Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-06-14
THE LATEST TELEGRAMS
GENERAL NOTES.

I The most conservative estimates place
! the loss of life at Johnstown at not less
! than 5000 TO 10000.
| fgE citizens of Minuea polls have voted
TO send u 600 barrels of -four to the Johns
town sufferers.
NEW YoRK.-The amount received for
the CJuemaugh valley sufferers at the
mayors office up to II o'clock on Sunday
reached 100000.
GoVEKSOE BEAVER, of Pennsy sylvauia, has
| invited Governor Hill, of New York, 20
issue JOINT proclamation With himself,
calling on the people of New York and
PenDs ylyania for aid for the sufferers by
the great fire at Seattle.
CHICAGO Leonard Sweet, promiL en- t
| lawyer, and AZ ore time the law partner
of Abraham Lincoln and who nominated
Lincoln for president in 6G,and .Gresh
am III 1888, died at his residence here,
sunday afternoon.
TIN and glass have found a rival in
pa per as a material rOr making kerosene
OH cans. The latter, it Is ciaiU1ed, will
not rust ar0 leak like tin or crack like
glass.
Mr.. GEoRGF W. WINANs, State Superin-
'tIuCbL VI bht ECHoDls Oh hbHrdS. tNGubJ-
one years ago, worked as common labor
tr ~ excavatipg for the foundation OF
he building in which h- now holds
worthIly-an honorable office.
] HE report Of the Board of Railroad
Assessors of Kansas, finished Monday.
shows the total mileage of roads in the
State to be 8, ,S29. 80 miles, and the total
afses-ed value of all railroad property to
be $57 ,448, 1913 38.
CHICAGo.-Chicago proposes sending
substantial help TO the Johnstown suffer
ers. The committee presided over by
Mayor Cregier hopes and ex poets to raise
100000.
PIERRE, OAK - An Inoians runner
has arrived here direct from Rosebud
agency with words that the Indians at
the agency had commenced to sign the
treaty and that the commission would get
them all.
The Collier White Lead Company and
the Southern White Lead Com pany, of St.
Louis, sold ont to The National White Lead
Trust for S4,500,00O. This will put the
entire white lead output of America i'll
the hands of the Standard Oil people.
0. w. BARRETT, general agent of the
American express company, Is out with
"A circular stating that the com pany car
ries free from Chicago TO Pittsburg
(shiot will be the base or supplies)
clothing, money, etc., for the sufferers by
the Johns'own food.
BY the death of George III. Calvert, the
oldest American author, with the excep-
tion Of Mr.. Bancroft, has passed away,
In Boston he was well known aud through
Pa tal n
ThorndIke family, she being a sister of
the late Augustus Thorndike, who was a
great uncle of Allen ThOrndIke.
LONDON The Kurds continue their
atrocities IN Armenia. Roasting and ont
raging their victims are the constant
practices.
SsFHE London Spectator says of the
United States: "Her people are becom-
ing the greatest uatlon IN the world. 1t
is probable that nothing short of actual
violence would induce any nation to
attack her, while she could, if she pleas
ed, most ruin the commerce of any ma
tion on the globe" The Spectator pre-
diets that many children now born will
live to see the republic with a popu.ation
of 2O,O00,000.
DAVID CHAsE, of North HaverhilI, n. H.,
and Jonathan Chase, of Fall River, Wis,
are without doubt the oldest twin BROTH
ers in this country-their age being "a
years. Both are in remarkably good
health. David out three years ago paid
a visit TO his brother and return ed the
entire distance without travelling com
panion. The two brothers had not met
for twenty years.
The G ,mbria iron works, the great Iu-
dustry OF } JohhstOwn, originated in a few
widely separated charcoal furnaces built
by pioneer iron workers in the early
years Of the century. AS early rs 1903,
General Arthur St. Clair engaged in the
iron business, and erected the Hermitage
furnace about sixteen mics from the
present size of Johnstown. In 1909 the
working of ores WAS begun near Johns
own. These were primitive furnaces,
where charcoal was the only fuel EN- ploy
ed, and the raw material and product
were transported entirely on wagons, but
they marked the beginning of the manu-
fac urers of iron III this country.