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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-02-08
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

BUFFALO, N. Y, has had terrible fr.,
destroying from one 10 two million dot
lars worth OF property.
FIRE Monday Morning destroyed c. B.
Hutohings il Sous car roofing establish
ment at West Detroit, Mich, causing q
loss of 100000.
The British ship, Sir Walter Raleigh,
laden with wHod from n. S. W, went
aground near BOulonge and five of her
crew were lost.
ST. VINCENT's Academy, at Keokuk,
Iowa, was partially destroyed by dre Fri
day. Some 400 children were il rhe
building, but hIl were safely removed.
IuREE per5ons were killed and two in
jured by the explosion of boiler nu
an Allegheny river two-boat at PItts-
barg.
TLv persous lost their lives by the
wreokIug o. an English steamer off the
Devonshire coast, nnd seven lives were
lost by the wreckmg of . bark off Port
Patrick.
The bank OF Clear Lake Ia, was closed
Wednes day. A notice was posted on the
doors saying that the proprietors heard
there was going to be a run and there-
fore put the bank il the hands of a re
ceiver.
Two school onudren of the name of
French, belonging 10 family near Hitch
cock, ID. f., perlshed in the storm of last
Friday, while trying toget home from
school.
MINNESOTA opera houses seem to be
Followed by i'll luck. Early Moaday
morning fire was discovered in the
Grand opera house at Duluth, and WAS
beyond control. The loss reaches $3.50,
600, and was but partially insured.
A STEAM explosion occurred in the hold
of the steamship Republican, of the
White Star line in the New York hsrbor.
Three were fatally burned. while several
are considered in a critical state.
IPSWICH, Mass.-John Qnir and his s.
year old son were struck by an Express
rain to-day aud the father was instantly
tkllled. The boy was terribly maugled
His skull, one arm, a leg, aud shoulder
blade were fractured.
Slow collections forced Chas. l.. Page,
a dealer IN mautels at 1897 Wabash aven-
ue, Chicago, to make an assignment.
The assets are estimated at sec 900; ha-
bilities about $50 600.
THE bank at Clear Lake, Iowa, closed
its doors Monday. A notice was put on
the door 10 the effect that run on the
bank VAS expected, and it was thought
better 10 put in the hands of receiver.
II Ia claimed there Is money enough to
pay all liabilities in full.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-02-08
Ihe Tariff BILL

WASHINGTON, Feb 5--The WAYS and
means committee today continued the
formal reading of the tariff bill, and pro
gressed as far as the iron schedule. which
was under discussion when the committee
adj iourned- All of the calculations from
the treasury experts have not yer reached
the Committee
motioa wes entered this morning By
Representative Breckenridge, of Arkau-
sss, to strike out the section providing
for 8 bounty on sugar. In fact nearly all
the motions entered so far are to strike
out the senate amendment. to the orig
iusl bill, and tue necessity for votes up
on them IN detail az & later stage of the
proceedings may be obviated By the
simple expedient of voting at once TO
non concur enmssse il the senate
amendments.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-02-08
CONGRE ESSIONAL
TUESDAY, Jan. %.

TUESDAY, j al. ~.
SENATE The committee on military af-
fairs repOrtep back, with a substitute, the
house bill TO furnish cannon to soldiers
homes, and 1t was passed. Sen. Chsud-
to, calling on the secretary of the navy
for statement of expenditures for each
of the six months for the present fiscal
year for the appropriations for the CON
struction aud repair of vessels and for
steam machinery; also, for statement
recent accident to the cruiser Baltimore.
The senate resumed consideration of the
diplomatic and consular appropriation
oil, the question being on an amend
ment 10 make the title OF minister to
France and Germany, Great Britain and
Russia ambassador" After long dis
cussiou, Sen. Gibson's amendment was
agreed TO.
HOUSE, Mr.. Burrows. OF Michigan,
presented a petition of $4,000 citizens of
Utah against the admission of that terri
tory as state The house then went in
70 committee of the whole on the sundry
civil appropriation bill. On a point OF
order raised by Mr.. Crane the clause was
stricken out of the aus spending act of 1855
sppropriatius $50, 900 TO enable the sec
retary of WAT TO acquire valid title to
the Fort Brown military reservation. Mr..
Enlose (of rennessee) offered an amend
ment authorizing the secret service force
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-02-08
WASHINGTON.

THE House Ways and Means Commit
tee has referred the senate tariff bill to
the Treasury Department for informa.
tion Rs to the effe c. the changes contem-
plated III the till would have upon the rev.
eCue.
The removal of one of Sen. Vance's
eyes was successfully performed at Wash
lugton on Monday, and the Senator is re-
ported to be resting com mfortably.
BY a decision of the United States
Supreme Court, the lifetime of a patent
taken out in this and anoJhrc country Is
extended to the extreme time TO which it
may run In the foreign country.
WAsuINGToN.-It is rumured that the
stale department is verr much dissatisfied
with the recent public utterances of Con
sui General Sewall in regard TO the
Samoan difficulties, and wilt show its dis
pleasure by requesting his res'g nation.
ADMIRAL KrMBERLYs flagship, the
Trenton, now on her way 10 Samoa, is
the best vessel in our navy, vita the ex-
ceptiOn of the new steel cruisers. Con
gressman Thomas, of Illinois, coGspicu-
ous in the Naval Committee, says KIM
berly Is an officer of pluck and discretion,
tuu Il uSuteI lTOui way OaCks ana AO-
miTal Ammen says of Kimberly, He's a
second Cushing"
WAsHINGToN.-The Postmaster Gen
eral has sent to Chairman Blount, OF the
committee on post offices and post roads
the proposed plan for the classification
of clerks IN all first and second class post
otices. The general effect of this ciessi-
hcation 1t is said would be to increa Sc the
aggregate salaries by about 100000.
Mr.. PRESTON, the Hay tisn minister, IN
formed the secretary OF state that sever
al vessels are being fitted out at New
York, for the tx pedition against Hayti,
aud the matter was referred 10 the treas
ury department, with tie result that the
collector of customs at New York was
specially Instructed to see that no viola
tions of the neutraltls laws are committed
at that port.
WASHINGTON. - Assistant Secretary
Rives stated that Consul Joseph Black, at
Pesth, bad not only been recalled, but
that he had been dismissed from service
by the president about Jan. IL. Being
asked whether the dismissal was owing to
Blacks having written a protection arti-
Gle duriL the past campaign, Mr.. Rives
declined to answer, but said it was done
by the president for good and sufficient
reasons. A. the white house no reasous
could be Rscsrtsined for his dismissal
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-02-08
THE LATEST TELEGRAMS
GEN ERAL NOTES.

DK GATLIsG, "f gun fame, says he Is
working cam torpedo boat that
| nothing Can resist.
Two SONS remain of band of twenty
! children who once called John Brown
! father.
A SKELETON Of 2 mas todon lately ia
earthed 81 Salmon Falls, Id4ho, weighs
over 1000 pounds and Is about sixteen
feet il length.
The governor OF Pennsylvania has
signed the joint resolution submitting a
prohibitory amendment to the popular
vote of that stare.
The supreme court of New York has
affirmed the verdict for $75 600 for bre4ch
OF promise secured by Clara Campb II,
of IrUntou, Ohio, against Charles Ar
buckle, the millionaire coffee merchant,
known Since the trial as Baby Bunt-
ing"
The vIsible suppiv of wheat and corn
is respectively, 30, ,595, ,734 and 1927 6O9
bushels. Since last report wheat de
creased 1.OOl 1876 bushels and corn de
creased $500 bushels.
KELLY, Df motor fame, was released
from jail az Philadelphia. Judge Paxton
maintaining that the ccurt order COM
msndiEg Keeiy to exhibit his machine
was premg urely made because the case
was not fairly III Issue.
REPORTS from OklohomO are to the
effect that sinco the soldiers re urned to
fort Sill Fl fteed families have crossed the
Canadian river and entered Oklahoma.
number of settiers are breaking ground
and preparing il for cultivation.
REPKEsEsTATINEs of the larger cattle
industries of Ihe west are at Kansas City
for the purpose of combining with a
view to dong away with the commission
system and handling their own stock.
Capital stock To- the extenE of $I5O,00O Is
to be iSsue0.
J. L. MULLER, Of Waterloo, Iowa, while
treating horse for poll evil some days
ago got some of the viru, in a scratch on
one OF his hands. The hand at once be
gan 10 swell, the swelling extending TO
his arm and SIDE, and Friday he died
from the poison.
The island of Nantucket is apparently |
a healthy place, and it's people don't tire
of life early. S"venty-5Ix people died |
there last ear. OF these five were In
fants; the average age of the suventy-Une
Ii n little over 68 years, forty two were
10 or over, twenty two were so or over,
twelve had passed the 80 marx, three saw
80 years or more. and one, q woman, died
at the ago Of 80 years and % days.
MoBE trouble is anticipated at Roslyn,
w. T., on the arrival Of the now miners
from Illinois. The people up in
arms and the sheriff a. there with large
posse, but the go"ornOr declines to fur
nish militia. On Sunday, Jackson, one of
the miners, was shot dead by Tom Bran
non, who oame from Chicago. Both men
were drunk in a dance house.
The ministers of SIOUX city have en-
tered into a combination for the enforce
mont of the Sunday law, the special oh
Iect being the suppression of Sunday
base ball games Some OF the buslness
mon show their disapprOvai by threaten
10 withdraw the subscriptions 10 build
ngs and churches the Young Mons Chris
ian Association is erecting.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-02-08
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.
TUESDAY, j an. 20.

SENATE.-Nhen the senate met Tues
day morning, streams of petitions re-
garding 'dens of infamy" Hooded the
clerks desk, and discussions followed as
TO the proper disposition of them. Bills
introduced: One by Sen. Main, to
amend the law which made school dis
tricts for the village and city of Madison.
1t is desired 10 have Blooming Grove
under he school jurisdiction of Madison.
Sen. Main asked for the publication OF
red book"-the same as the "blue
BOOK" or legislative manual, Sen. Mead
a bill providing that the property q
woman nay derive from her husband,
shall after her death, she having no heirs
go TO the heirs OF the husband. Sen
RrCsger asked the repeal Of the lew which
repealed the law making railroads liable
for damages TO employees through the
carelessness of their en- plOyes. bill
% appropriate ten thousand dollars Ior
purchase of stationery for the state was
passed uDoer suspension of the rules.
Adjourned until 10 O'Clock Wednesday
morning.
AssEMBLT.-The same routine work was
resumed. Eleven petitions relating 70
houses of ill-fame TOOK the same course
as those heretofore introduced. The
usual number of appropriation bills then
went through the mill. Mr.. Dunn, a bill
mending charter of city of Milxaukee. A
bill oy Mr.. Coolidge, asking that the
city OF Waupeca be authorized 10 iss1e
bonds to pay for the donating of ground
for the veterans home in Weupsca. The
bill passed under sns pension uf the rules.
ar. Keogh, prohibiting the admission of
any pauper or insane person not resi-
dept of Wisconsin, into the state iDsti-
tutions. The governors message to the
Legislature was then read, expressing his
conviction that Wisconsin should be rep
resented at the centennial celebration 10
New York of the Inauguration of George
Washington, and asking the legislature
70 take such action as il see fl in the
mater. A bill repeating section 1, chap
ter 223, less of SO, was jnd~fnitely post
poned. The assembly then adjourned
until Wednesday morning.
WKusKsDAY, Jan. 30.
SKsATx.-PresIdent pro tenn. Dyson
took the chair, Wednesday morning, ard
received another dsluge of petitions in
relation to-dens-' The joint resolution
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-02-08
THE PRINCES BURIAL
Imposing Ceremonies Held Over the
Corpse of the Austrian Prince.
All Vienna in Mourning-Th Inhab.
itantS Joining the Funeral March.
After Respects are Paid TO the Dead
the Body is Placed in a Vault.

VIENNA, Feb. 5.-This city today vss
entirely given over to mourning, ali
places OF business being closed. Enor-
mpCs crowds commenced to assemble out
SIDE the court chapel early in the mora
ing Perfect order prevails. The en-
peror and EN- press aud the crown priu-
cess attended requiem mass in the ora.
tory OF the palace At which the NJ serere
was sung by the court choir. The ser
vices ended at noon. The coffin lid was
fastened at O'Clock and the key ccntided
TO rrlLce Eohe ulohe, as court marshal,
Soon afterwards the gates of the
chapel were closed and the members
OF the imperial family gathered around
the catataique TO make q lass farewell TO
the remains. just before O'Clock the
members of the imperial house who
had left the chapel, Stopped in front of
the side entrance OF Capuchin church in
htoster gasse, where they were received
by Prince Huuyadi, chief master of cere-
monies, and the father guardian, accom-
panied by friends in the community,
bearing lighted tapers. The interior OF
the church was entirely draped III black,
The catafalque was erected in the
the middle of the church and surrounded
by massive candeIabIa. On the stroke
OF the coffin YVES lifted from the bier,
blessed and carried to the funeral car.
The cortege ther started from Hofburg.
Upon reaching Augustine church the
priests asse ehbled there placed them
selves at the head of the procession, and
were followed by the court and state
officials and municipal authorities. |
Archbishop Gang blauer, with the cathe- |
drai chapter, awaited at the entrance
of the church and proceeded in |
to the interior. Amid solemn |
silence he blessed the remains, sprinkling |
holy water on the coffiu. When the |
choral was over, auj just as the chamber /
lalns were preparing to carry the coffin |
to the vault, the emperor stepping up to |
the bier, knelt In prayer. On arising he |
was joined by Area Duke Charles, Prince |
Francis, of Este, Prince Leopold, OF |
Bavaria, and Prince Philip,
Of Coburg, and all followed the coffin to
the vault, where, after the final blessing,
Prince Holenlohe delivered the remains
to the charge of the father and guardian.
The emperor, crown princess,
Princess Gisela and Arch Dutch
9ss Maria Valerie did not
attend the funeral, passing the time in
prayer within the Hofhurg.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-02-08
FOREIGN.

THE East Africa bill has passed third
reading in the reIchstag.
BERLIN The article in the Coutem-
pOrary Review on The Bismarck Dy-
nasty" has not baeu circulated
PATRICK MoLLoY, witness for the
London Times before the Parnell Com.
mission, has been arrested on a charge
perjury.
OWING to the strike twenty steamers
are detaiued at Glasgow, it having been
found impossible to secure a number of
seamen ana fire to run the vessels.
The governor of Clonmel prison has
informed O'Brien that he vii! mpell
him to don prison uniform, and if he re-
fuses food it will be administered riff
clatly.
IT is gi en- ont that Lord Salisbury will
Withdraw English vessels from the block
ade in the esst African coast as soon as
Germany commences operations on that
shore.
ST, PETERsBURG.-Th Grashdanin says
that Gen. Boulapgers aims are more
enigmatical than ever and that he should
make frank declaration of his pur-
poses.
SOUNI HERBERT DIsAAhCh is CD trNeu
to cultivate all the brusGueness of his
father, but he does not develop CORES
ponding tact. He has stirred up much
needless ill feeling recently on several
occasions.
BERLIN.-Jhe committee of the Reich
stag TO which was referred the East
Africa bill has approved OF the measure,
after striking ont the clause placing the
s.,
of Captain WIssmaR.
2HE naval committee appointed to in
quire into the late mRneuvers states that
the ships, with few exceptions, are un
suitable for modern warfare-iudeed de- |
ficient and that the existing fleet is unfit
to command the seas against an enemy. |
Mr.. CLAIMING, granddaughter of the !
great Elery Charming, although Amer
ican born is q British member of parlia- |
ment and is on the radical side of the |
land tax question. He advocates the |
division of all municipal and county |
rates between landlord and tenant.
AT the charge of the English hussars
at Suakim, one of them cut an Arab
hOrseman's right arm off. The Arab
his sword to his left hand, yelled
iercely in defiance, and rushed iDCo the
EuglIsh troopers to meet destruction.
EDITOR O'BRIEN was lodged in Jail at
Cionmei, Ireland. He refused to remove
his c o'hes IN order TO don the prison
garb, and the wardenS undres1ed him by
force. His beard was shaved off. Mr..
O'Brien was very much exhausted by his
struggle with the officials.
IN.-Proceedings have been in
7tituted against the Kreuse Zeitung for
high treason in printing an article des-
crIbing as damaging to the monarchy
feeling of old Prussian patriots the pub
llcation of the Indictment against Prof.
Geffcken with the object of appealing to
the public feeling. Parliamentary cir
ol"S arc much excited over this action of
The government.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-02-08
TO BRING SUIT FOR $4,000.

suit Brought Against J. j. Patterson Ex-
United States Senator, fOr breach Of Promise
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 4.-Iu the suit of
Mary K. FiemmIug for damages for
breach of promise against John j. Pat
terson, ex United States senator of South
Carolina, state ment in the clause
claim was filed in the Office of the pro
thonotary, and is accomp panied by an aft
davit made by Mary R. Flemming.
In the statement the plaintiff
alleges that Patterson promised 10
marry her; that the date for
their marriage was fixed for several diff
ferent times, but in each instance it YVES
postponed by the defendant, and that the
defendant has since married one Mildred
Frank, of Waukesba, Wis, Who is now his
wife. In consequence of the engage
ment the plaintiff alleges that she laid out
and expended large sums OF money iD
preparing for the marriage, and in CON
sequence of the breaking OF the eDsage-
ment by the defendant she has suffered
the loss of her position, disap pointment,
annoyance, modification and the loss of
sums OF money, whereby she is injured,
end has sustained damages to the extent
or $4,000, and therefore sne .riugs this
suit.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-02-08
INsPEC TORS OF STEAM VESSELS
Meet to Devise Better Methods of TranspOr
tati0n Against Accidents

Meet TO Devise Better Methods of TranspOr-
tatiOn Against Accidents
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.-The supervising
Inspectors of steam vessels concluded
their annual session today. Several amend
ments were made in the requirements as
to steel plate, boiler, etc. A resolution
was adopted advising the towing steam
ers on the western rivers to cacry two
white lights, one above the other, three
feet apart, and Is feet above the hurri-
cane deck, when towing. The amend
ment was adopted at the request of the
supervising inspectors of the western
rivers, creating new section,
requiring, after April 1st, 1889,
that all stern wheel steamers over twenty
tons burden navig ating the Mississippi
river above St. Louis shall have their bell
wires, or ropes, SO arranged in the pilot
house that the wires leading to the stop,
ping or go-ahead bells shall come up on
the starboerd side of the pilot-house and
thence across overhead to the larboard
side of the pilot house with the ring or
handle attached TO the backing bell TO be
arranged the reverse way, snd the whistle
to be used by the trsadle OF the star
board side opposite the pilot wheel.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-02-08
large portion of the diamonds were re

large portion of the diamonds were re
covered.
IT is dangerous to pace the floor at
night in Arkansas. Hon. John NJ. Clay
ton, while engaged in that pursuit. was
shot ct tsrOugh the window, the buck
shot taking effect in the neck and kill
ing him instantly. $1,000 reward bas
been offered for me capture of the mur-
derer.
THUR DAY night, at Mt. Horeb, Wis, G..
G. Mandt, editor OF th7 Sun, prohi-
bi'ion paper, was summoned TO his
kitchen door by loud raPping, and upon
opening it vas shot and mortaily wound
ed by some person unknown.
AT Atlanta, Ga receiver has taken
charge of the MercantIl~ Banking com
papy and OF the Atlanta Mercantile com
pany, both concerns being operated by
the same persons. There are only so cents
assets, with ABOUT $50 600 liabilities. j.
r. Tolleson, president, and j. NJ. Rich
ards, cashier, are IN prison.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-02-08

Mr.. Herbert Spencer's ultimate test Of
right and wrong Is agreeable feeling"
For hun, virtues are founded upon e1-
pedIescy; not indeed upon Il direct cal
culatlon of what IA eXpedlent, but upon
the registration OF II IN the human or
ganIsm. But If morality 10 not a formal
law, absolute as are the la 8s of mathe-
mates, transcending all persons and all
conditions, and sovereignty obligatory
upon all, without regard to it's conse-
quence5 and without reference TO any
personal end-if, ray, 1t is not all this,
II Is nothing. And as / look around the
world find only too abundant evidence
how fast II IS becom ing nothing in some
OF the most important PROVINCES of mans
activity, through the dsOased conception
of 1t which the new philosophy has diff.
fused. The philosophy Of relativity
EN- pC'es truth of Its old meaning And
Ia every departm ent of human activity I
note the iuValidatiOn of the moral idea
as the philosophy wins its way into popu-
lar acce eptatIoD. Everywhere ] discern
tokens Of the lowering of the ethical
standard. / find them IN art. / find
them 10 iorrL aIism. / find them In poll
tics. | md them IN the view commonly
taken of that penal law which Is, in q
true sense, the bond of civil society. /
propose TO consider these several subject
III future numbers of TINS review-W. \.
Lilly III the February Forum.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-02-08
THE TRUTH ABOUT RUDOLPH.
Another Sensational Story Why Prince Ru-
lOlnh Died.


PEsTH, Feb. 5.-The Nation today pub
fishes the letter written by Crown Prince
Rudolph a short time before his death to
Herr Won Szoegyenyi, the attache of the
imperial hous ehold, 10 whom he had en-
trusted the preparation of bis papers
The letter rea6s:
DEAR SzoEGYENYIE: | send you here
with a couIci. Execute It's provisions
and those of my will drawn two years
ago, with the assent of my wife. Iu my
study at at the HOlburg stands small
table. With the enclosed gold key open
the drawers and you will find my papers,
the arrangement of which | entrust to
you, leaving it to your Judgment to de
eide what to publish. l can live no
longer. Remember me to all my good
friends. Farewell. God bless our be-
loved fatherland. Yours, RUDOLPH.
VIENNA, Feb. 5.-Seve1al persons have
been arrested in cafes here for repeating
the rumors that Crown Prince RudoiDh
met his death at the hands of the husband
of a woman he had betrayed. Two gen
tlemen who were conyerslng on the sub-
Iect in loud tones in the Graben were
taken into custody.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-02-08

and upon his desk rests stack of bills
the reading of whicl will consume the
entire dav, unless he receives assurances
that no effort will be made to pass the
measure under a suspension of the rules.
The bill having been duly read and re-
referred, Mr.. Payson brought forward
for reading and reference a bsnkrnptcy
bill which, owing to its length, is q favor
able weapon OF flibusteraps who desire
to kill time.