Iron County register., 1889-08-08

THE total debt, on the 1sr, less casn In
the treasury amounted to SLOT. 6 3d. ,962 !;
the net cash in the treasury was $55. $751;
O9O, against ST., 4S4, ,042 month ago.
THE South Dakota Constitutional con-
vention held session, on the night of the
1st, to receive the report OF the commit
tee, which had just returned from Bis
marck. The report embraces all the de-
tails of division Of assets and liabilities.
THE Bethlehem (Pa-) Iron Company,
on the 1st, announced an increase in the
wages Of its puddlers from s.. 25 to $3.50
per day, and proportionate increase in
the pay of the men az work on de- phos-
phorized iron.
THERE was an increase in the public
debt during July of Si,Ol7, ,311, due to un-
usally heavy disbursements.
EvAREsTE CAzo. President Of Nicara-
qua, died on the 1st.
THE steamer St. Lawrence, the finest
| of the Thousand Isles Steamboat Com
pany's line of boats. ran Oh a rock off
Hog Island in the Canadian channel. on
the 1st and went to pieces. She had on
board an excursion party of about nine
hundred people, all OF whom were taken
off without accident.
THE Rhode Island Legislature passed
| the License law, on the 1st. and adj
journed.
GOVERNMENT expenditures during the
month of July were $41, 99S. $685. or FIVE and
three quarter millions more than in July
last year.
In the Supreme Court of New York
City the writs of habeas corpus and cer-
tiorari sued out, on the 1st, in behalf of
Henry S. Ives and George H. Stayner,
the financiers. were dismissed. the court
holding that they were irregular, and the
prisoners were remanded.
In the British House of Commons, on
the 1st, an amendment to reduce the
Prince of Wales allowance was rejected
by vote of 162 to 90.
HARRY B. SEYBoLD, clerk in the Bank
of Wheeling, w. Va, was arraigned, on
the I'd. and placed under $4, 900 bonds to
| answer the charge of stealing funds of
the bank, which during the past two
years has lost from $32, 900 to $50, 900 by
theft.
A soUTH-BoUND Delaware & Hudson
train ran through an open switch at
Kenwood Junction, N. Y. on the ID, and
into a north bound West Shore passenger
train, killing one passenger and serious
~ injuring large number of others.
THE Montana Constitutional conven-
ton. on the 81, adopted q clause forbid
ding Legislators, judges or members Of
the board of equalization from accepting
railroad passes, nnder penalty of forfeit
ing their offices.
MR.. SUTTON, representing the Ameri-
can Art Association in Paris, on the I'd,
caused to be handed over to NJ. Proust.
the French Minister OF Fine Arts, drafts
for $50, $50 francs, the price agreed upon
for Millet's famous painting, 1.-The An
gelus." which thus becomes the property
of the Americans.
n %l,
I'd, from Guunison say that the Utes are
again off their reservation, and are Great
ing havoc in the western part Of the
State. They travel in small bands, and
intimidate the ranchers into FURNISHING e
them with provisions and ammunition.
They are also killing off all the game in
that section.
THE Emperor OF Germany arrived in
England, on the Cd, ana was royalty re-
ceived and entertained by his uncle, the
Prince of Wales, and by Queen Victoria,
his grandmother, who kissed him on both
cheeks.
In the Maybric murder trial in Liver
pool, the prosecution called al analyst,
on the 2d.w testified that he found traces
of arsenic in the pocket OF the prisoners
dressing gown and on a handkerchief
and apron belonging to her.
JAY EYE SEE, the phenomenal little
gelding owned by j. l. Case, has gone
lame, and will not be trotted in any races
this season. 1t is feared he will never
again appear on the race track. Jay Eye
Sees lowest record is 2:10.
IT was decided by the Montana Consti-
tuition makers, on the 81, that the Legis-
lature of the State shall consist of sixteen
Senators and fifty-four Repres sentatives.
II. LEE CLARKE, a reporter for the Bal
timore Sun, was arrested, on the I'd,
charged with ''engaging and participating
in an unlawful assemblage," witness
prize fight.
THOMAS ROBINS, aged twelve, was
pushed off the pier at the foot of West
Twenty sixth street. New York, into the
North river, on the 81, by Patrick Casey
and drowned. The accident was the re-
suit of a "Launching day" lark.
ONE Of the most important customs
seizures of the year has just been made
at Hamilton, Ont. 1t consists of 1, 325
bags and seventy five barrels Of Mus
covado sugar, valued at twenty thousand
dollars. The grounds of the seizure are
false invoicing and excessive undervalu-
alton.