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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1890-01-17
THF LATEST TELEGRAMS.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

THE Bank Of France has at the present
$3.50. 900 600 in gold in its cellars.
The Dowager Empress Augusta of Ger
many died at Berlin on Tuesday from the
effects of a severe attack of influenza.
AT Tucamche, in Guatemala, the boys
IN school recently seized the master and
hanged him In the school house.
JUDGE WILLIAM d. KELLEY the oldest
member of Congress died at Washington
Thursday evening.
EDWARD ATKINSON declares that the
annual production of eggs in this country
equals IN money value the country's an
nual total production of iron.
PHILADELPHIA, according to the Record,
eats III the course of year 200, 900. 900
eggs, Of which seven-eights come from
Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota and Nebraska,
packed IN refrigerator cars holding IA.
900 each
TnE largest feet of English war ships
ever assembled in the Zanzibar waters is
there now and other men-of-war of the
same nationality are constantly arriving.
The excitement OcCasiOned by the presence
of the fleet is intense and speculation is
rife concerning the object Of the gath
ering.
Mr. BoiEs, the Governor-elect of Iowa.
IS described as quiet, unobtrusive gen
tlemen, Of genial bearing, ar with a
preoccupied far-away look IN his eyes
When approached On the subject of an office
He has daughter and two sons.
RICHMOND, Va. - GOV. Mckinney
has sent to the Legislature letter
from London holders of Virginia state
bonds urging renewed efforts to adjust
claims. The governor advises the legisla-
ture to stand by the Riddleberger bill and
amendments.
TOPEKA, Kas-The supreme court
has ren Ted decision in the case
of the state against w, w. Fulker, sus-
tanning the prohibItory law The case
was brought to test the question of sales
ofliquor in original packages transported
from another state to points in Kansas.
PHLADELpHIA.- Miss Elizabeth |.
Drexel, the eldest daughter of tn late
Francis A. Drexel, has been married to
Walter George Smith, a lawyer of this
city. The bride is one of the wealthiest
ladies in her own right of America. She
Is sister of Miss Kate Drexel, who
recently entered the convent at Pittsburg,
Pa
BURLINGTON, lowa.-In the district
court inJuCtions wire granted against two
prominent saloons of this city, thus giving
evidence that there is to be no let-up in
the prosecution of salOOn-keepers until the
law Is wiped from the statute books
There are some eighteen other cases on the
docket. There has been feeling among
Sal0On-keeperS that prosecutions would
cease until it should develop what action
the legislature will take in regard to the
law, but the Judgments show
this hope to be ill-founded.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1890-01-17
WEDNESDAY, Jan. s.
In the Streets of Tripoli.

In the variegated crowd filling the streets
scores of types may be distinguished:
Arabs of the town, draped in their blan-
kets like Romans in their togas, and, in
fact the ''jaram' is the direct descendant
of the toga and, Judging from its looks,
seems to have retained all the dirt of those
intervening centuries; others. whose cos
tune consists simply of flowing robe,
generally white, or, to be precise, which
was once white! Sometimes this robe is
of silk and vided hue, and the effect of
that gay note in bit of street is like a
poppy in a wheat-feld. Bodouins. whose
limbs, wiry and strongly musced, shine a
superb bronze color through their scanty
coverings, elbow Jews in ridiculous cos
tunes, half native and half European. In
a few moments one has met with an inf
mite variety of negroes, from the pure
type almost without nose and with enorm-
GUS jawbones and huge lips to those whose
lineaments are absolutely Caucasion. Por-
ters, III simple tunics corded about the
waist, carry heavy swinging bales on long
poles resting on their shoulders, cheering
progress the while with an invocation to
Allah and his innumerable prophets,
chanted by an old man and repeated by
the chorus; a true song of sayages. burst
ing forth like fanfare of trumpets. Veiied
women, voluminously wrapped, pass by
like ambuling bundles of clothes. Officers
by scores, those of the new school stiff but
neat, trying to resemble their German
confrerers, since the fashion in Turkish
circles is to to initiate the lions of the day;
the older officers kindly looking enough.
but in what miserable costumes! Moorish
dandies stroll and pose languidly about,
seemingly absorbed in preserving their
immaculate patent-leather slippers from
any impertinent feck of dirt. Crafty
featured Greeks and Levantines thread
their insinuating way along the motley
groups. At each step it is a new tableau,
and the desire seizes you to stop while the
eyes follows curious type, and turning
from it with regret you see ten as inter-
esting.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1890-01-17
PRACTICAL SOCIALISM.
The Kind That Binds People Together and
Make Prosperity.

MINNEAPOLIS, MlnneSOta.-Da Daniel
Cronen, chief of the department of pro-
ductlon of the Nehalem Valley Cooper
ative Colony, of Nehalem Valley, West
ern Oregon. is in the city After four
years of struggles and triumphs our little
colony of practical socialists have found
their most sanguine expectations ex-
ceeded, lie said. I'VE are socialists,
and radical ones at that. The colony now
numbers twenty-five male workers. six
women and thirty-fve children. We own
1000 acres of land. We have the work of
the colony divided into four departments -
production, distribution, transportation
and education. We have the eight hour
day and we give equal pay for equal work.
regardless of sex. We have also no poor
i no rich. The girl that washes dishes
sy,s as much as do, at the head of the de-
partment. At Is the children of the mem.
bers become full-Hedged members. They
can marry then, or even earlier. without
the dread that they may be raising fam
lilies only to make them the victims of want
and degradation We have no rent, no
interest, and no profits in our business.
We put in $1,000 wien we started and we
now have Il plant for which we We're of
fered Sl5O0OO last year. y
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1890-01-17
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

G. +. HAIL 5 hominy mills, at Indian
apolis has been destroyed by fire Loss,
575, 600; insurance, $4,000.
HoBBs, GILDDEN Il Co., Of Boston,
dealers in buildiug materials, have failed
with liabilities of Sl50,0O0.
SrNrEuN lives were lost at Louisville.
Ky, 10y the flooding of a caison used in the
construction Of the new bridge between
Louisville and Jeifersonvilc and in which
eighteen Iaborers were at work.
LEWISTON, Me The Lewiston city
buildiug caught fire Tuesday night and
was totally burned. The building was
erected ten years ago at a cost of $3.50, 600
md is totally ruined. There was no insu-
nee on it,
CuIcAGo, Iu.-A pile of timber in
lIighbee & Poors lumber yard toppled
over on four workmen Thursday.
John Thompson and Andrew johnson
were crushed to death. John Perry and
John Lindquist each had leg broken.
Thompson me of the men killed was mar
rled just week ago.
CHEYENNE. ~ The west bound fast
mail train on the Union Pacific was de-
rallied at Sidney, Nebraska, Thursday
Two mail cars, Il baggage car, an express
ear aud two sleepers were destroyed by
fire. Thirty-two pouches of registered
mail were destroyed. One man was slight
ly injured. The loss on mail matter can
not be estimated.
DEARBoRN. Mich. A terrible mistake
was made in the family of Merrill Griffin
here last Friday night. The family all
had the influenza and took strychnine in
stead of quiuiue. Mr. Griffin, his wife, a
daughter aged H. and son aged were
the victims. The daughter died at ,
o'clock Saturday morning and there is no
hope for Mr.. Griffin. Mrs. Griffin and the
son have Il bare chance to pull through.
LoNG ISLAND Cry. l.. 1.-The north
wall Of the machine shops in the yard of
the Long Island railroad depot. in this
city fell with a loud crash about 9 clock
Tuesday morning, burying three men
under several tons of brick The men were
dead when taken out. every bone in their
bodies having been broken. The first
body recovered from the ruins was that of
Charles Romanthinal The other men
are known only rs yet as Myers and Sclto-
field, Both are said to reside in Williams
burg.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1890-01-17
SHOWED GREAT NERVE.
Judge Cooley's Life in Great Danger From
A Madman.

DETROIT, Mich, Thursday y-Early last
evening, Judge Thomas NJ. Cooley. of Ann
Arbor, chairman of the interstate COM
merce commission. was sitting reading in
his library when his negro coachman,
armed with a double barreled shot gun
entered. The judge was satisfied from
his appearance that he had become insane
but betraying no alarm he asked him
what was the matter. The negro replied
that he had decided to kill the whole fam
lily because they talked too much and
left him no time to think The Judge
told him he agreed with him and that
he would attend to it. BY the use of con-
summate tact the Judge succeeded in mol
lifying the madman until he at last laid
down the gun and at the judges sugges-
ton left the room. As soon as he was out
of hearing the judge telephoned to the
neighbors and in a short time a deputy
sheriff placed the coachman under arrest.
Doubtless a wholesale and most frightful
tragedy was a, oided by the nerve and cool
ness which the distinguished jurist sxhib
tod
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1890-01-17
The Box on the Platform.

At the dinner station where we stopped
one day on a certain Tennessee railroad,
says a writer in the New York Sun, almost
the first sight which greeted the eyes of
those who got off was a rough burial box
on the platform. and seated near it was an
old black woman with handkerchief to
her eyes When kindly asked the cause Of
her sorrow, she pointed to the box and re-
piled:
DE ole mans in dar''
Your husband?'
Yes: died two days ago back yere in de
kentry.'
And what are you doing with the body
here?''
Il wants to bury it up at Charlestown.
but I han t got money 'nutf to take it on
de railroad "
What nonsense exclaimed man. as
he came forward. What the difference
where nigger Is buried? They want her
to bury it here. but she won t. She's de-
termined to take it to Charlestown
For what reason?" asked the passen-
ger who had put all the previous ques-
tions.
''Kase. sab. all de TO chill en- is buried
up dar, an his mudder an sister. an de
poo ole man will be lonesome down yere.
'W hat boshr growled the kicker.
Look here!" whispered the other, as he
went over to him Il d rather be nigger
with her soul than be white man with
yours, She's right. Let the family dead
sleep together.
He entered the express Office. paid for
the shipment of the body. bought the
widow ticket to Charlestown. and then
dropped SO gold piece in her hand and
said:
Give him a decent funeral. mammv
and this will put up headboard TO mark
the grave.
May the good LAwd bless You for-l'
But he hurried IN to snatch bit to eat
While he was gone | made inquiries as to
his identity. and finally found a man who
replied:
Why, that's Col Blank. Of Alabama
He owned over 800 negroes when the war
broke out :
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1890-01-17

for trial on charges of grand larceny. and
the others were charged with murder.
CLEVELAND. O. Hamilton Carter, one
of the professors in the New Lyme, O.,
institute, has been arrested ON the charge
of burglary and has made a confession.
He broke into drug store at New Lyme,
and also stole a missionary collection taken
up in the Presbyterian Sunday Seool at
Warren, 0. He was a church member
and an attendant at the Sunday school.
He had always s+ood well in the commun
ity.
AT Guyahotte, W, Va. Ed hurch aged
II, after qnarrel with his father, put YER
min poison in sack Of -four, which his
mother made into bread the next morning.
The family ate of the bread and were
poisoned. All were taken sick, and one
of the murders sisters, a girl 13. soon
died. Another sister and brother dying.
The father. mother and another brother
are in a critical condition and may not re-
cover. The boy murderer has disappear
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1890-01-17
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

WAsHINGToN-Re Rear Admira! William
Randford, Z. S. n, retired, died Wednes-
day evening after a brief illness.
WASHINGTON, d. C.-The committee
that was appointed to investigate the Sill
colt defalcation has decided upon the
character of its report and will take the
ground that the sergeant-at-arms is an
agent of the government, and therefore
the United States IS responsible for any
embezzlement that may occur under his
administration. A bill will therefore be
drafted and submitted to the house pro-
viding for the appropriation of a sum
sufficient TO reimburse those who lost their
salaries by Silcott's peculations, but those
who made banker of the sergeant-at-
arms and deposited their private means
with him for convenience will not be re-
imbursed
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1890-01-17
TROUBLE OF DISTILLERS.
They Do Not Want the Internal Revenue
Law Repealed, but Ask Modificaf ons

WAsHINGToN, d. C.-George T. Stagg,
of Kentucky, has read statement before
the ways and means committee. setting
forth the tariff views of the distillery in
terest. He said the distillers did not ask
for repeal of the internal revenue law, as,
while increasing business temporarily, it
would result IL overproduction and conse-
quent depression. They would like to have
the tax reduced from 80 to 50 cents a gal
Ion, but did not care to have it entirely
wiped out, as they recogni ed the fact
whiskey is used as beverage and should
bear its share of taxation What the dis
tillers did want was a modification of the
law, and unless this was done many of the
best-known distilleries of the country
would have to close because of the inability
to secure bondsmen. The; wanted to
give but one bond annually and to be re-
ieved from other features of the most
arbitrary system of tax collection on
earth.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1890-01-17
SOMETHING WORTH KNOWING.
Johnny Campbell Insists That ouinine Is
Good for Both Man and Beast.


There are various devices resorted to in
these days of everyday racing to enable
horses to stand the terrible wear and tear,
says the Spirit of the Times. As it is too
great for the natural strength and vitality
to sustain, artificial means are brought in
and strength is borrowed from other
sources. 1t has remained for John Camp
bG!i, the well-known trainer Of the Bever-
wyck stable, however to intr0d luce the
system of drugging. The other " we
met Campbell up town and con- Il
slight cold he suggested that
dose of quinine.'
But haven't maarial fever
mo matter, quinine's good f,
things ,heei4eS 1nelaria. Yon We 9
and lots of sickness begins with asI,.d;
quinine will do more for it.than anything
| know 1t breaks it mp. ~a.
80 I've heard.
But | know it, responded Campbell
with some asperity. Il take it whenever
anything is the matter with me. 1t works
like a charm. Besides | give it to the
horses
Certainly, in illness accompanied by
feverishness -"
Fever? No; but when they're WE'LL
thdl Is, "Ilth Iltt We no SlShitoo' put az
stale like. "
"As tonic?'
"Yes. Why quinine will keep horses on
their feet better than anything have ever
tried. Whose horses run more races than
mine, and whose win more? The other
day was looking over the Guide and |
find mine has won more races than any
other stable in the country.
Yes, | should say it had. y
There no doubt about it. See how
my horses have travelled, too. They run
all last winter at New Orleans; then they
made the circuit up through the south and
west; then as far north as st. Paul. then
east, and have been running here ever
since. They haven t had a let-up, and could
win good races to-day
And all this comes from dosing them
with quinine?'
Not dosing, exactly, but giving them
quinine enough to keep up their strength
Horses that are raced very hard get off
their feed and when they do they lose
strength and can't win. Quinine gives
them an appetite. 1t braces EN- up like
Just as it does a man. OF course you
mustn't give them too much, but little
of it is a great thing. ! think my horses
,,rnva +ba+ -
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1890-01-17
Waked I'D EnectualIy.

A Ietharzie, dormant condition Of the liver i.
hardly Be with drastic e&Fharr5es and
nzEEe0us ehoisgogue-- a gentisr, plessznier and
ts- more elective means exists Of sroGsHg the
organ s9len somnoient- This IL Hosiefters .
Stomach Bitters, vouehed for by the medical fra
tesnity, tested by the public for many years A
reszmpti0n By the hillary organ Of its -ecretfse
function with the activity attendant upon health,
return 70 regularity OF the bowels, and renewal
Of digeztien ars the no less happy and certain
results Of usIuz the Bitfe-s Eysten1aiicsliy- Its
laxative effect l. painful End drenehing, iis
tendency being rather TO perpeEus;e regularity
than 10 produce copjous action Malaria, ner.-
BUSINESS, debility. kldasy troubles and ne2rA-gA
"a r5uea s8ocxuS.iy
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1890-01-17
CONTRIBUTIONS.
The Senate Confirms Large Batch of
Nominations.

WASHINGTON. 49, Among Thursday $
combinations were the following J. c. R.
Pitllin, Louisiana. minister to the Ar
gentine Republic: Clark +. Carr. of Hi
nois. minister and consul general to Den
mark; VIM. w. Bates, New York. COM
missioner of navigation; Samuel V. HaIli-
day, Pennsylvania, commissioner of Gus
toms; Richard e. Lay, District of Column
bia, consul general to Ottawa; VIM H.
Hepburn. Iowa, solicitor of the treasury;
Charles 5. Zane chief justice of the su-
preme court OF Utah.
Indian Agents.. S. Murphy, TT.
rthold, \. D.; c. B. Miles, of Iowa,
Usage agency. |. T.; Michael A. Leahy,
La Pointe, Wis; Benjamin H. Shuler,
White Earth, Mimi: Robert D. Ashley,
Omaha and Winn ebago agency. Neb.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1890-01-17
GRIMM AL.

EIGHT of the nine murderers now in
the federal Jail at Fort Smith, Ark. under
have made professions of religion and
made confessions of their crime George
Tober a young negro, insists that he is in
nooent.
SPRINGFIELD, Mo.-Eignt prisoners, all
confined in one cell in he county Jail here
escaped shortly after IL o'clock Monday
night They cut hole in the iron floor
of the cell and knocked out part of the
wall and escaped. Six were being held
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1890-01-17
PROGRESS. PAST AND FUTURE.

PROGRESS. PAST AND FUTURE.
On this subject, SO little or 50 poorly
understood, the Chicago Evening journal
says: "A fayorite theory with many is
that tle world is steadily making progress
toward some ultimate goal of attainment,
and that each age and generation serves as
steppiug-stoue to higher reach or
effort which is sure to follow 1t may I've
seriously doubted whether this theory is
absolutely correct Each new year does
in one sense occupy higher vantage ground
than It's predecessors, but it is quite doubt
ful whether the years rs they come and 90,
can be regarded as forming continuous
stairway upward and forward. The les
sons of human history teach us that events
move rs much in circles as IN the straight
line Of continuous Developments Nearly
all popular customs and fashions, after oc-
cupyiug the front rank for 4 given period,
practically disappear, or 80 INTO the back
ground until certain number Of years
has elapsed. when they will again come
forward into prominence Simple move
mcnt Is net always synonymous with
progress. rs there can be movement back
ward rs we'll rs forward, and movement in
circles AS we'll as ON straight lines. We
are strongly inclined, therefore to believe
that the circular theory better corresponds
with the fact and experiences Of life than
that which assumes continuous progress,
or onward and upward motion After all,
however in a very important sense it can
be said that we enter upon each new year
with the treasured experiences gathered
through all previous years lying within
our reach. These can and ought to be
used freely, and 10y these We ought to make
real progress more easily and swiftly than
was possible at the commencement of any
former year. What marvellous advance
ment has been made along these many
lines since the nineteenth century opened!
In this country especially, what enormous
national growth, what commercial extern
sion and scientific attainment has been
witnessed! We ought to know more and
do better than our forefathers. We ought
70 profit by the mistakes that have been
made, and avoid the rocks of disaster on
which so many prcsiuas 4nres and pro
jects have been wrecked Whether we
will do this or not remains TO be seen.
If we do not it will be entirely our own
fault.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1890-01-17

nounced that he would defer decision until
he could consult other Judges to find out
ON what authority they acted.
kunze was then admitted 10 bail IN the
sum Of 5000. The states attorney op-
posed the motion for bail and subsequent
ly contended for $4,000, Judge McCon-
nell. however. did not coincide and ex-
planned he would have discharged kunze
If there were no new evidence against HIM
but that the states attorney had informed
him there was some.
States Attorney Longenecker intimated
that if they let kunze stay in Jail few
days he might conclude not to bring him
to trial at all, but let him go. He prom
ised to let the court and counsel know this
week, and accordingly no effort will be
made to get kunze out on bail in the mean
time