Iron County register., 1886-07-08
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

ruins. When found, Rucker was dead and
Ransom, who was lying on top of the
corpse, was severely bruised.
Four emissaries from the striking Lake
| Shore switchmen arrived in Toledo on the
| 18th from Chicago and endeavored to in
| duce the 40 Lake Shore switchmen at that
place to join the strike. They were coldly
| received, and it is authoritatively stated by
| influential switchmen that they will not go
| out.
| REPRESENTATIVE SowDEN, of Pennsyl.
| vania, presented to the President as
| wedding present a fine steel horseshoe,
| which was made by Mr.. John Schaadt, of
Allentown, Pa, and intrusted to Mr.. Sow
den for delivery. On one end of the shoe
| are the initials sc. c." and on the other "F.
F. c." In the center is the word "Gluck, !"
| which in German means good luck.
THE red flag was hoisted on the Goth
| over the effects of the late Court of Ala
| bama Claims. The building was filed
| with buyers, and the different articles
| were run up as a rule pretty near to the
| figures that they brought when purchased
by the Government. 1his was especially
| the case with the chairs, desks and ward
robes.
MRS. s. B. CUSHING, of Michigan, a
| clerk in the Post-office Department, has
| been dismissed at her own request. She
was an efficient clerk, and when her re-
quest to be dismissed was refused she alb
sented herself from her desk until the de-
| partment was forced to remove her.
JACK KEEF, local sport, was shot and
killed by Morgan Anderson, of Alliance,
in Wooster, O., on the night of the Goth.
| The shooting was the result of quarrel
| about woman. Anderson eecaped.
FREDERICK jury, an imbecile son of
Charles Juty, a well-known Pittsburgh
Pa-) coal operator, attempted to kill his
step-mother on the 29th, and, failing, COM
| mitted suicide by shooting himself through
| the head.
The special convention at Philadelphia
on the 29th, for the purpose of electing an
assistant Bishop of the Protestant Epis-
| copal diocese of Pennsylvania, chose Rev.
OIL William Whitaker, of Nevada.
| The entire business portion of Alturas,
Cal, was destroyed by fire ON the 29th.
Loss, $50, 900, partly insured.
JOHN HARDIN, of Brazil, Ind, murder
| ously assaulted Levi Leash on the 29th
while both were at work at the Central
rolling mills, striking him on the head
| with an iron bar eight feet long. Leash's
skull was crushed. He can not recover.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND had, up to June
80, vetoed sixty-eight private pension
bills.
THERE was a narrow escape from an
other riot among the striking switchmen
at Chicago on the 30th.
GEORGE GILL WHITELAw, the Harvard
student who was injured in the recent
fight at the Miller House, Boston, on the
night of June 19, is believed to be out of
danger.
A BALL given by Sir Spencer st. John,
British Minister to Mexico, on the night of
the Goth, was brilliant affair.
AN explosion of sewer gas in the British
House of Commons on the 30th led to sem
sational rumors about Irish plots and dy-
Mantle outrages.
GENERAL JAMES A. BEAVER was nomi-
mated for Governor of Pennsylvania on
the 30th by the Republican convention at
Harrisburg.
COLONEL R. M. KELLY, recently United
States pension agent at Louisville, KY,
was apparently SOL 900 short with the Gov
ernment, but has paid up.
GEORGE w. VARNEY, one of the pail
bearers at the funeral of Mrs. Baker at
Dover, N. H, on the Goth, sank down as
he was helping to carry out the casket and
olou INSTANTLY VI uodTU uISodSt.
THE French Academy of Science has ad.
mitted the first lady professor to their
body. She is Miss Sophie Kowlewska,
and is professor of mathematics.
THE President sent the nominations of
Hugh Smith Thompson, of South Caro-
lima, to the Senate on the 3Oth, to be as
sistant Secretary of the Treasury, vice
William E. Smith, resigned.
fa ma5ot the OF
year shows receipts of $1s7,47O, and ex-
penses of $167, ,235.
AT Baltimore, Nd, on the 30th, occurred
the ceremony of presenting the scarlet
beretta to Cardinal Gibbons.
EIGHT persons were instantly killed on
the 30th by an accident to a mail train
from Belfast to Dublin. The train was
going at high rate of speed and left the
rails at Knockbridge. Twenty persons
were wounded The train was completely
smashed.
The prop-ietors of five rolling mills at
Youngstown, O., have refused to sign the
IRON workers scale, which went into eff
feet on the 1st. Brown, Bonnell & Co.,
who are in the hands of receiver, agreed
to pay the scale price, though they could
not sign the scale.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND sent to the col
lector's office on the 30th and paid his dog
license for the present year. This is the
first instance of President of the United
States buying dog tag in Washington.
THE sash, door and blind factory of
Briggs, Wharton and Beverage, at APP
pleton, Wis, burned on the night of the
29th. Loss, $4,000; insurance, $4,000.
MRS. JOHN SCHIcK, aged fifty-five
years, committed suicide at Davenport,
Ia, on the 30th, by severing her jugular
vein an a small artery with small pair
CT sharp-pointed scissors. Mental aberra-
ton was the cause.
THE Conservative candidates for East
Toxteth, Everton and West Toxteth di-
visions of Liverpool have been elected
without opposition.
EDWIN BELLOWS shot and fatally
wounded his wife at Wilkesbarre, Pa, on
the 1st.
Mr.. ALGERNoN SULLIVAN SwINBURNE,
the English poet, publishes a vigorous Un-
ionist campaign song.
EVERY THING was quiet in the Lake
Shore yards at Chicago on the 1st.
THE st. Louis express on the Erie road
was wrecked by a misplaced switch near
Susquehanna, Pa, on the 1st.
SEYMOUR DARLING was shot and killed
at Circleville, O., on the 1st, while resist
ing arrest. Several others were wounded. !
FIRE destroyed Miller & Lawrence's tub
and pail factory at Leominster, Mass, on
the 1st.
THE jury in the case of Schilling, charg- |
ed with boycotting at Milwaukee, disa-
Il raI