Iron County register., 1886-07-22

House Oi DeIegdteS ISSulteu III hNe DeHCu
warrants being issued on the 10th for del
egates and lobbyists.
THE official report on the prospects of
the crop in Hungary estimates the yield of
wheat at 60 per cent. Of the average. In
11S5 the yield was 81 per cent. The pros
poets are excellent for rye and oats, but
bad for barley.
THE receiver of the Provdent Savings
Bank of st. Louis has not yet been able
to find out what the condition of the
wrecked bank is. He only seems to know
that no payment can be made to deposit
ors before October.
THE Exchange Bank at Bluffton, O., was
recently burglarzed and consider a BILE
money stolen. o. s. Langan, cashier of
the bank at the time of the burglary, was
arrested On the 14th on the charge of hav-
ing committed the crime.
AFTER the adjournment of Congress the
Secretary of State and his daughters will
retire to some quiet seaside resort. The
Misses Bayard have not yet called upon
Mrs. Cleveland, owing to their recent
bereavement, and will not do so until the
autumn.
THE Cabinet, at meeting on the 18th
discussed the action of the House in pass
ing resolution providing for the use OF
the Treasury surplus in excess of 500, 900,
600 in redemption of United States bonds,
and the prospects for the resolution in the
Senate.
"IwAs fifteen days in Connecticut -
said Colonel John A. Joyce, "and l deliv.
of
State alive, notwithstanding. l can not
say, though" con tinued he, s'for certain,
how many of the people of Connecticut
are alive.o
THE Comptroller of the Currency on the
18th declared fourth dividend of thirty
per cent. in favor of the creditors of the
Hot Springs National Bank of Hot Spri ngs
Ark, payable on the 10Th inst. This makes
100 per cent. paid on claims proved
amounting to S36,537-
THE bodies of Adrian and Lucie Crucy
were removed from their late home, No. &C
Lexington avenue. New York, to Green
wood cemetery on the 18th. The church
authorities were to the last unyelding in
their decision that the interment could not
take place in Calvary.
THE most marked features of the chol-
era epidemic in Italy are the extreme Sc
verify of the cramps in the stomach and
the rapidity with which death follows the
onset of the disease. In verv many cases
the patients expire within an hour after
the beginning of the attack.
REPRESENTATIVE BREcKINRIDGE, OF
Kentucky VII endeavor at an early day
to haze passed the bill enabling tobacco
growers to sell their produce to any one,
whether the purchaser has a license or
not. and reducing the tax of ninety cents
on fruit brandy to fifty cents.
CAPTAIN MARIANA BALTEREs arrived al
Tombstone, Ariz,, on the 18th. He says
that Geronimo and his band evaded Cap
tain Lawter and are now doubling back
toward Arizona. On the 11th the Apaches
killed two Mexicans at Cumpor; later
they killed four Mexicans near Tepaehe.
The cholera returns for Italy on the 14th
were as follows: Brindisi, 115 new cases,
S6 deaths; Fontana, A new cases, Il
deaths; Latiano, % new cases, 10 deaths;
San Vito, 90 new cases. death, Cordigro
3 new cases, 2 deaths; Trieste, new
cases, / death; Fiume, new cases,
deaths.
A STATEMENT prepared at the Treasury
Department shows thereceipts of the Gov
ernment so far this month to be decidedly
less than the expenditures, and unless al
improvement occurs before the end of the
month the public debt statement to be is.
sued Augas /, will show little if any de-
crease.
GENERAL B. F. BUTLER was in Wash
ington ON private business on the 18th He
is said to be in most excellent health and
looking as fresh and vigorous as he did
twenty years ago. He was admitted tc
practice i'm the United States Supreme
Court ia 1s45, the same year VIM. 81
Seward was admitted. He is now sixty
eight years old.
ELECTIONS had been held in all but
eighty of the British constituencies up tc
the evening of the 18th, and the result was
q majority of 131 for the Tories and Union.
lists combined over the Gladstonites and
Parnellites. The Conservatives had ma.
jority of two over both wings of the Lib
erals and Nationalists combined.
THE first train of eighteen car loads OF
tea bound from Japan to Europe, passed
through Omaha oa the 16bk, having made
better than passenger time on the run from
San Francisco to that city. This is a test
to determine whether tea can be shipped
from China and Japan to Europe quicker
by the American overland route or by the
Suez canal route.
COLONEL WILLIAM Ii. G ILDER, who was
to have lett New York on the 18th and
ION the whaling schooner Eva at New
London, Conn, and proceed on her TO the
coast of Greenland. and afterward under
take to find the North Pole, did not leave.
being detained on the charge of stealing a
1880 bond of the Manhattan Elevated
Railway Company from Sally Adams.
The meeting of the National Educational |
Association at Topesa, Kas. was brought
to close on the 10Th. 1t proved to be
the largest and most successful in the his
tory of the organization. No decision has
been reached by the executive board as to
the place for the next annual meeting.
William E. Sheldon, of Massachusetts, was
elected president, and j. II. Garfield, OF
Kansas, secretary.