Iron County register., 1888-08-16
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.

NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
HUGH MorrRAM BROOKS alias w. 81.
Lennox Maxwell and Henry Laudgraff
were executed in the city Jail at St Louis
at 9:02 a. M. on the 10th.
AT meeting of the Democratic State
Central committee in Milwaukee. Wis,
on the Sth, it was decided to hold the
State convention in Milwaukee Septem-
Der 5.
THE Department of State was informed,
on the 10th. that the Territory Of Alaska Is
to be hereafter included in the iurisdic-
ton Of the French Consulate at San Fran
cisco.
A TELEGRAM from the European Union
of Astronomers announces the discovery
of Encke's comet, on its present return,
at the Royal Observatory, Cape OF Good
Hope, on the Sd.
THE Miners and Mine Laborers' Ma
tional District Assembly, No. 135, met
in third annual session in Cleveland, O.
on the 9Th. Sixty thousand coal miners
were represented.
GOVERNOR WATERMAN OF CALIFORNIA,
on the Ith, ordered all State offices closed
on the day of General Sheridan's funeral,
and suggested that business houses close
during the hour of the funeral
In the British House of Commons, on
the 9th, the Oaths bill passed its third
reading by a vote of 147 to 60. In the
House of Lords, the Parnel1 Commission
~ fo- fra mo
MRs. MARY PULLIAM. who has been in
an insane asylum at Cincinnati for three
years, has produced proof that she is
sane and was put in the asylum by her
husband who wanted her money.
THE committee investigating aft airs in
the Brooklyn Navy Yard discovered. on
the 7th, that 200 barrels Of sugar issued
from the storehouse for the steamship
Vermont failed to reach the vessel.
A TERRIFIC wind and hail storm swept
across Madison County, Ind, on the 9th.
A strip of land mile wide was laid
waste. Timber was broken off, fences
1eveled and the corn crop utterly ruined.
SUPPLEMENTARY crop reports received
from all parts of the Province OF Ontario
show that all the crops, with the excep-
ton Of spring and fall wheat and hay,
will be above the average in yield and
quality.
THE United States vessel Antietam,
which lies imbedded in the mud with the
channel ebbing and flowing over it, will
be sold at auction at the League Island
Navy Yard, near Philadelphia, on Sep
tember 8.
THE special train bearing the remains
of General Sheridan arrived in W flashing
ton at two O'Clock on the aftertoon of the
9th. There was a large crowd at and
about the depot awaiting the arrival OF
the train.
In his letter of coincidence to Mrs.
Sheridan, on the 9Th. the President said:
1Whlle the Nation mourns its loss and
shares your sorrow, let me express to
you my personal grief and most sin cere
coincidence"
THE proceedings against Mr.. Julius
Diamond, the naturalized American citi-
zen who was threatened with expulsion
from Germany, were, on the 7th, reported
BY Minister Pendleton as having been
discontinued.
Irwas stated, on the 9th, that the wreck
of an English sloop-of-war which went
down In 179s, with $40, ,OO0, 900 in gold and
silver on board, had been located by DIR.
Seth Pancoast, of Philadelphia, who had
spent Sc, 900 in the search.
Mr.. CHAMBERLAIN, accepting the gage
thrown down by Mr.. Parnell, on the 7th,
promised to publish in a few days full
statement of the communications.
initiated by Mr.. Parnell, which passed
between them in 1884 and 1885.
THE Offices of the Paris Labor Exchange
were reopened on the 10th. but the meeting
hall remained closed. The guard of po-
lice, which was placed in charge of the
building when it was ordered closed, was
still stationed in front of the Exchange.
CAPTAIN DELoRAY and the crew Of the
sloop Mary Jane saw the sea serpent,
on the 4th, off Point Judith. The creature
was seventy-five feet long, as big around
as barrel, with large eyes and jaws,
five feet long and studded with six-inch
teeth.
REV. ]. W. HANFoRD. Indian teacher
and missionary at st. Stephens Mi ssiou,
Oak, who married Chaska aud Miss Fell
lows. was thrown from mowing-ma-
chine, on the 7th, cutting off his right
hand, and bleeding to death before aid
arrived
THE election in the West Derby Division
of Liverpool. on the 10th, to fill the va
cancy caused by the resignation Of Lord
Claud Hamilton, Conservative, resulted
in the return of Mr.. VIM. Henry Cross,
the oldest son of Lord Cross, who is also
q Conservative.
A BOLD attempt was made, on the 7th,
to burn the town of Hampton, Va A
large frame building was filled with in
fammable stuff and set on fire, and had
the least wind been blowing the town
would have been destroyed. As it was
several houses were burned
PENDING settlement of her husband
estate, valued at $15, 600, by the admins
TRAITOR, the widow of Captain Sidney
Smith Lee. a brother of Governor Lee OF
Virginia, applied at police headquarters
in Washington. on the 9th, for relief for
herself and three children.
ADvIcEs from the fl ,oded districts of
Germany, on the 10th, report several
deaths. Fourteen persons were missing
IN the Lauben district alone. Herr Herr
furth. Minister of the Interior, was visit
ing the district and was in constant COM
munieation with the Emperor.
THE Cork Qreland) Er1n iner, of the
10th, proposes that a fund be raised to
defray the expenses that may be incurred
by Irish members of Parliament in con-
nection with the inquiry of the Parnell
Commission into the charges made
against them by the london Times.
THE trial at Dublin of Mr.. Jas. T.
O'Kelly, Member of Parliament for Ros
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