Iron County register., 1886-04-29

$1,000 tney STOOD elght for acqulttal anC
four for conviction.
CAPTAIN THOMAS KERR, boat-builder
for forty years, and well known along the
river from Pittsburgh to New Orleans
died at his home in Freedom, Pa, on the
18th, aged seventy-eight years.
The Treasury Department has received
certificate of $25, 900 in the case of Geo.
Q. Cannon, of Utah, who was held in that
amount of bail and which was forfeited
by reason of his failure to appear for trial
MRS. HENRY AGNEw was arrested in
Philadelphia on the 21st on a charge o.
arson, her residence, in which the furni
ture was heavily insured, being recently
discovered on fire ten times within fou
hours.
STATE PRISON KEEPER LAvERTY of New
Jersey was found guilty of one of :he
charges against him, and he has been dis
missed from Office and disqualified from
holding any office of honor, trust or profit
I'm the State hereafter.
A PANIC was created on the Goth in the
Exposition building at Indianapolis, Ind.
by the escape fro-n their cage of several
lions. A plucsy keeper finally beat the
brutes into submission, but not before he
had received painful flesh wound.
THE visible supply of wheat in the United
States and Canada, with the quantity
afoat for Europe, on the 23d amounted to
65,6OS, ,4S3 bushels, against "a $3.50, ,9S1 bushels
one year ago, and of corn 19, ,235 ,026 BUSH
els, against 1897 ,195 bushels last year.
oTHE nuns ON st. Paul's island, opposite
H. ~ n L.
carfous conaftp pl9esa the 10Th on acS mt OF
the flood, being Sonpelled to takel refuge
In the sttic, and accessSso then-F1F4fg i'm
= possible on account of TIE ice blockade.
ALL the New York street railways were
tied up except the Eighth and Ninth av-
enue roads, on the 10Th, the men on all the
lines having struck pending the settlement
of the Third avenue line troubles. Some
serious rioting took place during the day.
ACTING SECRETARY FAIRcH1LD has re-
ceived full report from Collector Hagar
at San Francisco in regard to the recep-
tion of the new Chinese Minister at that
port. 1t does not differ, excepting in
length, from reports previously received.
THE bond of William L. Trenholm as
Comptroller of the Currency was approved
by the acting Secretary and the Solicitor
of the Treasury on the 10Th, and he subse-
quently qualified and entered upon the
duties of that office. The bond is for $780,
600.
THE cadets of the Michigan Military
Academy visited Mount Vernon, Va, on
the 18th, and proposed to pay their res
poets to the officers of the army and navy
on the 21st, leaving for home on the even
ing of the 22d, stopping at Niagara Falls
on the way.
INDEPENDENT coke manufacturers, op-
perating nearly eight hundred ovens in
the McConnellsville region in Pennsyl-
vania, and employing 5000 men, have fol-
lowed the example af the coke syndicate
and advanced wages from five to ten per
cent, to take effect May1.
THE coke syndicate caused to be posted
throughout the Connellsville regions of
Pennsylvania on the Goth a notice volun-
tarily advancing the wages of the miners
and coke drawers from five to ten per
cent. after May 1. The increase affects all
the o,OO0 men who took part in the recent
successful strike.
THE city ministers of Cleveland, O.,
Church, are preparing to boycott the Sun
day secular newspapers. Confidential cir
culars have been issued to clergymen, and
all have been urged to join the moverhent
and denounce Sunday papers from their
pulpits on May 2.
The total value of exports during the
twelve months ended March 81, 1886, were
1865 1866 800, and during the preceding
twelve months, $743, ,791 ,013, a decrease of
of ST., ,S34 ,093. The value of the imports for
the same period were 1914, rs, $50, and for
the preceding twelve months, 1896 ,202, $50
an increase of SIS, ,576,015.
THE correct list of the victims of the
flood at East Lee, Mass, is as follows: A.
N. White, aged forty -eight; Mrs. White,
aged forty seven; Ida May White, aged
ten; Alice 1. White, aged eight; Simon
Dowd, Mrs. T. King and Mrs. Charles
King. The bodies of Mr.. Dowd and Ida
White had not been found up to the 21st.
CHANG YEN Won, the new Chinese
Minister and his suite, arrived in Wash
ington on the night of the 22d. The min
ister and his party were met at the depot |
by the retiring minister and the attaches |
of the legation and were escorted to the |
IN carriages, after which the ex- |
and his suite returned to the ho- |
tel.
THE sixty fourth anniversary of the |
birth of General Grant viii be celebrated /
at the Metropolitan Methodist Episcopal |
Church in Washington on Tuesday even
ing, April ~. Chief-Justice Waite will
preside, and addresses will be made by
Senator'S Brown, Sherman, Logan, and
Eyarts, and many other distingu guisked gen.