Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-06-07
THE LATEST TELEGRAMS !
GENERAL NOTES.

THE City of Rome consumes an average
of 900 tons of coal day in crossing the
cean at top speed.
BU=ISEss failures for the week number
2l5, against 229 last week, and 205 in the
CORES ponding period of 1888.
IT is estimated that between 40,O00,00O
and $4,000 600 pounds of maple sugar, or
It's equivalent in syrup, is made in the
United States each year.
OWING to the advances made in the
price OF beer by the st. Louis Brewers
Trust, the saloon keepers have decided to
build mammoth brewery themselves, to
oppose the trust.
CLINTON, la. "A heavy storm passed
over this city Thursday morning. Sky
lights were broken, and small fruit and
tender plants we're badly damaged.
The speed of the Whitehead torpedo
in the last seven years has increased
from seven and half to tyenty-seven
knots.
To do away with leaky seams in ships
boats it is now proposed striking to them
from a die virtually without seam or
rIvet, xcspt where there are special fit
tings in the bow or stear, the material
being steel.
NEW fire-kindler that looks like prick
AMI Is cheaper and more compact than
wood, and that will bet coal on fire inside
+ two minutes, has just been patented
by man of Portsmouth, n. IL.
The represent tative of an English syn
dicate is negotiating with distillers in
Louisville with view of purchasing all
the distilleries IN the State of Kentucky.
r., 10 kal hnmauar hot
such ii deal can be made.
GRANp RAPIDS, Wis. During a
fit of frenzy con-equent upon the ex-
oessive nae of drink, Gus Dahle,
saloonkeeper, stabbed his wife four or
five times with r butcher knife, while she
was lying in bed. 1t is thought she will
die. Dahle is In jail.
THREE HUNDRED ore-handlers at Mar
quette, Mich, are on a strike and fleet
of ore cruisers with Il united capacity OF
1900 tons is tied up in consequence.
The strikers refuse to allow outsiders to
take their places.
The learned Hindoo, Amrita Lal Roy
who spent several years in this country
looking around and thinking, has pub
lished IN his native country small vol
ume, in which he describes pleasantly the
many agreeable things he found here,
with sketches of the men he met. He is
now the editor of q HIndoo weekly paper
called Hope.
In the matter of star route con
traots suspended by the second
assistant postmaster general because of
the apparent Illegal if no fraud
lent execution, the assistant attor-
ney general for the postofiice department
holds the entire series of contracts,
amounting to some $4,000 to be illegal
and void. The proposals, while irregular,
are not deemed absolutely void. Based
upon tkese proposals new contracts
properly and legally ex cuted, with good
and sufficient bonds, may be received.
THE barbei-wire patenta, which have
netted fortunes to their owners, have an
interesting history. The first patents
were issued 20 a man named Kelly, living
down east. About two years later farm
or at De Kalb, ILL.,, conceived the idea of
keeping his unruly cattle in the pasture
by putting short barbs on wire and
then twisting it with a plain wire. This
is known iii the market as the Gdden
wire, being ramed after its inventor,
Joseph L. q ,dden. One day while he was
1perimentlng with a neighbor going by
shouted: "Joe, you better be out harrer-
in in your oats instead of foolin' away
yer time with patents" GIidden thought
otherwise, and in less than two years re-
ceived bonus of 100000, with the guar
antee of royalty on all made under his
patents. For one Year his royalties cx-
ceeded $l74,000.