Iron County register., 1890-05-15
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

GOVERNOR HILL of New York sent a
message to the Legislature, on the 5th,
suggesting that a constitutional amend
ment be submitted to the people of the
State for the transfer from the Legisla-
ture to the courts of the power of decid-
ing conteSted-election cases. He also
recommends action to bring the subject
before Congress with view to securing
ultimately similar amendment to the
Federal Constitution.
The glass-makers' combination of
Berlin has broken up, and the trade is
stagnant-partly because of imports
from America. The price of bottles
was, however, raised ten per cent, on
the 5th, through a coalition OF manu-
facturerS.
EXTENDED interviews with lawyers
and Judges of New York develop u very
general opinion against the abolition of
capital punishment
THE iailor at Nidletown, n. Y. on
the 5th- permitted party of relatives
and friends to visit and talk privately
with a prisoner held on a serious charge.
Next morning when the obliging official
went to feed his charge he found the
wife of the prisoner, who was one of
the party of visitors, dressed in the
prisoners clothes, occupying his cell.
All the parties to the escape were sub
sequently arrested.
THE now United States cruiser Phila-
delphia made remarkably successful
trial trip, on the 1th, over a course out
to sea bearing east-southeast from Cape
IIenlopen and return, six miles.
THE insane asylum at Tongue Pointe,
nine miles east of Montreal, Can, cost
ing 81, 1872, 600 and containing 1900 pa
tients. was totally destroyed by fire, on
the 9th, and large number, variOuSl Y
estimated at from 100 to 200, of the in
mates perished miserably in the flames,
together with several of the Sisters in
charge.
THE overseers of Harvard College
spent about two hours, on the 9th, de-
batting the subject of amending the
rules so as to shorten the time requisite
for graduation. No action was taken.
THE five convicts in Dannemora On.
" State prison who recently protected
the warden from a murderous assault
by a fellow-convict, were, on the eth,
pardoned by the Governor
THE Slater Educational Fund, estab-
lch y " ooihA ''AdISh,
of Norwich, Conn, providing for the in
PRODUCTION of industrial training in the
schools of the South, last year expended
S42. 900 in the work.
FIFTY-Two Anarchists were arrested
in barcelona on the 9th. Documents
seized in their residences revealed plans
to destroy railways with dynamite and
to set fire to factories.
THE Indiana block-coal miners and
operators have agreed on seventy-Ave
cents, summer and winter, as the yearly
mining scale, and work has been re-
sumed.
THE people of the District of Colum-
bia are making a concerted effort to
secure representa- tion in Congress They
ask for one Senator and one Represent
ative.
The relief steamer New Haven re-
| turned to Shreveport, La, on the 9th,
| from Black Bayou, and reported the
| people there in distressing condition,
| the whole section being submerged and
many houses washed away. The people
are without shelter or the necessarles OF
| life. Many were rescued from perllous
situations by the New Haven.
A MISPLACED switch threw portion
| of the south-bound express down an en-
bankment at Fountai Col, on the 7th
| Fireman Sipes was killed. The engi-
neer and the few passengers in the de-
| rallied cars escaped with a shaking-up.