Iron County register., 1888-11-01

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amounted TO $3.50
HENEY GRAvEr was Narrowly saved
| from lynching By the indignant villagers
Of Sheepshead. y. Y, on the 2:.th. for
stirling a stripping a murderous blow
| with q baseball bat The police VINO ar.
| rested him were competed to draw their
rcvolyers to keep the crowd at bay.
| NINE cases of yellow fever, SIX being
| critical. were reported at Enterprise
| Fla, on the 26th
| DAVID VEsroR, a jealous bar r-tender, OF
Colfax. w. T, shot and killed his wife
and himself on the 26th.
THE Secretary of the Treasury, on the
26th. directed the collector of stoms at
New York to admit, free of duty, tablets
| TO the memory of Frastus Brooks and
Geo. w. Schuyler, charter trustees OF
| Cornell University.
THREE-YEAR-oLD ANNIE CONRAD, of Ft.
Wayne, Ind, fell into a kettle of boiling
| apple butter, on the 25th, aud was not
discovered for several minutes. She was
taken out dead.
| THE board of trustees Of Cornell Uni
versity, on the 25th, appropriated $50, ,O0C
| from the permanent funds of the uuiver-
| sity for the erection of a chemical lab
oratory. Hiram w. Sibley. of Roches-
| ter, n. Y, was elected trustee in place
IL
PATRICK SKELLY, a Louisiana miser,
was picked up on Park Row. New York
City, with SIG, 600 in his pockets In his
| greed for gain he had deprived him g If
| of proper nourishment and was suffe fering
| from partial paralysis and showed signs
Of softening of the brain.
| GAETANo Russo and his wife Para were
sentenced to twelve and four years re.
spectively in New York, on the 2sth, for
manufactu1 ing and passing counterfeit
| money. Both are notorious counterfeiters.
and have been SHOWING the queer"
| in a number OF towns throughout the
| United States.
Mrs. HENRIETTA SPIEL, aged seventy
| five, and Mrs. Martha Beckel, aged sixty.
| five, inmates OF the German Homo for
the Aged, at Baltimore, Md, were found
dead in their room on the 26th. They had
been suffocated by gas.
A BRIEF meeting of the Cabinet on the
26th, was devoted to a further considera-
tion of the Sackville letter.
MRS. MYRA BEALS secured verdict of
900 damages, in her suit in Boston,
against DR.. Augustus Thompson, of
Lowell. Mass, on the Goth.
THE jury in the trial of John c. Keegan.
of Scranton, Pa, for the murder of Mrs.
P. II. Barrett, in May last, brought in a
verdict, on the 26th, Of guilty of murder
in the second degree.
JOHN JONES, the night watchm an, aged
sixty, was burned to death in tue partial
destruction of Plat e. IS oyster and
fruit packing house, at Baltimore, Md,
and Frank Welthy was shot in the head
and probably fatally wounded by the sup
posed incendiary.
INSPECTOR BACHELLER, Of the Post OF
fee Department, arrested Deputy Post
Y, on the 26th, for mail pilfering.
THE Lond,.n Standards CORES spondent
at Shanghai, China, says that reports
from Corea denote that a declar alton of
the independence of that country may
shortly be expected The Russian and
American representatives support the
King.
THE switchmen's strike on the Rio
Grande railroad at Pueblo, Col, was tenn
porarily settled, on the 26th, and the men
were ordered back to work pending an
investigation.
THE Babyfonian expedition of the u al
versity of Pennsylvania, which left Phil
adelphia early last summer, was ship-
wrecked in the Mediterranean sea, on the
night of September 90, on a rock off the
Island of Samas. Passengers aud crew
were rescued by Turkish brigantine.
IT is reported that Queen Natalie will
shortly go to st. Peters burg as the guest
of the CZarina.
MRS. P. j. LYNCH, aged thirty six, wife
of wealthy retired New York merchant,
jumped from third-story window of the
Hotel Bristol, corner of Fifth avenue and
Forty second street, on the 26th, and was
killed. She was suffering from mental
trouble caused by an injury to her head,
sustained during a recent voyage from
Europe.
The third days registration in New
York CITY was 66 OIL; total for three
days. 253 532-against 20S 26S in 1884.
CHARLES WARREN, chief clerk and
cashier of the Baltimore & Ohio freight
office at Columbus, O., was arrested. on
the % h, charged with embezzling 5000
OF the company's money.
TUE New York Herald. of the 18th. pub
fishes special dispatch from Los
Angeles, Cal, indicating that the now
famous letter sent to Lord Sackville-
West was written by Chas. F. Lummis,
formerly city editor of the Los Angeles
Times, who is at present in Mexico.