Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-01-04

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Il not usual for Z new ct of officials TO b
selected except when the political com
pie1lon changes. Tris will not happel
on March 4 b next, yet it is more thai
likely that caucus ~ill be held and II
attempt made 10 force a general re-or
gaDization of both the committees ant
the officials.
THE largest wheel Of thu kind eve
made in this country, and probably tht
largest of any kiud, Is now in course o
con -truction at the machine shop of thu
ID c6sOu Manufacturing Com pang, OF
| Scranton, Pa. IL is what is called a SAND
! wheel, and is being made for the Calu
met and H~cia Copper Company of The
| Lake Superior region. The great whee
! viii be ffty-thfee feet in diameter anG
! several feet wide, and the Dickson Man
ufaoturing Comps will get $4,000
! for it.
ROMAN Catholic arohbIsnops in America
! hhFS ICCUlftu iiOLu hJlhc ~ SGIl
er statistics concerning marriages OF
/ Catholics with persons of other faiths
| While mixed marriages are forbidden as
a rule, permission is granted in certain
! cases, especially when the non Catholic
| party ID likely to be brought into the
| faith. The stipulation is always made
! hat the children of the union shall be
brought up III the Catholic faith. Circu-
lars are to he sent out to priests, with a
list Of questions concerning the mixed
marriages III their parishes, and the infCr-
maj ION is likely to result in more striu-
X, regulations.
The collapse of the Panama canal com
pany ia pretty sure to be followed by dis
order on the isthmuF, when the horde of
IHbOrers, most of them of the lowest GLASS
es, will be thrown out OF employment.
The French government has taken steps
to protect it's Interest thore by sending
iron cIads, and the United States vessels
Dolphin and Trenton on the Pacific coast
have been ordered TO remain near the
isi hmus to be ready for an emergency.
The British guubOas Sappho is already ol
hand, and her officers will undoubtedly
cooperate with the United States blue
jackets in suppressing an insurrection.
Rioters were overaEed in this way in
1855, when the cable company was threat
ened
lIJE labor movement in politics in the
last campaign was without any conference
whatever, and the result is seen in tina
popular vote for Tom, Dick and Harry
candidates, platforms, policies and re-
forms of just ia G23, against 1873 825
BOG gTeenback votes in 1880. Union
abor, united labor, industrial reform,
equal rights, anarchy, socialism, DIR. Nc
Glynn, and all came up to the last ditch
and fell IN, an incongruous mass of men
and views. 1t ought to be evident to the
most prejudiced labor reformer that out
VI VIC l'd VI ltAO' iio plbpJotu W tiAACy
that and the other leader, some one or two
only must he selected md agreed upon
by all factions ere labor in politics comes
to anything.
The question of whether q lawyers
first lliagiauce is to society or his oliert
has had TO be decided again in Chicago,
where a prominent attorney refused to
surrender the name of criminal with
whom he was negotiating tho re'uru TO
owners of some stolen bonds. He WAS
arrested, but still pleaded that his
lation with a client coaid not be so
broken; taken before the grand jury he
again refused to give the name. Judge
Jameson was finLl.y appealed to, and he
decided that the name must be divulged,
aud it was. similar case to this was
decid I'd in Philadelphia a day or two ago,
where anewspaper editor was compelled
To testify against his will be fore a city
bribery Investigating committee as to
where he obtained Information on which
certain editorials charging bribery had
been based. The editor pleaded rews-
paper ethics and the honor of the pro
fession; but the court decided tha t the
information must be forthcoming, as the
objections did not overcome the para
mount duty owing to society.
Tux a. ant h,-
the Canadian government to examine
into the resources of the great Mackenzie
basin IN the northwest territory is an in
terssting document. There are 5000
miles of coast in the basin and about
$500 miles of continuous lake and river
navigation. OF the whole area 656 600
square miles are suitable for the growth
of potatoes; +07 600 for barley; SIG GEO
for wheat; while the pastoral country is
set down al 100000 square miles. OF the
mines nothing definite is known; but
there seems little doubt that the great
Mackenzie basin is, in parts at any rate,
very rich in mineral deposits, of all sorts
including the auriferous strata and the
coal formations. More important than
all, it is said that q petroleum area of
vast extent has been found, and that
Canada will thus be able to supply the
world with the fuel of the future.
TIE increasing prevalence of pneu-
monia with still greater increase in
! mortality. has attracted the attention of
| both physicians and laymen. Statistics
! recently comsiIed show that in Penpsyl-
vsnia hospitals the mortality advance d
| from Ga per cent. in lS47 to ISL per
cent. in 1867 and 81 per cent. in 1856
| That is to say, that while forty years ago
! one person died fos every sixteen al
/ tackled, the disease is fatal now in one
case out of every three. In the New
York hospitals the ratio of mortality is
. double now what uraS tan