Iron County register., 1889-08-08
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

ing at the supplementary proceedings in
| the matter of the Nevada Bank of San
| Francisco, the ex-senator was, on the
| 18th, spared the necessity of appearing
| before Judge O'Brien in the New York
City Supreme Court.
RAILWAY presidents and cff1cicls OF
Western roads declare that the forma-
ton of a trust or some other method Of
consolidation is necessary to save their
properties from bankruptcy.
FOREST fires are sweeping through Ada
County, destroying one Of the finest tim
Der belts in Idaho. The country is so dry
that the fires are spreading over great
extent of country. Governor Shoup has
telegraphed to the Secretary Of the Inte-
rior asking aid in extinguishing the fire.
AN unknown middle-aged woman was
found dead, on the 30th, near the railroad
track ten miles east of Goshen, Ind,
with her skull crushed. Her death was
evidently the work of a murderer.
GENERAL A.E. JONES, of Cincinnati, who
was brutally murdered by his coachman,
Chas. Blythe, was buried with full mill
tary honors from the First Presbyterian
Church Of Walnut Hills on the 30th. The
interment took place at Spring Grove
Cemetery.
JOSHUA AMBLER, aged twelve years,
was instan tly killed and two other young
men were seriously injured by the ex-
plosion of a boiler in the mill of John
Flanagan & Bros, at Manayunk, Pa, on
the 30th.
THE State Department has received a
dispatch reporting the conviction by the
Consular Court at Tamatave, Madagas-
car, of Captain Duverge, a French ad-
venturer, of killing Victor F. w. Stan
| wood, the United States consular agent
at Audakabe, Madagas car.
THE Louisville, New Albany & Chi
cago and the Chicago 6 Eastern Illinois
railroads, on the 30th, gave notice oc a
reduction in passenger rates to meet the
cut made by the Pennsylvania lines be-
tween Chicago and Indianapolis, Louis
Vile and Cincinnati.
REPRESENTATIVE MCKINLEY was in
Washington, on the 30th, looking after
private business. He is very confident
of being chosen Speaker Of the next
House when it meets, but says he has
been paying no attention to public af-
fairs.
INFORMATION has been received from
Massowah that the dervishes are slowly
but steadily advancing. The Egyptia n
patrols engaged in a skirmish with the
dervish outposts. on the 30th, during which
sixty dervishes were killed. General
Grentell, commanding the Egyptian
forces, is moving southwark.
MUCH excitement was caused in Paris
by the circulation of reports that General
Boulanger had committed suicide in Lon
don.
THE Washington Territory Constitu-
tional convention spent the entire day, on
the 30th, on the military section. A num-
ber of clauses were passed, the most i'm
portant of which provides that any per-
son having conscientious scruples
against bearing arms shall not be re-
quired to serve in the militia, but shall
paya money equivalent for such exemp-
ton.
The report that the British Government
has found the docks at Esquimault, B. c.,
inadequate for naval purposes, and that
this important naval station is to be
sold to an American syndicate is denied
by the Dominion Minister of Militia.
The greatest flood Plainfield, N. j., has
ever known followed heavy and unusu-
al dOwn-pou of rain. on the 80 tn. and a
number of washouts and broken dams
resulted.
DIR. w. B. ROBERTS, the originator of
nitro gy cerine torpedoes for blasting in
oil wells, died at Titusville. Pa, on the
30th. Ten years ago he was proprietor
and editor of the New York Dental
Journal, and established National rep
utation. He held many positions of pub
lie trust and left an estate valued at $3-
600, 900.
THEODORE CRAMP, of Philadelphia, says
there is no foundation for the story that
his firm and other ship-builders have
formed a syndicate to control the ship.
building interests of the country.
THE Grand Army of the Republic de-
partment commanders OF Illinois. Iowa,
iafi
Kansas and Nebraska, on the 30th, un-
qualifedly indorsed the announced deter
mination to discourage general attend
ance at the coming encampment at Mil
waukee, Wis.
WIN. Ross. the absconding teller of the
Nevada Bank of San Francisco, has been
arrested at Victoria, B. c., and part of
the $IOO, 900 that he embezz led was recov-
cred.
AT the request of Postmaster General
Wanamaker, the acting Secretary of the
Treasury has directed that payment of
all bills against the Treasury Department
for telegraphing during the current fiscal
year be suspended for the present and
until otherwise ordered.
Mr.. CHAMBERLAIN, in a speech, on the
night of the 31st, said the Radicals were
now leading the Liberal party, and in
connection with the Home-Rulers they
were carrying that party beyond Mr..
Gladstone's control. The government,
he claimed. was now stronger than ever
before.
The receipts for the cash in the Treas
ury were signed on the 1st. The deticien-
CIV, amounting to about twenty one dol
lars, was made good by the chief of the
division through whose official hands the
money passed the last time it was han
died.
THE June statement of the Erie rail-
road shows an increase of $3.50 in net
earnings as compared with June, 1888.
THE will of the late Charlemagne Tow
er, of Philadelphia, leaves the entire es-
tate in trust for the widow and five chill
dren, the widow to receive $1,000 per
month from the income, and each of the
children $500 per month. The executors
are debarred from selling any of the tes-
tator's lands, and all rents and royalties
are to be invested as part of the estate.
The estate is valued at about 2o,0Oo.0oo.
THE French training fri gate Couronne.
while off Hyeres, in the South of France,
OH the 3ist, burst one of her machine
guns, killing eight of her men and lnlur-
ing seventeen others. The accident oc-
Cured in the course of practice firing.
The Sonora and Milton (Cal.) stage
was stopped by two bighwaymen near
Cooperopolis, on the 31st and $57 taken
from the passengers. The robbers blew
open the Wells, Fargo s. Co.'s safe, but
found nothing of much value therein.
The dam at Van Sickle's mill pond, at
Mllburn, N. j., broke, on the 31st, and
the escaping water drove hundreds of
people from their homes. Household
goods and other property were carried
away.
The North Dakota Constitutional con.