Iron County register., 1890-11-13
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

| Two PETITIONS from Great Britain Tor
! the reprive of Birchall were received at
| the Dominion Departmental of Justice on
the Sd. They are signed by persons in
all parts of England and Wales. The
| main grounds upon which Communication
| is asked are that the case was unduly
preiudiced by the dishonest practices OF
| Birchall.
MRS CLARIssA TowNE, at the age of
one hundred years, eight months and
| twenty-three days, died in Milford, n.
H., on the ID. She was the daugh ter
of John Holt, of Concord, \. H., whose
father was the second male child born
in Concord after its settlement
\ ST. PETERSBURG dispatch says that
Lieutenant Schmidt, who was tried on
the charge of betraying the plans of
Cronsta to foreign power, has been
found guilty and hanged,
THE Queen Regent of Spain has re-
piled, through the Premier, to the petit
ton of Catholic Bishops for her inter-
fercnce in behalf of the Pope. Her
Majesty, while protesting deep devo-
tion to His Holiness and the church, re-
plies that the Spanish Government can
not justly interfere in the affairs of the
kingdom of Italy.
WHILE a Bible class was in session at
Dover, England, on the I'd, mad dog
dashed into the room, causing a panic
among the scholars. Before the ami
NAL could be secured he had bitten
number of the children. The cases of
eight of the victims are pronounced
hopeless.
Mrs. ARsENE F. JULIAN, of South
Bethlehem, Pa, while descending the
stairs, on the Sd, with lighted coal
oil lamp and carrying her one-year-o'd
child, stumbled and fell to the bottom.
The lamp exploded and mother and child
were horribly burned. The mother will
die
THE Australian system of voting was
in vogue in many States, on the 4th,
and gave very general satisfaction
AN Anarchist movement of extensive
ramifica tions has been discovered in
Lyons, France.
TIE Spanish ConSul-General to Cam
ada, SenCr Baldazaon " Tapete, has
been appointed Consul-General TO the
United States.
GENERAL. BEHNOIs, a leader in the
Swiss revolution OF 1916, died in Berne
on the 81.
TIE Chemical Manufacturers Union,
recently formed in England, has regis
tered under thc title of the United AL
kali Company. The capital of the new
company is GO. O00. 600.
I. .. O'REILI.Y. who bought the horse
Hanover at the recent Dwyer sale, for
S15, 800, sold tho animal, on the 9TH to
Milton Young, of New York City, for
$50, coo.
DURING an election row, on the 4th,
stabbed and killed George Hartman.
Carothers afterwards hanged himself
in jail.
NEGROES are being deported from the
British colony of Lagos for service on
the plantations of Brazil, the emigrants
going apparently as willing laborers.
Two serious fires, evidently the work
of incendiaries, broke out in different
parts of Denver, Col, on the 5th, at the
same hour.
SIR JOHN MACDoSALD on being asked
to say what fate might be in store for
Me ssrs. Dillon and O'Brien in case they
should visit Canada, said that the Do
minion Government had no power in
the matter. The gentlemen were Brit
ish subjects and members of the Brit
ish Parliament, and had every right to
speak in Canada.
THE iron steamship Howard Cassard
was successfully launched at Locust
Point, near Baltimore, Md, in the pres
ence of 10000 spectators, on the 9th.
She is constructed on the Fryer plan.
for the Arrow Steamship Company, and
is expected to make siXty-five miles an
hour. She is also claimed to be fire.
proof, impossible to capsize and un-
sinkable. She is magniffcently ap-
pointed throughout and will carry no
freight.
PRINCE BISMARCK personally is op-
posed to local government bill.
A COLLISION occurred on the line of
the Canadian Pacific railroad, on the
'5th, about three miles from Owen
Sound, Ont, between the mail train
from Toronto and wildcat engine. An
engineer and two others were killed.
EX-MAYoR CoTTREIL of Cedar Keys,
Fla, who few weeks ago terrorized
the Florida Federal officials, wa" shot
in the head and instantly killed at
Montgomery, Ala, on the 9th, by
Chief of Police Gerald, whose life he
had threatened while under arrest for
drunkenness and disorderly conduct
CONSIDERATION has been caused in
Spanish clerical circles by the an
nouncement that priests not of native
origin are to be expelled from Mexico
as the large majority of Mexican priests
are from Spain. where the ranks of the
clergy are already overcrowded.
IN consequence of the discovery that
a revolutionary proclamation is in circu-
lation among the Armenians in Turkey,
the Porte has issued an order forbidding
the holding of any meetings by Arme-
mans. Neither will any sitting of the
National Assembly be allowed.
AN armed force of Portuguese volun-
teers has been recruited in Rio de Ja-
neiro to aid Portugal in defending her
possessions in Africa against the Brit
ish.
Two Socialists have been arrested in
Lisbon for uttering abusive language
regarding the King and publicly advo-
eating the establishment of republic.
IsADoRE Cook, of Eau Claire, Wis,
elected sheriff on the Democratic
ticket, died at two o'clock on the morn
ing of the 9th, from cola pse following
the excitement caused by the success of
his party.
SoHN F. MURPHY, a Boston leather
dealer. was arrested at his home in North
Stoughton, Mass, on the 9th, charged
with embezzling SO. 900 Is from John
Hummel & Son, of Philadelphia, for