Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-05-31
THE LATEST TELEGRAMS
GENERAL NOTES.

YOUNG minister in Maine introduced
Mrs. Livermore to an audience as 1.-The
grand old woman"
over this city Thursday morning. Sky
lights were broken, and small fruit and
tender plants were badly damaged.
LAURA BRIDGMAs, the blind and deaf
mute, who was made famous by Charles
Dickens in his american Notes" is dead.
THE steamer Rockton from Samoa, ar
rived at San Francisco, containing eight
officers and $50 men of the Vandalia, and
twelve officers and 300 men from the
Trenton.
"STEvE" BRoDIE, who not long ago
achieved notoriety by leapiDg from the
Brooklyn Bidge, jumped over Passaic
Falls this morning and sustained no in
jury.
On making the discovery that Captain
MurrelI of the steamship Missouri, was a
Mason, the Grand Lodge of Mason5 of
Maryland presented him with a gold
medal for his action regarding the Dan
mark.
SEVERE earthquake shocks were felt at
San Francisco and in nearly every part of
Cti''ci h'h OFhiiy LhoihibS' wv
serious damage is reported.
The Iowa State Board of Health de-
oided that Iowa medical colleges, after
1891, should be required to give -four
years course TO secure their graduates
admission to practice in the state.
OVER 10000 tons of ore have already
been sent from the five shipping ports of
the Lake Superior iron district. At the
corresponding date last year scarcely
100000 tons of ore had been sen6 for
ward.
Hartford, Conn.-The trustees of the
Hartford theological seminary have voted
to open all courses of the institution to
women on the same terms as to men. 1t
is the first institution of the kind in the
country to undertake theological training
for women.
For forty eight years there was not a
law case in the town of Medd temps, Ne,
neither was there lawyer. But two
weeks ago lawyer hung out his sign III
this primitive Paradise, and now two
citizen are going to law over fence
line.
GAIL. HAMILTON practices greater eoono
my IN writing paper than almost any
ways writes on scraps of paper, the backs
of old envelopes being her favorite ma
terial.
The little town of Newark, California,
has some good young men. They rode a
drunken and abusive husband named
Chase out of town on a rail, and then
quartered the wife and children in the
principal hotel until they had raised
money enough to send them to Louisville,
KY, where the wife's parents reside.
The jury in the Carter divorce case,
which has heen II trial in Judge jamie
son'f court in Chicago for over five weeks,
returned verdict for the defendant.
They declare that Leslie Carter is not
guilty of the charges made against him
by his wife, and that Mrs. Garter is guilty
of the infidelities alleged in her husbands
cross bill. A motion for new trial was
entered.
CHAMBERLAIN, d. T.-The report has
been received here from a reliable soourse
that the Sioux commission will begin
work at Lower Brule and Grow Creek |
agencies. They will probably arrive in
this CITY May 80 and GROSS the Missouri |
heve to Lower Brule. 1t is believed that |
this IL a good move, as no trouble will be
met in securing all the signatures at these
two agencies.
THERE is family in Troup County,
Georgia, representing four d.fferent de
nominations. The mother aud one of
the daughters are Presbyterians, three
other daughters are Methodists, and an
other daughter and a son are missionary
baptists, while the father is inclined to
the faith of the primitive baptists. All
live together, except one married
daughter, and is loving, harmonious
family.
CLEVELAND. Arthur Frazier, an Ohio |
canal b oat captain, went to visit Edward
III we aud wife, near Hawkins, Summit
COrnty, Sunday. In the course of Con
versation Mrs. Howe said: "There never |
has been men here that l couldn't |
throw" Frazier told her she could .'t |
throw him. They olInoheG, and after a |
few moments tug, Mrs. Howe threw
Frazier on his back on a lounge, and the |
next minute he was a corpse, supposedly
from rupture of an artery.
9 A BUCYRUs, O., man several years ago
WAS found guilty of murder and sentenc
ed to be hanged. He appealed, was given
a new trial, WAS found gIilty and sentenc-
ed to the Penitentiary for life. He ap-
pealed again, was given a new trial, found
guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to
the penitentiary for twenty years. He
again appealed, was granted new trial,
had his case dismissed on Wednesday and
liz now a free man