Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-01-18

in many states. Notice of contests have
been served upon several men holding
election certificates 10 the 5lst congress.
The bottom facts are bound to come out
sooner or later, and willie the election
record Of 1883 promises TO be the blackest
in the histor. of me republic, We cannot
afford 10 doJge the issue or allow one po-
litical cIime TO escape notice.
The iudeps ndent news papers and po
lice of Chicago have been at aworCs'
points for some time, and the bad feeling
stirred up in cons, q ueLce has culminated d
in he arrest Of two editors of the Time S
on warrants sworn out by Inspector Bon
field charging the m with or mipal libel
Ovo of the editors was locked up in the
station house for several hours, but j. j.
West, the proprietor Of the Times, was
allowed 10 20 on baII. The charge made
agairst the polio" by the newspapers Is
that Detective Loeattcin and Captain
Setback, oiliculs active IN the prosecution
of the ana chi7ts, mad c"nHived tOgethe
and appropriated Iarso amounts OF prop
orty irreguIarIy obtalntd from thieves
and prisoner, in"lUtrng certain keep
sakcs btquearhed by the condemned an
arohizt Ling :" hi- hetrothed.
HE Engineering News figures out a
total railway construction IN 1888 of but
4. .4@O miles, or some go miles less than
tho estimate Of the Railway Age OF Chca-
go; but tins ference i- due to the fact
thnl the latter includes past eng { f., motor
pnd lumber or logging freight lines,
whie the Enpin, oriLg News only &C
counts Tor regular passenger and freight
stenm +, Ilrutd.. The south leads Id new
construction, where more ACTIVITY has
been displayed com Dnrod with the North
than ever before. There has been little
Or no paraIleng, aud most OF the new
mileage extend, Into uDdeveloped sec
tion1. The belief, says the Noss, that
the interstate law tends To force the local
roads To oon-olduto with the largo sys-
tenn, is not corroburatcd by the building
In 1883 Of a large number of lO,h limos
Whom remain IN their several fields mon
arch- Of All they survey.
HrsHY GnoHGr's land tax movement is
certainty not lo-lng ground in this couu
Try nuy moro than III Elgtuud, II one oan
judge OF the outward ,vldencez of growth
lie has succeeded in the last few months
gathering TO HIS standard several strong
advocates of the sys om, aud any number
OF "-ingIotnX" clubs aud other propagan-
diHt organization, have very recently
nowspnp r, the Standard, also prospers
to all appearances, aud nas jurt been
changed and enlarge to l6 page folio
Of the form of the Iudep, nient. Besides
tho enthusiasts who went off with DIR. Nc
Glynu and cut such a deplorable figure
IN the last campaign undor the title of the
united labor party, are coming back to
their old alliance, although George does
not hesitate to charaoter,ze the orgauiza-
tion IN New York city a5 an "assooiation
OF strikers banded together for the Pur-
pose of bleeding candidates"-a fact
which McGIynn bcmolns we'll. The
latter not only fmled to steal Georges
thunder in assuming the proprietorsnip
Of the anti oNcrty society aud united
labor party, Int Go'ualty h"lPed him
along at Ien=t George has never got ON
40 well n7 since the * priest drserted him.
EMrEHoK NInLIAM, of Germany, grows
more VICIOUS IN hrs assaults upon his
fathers memory. Il will be remembered
that Herr Won Puttkamer was forced
to resign from the Prus4iau u.inis-
try by Emperor Frederick for gross
interference in the popular elections.
1t il plso kuu Eu that Sir Robert Morier,
who represented the British government
Rt Darmstudt during the Franco Z ussinu
war, was Il personal friend of Frederick,
then crown prince. Every admirer OF
the late emperor in Germany was there
fore rrritated last weeR by the announce
meut that the oricr of the Black Eagle
had been conferred upon Won Puttkamer,
and that Count Herbert Blsmark had re.
fused in studled'y offensive language to
deuy that he had charged Sir Robert
Morier with sending secret information
to Marshal BaGune in 1870 concerning
the movements OF the German army. To
put fine touch upen the weeks news. it
was announced from Berlin that Prof.
GeG,ken, imprisoned for publishing
portion Of the diary of the late Emperor
Frederick, had been released and the
prosecution agaiust HIM abandoned. As
he admitted the offense the Inference is
irresistible that the real offender is the
emp,rar's mother. Thus the young
monarch has managed to strike at his
father twice and his mother once, all in
one week
NolutNa equal to the electric sugar re
huiug fraud has been discovered in the
hsla of human guIhbiHty since the time
when men were persuaded tnst the moon
was made of green cheese. And as be
tween the American and EueIishman
the latter proves to be the most guIlible
victims of u Germrn named Freund who
livei in Michigan. He had secret
process" of refining sugar by electricity
and after tread'ng on tiptoe and whisper
ing around in New York FOX awhile, form
ed a company to outllize the new iuven-
ton, raked in the proceeds of stock
sales and died last March, leaving the
widow 10 further bleed the dupes. No
was able 10 get peep at the won
dertul machine, which was veied in
awful mystery in room where stock
holders were admitted, but where they
we've not allowed to remain during the
process work. Barrels Of unrefned
sugar went into the room and after q
my sterious crunchius soHnd, which awed
people into large purchases OF stock,
barrels of finely refined sugar were
brought out. Now it Is discovered thai
the unrehned sugar was never touched
and the process simply consisted OF
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