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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1891-02-13
THE LATEST TELECRANS,
NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Minnesota legislature is consider
ing an ''anti-pass" bill.
The reduction of the government debt
during January was Sl5, 1896, 495.
DEAD: Ole Lunn, 70 years, BeIoit; Leo
pold Blightner Racine, 81 years.
Two BOYS missing from Neenah, Wis,
are believed TO have been murdered.
EXCoNGREssMAN VIM GooDsHALK
died Friday, at Doyestown, Pa.
THE Wisconsin Legislature is consider
ing a bill appropriating S250,000 for
the states exhibit at the worlds fair.
IT is said that the American Express
company has bought a controlling interest
IN the National Express company.
SCHwEINFURTH, the Rockford pretend
ed Christ, has mcrtgaged his ''Heaven"
for $4,000.
Mrs. GRACE GRIDLEY, of Amboy. Ill.,,
who has been IN cOmatose condition for
the past year is now improving.
The steamer Denmark, of the National
Inc: Is several days overdue at New
York
THE Indiana legislature has passed a
stringent antitrust law, the penalty being
a h'dFJ ihc VI ltlipi LSOIIilcnJ III JLt ptul-
tentiary.
OBITUARY: At the City ofMexico, Arch
bishop Labastida, aged 75.-At Pittsburg,
Pa, John G. Back0ff, one Of the founders
of the republican party, aged S3.
BANKER HoKNER, indicted at Spring
field, Ill.,, for sending lottery circulars
through the mails, has obtained a stay of
proceedings at New York.
MAI. CHARLES MCNAMARA, an ex-
Fenian officer, is in Kansas City buying
large quantities of arms for the government
of Guatemala.
GEORGE NJ BRADLEY, of New Haven,
Conn, the first person in America to be
treated with lymph, died under the treat
meut.
a. F. BECKER & Co, drygoods mer-
chants, assigned Tuesday. The liabilities
exceed 800, 900 with assets o1Iy $4,000.
JAMES O'GRADY, of Syracuse. n. t., is
dying in great agony because OF It reptile
which has found It's way into his stomach,
Ten thousand coaI-miners OF the Con
nlesvilIe, Pa. district, struck forsan ad-
vance IN wages Monday morning They
will be joined by 5000 coke-drawers Tues
day The operators not only refuse the adj
vance asked for, but demand reduction
in wages.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1891-02-13
THE BIG TREES OF CALIFORNIA.
One is Inspired With.Awe as he Gazes at
These Gigantic Proportions
Harper's Mapazine

The sequoias dominate among splendid
rivals only by magnitude that has no
comparison elsewhere in the world.
think no one can anticipate the effect that
one OF these monarchs will have upon him.
He has read that a coach and six can drive
through one of the trees that is standing:
that another is thirty-three feet in dia-
meter, and that its vast stem $50 feet
high. Is crowned with a mass of foliage
that seems to brush against the skv- He
might be prepared for a tower one hud-
dred feet IN circumference even four hun
dred feet high standing upon a level
PLAIN. But this living growth is quite
another affair. Each tree is an individual.
and has personal character. No man
can stand IN the presence of these giants
without a new sense of the age of the
world and the insignificant span of one
human life; and ne is also overpowered bv
sense OF some gigantic personality It
does not relieve him to think of this as the
Methuselah OF trees, or to call it by the
name OF some great poet or captain. The
awe the tree inspires is of itself. As one
lies and looks up at the enormous bulk, it
seem not so much the bulk, so lightly
Is it carried, as the spirit of the
tree, the elastic Vlgor, the patience, the
endurance of storm and change, the con-
tident might and the soaring, almost con,
temptuous pride. that overwhelm the punv
spectator. 1t is just because man can
measure himself, his litteness, his brevitv
OF existence, with his growth out of the
Garth, that he is more personally impress
ed by it than he might be by the mere va
ration IN the contour of the globe which
is called a mountain. The imagination
makes plausible effort to comprehend it.
and is foiled. No, clearly it is not mere
size that lmpreSses one; it is the dignity,
the character In the tree the authority and
power of antiquity. Side by side of these
venerable forms are young sequoias, great
trees themselves, that have only Just begun
their millenniaI career-trees that will.
II spared, perpctuate to remote ages this
race of giants, and in two to four thousand
years from now take the place of their
great grandfathers, who are sinking under
the weight of years, and one by one meas
urIng their length on the earth-From
The Heart of the Desert" by CHARLES
DUDLEY WARNER, in Harper's Magazine
for February.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1891-02-13
FRIDAY FEB. 6.

Seu0te.-A report showed the amount of
logs scaled in the 4th district for the past
two years to be S,510.74S. Bills were in
troduced providing for board of worlds
fair commissioners and for an sppropria-
ton of $3.50. 200 for an exhibit; repeating
the law for the relief of ex-
union veterans and appro-
priatiug $500 to Senator Fetzer to
cover expenses incurred in his contest for
the seat of Senator Scofelj.
4SSembIy.-Bills were introduced re-
quiring all FIRE insurance policies TO be
identical IN form; requiring deaf mutes
and blind children TO be educated at the
public expense when the parents are un-
able to furnish an education: requiring
licenses to sell iq-lor to be granted to
pharmacists on application; reducing the
the rate of interest on tax roll certificates
from % TO y per cent; forbidding any
other than physician from selling in
toxIcating patent medicines and authoriz-
ing sheritfs to offer 500 for the capture of
home thieves.
Both houses voted to receive no new
business after Feb. IL, and then adjourned
till Feb. TO-
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1891-02-13
fin, and Edward Garfield has been arrest
ed for her murder.

fin, and Edward Garfield has been arrest
ed for her murder.
The police force of Pittston, Pa, resign
ed in a oody because a policeman was con-
vIcted OF murder for having killed hotel
keeper.
Russell CANFIELD, who killed Nellie
Griffin near CJldwater, Mich, last Tues
day was on the Sd sent to states prison
for life for the crime.
MAJOR j. J. WARD. of Palestine, Tex,
assaulted the Rev. Sam Jones because the
lattered criticised him, but the politician
was whipped by the evangelist.
WIN. DoRAN a Chicago contractor was
on Saturday robbed of 81 800 in his own
house, after having been beaten to insensi-
bility by the robbers.
Two Chinaman were killed Sunday
night at San Francisco by ''highbinders
and no arrests have been made.
Four incendia1y fires at Sioux City
Iowa, Sunday night destroyed property
valued at $3.50, 900. The Hunt school and
ToIerton & Stetson's wholesale grocery
were among the buildings burned.
H. NJ. ROGERS, an Omaha insurance
agent, lately from Chicago, attempted to
commit suicide Sunday after writing a let
ter confessing that he murdered his sweat
heart near Mercer, Pa, last summer.
CHRISTIAN SCHROEDER, aged SO years,
suicided Sunday night by hanging him
self on I. bed-post. He was living com
fortably with his grandchildren. No
cause for the act is known.
CATHERINE EGAN, the widow of New
York soldier. confesses to having dawn a
pension of So per month for twenty two
years after remarrying. John Ash, for
merIy city clerk of Alton, H., was her
accomplice They were both to lie SEN
fenced in the United States court at Spring
field Saturday
A VERY strange case of suicide occurred
Wednesday at East Winona, a station on
the c. B. K n. railway, a few miles below
Fountain City, Wis. Gustave Kipp, a
man employed on the bridge work of the
Burlington railroad, by Mr.. Bloom, was
found by the latter gentleman hanging
from rafter in barn by halter strap,
dead
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1891-02-13
THE "ALEXANDRIA." :"
The Great War Vessel:Built by Archim-
edes
Harpers Weekly.

In ancient days there seems to have
been built great war vessel by Archmi-
edes for Heron, the king of Syracuse.
which must have been as unsafe as it WIS
ambitious and extravagant 1t was not
only fighting ship, but it possessed even
more splendor than the most sumptuous
American steamboat Being the work of
Archlmedes, 1t was, of course, replete with
curious and ingenious mechanical contriv-
anCes. Its interior arran rements. with
which we are now chiefly concerned, have
been thus described: The middle deck
had on each side of it fifteen apartments
for dining, each furnished with four
couches, such as they used to lie on at
their meals; and on the same deck was also
the place for the accommodation for the
mariners, whereOn were fifteen couches.
and three large chambers for men and their
wives, each having three beds, next which
was the kitchen for the poop, the floors of
all which were paved with Mosaic work,
wherein was represented the wnoe story
of the lliad; and suitable to so rich fo1r
was the workmanship of the ceiling and
door to each apartment. On the upper
deck was a place for exercise, and a fine
walk. wherein were several garden-plcts
furnished with plants of all kinds which
MCIc MdISIeu " ItdueH pipes Idlu 10
them from a great receptacle of fresh
water; where there were also several arbors
of ivy and vines set in hogsheads of earth.
whose roots were watered in like manner
as the plants. Were ever mariners so
well housed and circumstanced as these?
This brief extract from the description of
the ship gives out a faint idea of its
glories. There were cabins fo- the marine
soldiers (they had marines in those far.
distant days., and twenty stables for
horses (horse marines also were appar-
emily not unknown). and in the forecastle
(what a glorious forcastie it must have
beenD was a receptacle for fresh water
made of planks. well lined with cloth and
pitch which held two hun dred and fifty
three hogsheads and near that was a well.
lined with sheet-lead. which being kept
full of sea-water, nourished great mum
bers of fish. -"
This ship was roc big for the narrow
harbor Of Syracuse, so Heron sent her as
a present to Ptoemy. sIIrnamed Philopa-
tor, King of the Egyptians, rnd her name
was changed from Syracuse to Alexan-
dria.
The luxury of marine life is illustrated
in this place. with its baths, It's sleeping
rooms. Its couches, its banquet halls with
all the devices that could be inverted by
the pleasure loving, seusious Greeks. 1t
was all in keeping with the soft airs and
smooth waters that kissed the purple
hills of the Mediterranean and Ionian
seas.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1891-02-13
ASS EMILY.

Tuesday morning the assembly recon
vened, and after prayer By Rev. DR.. A. l..
Wilkinson, various petitions, remonstran-
ces and memorials were presented. There
was a series of resolutions from the Rock
ounty association of Patrons of Industry
asked for many reforms-for uniform
text books; for the continuation of the Of
fee of dairy and food commission; for the
election of United States senator's by the
people; against alien own ership of land;
against food aduIteration; against trusts;
for lower rates of interest; for the making
of twine at the state prison; against rail-
road passes being received by public Off
cials, etc. etc.
Mr.. Briggs presented petition Of near
ly 400 residents of Stoughton, for law
forbiGding the sale of tobacco to minors.
Resolutions offered.
By Mr.. Williams, proposing an amend
ment TO the constitution so as &c permit
of more circuit judges in Milwaukee.
Lies over
By Mr.. Osborn, authorizing the attorney
general to submit to the house an opinion
as to whether the loaning of state funds to
banks by the state treasurer without au-
thority of law does not release the bonds
men Of the treasurer from liability. Lies
over
By Mr.. Iamberson. granting the use
of the assembly chamber to the Salvation
army on the evening of Feb. II. Lost By
a unanimous vote.
Bills Introduced.
By Mr.. Gray, amending Green Bays
charter.
By Mr.. Dodge (by request), making
homesteads subject to meet the expenses of
the last illness and of the funeral of a tes-
tator, when the latter leaves no widow or
minor children
By Mr.. Dodge Coy request), relating to
attachments in courts of record.
By Mr.. Bannon (by request), making
the owners of road engines liable for all
damages TO highways when such engines
weigh over siY tons.
By Mr.. Desmond, to secure religious
freedom IN public reformatories and pris-
ons.
BY Mr.. Desmond, allowing justices of
the peace to appoint eonstables In certain
cases.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1891-02-13
FIXES AND CASUALTIES

TuE Euclid hotel in Superior was dam
aged s70O 10y FIRE.
PERRY'S large stove factory at Albany.
n. Y, was burned on the 9th inst.
TuREE miners who were imprisoned bv
escaping water IN a mine near Wilkes
barre, Pa last Wednesday, were rescued
Monday morning. They were found in an
exhausted condition.
The steamer Chiswick was wrecked off
the Scilly Island last Thursday and the
captain and ten men were drowned.
WRIGHr Il CuURCH's mammoth soda
works at New York. was burne early
Friday morning, causing a loss Of S25,
900.
The Susquehauna Coal company's mine
at Nanticoke. Pa. burned, throwing 200
men out of employment.
AT Chicago, Mrs. Mary Sell stepped on
4 purlor match Saturday morning ard set
lire to her dress and was fatally burned be-
fore assistance reached her.
LIEUT.. SCHwATKA of artic exploration
fame was seriously injured ut Mason City,
Iowa, by falling down stairway
WATER broke into mine ut laneSvllle,
Pa, Wednesday, drowning seventeen
miners.
GEORGE l. KNIGHT. supposed to bs
from Chicago, is dying ut st, Joseph.
Mich, from injuries received by falling
down stairs.
Losses by fire: Heela Iron works.
Williamsburg, l.. l., 100000; Bishop
Block, Dubuque, Iowa. $4,000; business
portion of Winnebago, ILL.,, $4,000
The Hccla iron works at New York
were burned Wednesday night, causing a
loss of 100000.
THE poor house at Waterville. Ne. was
destroyed by IRE, and an inmate. a girl OF
/ l., burned to death
ATTENDANTS at the insane hospital at
Kalamazoo, Mich, while giving an in
mate bath. turned on tie boiling water
/ Scalding the patient to death.
/ SHORTLY after midnight Tuesday. tn,
house occupied by Robert Bond, living ter
miles east of GreencaStle, Ind. was burned
/ to the ground. and Bond was cremated
/ He was 50 years of age
! WHILE cleaning circular saw in revo
/ luton at Van Buskirk's mill near Hurley
/ John Tomaschak fell aga INST the saw Hi
head was split open, and death was instan
taneous.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1891-02-13
uOp AGAIN HEARD FROM.

Mr.. II. \. Taylor revolving in the luxury
of $4,000 official snap in Washington,
writes home To his paper, the State Jour
nal practically telling its readers in one
breath that the republican attitude on the
Bennett I,w was all humbug and that the
law deserved repeal. and in the next that
the democrats carried Wisconsin
last fail under false pretenses-
How he Is able to reconcile
these two contradictory views it is not
very easy To see Mr. Taylor spent
large part Of the taIl ,!unpjng Wisconsin
and proylaim,rg the merits Of the Bennett
law. and his present uslnuatious is 20 the
talseness of that issue will not tend to
materially increase the popular faith in
the sincerity Of his future pretensions.
He solcmnly asserts: That this action
repal Of the Bennett law on the part of
the Legislature, will meet with the appro-
val of large majority of the people
of Wisconsin is beyond doubt
On this point he will hardly be able to
get up nm argument. The people of Wis
consru, by Il majority ranging somewhere
aetwecn - 900 and 80. 900. set the seal of
their approval on the contemplated repeal
several months prior to the actual consum-
nation Of the deed by the legislature. and
therefore MIR Taylor is unqueStionably
sound III his aSseveratiou as to the way the
citizens of the state now feel about the
matter Mr.. Taylor kindly advises his
party friends at home to heed the voice of
the m tjority and to forget the educational
issue Us quickly as possible He does not
make his recomHendatiou in this exact
language but wishes to see the educa-
tioual question put to reSt'--a sentiment
suggestive Of the cold, cold grave to which
Mr. Taylor would have liked few months
ago 10 consigu the Democratic party for
adopting policy that he himself now vir-
tually endorses. let the dead past bury
its dead SAYS he. Let us learn from.
rather than lament over, the lessons of the
past"
Mr. Taylor is seemingly full of joy over
the general commercial and business
outlook. and. while n makes the
unsupported assertion that prices of
almost everything we have to
sell is advancing and that Of things we
have to purchase declining. he yet fails to
point to any instances where the wages Of
labor are improving, as the poor people
all over the country have been mi>led to
expect they would under the op. ration Of a
mountainous tariff The writer seeks TO
make point out of the fact that the price
Of farm produce has been stimulated hy
the tariff, when we all know that the effect
Is due to shortage abroad rs we'll as at
home and that the tariff has no more 10 do
with it tnan it has in increasing the yield
per acre.
Mr.. Taylor writes in that guieless vein
so much n keeping with the innocent in
quiry in his mild blue eye, and is some
thing Of philosopher in temperament;
but his bald assertions on the tariff ar.l
its effects, even if surrounded hv what Is
seemingly IN atmosphere of truth. will de
ceive no one familiar with tue econolni,
conditions that at present prevail
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1891-02-13

chap gone down to Wall street with in
tent to clean out the concern. but that
wicked man has generally come back afoot.
Ferdinand Ward made considerable head
way at 1t, but he is now making stoves in
Sing Sing prison. The fraud, the robber.
may have limited success for a time
but he has declared war on the whole com
munlty and he must go the wall. To saw
that man like Commodore Vanderbilt
can take hundred millions from society.
giving nothing of value in return. is to
say that as compared with ordinary men.
the merchants, the bankers. the LAWYERS.
and the statesmen. he Is giant among
pigmies, a lion among mice. 1t is to
assure him a preeminance In financial
ability to which the superiority of Napo-
leon among captains, or Shakespeare
among poets is not worthy to be men
toned.
But why need we resort to any such the
Ory? If small amount of money can be
made honestly, why cannot larger? Just
what is the extent of the possibilities of
honest accumulation? If truckman bv
carrying merchandise, or a eabman by
transporting passengers has come to be
worth say a thousand dollars, we have no
ground for assuming that his gains have
been dishonest. And, if Commodore Van
derbilt, who ran not merely one or a hun
dred trucks and cabs but great fleets of
steamships, aad long lines OF railroads,
carried hundred thousand times as many
passengers and tons of freight, why may
he hot have made nearly hundred thou
sand times one thousand, that is, hun
dred million dollars, just as fairly as our
cahman or truckman has made his thou
sand?
The laws of trade are the laws of society,
the laws of the universe, the laws of God.
He WHO violates divine law violates the law
of human relationships, the law of COM
mercial success. He who observes the law
of the Greater is obeying the law of the
creation, which includes the law of trade.
Integrity, therefore, is not hindrance but
condition of full success in a business
career.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1891-02-13
A INDUSTRIOUS swINDLER.
A French Banker Leaves With 81 100000
lily Gotten.

PARIS; Feb. 10.-A decided sensation
has been caused by the disappearance of
well known private banker, Victor
Mace. who it is learned left debts to the
amount of four million dollars. Five
years ago he opened an establishment
doing business which in America would be
denominated as wildcat, offering
interest on deposits averaging as high as
ten per cent per month. He advertised
widely and conducted affairs in so plausi-
ble manner that he accumulated very
large clienrage. Rumors have frequently
been ahoat regarding the instability of
his promises, but he always managed to re-
assure the depositors, frequently telling
them that he had inside tips on the tinan-
cial situation, etc. The latter part of last
week, however, more serious rumors be-
come current and depositors beseiged the
bank only to find Mace absent. The
police had to place a guard
over the institution to save 1t
from being sacked. Today they
produced a letter from Mace, saying that
he leaves the creditors all the money he
has-l .OOO. 900 francs-and is going to sui
eide. Few people believe that he will
do his His accounts show that he owes
20.OOO. 900 francs to depositors.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1891-02-13
wATTEKsON Is RIGHT.
He Writes a Good Letter to Governor Hill,
of New York

BALTIMORE, Feb. 0.-The Sun to-
morrow publishes dispatch from Wash
ington referring to the report that the
conclusion of Governor Hill, of New York,
to come to the senate was because of let
ter written him by Henry Watterson,
last March The letter is printed in full
In it Mr.. Watterson says. outside of the
state of New York there is well nigh
unanimous demand among the democrats
for the nomination of Cleveland, too
strong for the party leaders and managers
to resist. # Hill should
come to the national convention with the
New York delegation solid against CIeve.
land he would be overwhelmed.
You are powerless to prevent, " added
Watterson, but you can de-
feat the election of the
ticket. There are democrats
in every part of the union who believe you
did this in 1888. | know it to be false.
But it will cling to you as long as you
live. and will meet you in
every national convention if it
be not dissapated by some act on your
part great enough to blot it out.
In default of this, if you have any hope
of the presidency it will defeat that.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1891-02-13

A friend of James Johnson. Quebec
street. Kingston, Ont, brought him
swarm of California beer bees. Hived In
self-seaIers and given mixture Of syrup,
sugar and water, the colony manufactures
about three quarts per day of beer, equal,
il is said, to malt, and enough drunk
will put a head on a fellow as big as any
one could desire. James johnson. Jr.
Factory street, Odessa came here and took
a swarm home. They are In an eight
ounce bottle. and resemble a .baby's
own sponge. When placed In the sun
or a warm place they shoot rapidly from
their bed to the top OF the fluid, then re-
turn languidIy to the bottom again When
hundreds Of them shoot at once they make
things sizzle About twenty four hours
completes the make and the. beverage is
then 1T for use.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1891-02-13

From this table (B) it will be seen thae,
of the total average importations into
Brazil of s38, ,631 ,24270 of said articles,
the United States have hitherto furnished
articles to the value only of S2,O35, ,899,
while other countries have furnished
articles to the value of S36, ,595, ,343.70.
Taking the two schedules together, it
is shown that, of total annual importa-
tion into Brazil of e5e,o05, lee.4 of oil
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1891-02-13
THE CARNIVAL OPENS.
The Mayor of New Orleans Delivers the
City's Keys to Rex

NEW ORLEANS. La, Feb. 9.-The
steamer Oli7er Bierne went down the
river this afternoon and received his
majesty, Rex, and retinue, from the royal
yacht, and then returned to the head Of
Canal street. Passing the white squad
ron, the royal salute was fred 5y each man
of war When Rex landed. procession
was formed. headed by several visiting
military con1panys, and proceeded TO the
city hall. where the mayor presented Rex
with the keys Of the city.
A levee was afterwards held at the Grand
opera house The parade was most i'm
posing one