Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1890-10-17
The LATEST TELEGRAMS.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

THE Japanese revere woman, and be-
lleve that she originally grew on tree.
ONLY six iron furnaces are now in
blast in Scotland, owing to the labor dis
turbances.
I SENATOR WADE HAMPTON, notwith-
| standing his cork leg, Is an expert horse
/ man.
The ricn Baron de Hirsch has sout
| $4,000 to Montreal to be applied to the
! benefit of the refugee Russian Hebrews in
| Canada.
The miners are still out at Ishpening.
| Nothing but surface work Is being done.
| The strike has not spread TO the mines
outside of Ishpeming.
ENGLAND has peremptoriIy ordered
| Portugal to settle the claim for indemnity
| for the seizure of the British African
| Lakes Company steamer James Steven
son.
IN the Alliance procession at Hutchin-
son, kas., was a mOnstrous wagon CON
tanning fifty or sixty children. Over the
vehicle was banner bearing the inscrip-
ton, "Overproduction.
SEVERAL japanese editors have been
sentenced to tour years imprisonment
with hard IafOr for speaking disrespect-
fully of the Emperor Jimmu, who, if he
ever existed, lived about 800 years ago.
CAPTAIN JAMES BEND, who saved the
lives of 207 persons wrecked off Long
Beach on the ship State of Georgia. in
December, 1852, still lives at the age of
80, near Beach Haven, n. J.
A KANSAS man sunk shaft on his
farm the other day. and in going down
100 feet, it is said, struck two fve-foot
VEINS OF mineral paint, ten-foot stratum
Of brick clay, twenty-inch vein Of coal
and tve-foot stratum of marble.
ABOUT ten days ago James Ellis, of
Winslow, Wis, found pearl in the
Pecatonica river which he accepted $500
for. Today the purchaser, jeweler of
the above town, sold the gem to an agent
Of Tiffany & Smith, of New York, for
s., 900.
The Western railways running via Chi
cago threaten to put into effect the st.
Louis cut rate on eastern passenger bust
ness IN retaliation for the action of the
Missouri Pacific and other ST. Louis roads
If persisted in this will lead to a dis
astrous rate war.
JOHN EASTMAN, a full-blooded Sioux
Indian and chief f the Flandreau tribe, is
a member of the .rand jury in the United
States court which opened at Sioux Falls,
). D., Thursday. This is the first ils tance
on record of an Indian serving as grand
juror.
THE visible supply of grain Saturday,
October II, ds compiled by the New York
Produce Exchange, was as follows: Wheat,
II, ,739. .O32 bushels, increase go $40; corn;
S.264, 235, decrease 337, 1871; oats, 39S9,-
S92, decrease 349J6; rye, 6l6,725, increase
:}2 $40; barley 4,lS9,O29, increase 957,
4i9
EVAN LEWIS, the Stranger" and
Acton, ''the Little Demon" have at
last MAZE arrangements for
wrestling match for $500 side.
Under the terms of the match Lewis
agrees to throw Acton twice within an
hour. Failing to do this he will lose, or
in case that Acton should secure fall he
will lose also. The match will take place
in this city between Nov. and -.
WHEN the so-caled conspiracy, cases
of Messrs. O'Brien and Dillon and the
other defendants were called at Upper
rary, Ireland, Q Brien and Dillon were not
present. The two patriots are said to have
forfeited their bail and sailed for America.
according to the arrangements made be-
fore their arrest. The Tipperary magis-
trates issue warrants for their apprehen-
sion. Their bail-El 600 in each case
will be paid by the National League.