who
had both my peculiar knowledge of the
theme and the literary quality. There
was no one else whom he would have al
lowed to do what l did. But he knew
| loved him, and how devoted | was to
his fame and he trusted all TO me.
would not have told what l am writing
now if it had not been extorted from me
by the imputstions referred to by has
son." Badeau claims that the letter of
dismissal was in the handwriting of Fred
Grant with ths exception of She sigma
ture.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-03-23
WHEAT AND CORN.

Statistical Returns From the Department of
Agriculture-'The Corn Crop the Smallest in
Years.
Statistical returns from the depart
ment OF agriculture in Washington
for March relate TO the distribution and
consumption of wheat and corn, stock in
the farmers hands, proportion of mer,
chantable corn and average price respec-
tably of merchantable and unmerchan-
table. The corn crop is the smallest since
1884 and the remainder on the farms is
also the smallest in seven years. 1t is
estimated at sos, 900 bushels, against
603,O0O,000 bushels last year. The stock
of wheat N 1887 in the hands of the far
mers is 1872 100000 bushels, against 1922
100000 last year. There has been used
in the seeding of winter wheat 34000,-
OO0 bushels; 1877 100000 bushels IN eight
months consumption; 100000 bushels
are exported in wheat and -four; 3S,0O0,-
600 bushels constitute the visible supply
and the usual quantity of minor elevators
and mill stocks in the course of distribu
tion between farm stocks and consum
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-03-23
WISE WORDS TO THE BLACKS.

lt was bad piece of journalism upon
the part of the Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle
10 dismiss the visit and speech of Fred
erick Douglass to that city on Friday
with only few lines. 1t was notable
event from many poiuts of view. Mr..
Douglass, to be sure, differs from the
Chronicle in politics, hut he Is remark
able history, and he eIemplIties in his
persons that devotion to principle that
the world always honors. The colored
men need the voice of 2 man whom they
can trust, and mRu competent to talk
20 them upon something besides politics.
Mr.. Douglas is a stiff partisan, but what
he says is usually worth hearing and re-
porting. This was especially true at
Augusta. The arrival OF the distinguish
ed visitor was the signal tor a great de-
monstration. Judge j. f. Nsibling had
lent the colored people an eight-pound
field piece which repeated its loudest
welcome as the train bearing Mr.. Doug
lass drew into the station. He was plac
ed in a landau drawn by four black horses
and taken through the city, several color
ed militia companies doing escort duty.
The lecture III the evening was followed
by banquet and reception. Mr.. Doug
lsss's lecture was upon The Selfmade
Msn," and it was in the main literary
production intended to elevate the plane
| of personal activity. He had nothing to
say about my gratitude due to any party
| on the score of past services, as he usual
ly does. His appeal for self reliance was
healthy and opportune. Indeed he dis
missed tue past with the remark that the
colored people "were not emsncipsted by
the convictions of the nation alone, but
by the fate of war" He advised mem
bers of his race to avoid aid which they
| did not need, even from those most will
ing to help them This is the true Ameri-
| can spirit, and is worth tons of articles
on the anatomy of sectional hate in the
South. The negro holds his future in
his own hand.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-03-23
ELECTRIC SPARKS.
Accidents and Failures.

THE works of the Grand Detour Plow
Company at Dixon, H., has been burned.
The loss is over 500 600.
A HOTEL and number of stores were
destroyed a. Clifton Springs, n. Y; loss
about $4,000.
A FAMILY of six persons are reported to
have been poisoned at Bloomington, H.,
from eating head-cheese.
AN explosion of powder at the Empire
Daniel c. Trebiliouz and injured six 9th
ers, two of whom, William Shields and
John Paul, will probably die.
TIE fast mail train from New York for
Jacksonville, went through a trestle 20
miles South of Savannah, Ga, on Saturday,
killing about 30 persons and wounding
some 40 others.
HOLLANDS drug store, Strauss bank
building aud two grocery stores were
burned at Ligonier, Ind, loss, $4,000.
At Warsaw, H., Henry Shaeffer's dry
goods establishment was destroyed.
Loss, $4,000.
REV. SHELDON JACKSON, the Government
missionary among the Indians of Alaska
and MIS-. r. Cunningham, his assistant,
are reported to have been drowned recent
ly in river in that Territory.
REPORTS continqe to be received of
marine disasters and loss of life along the
New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland coast
during the recent storm. Tho loss of life
and property is very great, and its full
extent will probably never be definitely
known.
OF the twenty nine boats that made up
the harbOr fleet at New York, two are safe
in port, having outridden the storm, nine
were wrecked Monday and eighteen which
were out in the open sea remaih unheard
of. The experience of the men on the
wrecked boats is terrible.
A FOUR STORY brick block in Milwaukee,
occupied by Atkins, Ogden d Co, shoe
manufacturers, and Thomas Wentworth,
manufacturers of brass goods and engine
trimmings, was destroyed by fire early
Thursday morning. One fireman was
killed and five others were injured by
falling wall. Loss estimated at S425,00O.
PETER MYERS, an old pioneer and the
wealthIest man in Janesvlle, Wis,
dropped dead in the Office of his hotel,
the Myers House, Tuesday morning. He
came to the city at an early day and
amassed largo fortune in the meat bust
ness, investing most of it IL public build
ings in the city.
A PASSENGER and a freight train col
lided near Huntington, Pa, early Monday
morning on the Pennsylvania road, and
Engineer Robert Gardner and Fireman
Mowny, of the passenger, and Brakeman
Ernest V. Mercer were killed, and one
Eayaraiv IniuraH The loss tn
he road is placed al $4,000.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-03-23
Wore a Wooden Collar.

The director General in China suggested
that the officers in charge Of the Yellow
River Works VINO showed remlssness in
not taking precautionary measures 20
prevent the recent floods be degraded,
but this was deemed too light q punish
ment, aud they were ordered to be ex-
posed in the cangue along the river
banks. The sub-Prefect and Mayor of
Shang an, the assistant department mag
istrate of Cheng Chou, and the lieutenant
and sscoRd sergeant of the station below
CheDg Chou were thus punished. The
cangue, or wooden collar, which these un-
fortunate officials are condemned to wear,
is large. heavy square of wood, opening
SO TO allow the prisoners neck &c en-
ter. From the time it is put on 1t is not
removed till the term of the sentence has
expired-a time varying from a fortnight
TO three months. During the whole time
the prisoner cannot lie down to rest with
comfort, and during the day Is placed IN
a conspicuous place, with his name and
ofense written in large characters Oh the
great wooden collar, that all passers- by
may read. The compassionate people
occasionally feed the victim, it is iInpos
sible for him TO reach his head with his
hand; but the gamins tickle him with
straws and otherwise annoy him.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-03-23
OLA MPIA STILL IN THERING.

Rev. Mrs. Willis Bent on Voting for Racine
Municipal Officials and the State Ticket This
Year-Ihe Court has not Disposed of the
Case.
RACINE, Wis, March 2O.-It is conaid-
cred unfortunate that the supreme court
has not finally disposed of the Olympia
Brown Willis suffrage case, which is now
before the justices ON an application for
a rehoaripg. II is stated that the Rev
Mrs. Brown Willis has signilied
her intention os again Attempting
20 vote, and will offer her bal
lot at tho coming municipai election to
be held one week from next Tuesday.
If the supreme court does not decide the
question before that time'it will be diff
cult to secure Inspectors of election as
no one IS willing to become involved in .
law suit for damages as election officers
are likely to, in refusing 20 accept the
vote of the champion of woman
suffrage. However, in any event
Rev. Olympia Brown Willis will
endeRvor to cast her ballot next fall for
the state ticket as nearly all the state
officers clearly have duties "apperGaining
to school matters" Another long legal
fight is likely to follow, in which case the
suit will again go to the supreme court
as the Wisconsin sUffragist5 are deter
mined to fully test the legality of the
law
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-03-23
IN GENERAL.
WILL RETURN TO WORK.

All Galleries in the Lehigh Region Will be
Running in Few DAYS.
Hugh McGarvey, master workman. and
John Meighan, secretary of the district
assembly No. 81, Knights of Labor, have
declared the strike in the Lehigh region
off, and in a few days every colliery will
be at work. District Assembly No. 81
will send out an appeal for aid for the
needy people of the region and will be-
come responsible for all debts incurred
by relief committees during the strike.
The business men and the community at
large are highly eiet5d over general
resum DtiOr
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-03-23
4 WHOLE FAMILY OBLITERATED.
Darius Warren Murders His Wife and Two
ChiIdran and CommitS Suiride

Darius Warren Murders His Wife and Two
Children and Commits Suicide.
The post ortem examination into the
death of Annie NJ. Warren, who died un-
der suspicious circumstances at Benton
Sunday night, resulted in finding that she
came to her death from injuries received
at the hands of her husband, Darius NJ.
Warren. Warren WIS arrested. He asked
to see his two daughters-Annie, aged 8
years, and Cora, aged 3. He was led into
their chamber by the officer, when, pull
ing a revolver from his sleeve, he shot the
eldest girl through the forehead. He then
shot the younger in the back and himself
through the heart. 1t was all done so
quick that the officer could not stop him.
All are dead except the youngest child,
who will die.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-03-23

cago, Burlington aud Northern Railroad,
running between Chicago and st. Paul,
struck on Wednesday in sympathy with
their brethren of the Chicago, Burlington
and Ruiney Railroad, of which it is an
adjunct.
The heaviest snow storm of the year
prevailed at New York Monday, large
drifts forming, which caused suspen
sion of traffic. Batting collisions oc
Cured on tie Third Avenue Elevated and
on the Brooklyn Elevated Roads, IN the
former case the engineer being killed
and number of passengers injured.
The blizzard increased towards night,
when all trains, street cars and ferries
We're stopped.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-03-23
THE SURPLUS MONEY.

The Bill to Apply it in the Prepayment of In
tcrest on the Public Debt TO be Favorably
Reported.
WASHINGTON, March 2O.-The senate
committee on finance this morning
amended tho Aldrich bill ito authorize
the secretary of the treasury 90 apply
the surplus money in the prepayment of
the interest on the public debt" and or
dered favorable report upon it. The
first section of the original bill euthoriz-
ing the purchase of bonds with the sur
plus is stricken out. The bill as it stands
authorizes the secretary to receive any
4 per cent. bonds and issue in exchange
2l2 per cents, payable at the maturity of
of the per cents. and exempt from
state or municipal taxation.
The committee also authorized Senator
Sherman to report faVorably the bill to
wipe out the charges against the states
for the war loan which amounts to be-
tween $50 100000 and $3O,0O0,O0O.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-03-23
Death L WeIcnme Release.

Must it not be to those who endure lifelong
bodily suffering! From childhood 10 old age
many persons are tormentei with rheumatism
and neuralgia Ordinary medication and topical
remedies Gre OF slight, and always temporary
efficacy. To escape the extreme torturss OF
these aEonizinE complaints. they should be an
rihilared at the outset with Hostettsr's Stomach
B.tterS which expels from the system the acrld
impurities that beset them. Tie evidence as to
its efficacy as blood depurent in this particular
/ very ample and strongly Concurrent and con
xircnE In violent forms Of these diseases the
nerves are terribly racSei ! winegiaSsful
Two OF the Bitfe-s before the hour Of retiring
usually brings respite from pain. and ensbl7s
the sufferer 10 secure much needed repo<e. For
kidney troubles, nalariAl complaints. in lIges-
rion liver e7znpsaiut an. constipation. the Bit
lie 5 is likewise beneficial
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-03-23
MITCHELL SULLIVAN FIGHT.
Explanation of the Result-Out of Jail on Bail
Their Bruises.


Their Bruises.
LoNDoN.-Suilivan and Mitchell are
expected to proceed here at once
from Paris, where they went from
Seulis. At that place the party was arrest
ed and thrown into Jail, being released
on 1000 fraucs bail. Sullivan's failure to
knock Mitchell ont is accounted for in
many ways. Sullivan's friends claim that
it was owing to the slippery condition of
the grounds. Mitchell's friends think the
Epglishman the best nan, and almost
every one is constrained to believe that
Sulllvan's days as agreat pugilist are
over. Both men were terribly punished
in the fight Mitchell's head is a mass of
Jumps and bruises, his back is crushed in
by one of Sullivan's round arm blows and
one eye is closed. One of Sullivan's arms
is disabled, both eyes blacSened, an ear
cut and his face bruised. The fight was
drawn because both men were used up
and time was the only thing that could
have given the battle 70 either combat
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-03-23
NOMINATIONS.
StockSlager For Commissioner of the General
Land Office and Anderson For Assistant.

StockSlager For Commissioner of the General
Land Office and Anderson For Assistant.
WASHINGTON, March 20.-The president
has nominated Strother NJ. Stockslager,
OF Indiana, to be commissioner of the
general land office, Thomas j. Anderson,
of Iowa, to be assistant commissioner of
the general land office aud Thomas H. b.
Jones, of Dakota, to he agent for the In
dians of the Fort Berthold agency, In
Dakota.
Strother Nj. Stockslager was born May
7, 1912, at Maackport, Ind. He enlisted
in the Union army and served through the
war of the rebellion, after which he held
various offices III his county. Studying
law, be was admitted to the bar at Cory
don, Ind, in 1871. He was a member of
the Indiana senate from 1874 to 1873, and
was elected to the forty seven Ii and forty
eighth congresses.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-03-23
MOST UNBLUSHING FRAUD
Is the Way Cleveland Regards the
Wagon Road Land Grant Steal.
If fCnehalleRgcd it viii Divert Several
Hundred Thousand Acres to Sharks.
St0ckslager, of Indiana. Nominated
Commissioner of the Land Office.
OUTRAGEOUS LAND FRAUDS.

The President Transmits Villas Communica-
tIon on the Oregon Wagon Road Grant.
WASHINGTON. March 20.-The president
sent to day TO the two houses of congress
a communication from the secretary of
the interior with great mass of testi-
mony relating to the wagon road land
grant fraud in Oregon. The presenta-
ton of the facts by the secretary, the
president says, is the result OF an ex-
animation which has developed as it
seems to me (the presidept( 1.-The
most unblushing fraud upon the govern
ment, which if remaining unchallenged
will divert several hundred thousand
acres of land from the pablo domain and
from the reach OF honest settlers to
those who have attempted to pervert
and prostitute the benefcent de-
signs of the government" A bill
accompanies the communication, which
the president submits with the recon-
mendatiOn that it may become law and
with the earnest hope that the opportun
ity thus presented to demonstrate a sim
cere desire to preserve the public domain
for the settlers and to Illustrate the un
lawful attempts to appropriate the same
may not De neglected.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-03-23

The Secretary of the Interior has re-
quested the Attorney General to cause
suit to be instituted to secure the cancel
lation of patents issued on lumber-culture
entries in the Humboldt tCalifornia) land
district. 1t is alleged that the entries to
these lands were procured through fraud,
for the purpose of obtaining the valuable
redwood timber growing there, and
that the fraud was perpetrated by the
same parties who were instrumental in
obtaining patents in 151 entries in the
same section in 1879. These latter cases
have since been known as the California
redwood timber frauds.