Iron County register., 1890-05-15

annual meeting in New York City on
the 7th. General E. o. Howard pre-
sided. The society has issued =, ,435 dis
tinct publications. 1t has siz, seriod-
icals, with an aggregate circulation of
p 49, Hon. William Strong, Judge
of the Supreme Court at Washington,
was elected president; Major-General
Howard, vice-preSident.
a. ELLWooD LANCASTER. a vouno
man who carried on the business of real
estate agent in Philadelphia. has dis
appeared, and it is charged that he has
embezzled funds intrusted to him by
various parties to invest in real-estate.
Inc amount is variously estimated at
from $50, 600 to SO 600
JUDGE EDWARD L. HEAD, who had
held the office of Superior Court Judge
of san Mateo County, Cal, since 1879,
died at his residence in Redwood City,
on the 9th. of pneumonia. Although
totally blind, Judge Head was recog-
nized as one of the ablest jurists Of the
State.
THE members of the Senate naval
committee were taken down the Poto-
mac, on the 9TH. on board the new tor
pedo boat Cushing. She ran at the
rate of twenty-Seven miles an hour, re-
versed at eighteen miles an hour and
turned within her own length.
THE expedition under command of
Major Wissmann, which recently left
Bagamoyo for kiiwa to make an attack
on that place, has been successful. The
place was occupied on May 4, Major
Wissmanns force meeting with no OPP
position.
TIE Canadian duty on pork was, on
the 9th, increased to two cents per
pound, or about sixty per cent. ad va
lorem.
GRAVE peculations have been discov-
cred in the customs department at
Buenos Ayres, Argentine Republic. The
revenue lost by the government by the
embezzlements is estimated to have
reached the enormous sum of so, 900, 0G0
annually.
ATT0ENEY-GENERAI. WATSON OF Ohio
brought suit in the Supreme Court of
that State, on the 18th, to oust the Stand
ard Oil Company from doing business in
Ohio, on the ground that it has forfeited
its charter as a company by becoming u
trust, which is injurious to trade and
commerce.
house was destroyed by fire, on the
night of the 7th, twelve of the patients
in the idiot ward periShing in the
flames. The origin of the fire is sup
posed to have been spontaneous COM
bustiOn.
On the afternoon of the eth, few
hours before the Chenango County On.
" poor-house was destroyed, Deborah
Dibble, one of the inmates, was burned
to death by her clothing catching fire
from the pipe She was smoking.
TIE Treasury Department decided,
on the Sth. that ''coney shreds'' are en-
titled to free entry when intended to be
used as glue stock.
WEIL-INFORMED horticulturiSts eSti
mate that the peach crop of Michigan
will this year scarcely amount to a
tenth of the normal yield.
TIE Georgia Temperance AssOciat on,
in session at Atlanta, on the 9th, adopt
ed resolutions requesting the Georgia
delegation in Congress to urge legisla-
ton which will give to the States the
right to control the prohibition ques-
tion for themselves, regardless Of inter
State commerce.
THE General Term of the Supreme
Court of New York, on the 9th, reversed
the Judgment of the Special Term in
equity that George Rice is entitled to the
rights of shareholder in the Standard
Oil Trust because of his having become
possessed by purchase of certain trust
certificates.
THE dcfaulting ex-State Treasurer of
Maryland, Stephenson Archer, was in
dicted by the Anne Arundel County
grand jury on the 9th.
DEPUTY MAKSHALJoHS D. DAILY capt
ured four desperate moonshiners on
Cove Creek, in Tazewell County, Va,
on the oth
PRAIRIE fires have burned over about
eighteen miles square north and south
of Old Mans river, near Alberta, y.
w. T.
MAsURY e Sous paint-worlls and the
Atlantic starch-worlls. in brooklyn
were burned, on the 9th, causing a loss
of 500, 000: fully insured.