Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-06-28
THE LATEST TELEGRAMS
GENERAL NOTES.

AN English syndicate is negotiating
for the purchase of the Eigin watch fac
tory.
III Ia understood the 800" will make
further reduction on all rates from
the sea board to- st. PeuI and Minneap-
oils.
Ex PRECEDENT WooLsEY. of Yale college.
VINO IL eightY-seyen years old, goes out
walking now TO take last looks" at sights
that are Used to delight him.
ENGLI2H CAPITALISTS have selected site
at Vallejo, Cal, opposite Mars Island
navy yard, for the erection of extensive
steel and iron works. The plant 1t is said,
will cost $I0,OO0,0Oo.
The -four output at MinDea poiis last
week was 1l2,70O barrels, against 1OO,-
100 barrels the previous week. Sales
have been liberal and prices are firmer
aud higher.
The prohibition amendment to the
consJitution of Pennsylvania has been
defeated by majority ranging from 150,-
600 to 100000.
MRS. HARRIET BEEoHER SrowE was 70
years ola Friday last week. She has be
come strong enough again TO conduct
little private correspondence.
Mr.. PULITZER, of the New York World,
generously offers q prize of $3.50 year to
twelve graduates of the New York graded
schools who need help iu order to obtain
a college education.
Ben BUTLER's memory, despite his
years, is SAID to be wonderful. He can
call instantly to mind anything he has
ever read or heard, and is seldom at a loss
for name or date.
THREE lepere-One man and two wom-
en-have been found on Cape Breton Is
land, Nova Scotia. They will be sent TO
the LeProsy Lazarette AT Tracadi, N. b.,
and placed IN charge of the heroic Sis
ters of Mercy there.
Ina Kentucky family are five girls
named, respectively, Arkansas, louisa
ma, Tennessee, Florida, and Virginia,
each of whom weighs over one hundred
and sixty pounds.
THOMAS MAST has returned from a long
residence in California and looks rs lively
as ever. He is thinking of once more
entering the lecture field with colored
crayOns. He has joined the staff of the
Times.
The Cherokee Indians support over
one hundred common schools, with an ag-
gregate of 4,059 pupils, and high school
for boys with 211 students. They are
just completing seminary that will ac
commodate l65 students.
In the Youngstown food twelve Grand
Army men lost their lives and ninety six
all their possessions. They will be among
the best provided for. though, as it is
expected that their order alone will dis
tribute 100000 among them individually
HISTORIAN BANCROFT is now quietly |
domiciled at Newport, where he will do |
the best he can toward enjoying his seth |
summer here belog. With his books and |
his roses and his happy temperament,
Mr.. Bancroft has had life of successes
and rational pleasures.
IT is reported that all the old passenger
conductors on the Cherokee aud ChooJaw
Division of the Missouri, Kansss and |
Texas Railroad have been discharged Al d |
freight conductors put in their pltc ).
I heir discharge is said to be cue to the |
work of spoilers, who have bee n watch
ing them since the road went into this |
hands of receivers.
HANNAH HEIrLAND, a young German
girl, whose home Is in Tioga, Ill became
slightly insane a few days ago, and her |
fhhNhN0 anu tilouBhb Sic Was poS- |
sessed of an evil spirit, which they at |
tempted to drive away by sticking pins in |
her and otherwise torturing her. She has |
been taken to the hospital, where she is
in precarious condition.
The Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul |
Railroad Company recorded mortgage
at Madison, Wis, Wednesday, to the
United States Trust Compa of New
York, for $l50,OO000O. 1t covers all
property of whatever description belong
ing to the company, ana is erecuted- for
the purpose of taking up all outstanding
iude ebtedness of the company and re-
funding 1T at a lower rate of interest.
The display which Mr.. Eiison's mum
erou- inventions make at the Paris Inter
national Exposition is the most or, dit
able which any individual there enjoys.
Great crowds constantly throng the de
pattmenr where they are exhibited, and
never before, perhaps, was the marvellous
genius of the Menlo Park wizard SO
strIkingly illustrated. The collection Is
said 10 represent nearly 800 patents, and |
embraces a range of marvellous instr
ments unequaled III the history of mech
anism.