Iron County register., 1890-04-24
THE lowe. State Legislators adiourneo

sine die on the 18th. Besides the in
terest attaching to the deadlock and the
election of United States Senator, the
session was uneventful.
Miss ALICE ELLIOT, of Ottawa. Ont,
aged twenty-three, while suffering from
dementia, swallowed 4 small penknife
with the blades open. So far she has
experienced no unpleasant results, but
her physician is watching the case with
great anxiety.
KING LEOPOLD of Belgium centradicts
the statement that Germany had made
proposals looking to the purchase by
that country of the Congo Free State
WHILE Aeronaut Z. Z. Craig was MAX
ing balloon ascension at Topeka, Kas.,
on the 18th, he fell forty feet. sustain
ing probably fatal injuries
IN his address at the banquet in Min
neapolis, on the evening of the 10th,
Henry Willard promised in behalf of the
Edison Company to have the same cleo
trical exhibition that was at the Paris
Exhibition taken to the Minneapolis
Exposition which opens in August.
WHEN Commander McCalla, of the
United States ship Enterprise appeared
at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, on the
10th, Commandant Braine furnished him
with copy of the charges against him
and deprived him of his sword.
The colored convention at Richmond,
Va. lad journed on the 10th. after adopt, -
resolutions indorsing the Republican
party, denouncing the Democratic party
and Governor McKinny, and electing q
State executive committee.
THE bark Sarah, Captain Hale, from
Fayal, Islands of Azores, was quar-
antined At Boston, on the 10th, with
several cases of smallpox among her
passengers.
The Republican members of the
ways and means committee struck off
the entire duty on sugar the last thing
before presenting their Tariff bin to the
House on the 10th. In lieu of duty the
bill provides for bounty of two cents
per pound on all domestic sugars.
y CIRCULAR addressed by the German
Government to high-school directors
calls attention to the frequency of suicide
among the scholars. The directors are
urged to be lenient with backward pu-
pills.
THE widow and five daughters of
Russian armr officer, residing in Mos
room, on the 18th, and turned on the
gas to escape the sufferings of poverty.
When discovered they were all dead.
THE remains of Representative Sam
uel j. Randall were inferred in Laurel
Hill Cemetery, at Philadelphia, on the
18th. 4 large concourse of friends and
admirers of the dead statesman met the
funeral party at the Pennsylvania rail.
road depot and escorted them to the
cemetery, where the last sad rites were
observed in a simple and impressive
manner.
THE Chicago and Yorktown, OF the
American squadron of evolution, ar
rived at Malta, on the 18th. Salutes
were exchanged between the vessels
and the British forts.
LOUIS FRAME & Co.. dealers in raw
silks and manufacturers of thrown silks
at No. 10 Grand street, New York City,
assigned, on the 18th, without prefer
ences. The firm expect to settle in
full.
TIE grand jury of Burlington County,
n. j., found an Indictment, on the 18th,
against Mrs. Carrie Nandergrift. one of
the most prominent women of Burling-
ton and a leading church member,
charging her with attempting to poison
her son, Frank c. Norman, aged twen-
ty-three, at whose death she would have
received SOS, 900 insurance.
An American syndicate has purchased
controlling interest in all the binding
twine factories of Canada except one
in Ontario.
THOMAS JAMES was killed and Robert
Livingston fatally and Sam Clark
severely injured by the premature ex-
plosion of a charge of dynamite in the
limestone quarry at Cementville, Ind,
on the 18th.
PRESIDENT TAGGARD of the New
Hampshire Senate, took the oath of
Office and entered upon the duties of
acting Governor on the 18th.
DIR. LYMAN ABBOTT says he has no in
tention of resigning the pastorate of
Plymouth Church, Brooklyn. He can
not imagine how the rumor of his res
ignation could have originated.