Iron County register., 1888-05-31
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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PERSONAL AND GENERAL
THE Riddleberger resolution to consider
the Fisheries treaty in open session was
defeated. on the 22d, by vote Of % to
q.
IT was reported from Washington, on
the 23d, that General Sheridan was seri-
ously i'll of nervous prostration. His
to his condition.
THE National Park Bank of New York
has instituted suit in the Supreme Court
against Charles I. De Baum, its defaulting
assistant cashier, for the recovery of $685.
O0O which it was found he was short in
his accounts.
THE City Council of New Orleans passed,
over the mayors veto, on the 22d, the
ordinance taking from General Beaure-
gard control of appointments in the De-
partment of Public Works, of which he
was chosen commissioner at the last
election. 1t is thought General Beaure-
| gard will resign.
IT was announced, on the 23d, that the
| medical staff in attendance upon the
Emperor of Germany was to be reduced,
and that but one bulletin week was to be
issued regarding the Emperor's con-
| dition.
| THE Democratic State convention which
| met at Jackson, on the 23d, was the larg
est held in Mississippi for years, every
county being represented. The platform
adopted eulOgizes President Cleveland,
and instructs the delegates in his favor.
| A NOTICE has been posted in the Wayne
Iron and Steel-works at Pittsburgh, Pa,
| that reduction in wages of ten per cent
| will be made when the mill resumes.
THE J. Lusk Canning Company, of San
| Francisco, which made an assignment re-
| Gently, filed an inventory, on the 22d,
| showing total liabilities to be $24, 200, and
| total assets, 200.
CHARLES JACKSON, the sixteen-year old
son of Edward Jackson, living in the north
ern part of Monroe County, Ind, was
| drowned while fishing on the 22d. He
was seized with fit and fell in the river.
| THE eight months strike at the Black
Diamond Steel-works at Pittsburgh, Pa,
was officially declared off by the Knights
been lifted, and the strikers are return
| ing to work.
THE Girard (Pa.) wrench factory was
burned, on the oath, entailing loss of
$4,000.
| Two GENTLEMEN, named Richard N.
| Ray and Thos. Chalow, occupying a
| buggy, were instantly killed by a
passing train, near Roup Station, Pitts
| burgh, Pa, on the oath.
THE up town central office of the Met
| ropolitan Telephone Company of New
| York was burned out ON the 23d. Loss
| about 900. The cause was the cross
/ ing of an electric-light wire with a tele-
| phone wire.
THE Russian force in the trans-C Caspian
! territories has been reduced.
Dom PEDRO was reported better on the
oath.
| The following congressional nomina-
tions were made, on the oath, by the Mary
| land Democrats: At Baltimore, Third
district, Harry Welles Rusk, renominat-
! ed; Fourth district. Isadore Raynor, re-
| nominated. At Frederick, Sixth district
Colonel H. Kyd Douglas, of Hagerstown.
JUDGE WAKELY, in a test case at Omaha,
| Neb., has decided in favor of Sunday
| basel ball playing.
ALFRED DUNKEL, a Nebraska wife muir
derer, hung himself in the Columbus Jail
on the 23d.
| GENERAL SHERIDAN was reported as
| feeling much better on the oath.
THE corner stone Of the new Catholic
University at w ashington was laid, with
| imposing ceremonies, on the oath.
Two MEN were killed and two others
| fatally injured by boiler explosion in a
saw-mill at Portage Station, near Bowl
| ing Green, O., on the oath.
MRS. GEORGE REED, of Napanee, Elk
| hart County, Ind, took her three-months-
Id child in her arms, on the 23d, and
| jumped into a we'll. Both were drowned.
| She left note, saying that she was
| tired of living, and would take her child
| with her to rest Here age was twenty
| three.
| UNION College, at Schenectady, N. Y,
has elected Prof. Harrison Webster,
| of Rochester, president.
Hon. H. o. DoCKERY, of Richmond,
| was nominated for Governor of Virginia
| by the Democrats on the 23d, by acclama-
| ton.
THE House committee on the judiciary
| agreed, on the 24th to report favorably
the Senate Copyright bill with an amend
ment making it apply to chromos.
THE switchmen employed in the s outh-
ern Pacific yards at Los Angeles, CAL,
struck, on the 23d, against the discharge
| of men who participated in the recent
| strike.
PATaIcK KEENAN, and John O'Rourke,
engaged in sewer construction in the city
of Providence, r. l., were buried alive, on
the oath, by caving bank. keenan, was
taken out dead and the body removed to
his home. O'Rourke was badly injured,
but will recover.
THE funeral services of Colonel A. Will
son Norris, Auditor General of the State
of Pennsylvania, were held in Philadel-
phia, on the oath, under the direction of
Fred Taylor Post, No. 10, G. A. R., of
which the deceased vas a past COM
mander.
ALL vessels which left Duluth, Mimi,
ON the oath, became blocked fast in drift
ing ice about five or ten miles out. Tugs
were sent to their assistance.
JOHN HAMILTON, an ex-agent of the
American Exchange in Europe, brought
suit in the United States Circuit Court of
New York, on the 25th, for the recovery of
$50, 600 due him in commissions.
THE town of Argonia, near Wichita, Kas.,
was entirely destroyed by a cyclone on
the 23d.
1T was stated, on the 25th, that General
Sheridan's illness was much more serious
than his family had previously seen fit to
acknowledge. He was unconscious all
night of the 21sts and priest was at his
bedside most Of the time.