Iron County register., 1888-11-01
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

mas Deen started among the Clay Cross
coal miners of England. Thousands
/ threaten to strike.
Hon. ROGER Q. MILLS addressed a large
audience at Newburg. N. Y, on the night
of the 23d, devoting himself to a cogent
advocacy OF the House Tariff bill.
THE Comptroller of the Currency, on the
23d, declared a dividend to the creditors
of the insolvent Stafford National Bank
of Stafford Springs, Conn.,, which failed
last October. of twenty-five per cent.
making in all 100 per cent. and interest
| in full on claims amounting to S247,
920.
THE Quartermaster General of the
Army submitted his annual report to the
Seer etary of War on the 23d.
The governments Of Germany and En-
gland are negotiating for joint action in
East Africa.
| SEVERAL thousand Yorkshire en-
| gland) coal miners struck, on the 23d, and
coal advanced in price
The Wilmington (DeL) Academy of
Music was destroyed by fire on the night
OF the 23d; loss, $50. 200.
| BIZ the falling of scaffold at the new
| soldiers home building near Minnehaha
Falls, Mimi, ON the oath, Henry RietzeH, a
| workman, was SO seriously injured that
| he died three hours afterward. Three
others were badly hurt, but are expected
| to recover.
TEE Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
/ gineers met in open session at Richmond,
| Va, on the oath. The only question dis =
| cussed was the insurance feature. Several
claims were allowed, and the forty-five-
year restriction was established
| FIFTEEN THOUSAND colliers struck for
an advance in wages in Yorkshire, En-
! gland, on the oath
NINE. PATTI will create the role Of
"Juliet" in Gounod's opera.
| FATHER KENNEDY, who was arrested in
! August for holding a meeting of the Du.
haliow branch of the National League,
which had been suppressed, was released
from Cork Jail, on the oath, his sentence
| having expired.
JUDGE SAWYER. in the United States
Circuit Court at San Francisco, decided.
| on the oath. that the ten Chinese sailors
who shipped from there on the Panama
Line steamer Colima, and were refused
landing on their return, must be permit
| ted to land, as they have not left the
| United States in the common acceptation
| of that term. and have been under Amer
lean jurisdiction as much as If they had
remained on land.
MARY WILLIS, a servant in the house Of
Mrs. Mary Berry, of Washington, on the
oath told the police a strange story of be-
ing bound and gagged by five men, who
were apparently intent on robbing the
house. There was no evidence to support
her story, and nothing was missing from
the house. The police believed her in
sane.
EMPEROR WILLIAM, on the oath, invited
Prof. Bergman and DR.. Gerhardt to dine
at the palace.
THE loss to the Pennsylvania railroad
by the freight collision near Tyrone, on
the 23d, will probably reach 500, 900.
JOHN S. HALLER, of Cincinnati, left his
work. on the oath, and, going to his home,
cut his wife's throat from ear to ear with
a razor, with which he then cut his own
throat severing the jugular.
GENERAL B. F. SPINoLA was renominat-
ed for Congress, on the oath, by the Tam
many Democracy of New York.
Ed MORRIS says he is determined to
team next season.
No official Information had been re-
ceived at the War Department up to the
oath, concerning the reported outbreak
among the Crow Indians.
SENATOR GIBSON, of Louisiana, on the
oath, declined to be interviewed about
the mysterious disappearance of his son
from Yale College.
THE Moscow (Russia) club house coll
lapsed, on the 25th, and sixteen corpses
have been taken from the ruins. Twenty
four persons were injured.
IT is stated that the Americans who
have been referred to as having inf1u-
ence over the King Of Wurtemburg. were
Jesuits, who persu AIDED the King to be-
come Catholic, and that the Ger emonies
attending the conversion were secret.
THE letter from an unknown corre-
spondent at Pomona, Cal, to Lord Sack
ville- West was made public, on the 25 tn,
and shows that British Ministers, unlike
birds, can be caught with chaff.
Two school boys, on the 18th, found
Paymaster McCiure's sachel in the woods
near Taylorville, Pa, twelve miles from
the spot where the murdered paymaster's
body was found
dolph Welles, Bishop of the Diocese Of
Wisconsin, took place at Milwaukee on
the 25th.
Two HUNDRED warrants are to be issued
for the arrest of persons illegally register
ing in Jersey City, N. J.
The fiftieth anniversary of the entrance
into public service of NJ De Giers, Rus.
sian Minister of Foreign fairs was cell
ehrated at st Petersburg on the oath.
BISHOPS DEMETRrUs of Nisch and Nj
canor of Cakak have been dismissed from
the SerVlan cnurcn Tor opposing the dI-
vorce of K ing Milan.
The statement that the Crow Indians
were on the war path against the Sioux
was officially denied on the 18th.
SECRETARY BAYARD, on the 25th, in al
interview evidently inspired at Cabinet
meeting previously held, emphatically de-
clared that the British. Minister, Lord Sack
Vile West had no authority from Presi-
dent Cleveland, or any one else, for the
statements made in answer to his Cali.
fornia CORES pondent
A DISPATCH from Ft Buford, Mont, to
the eff ect that the Cheyenne Indians are
suffering from starvation, is doubtless
without foundation, as rations have been
issued regularly to them.
ON the oath, United States Swan p. Land
Commissioner W. c. Forey was arrested
at Iowa Falls, Ia. charged with treating
personal friend to a drink of whisky,
and was find 500 for the offense.
COLONEL JAS De CHUER Porter,
veteran of the Mexican war and of the re.
bel1ion, died at the Manhattan Hospital,
New York City, on the 25th.
The Dunsberg Court of Berlin declared,
on the 25th, that the stoppage of the sales
Of DR.. Machenzie's book on the late EN-
peror Frederick's case is illegal
IT was reported. on the 25th, that Mont
gomery Gibson, the Yale student who
disappeared ten days ago, was in Wash
ington with his father, Senator Gibson
A SNOWFALL was general throughout
Central Dakota on the night of the 25th
The weather was warm, and the fakes
melted as fast as they fell
THE League champions won their sixth
and the deciding game in the worlds
champiOnshiD series from tbo St yonis