Iron County register., 1880-01-15
NEWS SUMMARY.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

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Episcopal Church, died at the residence o
his mother in Maiden, Mass, on the 3d, afte
, an illness of several weeks duration. H
was born in Maiden, September 10, 1921.
Governor Smith of Wisconsin was inau
gurated with much ceremony on the 5th.
Luke Pryor has been appointed by Gov
! Cobb United States Senator from Alabam;
as successor to the late Senator Houston
Mr.. Pryor is resident of Athens and wa
the law partner of the late Senator. He il
said to be a man of great ability, but has al
ways heretofore declined to fill any publ,
office. The election by the Legislature is il
November next. ''s.f +'H
Congress reconvened on the 9th after near
ly three weeks vacation. 1t is expected
that the proposed revision of rules will oc.
1 cupy the attention Of the House for at leasl
two weeks, during which time no other bust
ness will be in order.
General Garfield received the unanimous
nomination for United States Senator by the
| Ohio Republican Senatorial Caucus.
The United States Supreme Court has re.
fused to take up, consider and decide the
legal-tender case in advance OF its regular
| order, for the reason that the bench Is not full
at present, on account of Justice Hunts ILL.,
ness, and the Court does not deem it wise tn
deliver decisions on important questions OF
! constitutional law, when such decisions would
be deprived of their due weight by an equal,
or nearly equal, division of the Court. The
case will come up in its regular course some :
where about two years hence.
The Senate Committee on Privileges and
Elections on the 7th resumed consideration
at Washington of the ingalls, case. Z. l..
Smith, Western Union Telegraph manager
at Topeka, in accordance with instructions
| from the company, surrendered under pro-
test the dispatches called for by the Commit
| tee. .-.. s-.a. gY.ts
! A Washington special of the 7th reported
that extensive revenue frauds in Louisiana
had recently been discovered, the facts Of
! which would soon be given to the public.
1t is reported from Washington that the
| Tilden and Kelly factions in New York have
| finally compromised their differences, the
| chief feature Of the agreement being that
the delegation from that State to the National
Democratic Convention shall not be commit
| ted to any candidate, but pledged to vote as
| unit in favor of the man seeming to have the
most strength with the representatives of the
| other States. r.r
Stephen Longfellow, a nephew Of the poet,
was arraigned in Boston ON the 9Th on
charge of uttering a forged check for 81 900,
purporting to be signed by his uncle, Henry
w. Longfellow. Stephen has given his fam
lily and friends no end of trouble by his bad
conduct for some years past. 3D.
Among recent nominations by the
President are the following: Charles. ).
Varian, United States Attorney for the dis
| trict of Nevada; Henry E. Prickett, Asso-
eiate Justice of the Supreme Court of Idaho;
Z. j, .COnger, justice Of the Supreme Court
Of Montana; E. B. Pomeroy, United States
Attorney for Arizona.
The National Greenback-L Labor Party
Conference was held at Washington on the
Sth, about 125 delegates from various States
being in, attendance, together with the
Greenback Congressman. The Conference
was called to order by T. p. Devices, Chair
man of the National Committee of the
Greenback-Labor party, who delivered
an earnest address. Representative Murch
was made permanent Chairman. The
Conference, after considerable discus
sion of minor matters, appointed commit
tee to report on time and place for the meet
ing of Presidential Nominating Convention,
and also to report a basis Of representation
in that Convention. A large number of res
olutions were introduced and referred to the
committee above mentioned. tf ~.
A. P. German has received the Democratic
nomination for United States Senator in
Maryland, which is equivalent to an election.
Mr.. German is President of the Chesapeake
and Ohio Canal. He has been prominent in
politics since the War. wzFen
The National Convention Of the National
Greenback Labor Party will be held at Chi
cago on the 9th of June next. ss..stas5
Frank Leslie, the well known publisher,
died on the 10th.
A Berlin dispatch of the 10th reported
that Bismarck's condition was rapidly grow
ing worse and his death was considered inn
minent.
John II. Phillips, Democrat, has been
elected to Congress from the Seventh Mis-
souri, District to fill the vacancy caused by
the death Of Hon. Alfred M. Lay.
T COMMERCE. AND INDUSTRY.
The Atlantic and Great slYeetern Railroad
has been sold under foreelasuse Proceedings.
It was bought in by the English bondholders
for &, 600 900. 6 q &8#sFS
Companies are being organized in most of
the large cities for introducing Edisons
electric Hight. Although Mr.. Edis6n's ex-
periments have so far apparently proved the
practicability of his great invention, there
are many minor details yet to be worked
out before it can be put to the practical test
of lighting large city. Scientific men gen.
orally are slow, to concede all that Edison
claims for his light, while few class if in the
same category with the Keely motor and
other impracticable inventions.
1t now turns out that the suspension of the
Grocers' Bank of New York City, was caused
primarily by the discovery that il held some
$125, 900 worth of forged paper negotiated by
one of it's principal depositors, j. Lloyd
Haigh, a well known business man. He has
been proceeded against on a criminal charge.
yeFss5 CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
A strange and most terrible affair occurred
on the Sd at Lyons, Wayne County, n. Y.
Miss NJ. Frances Hoyey,a young and INTEL
ligent lady, while caressing her father,
Hiram Hovey, in an apparently affectionate
manner, suddenly placed the muzzle of a
pistol to the back of his head
and shot him dead almost instantly.
She then went to another room, and with
the same weapon blew out her own brains,
her aim being directed unerringly by the
aid of little hand mirror which she held
| in her left hand. Miss Hoyey had some
! time previous been engaged to be married
| to young man named Eugene Rains. Her
father opposed their marriage, but sub
| sequently relented and the day was fixed
| for the wedding. Young Rains meanwhile
| committed suicide in Louisiana, and this so
affected Miss Hovey that she became a par
tial monomaniac, although she had never
previously exhibited any disposition to harm
| Eugene L. Sloan, aged 30, recently con-
nected with the Marshall tTexas) Weekly
Herald, committed suicide on the Sd by
shooting himself through the head. No
cause is assigned for the act other than tenn
porary insanity.
An explosion occurred in the works Of the
Celluloid Manufacturing Company, Newark,
n. j., on the 9TH, by which VIM.
/ Fenter, Frederick Stiles, John Yates
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