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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-05-31
FOREIGN

THREE thousand masons at Berlin have
struck for less work and more pay.
NIENNA.-The number of persons
drowned IN the recent floods is placed at
100. Pilsen district is still submerged.
BERLIN The munioipal council has
voted 10000 marks for the purpose of
decorating the streets during the visit of
King Humbert of Italy.
LoNDoN.-Dhule Eh Singh, the Indian
prince, has been privately married to
Miss Ada Wetherell in Paris.
BERIIN.--The situation among the
striking coal miners at Dortmund is un-
changed. The strikers are behaving in
an orderly manner.
number of Frenchmen have been ar
rested by the German authorities at
Soultzmsls, Alssce, on a charge of treas
on.
LIsBoN.-A dynamite bomb exploded at
the door of the Civil Governors house at
Oporto, smashing the windows of the
building.
VIKNSA.-Ten thousand miners at Star
have struck, also all the miners in Kladno
district, in Bohemia. The Prague train
way lines are at Il standstill, wing to a
SIR john LAwEs, who has just given
S5o0,00O for the promotion of sgrlcul-
ture IN England, Is the father OF the
sculptor who figures conspIcuously in the
lannon's Belt Laws lawsuit. Sir john is
one of the best living authorities on
farming. Despite his vast weslth he is a
man of plain and simple habits.
TEs late queen mother of Bavaria has
oeen well called the Mother of Sorrows"
She had little influence over her son, the
late king of Ludwig, but she always had
hopes that the reason of her other son,
Otto, the present mad monarch, would be
restored.
IT seems that the recent arrest OF
gamblers at the Field Club, London,
was brought about by Lady Dudley, Who
wishes to teach her son a sharp lesson.
The young Earl reached his majority only
q few months ago, end has already gsmo-
ed away Sa00, ZOO. Montague Williams, a
we'll known London police magistrate,
was among the gamblers arrested. BE
had 3 pull and was released. He has
been noted for his severity on the bench
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-05-31
DUN
Detroit, May 20, 1888.
Destructive RlOIERs.
The Troops Called Ont to Suppress Rioters
IN Their Destruction.

The Troops Called Ont to Suppress Rioters
IN Their Destruction.
BELGRADE, May 27.-Serious rioting
took place yesterday. The trouble was
due TO the intense antagonism tnat pre-
walls towards the progressist party. Last
night mob of anti -progressionists made
an organized attack upon the house
of EX Premier Garasshanine and
smashed in the doors and win
dows with stones. The crowd then visited
several club houses and printing offices
of the prOgressists, and demolished
every thing upon which they could lay
their hands. The geDdarmes were
poserless, and the regular troops were
finally called out. The crowd still re-
fused to dIspCrse and the soldiers
charged killing three and woundiUg
number of others. The excitement
today is intense and it is feared riotiOg
will ba renewed. During the rioting a
portion of the mob made a search for
the hidden prOgressists. Five men who
had concealed themselves when the
trouble began were dragged
from hiding places and horribly
beaten. Two of them were SO savagely
treated that they are not expected
live. The house of GsrasshaniDe would
have been sacked by the mob had it not
been for the opportune arrival of the
troops. In the struggle three soldiers
were wounded.
A later dispatch says: The situation
has become very serious. Another out
break occurred here today and some des-
perate lighting took place. Three SOL
diers have been killed aud a large number
badly wounded. The rioters are using
dynamite to demolish the houses of OBJ
noxlOus del uties. IL ia stated that nu
merous bands of armed peasants are
marching upon Belgrade.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-05-31
CRIME.

The body of DR.. Cronin. of Chicago, has
been foand in a sewer in that city.
JOSEPH MCINTYRE, the faith cure doctor,
who has assaulted patient at Madison.
Wis, has been sent t } the penitentiary for
one year.
BUGLARs entered f. N. Shaffer d. Sons
iewelry store at Merrill, Wis, Saturday
night, and secured about $4,000 worth of
jeweiry from the trunk of IL. w. Arnstein.
WILLIAM M. pERBY, Cashier of the Mu-
tual District Messenger Company, of Bos-
ton, is under arrest for defrauding the
Wstern Union Telegraph Company out
$4,000.
THIEVES entered the house of Perry
Jones, at Seymour, Ind, while he and his
family were at n circus, and got away
with $500 in mo, ley and jewelry.
2JUDGE GREENE sentenced Dick Hawes,
who murdered his wife and children at
Birmingham, Ala, about a year ago, to be
hanged, and fixed July II as the day for
the execution.
CHEN YAM, interpreter for the Chinese
Cigar makers Union, was assassina, ed at
San Francisco by highlander, for hav-
ing furnished men to a non union manuf-
aoturer. He was literally cut to pieces
with P Ratchet. Fully fifty Chinese wit
messed the act, but would give no intor
nation. The murderer escaped.
ST. LoUIs.-The Post-Dispatch has a
telegram from Dallas, Texas, which says:
As the east-bound passenger train on
the Texas and Pacific railroad reached
the outskirts of the city at $50 Friday
night, two masked men with drawn re
volvers entered the express car, beat the
mes senger named Wray till he was in
sensible, took his keys and robbed the
safe of 81 800, pulled the bell cord, and
when the train slowed up jumped off and
escaped.
BosToN.-William Derby, cashier of the
Mutual District Messenger Company, of
this ~ity, is under arrest on the
charge of embezzeiing $4,000 or more
from the Western Union Telegraph Com
pauy. The district messenger company
does messenger service Tor the Western
Union and the bills are rendered monthly,
Derby has been Gnder suspicion for some
time, and an expert discovered that he
has made it a practice to raise the
amount of his company's bills against
the Western Union and pocket the differ
ence.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-05-31
THE CLEAN SWEEP.
The Cyclone Of Removal to Strike Wisconsin


The Cyclone Of Removal to Strike Wisconsin
soon.
Word comes from Washington that
about June 10th the federal Office hold
ing democr ats will be called upon TO walk
the plank. The mouth OF Henry Fink
waters for the position of internal
revenue collector, eastern district. He
will succeed Ed. @. Wall, The marshal
ship now held by q N. F. u. West will be
given to Geo. N. Wiswell, OF Eikhorn. 8.
S. Barney of West Bend, will be the
United S ates attorney succ sediny W. A.
Walker. Pension Agent Jadd will be
displaced by Capt. Ferguson, the former
occu pant Of tina, place. la the Western
district it is settled, so say the wise ones,
that Earl NJ. Rogers will be insercal
revenue collector, in place of Parkinson.
The msrshalship is said ID be wanted by
Gen. Glnty, by -toOk FIint, and eI Mar
shall Oakley is mentioned as likely to
receive il.
Ogden II. Fetbers, of Janesville, Is
willing TO lay down fair Law practice 10
suppIant DR.. Wendell A. Anderson, as
consul general at Montreal.
A. j. Reid, of Appleton, wants con-
sula.e. He is martyr, having been re-
moved from the Appleton postoffi,e By
Cleveland. Henry q. Kress, of Menito-
9oc, wants q consulate in tae West Indies.
II. B. Jackson, of Oshkosh, wants a fat
consulate. bob" McCurdy wants 20 leave
his native land for its good and MS own.
Rev. j. Z. IrIsh had a consulate in France
some years ago, and likes that sort OF q
soft place better than preaching. He
wants 70 go again, with chapces rather
dubious. DIR. Flynn and j, l.. Ha'hswsy,
Of Milwaukee, are on the anxious seat 20
be sent abroad, and they ere said 20
banker for the port of Canton where
Charley Seymour now is, having been
left by Mr.. Cleveland. It il argued that
q republican whom Cleveland would have
in. Harrison oushs to pus out.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-05-31

The steamships Cynthia and Po'ynes
ian colIIded opposite Tongue Point,
twelve miles east of Montreal, Wednes-
day morning. The Cynthia sank, and
nine lives were lost.
SIX miners we're killed at the Pettibone
shaft of the Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western mine near Kingston, Pa, by the
falling of a bucket containing over a ton
of rock.
TIE $4,000 residence of Gen. A. G. P.
Dodge, at Danvllle, ILL.,, was destroyed by
fire early Friday morning. About 200
prominent gaests were being entertained
il the house at the time, but all escaped
without injury.
The piiot-boat Charlotte Webb was
struck and sunk by the steamer La Nor
mandie, off Sandy Hook, Saturday night.
Capt Albert G. Malcom, one of the oldest
pilots of New York harbor, and Charles
Fitzgerald, boat keeper of the Charlotte
Webb, we're drowned.
RED WING, Minn.-A disease suppos-
ed 10 be hydrophobia is epidemic in
T-imbeIIe, Wis. and the school has
been closed in one district. The children
are strictly forbidden TO leave home. Men
have engaged to kill ali the stray dogs IN
town.
MnwAUKEE.-The bodies of Jos. Sheind-
helm aud Peter Goeiz were recover
ed from the river Tuesday. They em
barked in boat in the morning accom-
panyipg keg of beer and wher they re-
turned at six the boat was not as evenly
balanced as IN the morning. Consequent
ly when one tried to walk from the bow
to the stern the boat capsized and both
were drowned before help could ar
rive.
WTLKEsBARRE, Pa.-A terrific wind and
rain storm, whicn afterwards turned into
a cyclone, swept through the Lackawanna
Valley Monday afternoon. Many houses
were wrecked, fences blown down, bsrns
demolished and whole orchards ruiEed.
The houses occupied by Chas. Robinson
and Chas. White were swept from their
foundations and all the inmates injured.
MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin. - Edward
Sanderson, aged sixty, who has suffer
in the past with Bright's disease, but who
rallied somewhat, died Monday night.
The disease was not considered danger
Gus until Sunday morning, when his wife
was telegraphed for, to New York. He
caught cold on the board of trade, Satur
day, and that hastened his death.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-05-31
WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON, ID. C.-Charles DENLY,
the United States minister to Chine, ad-
vIses the secretary of state of the ap-
poIntment of Tsui Kwo Yin, as envoy
extraordinary of China to the United
States, vice Chan-Yen Hooc.
e The Washington CORES pondent to The
Baltimore Sun sends telegram saying
that the Boston, is to be sent to examine
whether any European power ia inter
fering there, and whether any action by
the United States is necessary.
The interstate commerce commission
has sent a communication to railway
companies, labor organizations, and
others, making inquiries relative to the
methods employed Ior the safety of rail-
road employees and the travelling public,
in regard to car-coupliugs, brakes on
freight and passenger trains, methods of
heating and lighting cars, and to the
prsc'icability of federal legislation on
the subject.
rHE board of survey, consisting of
Capt. Beckwith, Lieut.. Col. Moore, aud
Capt. Morgan has been called to assemble
! at the depot of the qusrtermaster's de-
partment, at st. Louis, TO inv estigate the
report and fix the responsibility for the
present condition of certain clothing and
equipage there.
THE Indians of the lower Brule and Grow
Greek agencies were considerably pleased
to learn that the Sioux commissioners
were soon coming and that their agencies
would be visited first. The commence
msut of the work at the lower Brule, is
undoubtedly & good move on the part OF
| the commission, as all Indians at Grow
| Greek and the lower Brute will sign with
very little urging, and their doing SO will
! have a good effect on the other agencies
who are opposed to anything the whites
| propose.
| The London Society for the Prevention
! of Cruelty to Animals directed its officers
| to observe the thoug htlessness, needless
ness OF cruelty of coachmen who keep
| their horses checked while waiting out
| side of theatres and public places. Al
| tho last drawing room the duration OF
waiting was three hours and a quarter
and out of 200 coschmen only twenty
niue had loosened the check rein.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-05-31
Chlca 90 MHrEnf

CHICAGO, May 7.-F1our- Unchanged as quoted
Saturday. wbeat-Weak and lower; 7glz for seller
cash; II for seller June; 70 5-16 for seller July.
Corn-Steady; 337s for seller cash; SsJ4 for sell
Ter June; % II for seller July. Oats-Steady:
2lss for seller cash: 213z for seller June; 221z
for seller July. Rye-39x. Berl-y-Nothing do
ing. Prime timothy-I.30. Whisky, Il %
Flax L5 PORK About steady;
u.S5 for seller cash and June:
I1s2 for seller July Lari-Sceady; s7z1f for
seliercash; e. ~ for seller June. e14 for seller
July. Shoulders. -5.121ka5 q: short clear.
s1alss6-z5; short ribs, 5 7oa5-so. Batter-Firm;
creamery. l01ka16; dairy. sa14. Cheese-Quiet;
full cream chedders 71s47t4; fats, 71za73z; young
Americas. ssS,4- Egys-Steatr; fresh. 11s4s1254
Hides and tsilow-Unchanged.
FlOur-geceipts, y. ooo; shipments, 1900.
wheat-Receipn-, 1900 shipments. Is 600.
Co-n-ReceiDts. 5000: shipments, "a. ooe.
oatz-Receipts. 24I go: shipments $4,000.
CHICAGO, May z7.-The Drover's Journal re
ports: Cattle receipts. 1900; strong: cnoice TO
extra beeses- 4-1oa4 IS: steers. 8 ssa4oo; stock
ers and feeders. 5os3 10; COWS. bulls and mix
ed, 2ooa3 20: Texas cattle, leoa3oo. Hog
Receipts, IS 600; active. five cents lower:
mixed, 4as4 90: heavy, a5a4 60; Light, 4-40a
4s5; skips. s-5oa4 Is Sheep Receipts 400
firm. Ioc higher: natives, 50s4 30: western
shorn. 381415; shorn Texans, so0s4oo
ambe 5oa5 q
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-05-31
MINISTER THOMAS AT COURT.
He Presents His Credentials TO King Osca
and is Warmly Welcomed.

He Presents His Credentials to king Oscar
and is Warmly Welcomed.
STOCKHOLM, May 27-W. ". Thomas,
envoy extraordinary of the United States
to-day received the official audience of
King Oscar. Mr.. Thomas was waited
upon at his hotel by Count Torn, master
of ceremonies of the Swedish court, and
conveyed IL the royal carriage to the
palace. Outside the palace
company of soldiers were drawn up in
line and presented arms the king received
Mr.. Thomas standing. The minister
presented his credentials and made a
brief speech in which he stated that he
brought with him from over the ocean
assurances of high regard and sincere
friendship of the president and people of
the United States. He eulogiIed highly
Scendinavian-Americ citizens and con
veyed for them their kindest greetings.
King Oscar welcomed Thomas. He
said he was gratifed to receive assurance
of the friendship of the president and
people of the United States, and was
especially gratiied by the kindly greet
ings sent to him by the sons and dsugh-
ters of Scandinavia now in America.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-05-31
THREATENED BY COWBOYS.


Murderers Arrested by the Sheriff at Denver,
DENVER, May PA special from Child
ers, Texas, to Associated Press says,
Harry CHM, @. j. Watson alias Barlow
Watson we're arrested at Matadon ranch,
Friday morning, for the murder of Geo.
W. Richardson, superintendent of San
Pedro Coal Coke company, Carthage,
n. NJ, by the sheriff of Soccoro. The
murder was committed May 15. The
officers came to Childers Wednesday
and started out to Matadon ranch
and arrested the prisoners Friday night.
The murderers were quite popular
among the COW boys and they threatened
to to release the prisoners, and for
q while it looked as if the officers would
have to fight for the prisoners, but after
an explanation the prisoners were
brought to this place and put in Jail for
safe keeping. Harry Glinn had S1,933
on his person when arrested and Watson
xS20
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-05-31
BRUTALITY IN ASYLUMS.

The revelations regarding the brutal
treatment of the insane in the Chicago
asylum send shudder through the frame
OF humanity. 1t is the experience of
civilization that the management of in
sane asylums needs constant and vigilant
Watching. No tales of torture by savages,
no annals of the iPquisition can much
exceed in horror the disclosures with
which Investigation of insane hospitals
aud asylums shock aud amaze the public.
Ohas. Reade, in his novel, Every Hard
Cash." some years ago, gave the English
public an insight into an English insane
asylum The story was told was great, in
dramatic power, but 1t was not over
drawn. 1t startled all humanity and
sympathy of John Bnl's rather phlegm6tio
nature, and led to many reforms. Too
frequently in this country the fact is
demonstrated that cruelty, neglect, the
passionate feorcity of brutal and de
praved keepers AZ attendants is added to
the tortures and prolonged insanity of
those committed to their care.
Much progress has been made in the
treatment OF the insane. Science has
shed much light on the subject of insan-
ity, aud it has emphasized the truth that
patience, kindness, tirmuess and tact are
essential to all successful treatment of
this most unfortunate of Gods creatures.
Th- brutal keeper who would inhict upon
them the tortures which Reade mentioned
in England, or which are now exposed in
Chicago. deserves a fsllon's fate. In
England it was found out that tieudish-
ness seemed TO have exhausted ingenuity
in devising methods of torture. Soorch-
ing plasters we're applied to feeble heads,
feroeious keepers, whom long experience
had divested of all sympathy or humane
feelings, beat, hulliei, lscerated, man
gled, tantalised, and tortured helpless
men and women until large numbers
whose mental arrangement WAS but slight
and easily cursble, were driven to mad
ness by the horrors of the situation.
done much to alleviate there abuses and
guard against these horrors. But we
are often reminded that more needs to be
done. The selection of the intrusted
with the care of the insane should be re
moved from political in nhuence. There
should be course OF instruction IS TO
the treatment of the insane for nurses and
attendants as well as medical officers.
None but persons of equsble tempers
should be elected. The penal law relat-
i've to abuse, neglect or ill-treatment
should be made more stringent and Sc
we're. Principal officers should be made
liable as for criminal negligence for suf-
fering any violence to patients, save the
necessary restraint of their own violence;
and all cruel punishments, .or,ures aud
needless irritation of the poor wretches
should be made crimes against the person
of the gravest character and liable to the
ssverest punishment. Society cannot be
too vigilant in this regard.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-05-31

IN the current Fortnightly Review there
is a stirring article by Gen. WoIsely on
the value and pleasures of soldier life,
which contains these pregnant sentences:
"The mad and reckless longing for
wealth at any price, and for the luxury
wealth can purchase, is eating away the
manly heart of the English nation. 1t
has become aAreligion with it's apostles
and it's writer's, aye, even with lts poets.
A speoious rhetoric tries TO blind men to
the effeminanoy its teaching engenders
but seeks to hide. IL derides the lessons
which the history of the rise and fall of
the great nations of antiquity conveys.
Its one great commandment is, BE
ri
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-05-31
INVESTIGATING CHARGES OF BRIBERY.


The Interstate Commerce Commission Inquir-
ing into the Charges Against Railroads.
CHICAGO, May 27-Chairmau Cooley
and Commissioners Bragg and Morrison,
of the inter-stats commerce co onmission,
began inquiry today into the charges
preferred against the western
railroads by the Chicago board
of trade concerning the relative basis of
rates on live hogs and packing hou, e
products. The case of John p. Squire OF
Boston, against the eastern roads which
was to be heard with this, was found to
be by no means Identical, and it will be
taken up in Boston at some future
day. Judge Smith, representing the board
of trade, made statement of the case
as detailed in the origininsl com plsint.
He argued that the present adjustment
of rates we're higher on live hogs than
on the dressed product, from the Ms
souri river and Iowa points, is wrong and
discrimination against Chicago.
Lawyer Cummings, of Des Noines,
represented Iowa packers who are the
real defendants in the case. He said it
was his intention to prove that the
present rates had been in effect twenty
years and the Chicago packers are at no
disadvantage on account thereof, the
rates are now equitably established.
The evidence of General Freight Agent
Morton, of the Burlington road, went to
show that the cost of transporting dressed
meats was rather higher, all things CON
sidered, than that of shipping live stock.
and the risk fully as great. Several other
witnesses wee examined, including Asst.
Secretary Dennisop of the Union Stock
Yards, Superintendent Besler of the
Burlington road and Nelson Morris. The
investigation will be resumed to morrow.
It is; said the commission
while in Chicago will make inquiry into
the case of prominent cattle shipper who
several months ago, bribed one of the
agents of the Western Railway Weighing
association at the stockysrds, to
pass shipment of live stock
at less than their actual weight.
1t trsnspires that the facts in the matter
are in possession not only of the inter
state commerce commission, but also of
the United States district attorney.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-05-31

SoME of the calcu!ators think the CEN
sus of 1890 will snow gain in population
of 100000, giving total Of about
100000, an increase n ten years of
nearly 30 per cent. The per cent. has
never been less than 30 except IN the war
decade between 1860 and 1870, when it
fell to 22 60. Tho per C, nt. between 1870
and 1880 WAS 300
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-05-31
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

FIRE in a fve-story building, 125 aud
l27 Front street, New York, Tuesday
morning caused loss of SSo, 900; cover
by insurance.
WILLIAM HEMPKER and Frank Hintze
were instantly killed at Elgin, ILL.,, We'd
nesday, being crushed by barn under
which they were working, and which fell.
TIE passenger station freight houses,
whsrves, and forty eight loaded freight
cars, of the Housatunic Railroad COM
pany at Wilson'S Point, Conn, were
burned early this morning, causing q
loss of 100000.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-05-31

go LDIER belonging to detachment
of the Austrian army in Transylvania WAS
recently killed by bullet from Man
licher rife discharged during target prac-
half miles.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-05-31
Death From a Revolver.

EAU CLAIRE, Wis, May 27-Last night
at the house of Farmer McComo, on
Traux Prairie, near this city, a daughter
of McComb, aged 13. and a daughter of
Charles Fleming, aged IA, were exsmin-
ing a revolver, when it accident!y dis
charged, the ball striking the Fleming
siri in the head. She died at one O'Clock
this morpiDp
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-05-31

NKw YORK, May 27.-The coal branch
o. the 81. Louis 4 Chicago railroad, from
Litchfeld, TO Mount Olive, H., which was
-old by the president of the company.
without the knowledge OF the majority
of the directors or stockholders, to J. I.
Nsthsss, for the purpose of depriving
the St. Louis and Chicago stockholders
O. their first lien on the road, has been
returned to the St. Louis i Chicago com
pany. It is the most valuable part of
the road a. it controls the coal business
for the enti.e line.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-05-31

SHY building in Great Britain last year
reached the enormous figure of 100000
tons, an d this year promises to be ,2OO,-
600. The increase of vessels TO so large
infueu in reducing freight rates.