Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1890-01-10
THF LATEST TELECRAMS.
NEWS IN BEIEF.

IT is said that the ice man O'Sullival
will soon die of consumption.
THE whites and blacks had fight OF
| Christmas in which ten persons ar
reported killed.
DURING 1889 custom duties to tn,
amount of s. ,063, 029 were collected by IA,
Federal authorities in Chicago.
The Treasury Department estimate
that there has been a decrease of nearly
54,00O,00O in the public debt during De
cember.
TnE city of Eau Claire. Wis, has ap
pointed seven children catchers. whose
business it is to see that the waits of the
street go to school.
THERE are 686 periodical publication.
in Russia. Seventy-eight of them are DO.
litical and news dailies, 100 are scientific
So religious, 10 artistic, SO agricultural, 81
statistical and biographical, Is pedagogic
l3 for children, and the rest miscellaneous
KANSAS CRY Dispatches from Kansas
and Missouri say a blizzard of consider.
able severity prevailed throughout those
two states Monday night. The tempera-
ture was generally near the zero point and
the snow drifted badly.
h2ih cN'hit = NNiN'Ss bllt HOltu iJilRlIsI
physician says, that quinine and anti
pyrine will cure influenza. The quinine
kills the microbe and the antipyrine de-
stroys the pain. He calls la grippe "a
bastard pulmonary rheumatism"
SAYS Labouchere: ''Of all living En-
perors, now that Dom Pedro has been
retired from the business, the Emperor of
Austria is the best. He is a decent, we'll
,.f l,
has shared power with his subjects and
quieted Hungary by giving it home
rule.
TRENTON, n. Ut is stated that
the negotiations which have been in
progress for some time with view of es-
tablishing a rubber trust in this city is
about completed. British capitalists, il
is said, are taking an interest amounting
to about ST, 900, 600, and to push stock in
England and Scotland.
The discovery that the fats of cOcoanut
oil make II satisfactory substitute for but
ter promises to be the beginning of new
and important industry. Already at
Mannheim a large factory has been estab-
lished, which produces daily about 1900
kilogrammes Of the new butter substitute.
which is retailed at a price equivalent to
Cd. or Sd. per pound.
AMELIA RIvEs-CHANLER is said to be
setting the fashions in Paris. 1t is said
that the Princess Of Wales has ordered
five dresses to be made like those which
are worn by the eccentric author of The
Quick or the Dead" Mrs. Chanler is
rather pleased at the attention she is re-
ceiying.
DURING the recent floods in Japan 2.4l9
persons were killed and l55 were wounded:
10000 were deprived of the necessaries of
life; 81, 900 houses were Swept away or
rendered uninhabtable, 10000 acres of
agricultutural land with their crops laid
waste; 1000 bridges were carried away,
and hundreds of miles of roads were de-
stroyed.
HALIFAX, N. S.-The steamer Harlow,
from the west coast of Newfoundland re-
ports that while at Boone Bay amessengcr
arrived from Flower Cove, straits of Belle
Isle informing the government that l30
families were in a starving condition, and
that unless relief reached them death
would certainly occur from starvation. A
steamer was dispatched, but. owing to the
ice, failed to reach the destitute harbor
There is yet possibility of reaching the
place by the west coast
PIERRE. South Dakota. - Agitation
over the Fort Pierre troubles has somewhat
subsidized, over the news that the boom
ers, at secret meeting Tuesday night
resolved if possible to purchase the desired
lands of the half-breeds, with whom
trouble is imminent. The boomers are
very secretive and move cautiously Late
this evening word was received that the
officers at Fort Sully had received orders
from the interior department to send two
or three companies of regulars to occupy a
mile square and keep order. Last night
the half-breeds, who were victorious
in the fight with the boomers, got glor-
iously drunk and drove up and down
through the Fort Pierre settlement dis
charging firearms and making a perfect
bedam. The leader of the boomers was
hung in etiigy. It's also learned that the
inhabitants of Fort Pierre have formed a
secret society in which they are bound
together with oath to hold together for
the keeping of the land they have settled
on One settler who refused to take the
oath was driven across the river, barely
escaping with his life.