Iron County register., 1888-11-22
pERsoNAL AND GENERAL.

announced the dsath of Jeanne d'Larme
the famous actress.
GEO. II. FoRsrER, of New York the lat,
president of the Board of Aldermen, wa
buried IN Woodlawn Cemetery on ths
18th.
IN the Superior Court of Boston, on th'
| 18th, the jury awarded to Miss Sarah e
ROLAND S23, 600 damages against the Bos
ton & Providence railroad for injuries re
caived in the Bussey Bridge accident on
March IA, 1887.
THIRTY armed Turks recently crossed
the frontier and raided the village O.
Roski, Servia. The peasants resisted ths
incursion, and in the ensuing conf1ic
several on both sides were killed and
wounded.
SERIOUS trouble between the United
States and Peru is threatened over thu
seizure of an American Consulate by the
Peruvian Government recently.
THE will of the late E. T. Conant o.
Boston, provides that upon the death o
Helen E. Granger, there shall be paid t.
the town of Winchester, Mass, SO, 900 fol
a public library. The residue of Mr
Conants estate is to go to the New En-
gland Hospital for Women and Children
ANDREW CARNEGIE contemplates erect
! ing in New York City a conservatory oi
music worthy of that great metropolis
The building will be of gigantic proper
tIons, and will be available for all music
al societies of the city.
A WARRANT was is ued at Ottawa, Ont,
on the 14th, for the extradition of De-
baum, the New York forger.
| THE twelfth annual meeting of the
American Academy of Medicine con-
vened in New York Hospital on the 18th.
There were fifty fellows" present
| NINETEEN bodies have been exhu med
from the ruins of the Lantern works
burned at Rochester, N. Y, ON the 9th.
| The Treasury officials have discovered
a wholesale robbery of silver dollars,
perpetrated while in transit from the
mint at New Orleans to the Government
vaults in Washington.
LORD SAcKvILLE has declined the
invitation of Lord Stanley to visi him
/ in Canada, and will sail direct for
Paris from New York
THE first branch of the City Council Of
/ Baltimore, Md, is in a dead lock and can
| not organize. The recent election re-
suited in seating ten Republicans, eleven
Democrats and one Independent-whoi is
/ voting with the Republicans, making a
| tie.
| WALTER GIBBS, the keeper of a general
store in Montreal, Can, is missing. His
debts amount to $4,000. If he does not
| ICtulh Soou, IiiS OSltesO "l&A 10 Solo ou6 W
| satisfy his creditors.
THE London police secured clew, on
the 18th, to the identity of the White
| chapel murderer, which they hope will
lead to his arrest.
THE Democratic city convention of
Boston. on the 14th, unanimously renom-
mated Hugh O'Brien for mayor.
Mr.. JOHN BRIGHT the English political
economist, had a serious relapse, on the
10Th, and his sons were summoned to his
bedside.
In a quarrel on a moving train, at West
Superior, Wis, on the 18th, pistols were
drawn. aud promiscuous fusilade fol-
! lowed, in which four non -combatants
were wounded. but none fatally.
The house Of Mrs. Frances Knechtl of
Plymouth, Pa, was burned ON the 14th.
Her two children perished in the flames.
Upon learning of her loss the. bereaved
mother became a maniac.
JAMES n. DoUGHERrY, an awkward
looking countryman from the vicinity of
Salem, N. Y, was arrested in New York
City, on the 14th, for annoying Miss Mary
Anderson by persistent attentions. He
was under the delusion that the fair
actress was equally enamoured of him.
He was held for trial for insanity.
ALL departments of the steel mill of
the Bethlehem (Pa) Iron Company,
which had been idle for several weeks,
resumed work on the 14th.
UNITED STATES MINISTER PHELPS was
enthusiastically cheered at the banquet
given in his honor by the Glasgow (Scot-
land) corporation, on the 14th. In re-
sponse to the toast to ''The Guest OF the
Evening" he said that so long as Scotland
sent to America the kind of men she had
hitherto sent the doors of the country
would swing on their hinges to receive
them from Maine to California
The houses of the People'sIce Com
pany of Dedham, Mass, fell to the
ground, on the 14th, burying nearly a
dozen men in the ruins, all OF whom sus-
tanned serious, and some perhaps fatal
injuries.
THE first meeting Of the Woman's Con-
gress, in its sixth annual convention of
the Association for the Advancement of
Women, convened in Detroit, Mich, on
the 1fth. The president, Mrs. Julia
Ward Howe, delivered an address, IN
which she called attention to the progress
made in recent years in woman's sphere
and the enlargement of her work.
A BAD accident occurred, on the 14th,
on the Baltimore & Ohio road ten miles
west of Grafton, w. Va, freight train
being GeraiIed and a passenger train run
ming into the wreck on account of no flag
being displayed.
The strike of the Louisville. New AL
bany & Chicago brakemen at Lafayette,
Ind, assumed serious aspect on the
14th. The strikers uncoupIed cars
creased the track and otherwise thwart-
ed the trainmaster in his efforts to get
out freight trains. Three strikers were
arrested, and several engineers, who re-
fused to take out trains without brake
men, were Immediately discharged.
THE semi annual meeting of the Board
of Bishops of the Methodist Epis copal
Church, which had been in session in
the 18th, to meet next May in Delaware.
Ohio.
DoUGHERTY, the crazy admirer of Miss
Mary Anderson, the actress. was COM
mitted to the care of the New York Com
missioners of Charities and Correction,
ON the 18th, and will be confined until u
medical commission decides upon his
case.
THE Pasteur Institute in Paris was
formally opened, on the 14th, in the pres
enee Of President Carnot several govern
meat ministers, the foreign ambassadors
and the Russian Grand Dukes, who are
visiting the city. M. Pasteur received an
ovation from the people present
KING CHRISTIAN celebrated the twenty
fifth anniversary of his accession to the
throne Of Denmark, at Copenhagen, on
the 18th.
IT is emphatieally denied in Russian
Government circles that the recent
changes in the organization of troops in
Western Russia have a warlike intent
The only object sought is to preserve a
military balance as compared with the
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