Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-06-21
THE LATEST TELEGRAMS
GENERAL NOTES.

THE present permanent population of
| Oklahoma is about 10000.
Ap1uTAsT GENERAL HASTINGS is in COM
| mand at Johnstown and the place is under
military rue
EIGHT hu 1dred epecial police employ
ed ny the sheriff at Hometown, have
oeen discharged and soldiers put in their
place.
The Iron King mine, of Wisconsin, one
of the Burton mines, which were taken
hold of by the Bessemer Consolidated
iron Company, has shut down, and 200
men are thrown out em mploymeut.
The men who have succeeded i'll get
ting claims in Oklahoma are called ok
! lahomers,' and those who haven't are re
ferred to as "Oklahomeless."
THREE salonnkeepers at Racine, Wis,
have been notified by the Mayor that
the Sunday law viii be enforced here
after, and all saloons must be closed.
j. ID. HAGGERTY, a witness at the Cron-
In inquest, swore that Alexander Sullivan
tod ham in 1885 that DIR. Cronin was
traitor to the Irish cause and should be
exterminated.
THE American Executing Company,
Of Chicago" is the name of a concern
that was Incorporated on Monday, with a
capital stock Of 600. lis business will
be the killing of persons legally sentenced
to death.
Ex VICE PRESIDENT HANNIBAL HAMLIN is
now 80 years of age. He Is az lively as
the majority of men at so. He has never
worn f1anneis nor an overcoat, holding
such articles of dress to be supertiuous
and unnecessary to person In good
health.
HISTORIAN BANCROFT is now quietly
domiciled at Newport, where he will do
the best he can toward enjoying his 89th
summer here beloT. With his books and
his roses and his happy temperament,
Mr.. Bancroft has had life of successes
and rational pleasures.
WHEN lettsr-carrier of Johnstown
went around to number of houses and
gave warming of the broken dam he was
greeted with cries OF 'Chestnuts!'
"Rats!" etc., fer his pains. The people
of Johnstown had heard of the bursting
of the dam SO long that they did not be-
lieve the warning when 1t came.
MISSOURI grocer advertises that any
man VINO takes two drinks of whisky
can have for the same money at his store,
80 sacks of -four, 220 pounds of granulat-
cd sugar, IL pounds of good coffee, and
save $3.50 as Il premium for making the
exchange.
MINNA IRVING, the passiOnless poetess
Of Tsrrytown, N. Y, has good deal of
IL nth on her side when she says of the
passion poetry of the period: "If this
aiiantus growth of female passion Poets
is allowed to flourish unchecked, the name
of poetess will soon become term of
reproach, deadly insult, and the work of
the high priestesses of the poetic art,
such AS Mrs. Browning, Christina Rossetti
and Jean Ingelow, for the intellectual ad-
vancement of her sex, will have gone for
Taught"
The official statistics read at the Nor
mon conference in Salt Lake City, show
that "the Church of Jesus Christ of Latt' r
Day SAINTS" has now twelve apostles.
seventy patriarchs, 1919 high priests,
IL, 1,S05 elders, 2,069 priests, 2,292 teachers,
11,6I0 deacous, 1889 families, 1925
officers and members, and 49, 1908 children
under eight years of age, total Mormon
population OF 1891. The number of
marriages Tor the six months ended April
6, 1889, was $50; number of births, 2,754;
new members baptized, 4SS; excommuni-
cations, lib.