Iron County register., 1886-09-30
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

Mexico.
A RECEIVER for the Charter Oak Life
| Insurance Company has been asked for by
the directors.
The relations of the French resident
Minister with the Nalagassy Government
are said to be daily becoming more
strained.
The B oard of Directors of the Philadel-
| phia & Reading railroad have accepted
the resignation of President Gowan.
LORD SALISBURY, in speech in Hert-
| fordshire on the 22d, eulogized the Con-
| servative members of the House of Com
mons for their faithfulness.
A SYNDICATE of Paris and Berlin bank
ers have subscribed SOC, ,O00, 900 francs for a
scheme TO build network of railways to
| connect the Black sea with the Persian
| gulf.
| THE colored people of Cheyenne, Wyo.,
! observed Emancipation day on the 22d
with parade, speeches and grand ball.
THE Western Nail Association met at
Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 22d, and after dis
| cussing the conditions of trade at consid-
cradle length, decided not to change the
| card rate. No action was taken regarding
| the wage question. Trade was reported
| brisk with the demand increasing.
DIR. Buttermore, of Fayette County, Pa,
| the ex-representative convicted of an at
| tempt to defraud the State of ST., 500 for a
bogus hospital at Connellsville, was som
fenced at Harrisburg on the 22d to pay a
| fine of $500, costs of prosecution, and be
| imprisoned in the county Jail for sixty
days.
| BRICKMAKERs to the number of one hun
| dred from different places met in Cincin-
natl on the 22d and formed National as
| sociation for mutual benefit, and elected
James Bailey, of Cincinnati, as President.
The President and his wife, accom-
| panied by Mrs. Folsom and Colonel and
| Mrs. Lamont, returned to Washington on
the night of the I'D. A crowd Of men,
| women and children assembled to see the
Presidential party and welcome them
| home.
A FREIGHT train on the Buffalo, New
York & Philadelphia railroad was thrown
off the track at Holland. N. Y. on the 22d
by a broken wheel. Thirty five coal and
oil cars took fire, making a terrific blaze.
The cars and their contents are total
loss.
THE military governor of Madrid has
forbid den the press to publish reports of
the judicial proceedings arising out of the
recent revolt, or comments on news rela-
tive to military discipline public order.
THE Moscow Gazette urges Russia to ap-
point dictatorial commission for Sofia.
England would protest." says the
Gazette, ''against the appointment of such
commission, but only on paper"
GENERAL BULLER is organizing a sys-
tenn under which the houses of suspected
moonlighters in Kerry will be carefully
watched, in order that night abseHtees
may be discovered and the arrest of
culprits thereby facilitated.
JAMES HOWE, founder of the New ork
Spirit of the Times, now Wilkes Spirit Of
the Times, died at Lafayette, Ind, on the
22d, in his eightieth year. Horace Greeley
was employed by him on this paper as
printer and there formed an intimate ac-
quaintance which continued until Greeley's
death.
THE French military critic connected
with the RepubtiQue Francatse, who wit
messed the late German maneuvers, writes
that he thought the cavalry simply splen-
did. The infantry and artillery, he says,
do not excel the same branches of the
French service.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND is back at work
at Washington.
GENERAL VILLACAMPA, leader of the
revolution at Madrid, has been arrested.
Two oGerman-American citizens visiting
their old homes in Kiehl have been or
dered to leave the empire.
EDWARD SOLOMON, the American COM
poser and husband of Lillian RUSSELL has
been arrested in London a charge of
bigamy at the instance of former life.
BISHOP WooDLoCK, of the diocese of
Ardagh, Ireland, in an address to his dio-
cese, deplores the present conditions Of
affairs and warns the people against the
Revolutionary principles of secret So
cieties."
HERR KRoCHER, Socialist deputy in the
German Reichstag, has been fined 1901
marks for accepting pay from his party.
ONE HUNDRED pounds of gun cotton and
Powder works near West Burkley, Cal, on
the 23d. Two Cinnamon were killed and
the property was slightly damaged.
The Knights Templar parade in st.
Louis, deferred on account of the rain on
the 21st, was held on the 23d. 1t a
magnificent spectacle, though on a much
smaller scale than had the original pro-
gramme been practicable.
A TERRIFIC Thunderstorm with hail ac-
compartment, swept over Milwaukee,
Wis, on the Esd. During the prevalence
of the storm the heavens were almost as
dark as night. The house of Robert J.
Arthur, on the West Side, was badly
wrecked by thunderbolt, and Mrs. Ar
thur was dang erously injured.
ROBERT LAW, general superintendent of
the st. Louis, Keokuk & Northwestern and
the Chicago, Burlington & Kansas City
roads, has resigned.
The Grand Encampment of Knights
Templar, in session at st. Louis on the
23d, elected the following officers: Charles
Roome, New York, grand commander;
John P. s. Goblin, Lebanon, Pa, deputy
grand master; Hugh McCurdy, Corunna,
Mich, grand generalissimo; Warren La
Rue Thomas, Louisville, KY, grand cap
tain-general; George c. Perkins, San
Francisco, Cal, grand senior warden; r.
II. Lloyd, San Francisco, grand junior
warden; H. Wales Lines, Meriden, Conn.,,
grand treasurer; w. B. Isaacs, Richmond.
Va, grand recorder.
AT Wa hoo, Neh., ON the 22d, three men
claiming to be agents of mutual benev-
olent insurance association, were detected
in attempting to dispose of several forged
notes signed with names of WELL known
farmer. Two of them escaped. The one
who was captured refuses to talk.
ALFRED D. RoNCERAY, twenty five
years of age, son of a former United States
Consul at Porto Rico, committed suicide
at Washington on the 23d, by shooting
himself through the head. He recently
lost his position in the Post Office Depart
ment, and took his life while despondent.
The steerage-rate war between the At
Iantic steamship companies is about to be