Iron County register., 1890-03-06

Dom PEDRO has resolved to endeavor
to come to terms with the Brazilian
Governments: to renounce the crown and
to re turn to Brazil and live as private
person.
Mr. MCKENNA,of of California, reported
favorably to the House, on the 27th,
from the committee on census, a bill to
provide for a complete enumeration of
the Chinese population of this country.
THE Senate committee on commerce,
at its meeting on the 21th, ordered
favorable report on the nomination of
III. c. Yarmouth to be collector OF GUS
toms at New Orleans.
AN old negro woman we'll known in
Chamberlain, 5. d.. was burned to death
on the 27th. Her building caught fire,
and she was unable to escape.
THE Lincoln National Bank, of Lam
caster, Pa, reopened its doors for busl-
ness on the 21th, the stockholders haV-
ing made good the loss occasioned by
the defalcation of Cashier Bard.
THE President has appointed Judge
Henry c. Caldwell. of Arkansas, to be
United States Circuit Judge for the
Eighth Circuit, vice David j. Brewer,
resigned to accept appointment to the
United States Supreme bench.
II was reported on the 21th that the
condition of James Russell Lowell, who
had been suffering from Il cold, was such
as TO cause considerable concern among
his friends
CoMMoDoRE GEO. 3. WHITE. Chief OF
the Bureau of Yards and Docks, Navy
Department. died at his residence in
Washington, on the 27th, from an at
tack of apOpleXy.
WM. SCHUYLER MALCOLM, q grandson
of General Philip Schuyler, of Revolu-
tionary fame, and one of Oswego's On.
" pioneers, is dead, aged eighty years.
For many years he sailed the lakes as
captain
THE United States steamship Enter
prise, from the European station,
rived at New York on the 27th- The
Enterprise brought the body of Hon.
George II. Pendleton, late United States
Minister at Berlin.
INFORMATION was received at the office
of the Railway Mail Service on the
21th that the mail storage car on train
No II, west-bound (the fast mail), was
burned, on the morning of the 2'th. at
Blue Creek, Utah, the car and contents
being totally destroyed.
SLCoTr, the absconding defaultor of
the sergea nt-at-arms' office, was arrest
ed at Toledo, Ore, on the 2Sth He was
acting as railroad engineer at the
time of his arrest.
Mrs SARAH LATHEoP AMES, aged
seventy-seven years, widow of the late
Oliver Ames, of North Easton, Mass,
died, on the night of the 2Sth, from the
effects of an apoplectic stroke.
DON PEDRO, eX-Emperor of Brazil, has
accepted the invitation of Emperor
Francis Joseph to spend next summer
at the castle of IeinstSendorf.
TIE subcommittee of the House
committee on the Worlds Fair has held
several informal conferences, but no
definite conclusions have been reached.
CHARLES TUFTS, aged eighty-tive
years, who had accumulated about SO,
900 worth of property by working all his
life as a shoemaker. paper-carrier and
maker of shoe-blacking, died in his
filthy den at No. 75 Boylstou street,
Boston, on the 2Sth.
THE German chess player, Lasker, de-
feated the English chess champion,
Bird, in London on the 2Sth.
1Ht. "llIer CIODS III GHc SouGH VI NUS
sia have been ruined by severe weather.
FRANCE will follow the initiative of
England in the Berlin labor conference.
On the 2Sth Richard r. HaweS was
hanged at Birmi ngham, Ala On De-
cember 4, 1883, Hawes killed his wife
and two children, and their bodies were
found in a lake near Birmingham. He
married young woman at Columbia.
Miss, and was passing through Bir.
mingham on his wedding tour when ar
rested A mob attempted to take him
from the Jail and lynch him, but the
sheriff's posse fired into the crowd, caus.
ing the loss of ten lives. Including his
own, his crimes cost fourteen lives.
SURPRISE was caused at st. John, y
B., on the 2Sth, by the release of Fred.
\. Walton. the Pacific Express embez-
zler who absconded with $50 900 from
Dallas. Tex. 1t seems that the express
company compl omised on recovering all
of the stolen money but $4,000. and
further proceedings were abandoned.