Iron County register., 1890-11-13

their strike. The firms conceded the
| demands of the strikers, with the excep-
| tion of one or two slight changes, and
agreed to sign the scale.
HENRY NJ STANLEY and wife arrived
| in New York City. on the 9th, by the
steamship Teutonic. Major Pond. Col
onel Thomas A. Knox, Edward Quin-
tard and Colonel Findley Anderson,
who. while on the N.w York Herald
sent Mr.. Stanley to Greece, in 1865, and
afterward to Spain, during the Carlist
uprising in 1870, and who started him
on his first African expedition to find
Livingstone, went on board and met the
party
Two MEN, said to be from Montreal,
fell over the Garmeau bridge at La
Chaudicre, Can. on the 9th, and were
Instantly killed. They were looking
at some work going on under the bridge,
when one of them fell over, dragging
his companion with him.
HIRAM BAssETT past grand master of
MasonS, and considered the Mason of the
highest degree in the world, died at
Millersburg. Ky, on the 9th, of paral-
ySis. at the age OF seventy. lie had
taken every degree known to the order.
UPoS the demand of the American
Consul ut Juarez, the Mexican authori-
ties have released Henry Henderson,
the colored American citizen who es-
capped from Jail at Juarez. but was re-
captured on American soil and dragged
back to Juarez by a Mexican official.
The Mexican authorities have also
given the Consul assurances that the
offending Mexican officer will be
severely punished.
Mrs. JOSEPH SuRoCK and five small
children, of Canton, O., were poisoned
by eating head cheese which was af-
fected with animal matter of poison
Gus nature. The mother and one
daughter, aged eight are in critical
condition and likely to die. The rest
of the family were saved by prompt
medical aid.
"QUAY's dead; and his mail goes to
the dcad-letter office now," was the
thoughtlcss remark that secured the
suspension of Mrs. Margaret Watkins,
delivery clerk at the Washington post
office, on the 1th.
MAURICE BERNuAHDr, son of the
noted actress, slightly wounded on
the sword arm, in a duel near Paris, on
the .th. NJ. Bouriey, dramatic critic
of the Courier Francais.
A RECENT explosion in the Chinese
Government powder mills at Tai-Wan-
Foo completely destroyed the building
and killed 800 men, besides wounding
many others.
TIE returns of the London Board of
Tradc 70. October show that the ex-
ports from England increased $500, 600
and the imports decreased G49O, 900 dur
ing the month as compared with those
for the CORES sponding month last year.
VIOLENT gales and great floods pre-
vailed, on the 9Th, throughout the
length and breadth of Great Britain.
Houses in all parts of the country were
unroof"d, bridges were swept away
and wharves battered to pieces by
sweeping winds and rushing Matters
Two Japanese students of the Michi-
gan University at Ann Arbor have Gre
ated quite q sensation by eloping with
two American girls from there. The
Japs are kuIsutaro Fukushima and Rel
taro Tokano, both of noble families and
graduates Of the law department last
year.
The through vestibule train from
Chicago to Cincinnati on the Big Four
road jumped the track twenty miles
soath of indianapolis, Ind, on the 18th,
while running thirty miles an hour.
Three passenger coaches and the bag
gage car went into the ditch and the
middle coach was badly smashed.
Eighty passengers were aboard, but no
one was seriously in jured.
WHEN passenger train No. rolled
into the depot at Madison, Ia, on the
morning of the 7th, the cow-catcher of
the engine bore the dead md fearfully
ma9glcd remains Of man named Phil
kunkel, who was struck two miles out
Of town and instantly killed.
THOMAS HARPER, president and treas
urer Of the Harper Brothers Company,
manufacturers of decorated lamps and
shades at Barclay and Church streets,
New York, and William Harper, mama
ger of the factory at Van West, West
chester County, n. Y, have disap-
pearcd, leaving debts reported at from
SO, 900 to so, 600.
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