Iron County register., 1883-09-27
Personal AND GENERAL.

fhlrty-Slx hours. Two persons were in
jured.
YELLOW fever was reported at Quay
mas and Hermosillo, Mexico, on the 18th.
In consequence of collision Nor
wegian vessel sunk and twelve persons
were drowned in the English channel ON
the 18th.
The Italian steamship independents
went ashore on Long Island in fog on the
18th and was in a dangerous situation. She
had 160 passengers.
FIVE men were arrested in Philadel-
100000 worth of property had been recent
ly destroyed by incendiary fires.
KENTUCKY gaugers had asked the In
ternal Revenue Commissioner to modify
the regulations so that they could earn S.
day, but he refused to do it.
A FRESHMAN at Lehigh University,
Pa, jumped out of window to avoid haz-
ing and fractured his foot. The Sopho-
mores were to be expelled.
PETROLEUM exports for the seven
months ended July 81 were S26, ,6SS, ,345.
+; PROF. WARMERS balloon collapsed
on the 18th, 5000 feet above the city of Pitts
burgh. The fall was so gradual that the
aeronaut landed uninjured.
FIRE destroyed the Surveyor Gener-
al's office, with all, the land records, at
Olympia, W. T., on the 18th.
THE steamship Regulator, which ar
rived at Wilmington, N. CO, on the 18th,
reported the Fryingpan Shoals ight-ship
gone from her moorings, and it was feared
she had foundered.
THE Governor of New Mexico has
made an official report that with the ex-
ception of Judge McComas and wife, no
citizen had been killed by Indians in that
Territory since October, 1881.
THE total number of pension claims
of all kinds pending in the Pension Office
the 3Oth of June, 1888, was 244,5O5; and of
this number 14S,S13 involved arrears.
NEGOTIATIONS between France and
China were said to be progressing favora-
bly,. ~
A BRIDGE fell into the canal at Utica,
N. Y, on the 14th, and navigation was tenn
porarily blockaded. ..
THE United States Express Company
was robbed of $1,000 package at Muncie,
Ind, a few nights ago.
THE Brooklyn Felt Hat Works and
the morning of the Nth; loss Sl5o,oOo.
RECENT advices from Hayti were to
the effect that the towns of Bainet and
Maringot had been recovered from the in
surgents. ..
BARBARA MILLER was hanged at
Richmond, Va, on the 18th, for completely
in the murder of her husband last Feb
ruary. -P "- u.s.
A SERIOUS riot was reported at coal
mine on the Upper Lehigh, near Reading,
Pa, on the 14th. One woman was killed
and several men wounded.
BURGLARS entered the Post-office at
Junction City, o., the night of the 18th and
captured the entire stock of postal notes
with the official punch and office stamp.
NINE Germans and three Englishmen
made fight to protect their property against
the mob at Canton. One of the buildings
burned belonged to an American firm.
THE city of Pensacola still remained
healthy. There were three new cases and
one death at the Navy Yard on the 14th.
Two children of a woman named
Giroux were burned to death in their house
at East Templeton, Ont, on the 18th. .t
Four indictments were found against
ex-Treasurer j. NJ. Haven of the Rutland
Railroad Company, charging embezzlement
of moneys and overissues of stock.
JOHN Z TRAUTwINE, civil engineer,
who surveyed the Atrato and Napipi Xiv
ers, Panama, in connection with the inter-
oceanic canal, died on the 14th, aged sew
enty-four.
The pilots of Pensacola Bar recently
Joined in publishing a denial of the charge
that the introduction of yellow fever to
Pensacola was due to their negligence.
THE dwelling of Frank Campo at
Milwaukee, Wis, burned the night of the
18th and two of his children were fatally
burned.
THE Merchants Union Barbed Wire
Works at Des Moines, Ia, burned the even
ing of the 14th. 81.
IT is said that company at Fort
Worth, Tex, has raised $50, 900 to establish
a crematory there, with the object of hav-
ing the bodies of those who die from dis
eases that are contagious incinerated, and
say that if this is done they can eradicate
malarial fevers, cholera and smallpox.
AT the session of the Great Council of
Red Men at Atlantic City, N. j., on the 14th,
the revision of the constitution was made
years Great Council. Some changes were
made in the beneficiary fund. The require
ments for the establishment of State Coun-
ellis were modified considerably. Adjourned
to meet at Springfield, ILL.,, the second Tues
day in September, 1884.
FOUR new cases of yellow fever at
the Pensacola Navy Yard on the 10th.
PLEURo-PNEUMoNIAp prevailed among
the cattle in several counties in Massachu-
sets. J# d.
A FREIGHT train was wrecked and
brakeman killed on the Bee Line near Gal
ion, o., on the 18th.
GEORGE IRVINE and two sons died at,
Erie, Pa, on the 10Th, and were supposed to
have been poisoned.
In Nevada, To-, on the 10th, John
Miller became enraged at his wife and
burned up his house and barn.
THE electrical convention at Vienna
is said to be far superior to those held at
London, Paris and Munich. - {fc
MrNNur CNTTu a prisonar at Rfack-