Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-08-30
THELATEST TELEGRAMS
GENERAL NOTES.

AT Louisville, KY, LOOP hogsheaos of
tobacco, weighing nulilon and half
pounds and worth over 100000, were
sold al auction.
THOMAS A. EDISON, tEe inventor, has
been decorated by King hunbert, of
Italy, with the insignia of Grand Off
Ger of the Crown of Italy, thus making
him Count AID his wife Countess.
MAN same1 Glossman, of Chicago, is
gettit e rich raising frogs for the market.
His "froggery," as he calls it, is q pond
on one Of his town lots.
A NUMBER of brooklyn capitalists have
decided 10 open hote! on the New York
plan in Paris. They believe it will at
tract American customers as well as the
trade of English persons who have visit
ed the United States
JANEsvII LE-The merchant tailoring
establishment OF w. g. Holmes d. Son,
was burgIarized Thursday night and $500
worth of goods taken, including six 'ull
suits of custom make. There is no clue
to the perpetrators.
The experiment of going down the
Idaho mine at Grass Valley, Cal, in sub
marine Grmor to put out the fires, has
been unsuccessful. The heat was too
great, and gas passed under the helmets
of the two men. They reached the 900
foot level and within 100 feet of the
fire.
TIE tin mines of the Black Hills, Da-
kOJa, are beginning TO attract general at
tention Il has long been doubted If We
had any good tin ore in this country, but
these new mines are likely TO rival those
of Cornwall and Bolivia and Peru.
TdERE are now 500 American schools
in Turkey, all of which, except one, are
open daily. An order was recently made
by the Turkish government prohibiting
any interference with the schools, which
had been i'm peded and interfered with by
the local authorities.
CHIoAGO.-A Times special from Spring
Valley, says the locked cut miners do not
like the propositions made by Mr.. Scott,
and feeling of bItterness e1Iste among
good many of them regarding the
clause deoliuIug 10 treat with any organ
izrtion or onion. break may be ex-
pected, however, amoUg the foreigners
at any moment.
s. S. Cox, the congressman, who has
iust returned from Washington Terri
TORY, is enthusiastic over it's people.
"Ihey are" he SAYS, "as If you had TAX
en- the cream Of New York, of Washing
ton, of Buffalo, of all the cities of the east,
the brig htest boys of the family, and sent
them ont with plenty of enterprise and
pockets full of money. They are the
brightest people in the world. They
have got the grit and the money.
FoUR tramps arrested at Moberly, Mo,
for va2ranoy, were put up at public auo-
tiOn Monday. The sale had been duly
advertised according to law, and large
crowd WAS present. The bidding was not
very brisk. Two OF 5he tramps went TO
farmers at 81 u head, and another was
bid in at Is cents. The fourth tramp
could find no purchaser and was returned
to Jail. The three who were sold must
serve their purchasers for three mouths.
THERE are a great many deaths oc-
curing in the COnemau8h valley which
cannot be accounted for on any other
ground than that they are largely the re-
suit of the severe mental aud physical
suffering the people have endured. Like
the great blizzard, the Johnstown Hood
victims were not all numbered with the
dead at the time of the disaster, and they
may coutiuue to drop away for monthsto
come.
THERE have been big gold nuggets
found in various countries, but the iaIg-
est that was ever discovered, the Silver
DI liar states, was found in New South
Wales, Australia. 1t was unearthed on
May 10, 1872. Its weight was GAO pounds,
height four feet nine inches, and it was
worth S14S 600. 1t was found imbedded
in thick wall of blue slate at depth of
$50 feet from the surface. AU I'M crest
ing feature of its history was thai the
owners of tho mine were living on char
ity wht they found il.