Iron County register., 1888-10-25
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

1HE SEMI -Ofuclal press OF Berlin aOuSe
DR.. Mackenzie's book, but do not attempt
| to refute his statements.
SECRETARY BAYARD Is at Mattapoisett
Mass, visiting his daughter, Mrs. S. d.
Warden, Jr.
A PASSENGER train on the Boston &
| Albany railroad had narrow escape
from serious disaster while passing
| through Wellesley, Mass, on the 18th,
| by coming in contact with huge bowlder
which had fallen on the road-bed-
The Rothschilds are negotiating for
the conversion of the Hungarian debt.
THE channel steamer Vile de Calais,
while lying at her wharf at Calais,
France, on the 10Th, exploded her boilers.
The vessel was torn in two and the for
ward part sank Immediately. 1t lis feared
| that several lives were lost.
SENIOR Don PEDRO PEREZ ZELEDoN, of
the Costa Rican Legation, with his FAM
lily, arrived in New York on the 17th.
MAYOR HEWITT of New York, on the
18th, emphatically and profanely denied
the statement that he would not support
the National Democratic ticket this year.
CHARLES r. MATTHEW'S, an employe of
the street department of Springfield,
Mass, was found in Westfeld, on the
18th, suffering from thirty stab wounds
in the breast supposed to have been self
inflicted The physicians gave no hope
of his recovery.
COUNT PREMIoR REAL, the Spanish Con-
sui General for Canada, blew his brains
out at Quebec, on the 18th. For some
time he had been depressed in spirits,
owing to financial difficulties.
EDWARD FITZPATRICK, a laborer, aged
twenty-four years, killed his nephew.
aged four years, at the home Of the lat
ter's parents in Albany, N. Y, by crush
ing his skull in with shotgun. on the
18th. The murderer, who is thought to be
insane, was arrested.
GILBERT g. SUI.LIvAN's new opera,
''the Yeoman of the Guard" was pro-
duced for the first time in America at the
Casino, New York. on the 17th, before
brilliant and critical audience, whose
verdict seemed to be that the new work
fully sustained the reputation of its au-
thors.
A FoRrUNE-rELLER namsd "Jeannette"
was literally roasted in Denver, Col, on
the 10th, in the flames of her clothing.
ignited from a bursting kerosene lamp
which she attempted to fill while intoXi-
Gated. The house was also consumed.
NINE. LIMA DI MURsKA. the once famous
soprano, is now living in a single room in
Washington Square, New York, In COM
parative poverty.
The st. Louis Browns won the second
game of the worlds championship series
from the League champions at New YORK
on the 18th. by q score of to O..
In Edwin Booth and Lawren ce Barrett's :
production of ''The Merchant of Venice"
the tragedians observe that principle OF
art which establishes harmony between
| a picture and its frame, and enhances tina
estimable comedy by richness OF ma
| terlal surrounding that is not more
| charming as a spectacle than admirable
| as an archR illogical study. What the
| distinguished actors do for the sentiment
| and poetry of the play the scenic artists
| and costumers enhance by the structural
form of the work. Messrs. Booth and
| Barrett do not attempt to catch the ap-
plause of the vulgar with gsudy tiusel or
| the stunning effects of gilded extrava-
gance.
The French Government has accepted
| the apology offered by the Porte for the
action of a Turkish sentinel at Bevrout
who refused to allow the French Consul
| to pass the point where the soldier was OH
| duty.
| Sr. PETERSBURG papers advocate the
establishment of cordial relations be-
tween England and Russia.
| UNDER the guise of white washers, two
burglars, on the 18th, gained entrance 10
| the jewelry brokerage Office of w. w.
Maynard, of Boston, and secured watches
and diamonds valued at over 81. 900.
| THE failure OF the brakes caused rear
end collision between two freight trains
| at Riverton, Ia, on the 18th, by which
several cars and an engine were wrecked.
A SPECIAL from Valparaiso, Ind, on the
18th, announced that Congressman Mills,
| having lost his voice, hal cancelled his
appointments and engaged Colonel John
p. Irish, os California, to I'LL them.
| MRS. j. ELLEN FosTER's activity in up.
holding the Republican party and its cam
didates is causing serious split in the
Womau's Christian Temperance Union