Iron County register., 1885-04-23
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

ter to Russia
The British Consul in Armenia was
wounded recently and his quarters rified
by marauders.
GEORGE II. HUMPF, a section hand on
the New York Central Railroad, killed his
wife, child and himself.
RECRUITING for the British navy contin-
ues with the greatest activity.
A BOAT capsized at Evansville, Ind, on
the 18th, drowning Mary Draper, her little
daughter and her niece
THE President of Salvador telegraphs
that peace reigns in Central America
INDIANS have raide d many farm houses
near Battleford, in the Northwest terri
tory.
1T is denied that General Grant is
emaciated. He has lost some flesh. but his
face is not much changed.
THE sever ity of the weather in Afghan
istan makes it difficult for the military to
move.
THE earnings of the Santa Fe Road for
1884 were SIG, 291 ,SS2; a small decrease as
compared with 1888.
AMERICAN ladies at London propose to
give a concert in aid of the wounded in
the Soudan campaign.
THE Government officers at Washington
and elsewhere are taking the most active
steps to prevent the introduction of chol-
era.
NEW YORK dealers do not look for any
great decline in rice, even though hostil-
tiles between France and China have
ceased.
CARDINAL MANNING, of London, will not
visit Rome, as he thinks his presence
would be distasteful to the Irish Bishops.
THE Washington Critic publishes a story
showing that j. Wilkes Booth intended to
assassinate General Grant instead of Lin
coin.
A PARIS newspaper declares that in the
event of war between England and Rus
STA an agreement exists for the other
powers to remain strictly neutral.
A Mr.. POWER, of Boston, says that Prel-
Ter, who was found murdered at st. Louis,
was a sympathizer with the dynamiters,
and that Maxwell was heard to say "The
whole crew ought to die"
FALL RIVER (Mass.) manufacturers
have decided to curtail the production of
print cloth by shutting down for a month.
NATIoNALIsTs held q mass IN Getting at
Cork on the 18th and ridiculed the demon
stration in honor of the Prince of Wales.
NEW WORKERS are talking great deal
about the Collectorship, and there is much
speculation as to who will get that big
plum.
MISS MAY IRENE HoYT, daughter of the
late Jesse Hoyt, of New York, and who is
contesting the will, discharged all her at
torneys and employed new ones.
REPRESENTATIVE SITTIG, of the Illinois
House of Representatives, has blocked Re-
publican schemes by declaring that he
was paired with the late Mr.. Shaw, and
will not vote on the Senatorial election
until successor to Mr.. Shaw is chosen.
F. G.. SMALL, a murderer, was lynched
at Blount, OAK, an the 10th.
FOURTEEN hundred fax spinners are out
on strike at Paterson, N. J.
The railroad from Suakim to Berber is
progressing rapidly.
A CYCLONE passed over a portion of
North Carolina ON the 10Th, doing great
damage.
A COMPLIMENTARY dinner was given to
Hon. Geo. H. Pendleton at Cincinnati on
the 10th.
THE Prince of Wales and party arrived
safely at Killarney, Ireland, ON the 10th.
NEW YORK detectives have ascertained
that Maxwell, the st. Louis murderer, was
not in that city with Preller, his supposed
victim.
HARVARD COLLEGE overseers decided
that the students must continue to attend
prayers.
NATIVES report that Osman Digna's
forces have gradually dispersed
THE Formidable, the largest iron -clad
in the French navy, was launched on the
10th.
GENERAL GRANT arose and dressed him
self on the 10Th, and went to lunch at the
table with the family.
PASSENGER agents of roads running
west from Pittsburgh met on the 10th and
fixed uniform rates.
EDWARD PIERREPoNT, Secretary of the
American Legation at Rome, died on the
10th.
A MOTION to reduce the bail of Richard
Short, who stabbed Captain Phelan in New
York, was denied.
THERE was a slight change for the better
in the condition of ex-Secretary Freling-
huysen on the 10th.
SENATOR STANFoRD's stables in Cali
fornia were fired by tramps on the 10th,
and 112 horses and mules perished.
WALTER Won GOETHE, the last descend
ant of the great German poet, died at
Leipsic, on the 10th.
PROFESSOR WISE made a balloon as
cension at Philadelphia, Pa, on the 10th,
and landed in Gloucester County, New
York.
THE fifth annual meeting of the Wom-
ans Silk Culture Association of the
United States began at Philadelphia, Pa,
on the 10Th.
THE Citizens Prohibition League of Du-
buque, Ia, met ON the 10th and took
action against nine saloon-k keepers of that
city.
THE Armenlans are becoming excited
over the prospect of an Anglo Russian in
vasion.
Rev. THOMAS SPENCER, colored, was
convicted of HOUSEKEEPING at Norfolk,
Va, on the 10th. He was given five
years.
HUGH McCANN, a blind man over eighty
years of age, was indicted at Newburg,
N. V, on the 10th for the murder of his
wife.
IT is understood that President Cleve-
land will put colored Democrats in the
place of colored Republicans in the
South.
THE employees of the Bankers and Mer-
chants Telegraph Company at Buffalo,
N. Y, struck on the 10th because they
have not been paid their wages
THE National Roller Skating Congress
of America was organized at New York on
the 10th. A National contest will be held
in New York, May 9th and 2Sth, with
prizes, and open to all comers.
THE colored people of Washington cele-
brated Emancipation Day on the 10th.
Register Bruce presided and Fred Doug
las was the orator.