Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1890-01-24
THF LATEST TELECRAMS.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

| L w > IN
! WALTER BLAINE. eldest son Of James G.
! Blaine, died at Washington on. Thursday.
| of pneumonia.
THE official figures on the great fire IN
| Boston last Thanksgiving Day place the
total loss at 50 S4l ,388.
THERE was a decrease of over 3, 100000
| tons III the total amount of anthracite coal
mined in 1889 as compared with the pre-
viOus year.
CHINA furnished 81 per cent. of TIE
world 8 consumption of tea twenty-five
! years ago. New India is now in the lead,
| furnishing 81 per cent and China only 45
| per cent.
CHEYENNE, Wyo.- The Wyoming
! legislature began its regular session
| Tuesday. The event was signalized
| by the opening of the new $500 900 capi-
! tol.
FAILURES for the week in the United
| States number 3}6, as compared with 373
! last week and $50 for the corresponding
week a year ago.
COLUMBUS, O.-Calvin S. Brice was
Tuesday at noon, elected to the United
! States senate, receiving a majority Of the
votes in either branch Of the Legislature.
OswEGo, Kas.-Mrs. Day, who was
arrested and brought here from Mich
igan on the supposition that she was the
notorious Mrs. Bender, has become hope
lessly insane.
IT is reported that thousands of negroes
| are migrating from South Carolina to
Oklahoma and that by spring there
will be 10000 colored people in that dis
trict
XANEsvILIE. -Half-grown grass-hop-
pers are reported existing in vast num-
bers in various parts of the county and
farmers are alarmed for the safety of the
wheat.
A BILL pending in the Legislature of
North Dakota provides that both interest
and principal shall be forfeited where Il
greater rate of interest than 10 per cent.
is charged, no matter in what form the
overchare' may be.
The black measles is raging at Fords-
vile, Ky, in an epidemic form, and sew
erai deaths have already occurred. Over
one hundred cases are reported in the
neighbOrhOod.
FIVE boys went swimming in the East
River, New York, on Monday. Promena-
dcrs on the Brooklyn bridge watched the
naked urchins for fully an hour, diving
splashing and hurrahing and having Jolly
sport of it.
"OLD TowLIoN, hermit who lives in
Jack Hollow, in the mountains near
Williamsport, Pa, spends his time in
digging around his wretched hut in
search of gold. lie has dug ten holes ff-
teen feet deep, and his place looks like Il
yawning graveyard.
RICHMOND. Va. - Gov Mckinney
has sent to the legislature a letter
from London holders of Virginia state
bonds urging renewed efforts to adjust
claims The governor advises the legisIa-
turc to stand by the Riddleberger bill and
amendments
A FAMILY in Henry County, Georgia,
consists of thcee mothers. three sons, two
grandmothcrs, three grandsOns, one great
grandmother, one daughter-m-law. one
husband, one and-daughter in-law. two
brothers, one daughter. two great grand
sons, one wife, two widows, one grand
motherin-law, and there are only six III
the family.
A CORRESPONDENT thus breaks out:
"What's the use of pretending that DIR.
Talmage' S sermons are really cablcd from
the East? Everybody knows that he pre-
paes all his sermons in advance, so that
they may be sent by mail to the news
paper syndicate, which pays him for
them. This has been his practice for years
and don't know that he has ever made
the slightest concenlment ofit'
CWICAGo, Ill.-The matter of thefraudu-
lent failure of Deime Bros, was again
ON hearing Tuesday. Attorney Mayer
said that ii is utterly impossible. in view
of the complicated condition of affairs. to
get at the bottom of the swindIe for some
time Since June lst last, the firm has
purchased nearly 100000 worth of goods,
although knowing that they were insoI-
vent These goods had been stored in
warehouses, and they borrowed money
thereon.