Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-07-12
THELATEST TELEGRAMS
GENERAL NOTES.

The fund raised for little Annie Red
| mond is TO be handled under the direction
| of the Probate court. John Redmond,
the father of Apnie, was declared sane.
ABoUr 1900 en- ployes of Carnegie d
| Co.'s Homestead Stele Works have decid-
ed 20 stop work, and refuse to sign the
com mpany's scale.
THE Baltimore and Ohio Railroad has
cut rates on grain between Chicago and
! Baltimore and Philadelphia cents pc r
| hundred pounds.
ONE HUNDRED Mormon disciples reached
| New York Friday morning and were at
once shipped to Salt Lake City.
A SANFRANoIsoo firm has built the
largest wine cellar III the world. 1t is
capable of holding 100000 gallons of
| wine. 1t cost $250,O00. Tnis is one in
| dicatlon of the rapid growth of wine pro-
| duction on the Pacific cosst.
The total Indian population is less
than 100000. OF these 21,23Z live in
houses an6 9,6l2 Families are engaged
in agriculture. And among these so
called saVages there are 28,232 church
members.
The race for the diamond sculIs at Hen
American amatuer champion and Black
more, the English oarsman, was won
by G. q. Psotta the American beating by
three Lengths.
AN engagement has taken place between
Egyptian troops and a body of Dervishes
at Cairo. OF the latter 800 were killed or
wounded. Two English officers were also
wounded.
Iu~t 4nA hot -
California this senson will be the larges:
in TIE history of the State. The wine
production is estimated at from 30
100000 to 35,OOlOOO gallons. The raisin
crop will he a very heavy one.
CIEorNNATI saloon- keeper the other
day paid Il dollar for a sealed envelope
containing directions that would enable
him to sell more beer. When he opened
it he fOund on small card the words:
'Don't sell so much froth."
Our in Nevada electricity runs the very
deep mines and has increased production
26 per cent. The men who work 8,10O
feet deep live about two years notwith-
standing the fact that they work only two
hours per day. They get more pay than
the eight-hour men. They work fifteen
minutes and rest forty-fve.
BY order of the Mayor all places of
business were closed at Racine, Wis.
on Sunday. Even cigar stands and ice
cream parlors were not allowed to run.
great deal of drunkenness prevailed, as
people secured kegs of beer and re
paired to the woods to drink. Over 200
people went on an excursion to Milwaukee,
and large number of them returned in.
toIicat sd.
WHEN Franklin was ambassador to
France, being at a meeting of literary
society, and net well understanding
French when declaimed, he determined
to applaud when he saw lady friend ex.
press approval. When they had ceased,
little child, who understCod French,
said to Franklin: "Why, you always ap-
plG uded mos when they were praislng
you!" Franklin laughed hear tily and
explained his dilemma.
One million dollars worth of property
belonging to Falk,' Jung d Borohert, was
lail in ashes Thursday afternoon in less
than three hours. The plant of the big
brewery concern was totally destroyed
and 81 900 barrels of beer stored in the
storage warehouses for the most part
ruined. The insurance aggregates only
S35O,000. Two hurGT2d men are thrown
ont of employment, but only temporarily,
as il IL the intention % the firm to re
build at once.
The fire WIS the largest, the tiercest and
the most destructive that has ever visited
Milwaukee. The brewery, comprising
group of half a dCZep brick and frame
buildings, covered a tract of several acres
i'll the town of Wauwatosa, Just beyond
the city limi's. Large additions had been
made only recently at cost exceeding
800 600. The buildings comprised the
main brewery, and clustering around it
the malt house, the office structure, large
frame bottlIng works, storage warehouse,
building with costly Ice machine and six
boilers, recently built, the ice houses i'll
the rear, large stables several hundred
yards to the west aud few minor build
ings sandwiched between. The stables
are intact and the ice houses are only
scorched, bnt of the other buildings there
remains only mass of ragged, crumb
ling walls and few smoldsrlng piles out
of which stand in relief the blackened
and distorted wrecks of the machinery.