Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-10-25
THE LATEST TELECRAMS.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

PATTI will sail for this country Nov. %,
to make her annual farewell tour,
OVER two thousand tons of raisins have
alreads been shipped East from Fresno,
Cal.
The Protestant Episcopal Church has in
the Nebraska Deanery $50 Indian com
mnicants, with nine Dakota Indians In
holy orders.
The total value Of beef and hog exports
from the United States during Septem-
ber was 81 .o94 ,595 and of dairy products
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The existence of a lake at Pichucolo
which contains petroleum oil, Is reported
in Mexico, and the natives use the oil il
their lamps.
f. w. ABBOTT an officer at the Massa-
chusetts Reformatory, owns the largest
dog in the country. 1t is the lion breed
of mastiffs. weighs lS5. is 30 inches high
and 6 feet II inches in length.
GEN. JoHN +. HARTRANFT. eX-Goyer-
nor of Pennsylvania. and formerly Post
master of Philadelphia, died at his home
in Norristown. Pa, Thursday morning.
MILWAUKEE. - VIM Waterman died
Thursday at Grand Rapids. Wis, aged
ia years. His first wife died at the age
Of Is. He married his second wife when
he was in his Tooth year. She died a few
years ago
A FRENCH statistician has just ascer-
tanned that IA human being. of either sex.
who is moderate eater, and who lives to
be 20 years old, consumes during 1.-THE
days of the years Of his life" quantity of
food which would fill twenty ordinary rail
way baggage ears. A good eater, how
ever may require as many as thirty.
New YoRK. - Mayor Grant says he
shall continue TO use every possible means
to prevent the electric light companies
from operating their plants until the wires
busy replacing gas lamps and burners on
the posts.
A THuG some time ago made his confess
sion 10 an English officer. lie had COM
mittcd 700 murders. but he plaintiveIy
said: "Ah, sir, if had not been in pris-
on twelve years the number would have
been a thousand.
Ar the Paris Exposition II FIorentine
friar shows "A watch only Il quarter Of I'm
inch in diameter. 1t has not only the two
regular hands. but a third. which marks
the seconds and "A microscopic dial which
indicates the days, weeks, months and
years 1t also contains an alarm, and on
its front lid or cover an ingeniousIy cut
figure of st. Francis.
CLEVELAND. Ohio. The manager
# the Pau-Amcrican excursion has tee-
graphcd to points yet to he visited request
ing reception committees to abandon that
part of their programme which provides
for banquets IN mercy to the exhausted
delegates He also stated that the visitors
do not care to see factories, of which they
have had surtiet
CHCAGo.-J John G.. Jones. Il lawyer of
this city, with Il number of prominent
colorcG men in different parts of the coun-
try have arranged to call Il conference of
the leading men of the colored race from
every state and territory in the Union, to
meet at Chicago next june for the purpose
of forming national league for the pro-
lection and elevation IF the colored race in
the United States
CLEvELANn. O. PcIcc Island, Lake Erie
is excited over Il ease of smallpox. DIR. f..
4. Sneidcr has been sick for ten days and
the disease was pronounced to lee small
pox. 7. IL. Mckee, the school teacher ON
the island, has acted as the sick man $
nurse at night and taught school in the
daytime thus exposing his A scholars to
the disease Over one hundred persons
are SAID TO have been exposed. and it Is
feared the disease will spread over the
entire island.