Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-02-01
THE LATEST TELEGRAMS
GENERAL NOTES.

PEANUTS are tourd to be very profit
able crop in western Kansas.
A LOUISVILLE doctor has started the
| ory tnat eIOpenents are hereditary.
GOVERNOR FORAKER has commuted the
| sentence of Mrs. Garrett, the Ohio muir
! deresz, TO im pri- oument for life.
THE sum total of all the counterfeit
money set afoat last year did not exceed
| 5000.
The winter in central Kansas has been
| 40 open that most Of the spring plowjng
ia done.
The remains of the confederate ram
| MerrImac has just been sold for old
| iron.
FATHER DoVD. of st. Patrick's church,
! Montreal, condemned the Catholic order
of FOrresters of Illinois, lodges establish
ed there.
A CHUNK of coal that weighed 3,7OO
pounds WAS taken ont of the Consolidated
Con! company's mines at DanylIie,
llliAois.
A COMPANY OF United States troops
drove over 600 families of boomers out
Of the Oklahoma country, Wednesday.
The evic cd persons are now encgmped
around Purcell, Ind. I.
JUDGE WHEELER IN the United States
circuit court, a New York, Thursday,
decided that the car trust was entitled to
4 judgment IN its suit az ainst the Iron
Mountain d. Southern railway for $780,
600 for breach OF contract.
A BILL for the execution of criminals by
electricity similar to the New York law,
g,,tr
Thursday.
CHARLESTON, S. C.-The News and
Courier says the cotton crop of this year
will be the largest ever grown; and will
approximate 712 million bales.
Mr. HARnIsoN takes the sens bile ground
that the next lady of the whiGe house is
not ex-otfi,io the leader of fashion.
ALL busipees houses OF E6canaba,
Much, were closed on WodnesdlV ont of
respect for the late Lieutenant Governor
Mcdonald, whose fUue.al WAS held II that
city.
RUsE ELIZABETH CLEVELAND is a work
on n novel which has many sensational
f, ature7, yet 1t is written, 1t iI said, IN
highly intellectual vein, aud recalls the
st 10 Of George Eliot.
TIE visible supply Of wheat and corn
is, espectively, 1886 $40 a"d 1925 $50
bnshels. Since last report wheat decreas-
ed 9Ol ,67l hushels, while ourn increased
1913 457 bushels.
A VEIN of silver extending for miles
and showing an assay of 81 800 to The
ton has been struck within twelve miles
of Duluth. Cnristoffer Hyalmer Is the
owner of lhe property ON which the find
Ia nd h. TN. gatI ut
price.
ALEXANDER NAsMYTH, the landscape
painter, once plauied an Inaccessible
crag on the estate OF the duke of Athol
by shooting b % seeds out on small
cannon. The attempt was a decided sue
Gers and the trees now flourish lUxGriant-
y.
A MILLIONAIRE named Tagliabei, who
died rooonUiy at MIlau, beqUehthed the
the SUD OF 10000 fraucs to the street
sweeptrs of that tor wn, on condition that
they wOtld all go to his funeral in their
working clothes. In his youth he had
himself been knight of the broom and
shovul.
BALAR, Mo.-Henry Thomus, an old
farmer, has four grown up daughters,
HnttIo, Margaret, Nancy and Jane, aged
l6, 49, 20 and ~ years, respectively. Last
Wednesday night Samuel and Charles
Hasburn, brothers, procured ladder and
helped Margaret and Jane out of n win
dow of their fathers house and thUy were
about to elUpe with the girls, the Oldham
appeared on the scene, but too late to
prevent their escape. He at once pro-
cured the best horse he had and a shot
gun and started IN hot pursuit. When
HDuut twelve milea from home he over
took the fleeing party. He immediately
opened fire nn them, killing both the
boys and seriously wuuudiug Margaret.
After getting ready home with the girls
he was told that the other two girls, Hatcie
and Nancy had also eloped with Ned
tIrasun ard Thomas Allison. He at once
left the girls he had with him in charge
of some neiEhbors and started after the
others. After securing the two girls
without much trouble Re started back,
but when about two miles from home a
mob met him and strung him up to a
tree. The old man was very strict TO the
girls. He would hardly let them get out
uf his sight. He always Dragged that he
would not be bothered with lazy sons in
law. Public feeling Is strongly in favor
of the Iynohing. Margaret has since
died.