Iron County register., 1886-04-29
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,


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TURKEY has intrusted her cause in the
Grecian dispute to Lord Rosebery, British
Minister of Foreign Affairs.
JAMES TOWNSEND, of Corinth. N. v.
Hiram Davis and boy named Jones were
drowned on the 21st while attempting to
cross the river at Hadley, Saratoga Coun-
ty. Their boat was caught by floating logs
and carried over dam.
THE merchant-bar mill of the PennsvI.
vania Steel Works, at Harrisburg. Pa.
was entirely destroyed by fire on the 21st,
caused by the explosion of a lamp. The
mill was valued at $3.50, 900, on which there
was an insuran ce of $4,000, which will
cover the loss.
An ultimatum has been sent to Greece by
the Powers, fixing a time within which
Greece must disarm; otherwise steps
would be taken to enforce the demands.
AT WIggan's col1iery, Shenandoah, Pa,
on the 21st, John Shamousky and his
prother and two Hungarians, names un-
known, were working a gangway when a
blast exploded prematurely, killing Sha-
mousky and fatally injuring his brother.
Inc other two men are seriously but not
fatally injured.
In speech at Glasgow on the e1st the
Duke of Argyll admitted the sincerity of
Gladstone, but believed the Premier was
misled by the Parnellites.
IHE large barn of Jesse &, Darlin gton,
three miles from West Chester, Pa, was
burned on the 2ist. Forty cows and three
horses perished in the flames The con-
tents of the barn, including hay, grain
and implements, were entirely consumed.
Inc loss Is very heavy with only a partial
insurance.
WILLIAM 0. MCDOWELL testified before
the Congressional committee on the South
west strike in Washington on the 21st.
Jay dould and his son George left New
Y ork on the same day for Washington to
appear before the committee.
Hon. VIM. L. WEST was confirmed by
the Senate on the 21st as Governor of Utah
to succeed Governor Murray.
The Queens proctor has interviewed in
the divorce case of Crawford VS.. Craw-
ford and Dixie, and the case will be re-
opened.
LORD SALISBURY is convinced that the
nation will indigne ntly reject Gladstone's
desperate scheme" for the government of
Ireland.
HosTILITIES nave begun between Tur-
key and Greece by a vigorous little fight
between outposts, in which the Turks were
ingloriously put to flight.
ALL hope OF recovering the bodies of the
Nanticoke miners has been given up, and
the search has been abandoned.
JAv GOULD appeared before the select
Congressional committee at Washington
on the 22d, and detailed the status of af-
fairs on the Southwestern roads and the
causes leading to the strike, from his
standpoint.
AUSTRALIA will send rifle team to
Wimbledon.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND, in a message to
Congress, recommends the appointment of
three commissioners to act as a board of
arbitration in labor troubles.
THE Irish Land-Purchase bill was issued
on the 22d. 1t covers twenty six pages.
AMONG the nominations confirmed by
the Senate on the 22d were those of Chas.
E. Gross, to be Governor of New Mexico,
and w. 8. Rosecrans, Register of the
Treasury.
THE judgment of the court Of inquiry in
to the Oregon disaster was in favor of the
owners and officers of the vessel.
A GRHAT Liberal mass Injecting, presid-
I'd over BY Labqpehere, vas held at st.
AOSOAosAouSt SIuS olAuSbOuo'S lGlSQ
policy were adopted.
FATHER ABRAMJ. RYAN, the "poet priest |
of the South" is lying critically ill with
brain fever at st. Boniface Church in
Louisville, KY.
refuse to join the powers in the plan of CO.
ercing Greece into disarming.
IT has transpired that custom house |
officials at Odessa, Russia, have been de- |
the government for years. The |
amount embezzled is placed at several |
million rubles.
EDWARD T. SHAW, who for twelve years |
has carried the mail between the local |
post-office at Beverly, Mass, and the rail-
way station, was arrested on the 22d. He |
confessed to having Systematically robbed
the mails for several years, taking between
5000 and 5000 letters and obtaining up
ward of 81 800.
A MAN named Uransky, an emigrant
tell from train at Antelope Station on |
The Missouri Pacific railroad, forty miles
east of Cheyenne on the 22d. Both his legs
we're cut off, and he died in few minutes. /
he was bound for Butte, NJ. T.
SINCE the intr reduction Of natural gas
nto Pittsburgh, Pa, the outputs of the
Mills and factories have been increased
wenty per cent, a large number of new
plants have been erected and nearly ten
additional men have been given
A LARGE number of leading business
nen of New York have signed call for
/ special meeting of the Chamber of Com
nerce, with a view to taking action rela-
i've to the labor disturbances now in ex-
stence there.
The African Society at Naples gave
ON the evening of the 22d to Henry
4. Stanley.
THE Solicitor of the Treasury has in
tructed the United States district attor-
ley at San Francisco, Cal, to bring suit
galnst the Sierra Lumber Company tore
over about $2,21S,000 damages, arising
rom the conversion of timber and lumber
AIKEN from public lands.
Hon. WIN. WHITLEY, associate Judge of
he Superior Court of Delaware, died on
he 23d of hemorrhage of the stomach after
lingering illness.
The Spanish sanitary council has au-
horized the practice of incubation for
holera. +,
A FIGHT took place in East Flanders on .
he 23d between gendarmes and striking
Vatchmakers, in which the rioters were !
outed and several were arrested.
The total imports of dry goods at the
'ort of New York during the seven days I
nded the 03d xyera va1,,ad a = % oco eOc t,