Iron County register., 1890-11-27
NEWS AND NOTES,
A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| Irish leader in the British Parliament
was correspondent, came to conclu
| sion, on the 18th, by the granting of
divorce to Captain OShea, with costs,
/ no defense having been made by either
| Mrs. O'Shea or Mr.. Parnell, and, ac-
cording to the evidence, none was pos
sible.
THE will of the late Robert Ray Ham
| ilton was fled in the surrogate's Office
in New York City on the 18th. He be-
oueaths ito the child Beatrice, my
adopted daughter an annuity of $1,000.
| to be paid in monthly installments dur
| ing her natural life" Several other be-
quests are made, but Eva Hamilton is
not mentioned among them.
Mr. PowDERIY and Mr.. Hayes were
reelected at the knights of Labor con-
vention at Denver, Col, on the 18th,
without opposition. Hugh Cavanaugh,
of Ohio, was elected general worthy
foreman, after close contest with NJ.
L. Wheat, of Iowa.
| SIX persons were killed and sixteen
wounded in a battle in Bistritz, Tran
| sylvania, on the 18th, between the
friends and opponents of a newly-ap-
pointed priest The fight occurred at
| the cnurCn door.
An unknown man, who had been
| lettering about the New York, New
| Haven & Hartford railroad station at
| Hartford, Conn. for several days, de-
| liberately laid his neck on the track in
| front of switch engine, on the 18th,
and was decapitated.
| THE official abstract of the vote at
| the late election in Ohio has been COM
| pleted and shows the plurality of Ryan.
R., to be 1O.969. The total vote was
! TAP, ,072. The official figures do not
| change the result in the Congressional
| districts. The delegation will stand Z
Republicans to II Democrats.
AN easier feeling prevails at Mandan,
N D., because of the receipt Of arms
and ammunition by the citizens. Six
mounted friendly Sioux have been sent
| to patrol the borders of the reservation.
THE Minister of Agriculture for Hun
gary is taking steps to have vast tracts
in that country planted with American
grape-vines, which have thus far re-
sisted the ravages of phylloxera.
THE War Department is in receipt of
no information tending to confirm or
discredit the alarming reports pub
lished in the newspapers about a
| threatened Indian uprising.
SECRETARY TRACY has in contempla-
tion the building of two torpedo cruis-
ers, one of $50 tons displacement, and
one of 1000 tons displacement. The
plans will be drawn during the next
few months, and Congress will be
asked to make appropriation for the
cruisers.
THE Dowager Grand Duchess of Tus-
cany, mother of Archdul1e John John
Orth) is dangerously i'll, owing to anx-
iety caused by uncertainty as to the
fate of her son.
NOTICE was given in the Town Coun-
Gil of Edinburgh, on the 18th, of a mo-
ton to remove the name of Charles
Stewart Parnell from the burgess roll.
ALBERT ii. SMITH, the forger, through
whose fraudulent practices the New
York firm of Mills Robson & Smith, of
| which he was a member, was ruined,
was arraigned in the jefferson Market
| police court on the 18th He was held
| in $4,000 bail and locked up in the
| Tombs.
THE general missionary Methodist
committee in session at Boston, on the
| 18th, made the following appropriations:
| Rock River Conference, $500: Wyoming
| Conference $500; Wiscon sin Conference,
$500; for Scandinavian missions North
| west Norwegian and Danish, Spanish,
| s., 332; Scandinavian work in Utah,
| s., 800; Scandinavian schools in Utah,
| 81 400; Swedish work in Austin, Tex,
81, roo. For Norwegian work in Califor-
MIA, 81, $50; Swedish work. 81, 80 For
| Swedish work in Colorado, $500. On the
Columbia River, 81, 500. For Swedish
| work in Louisiana, 81 900, and for Fin
nish in Minnesota, $500.
THE armored cruiser Maine was sue
cessfully launched at the Brooklyn Navy
| Yard on the 18th. The vessel was chris
| tened by Miss Alice Wilmerding, grand
daughter of Secretary Tracy. About
| fifty thousand persons witnessed the
ceremony.
RUBE SMITH, the last OF the regular
Burrows gang of outlaws, was sentenced
in the United States Court at jackson,
Miss, to life imprisonment in the Co
lumbus (O.) penitentiary for participa-
tion in the Buckatunna train and mail
robbery.
| \ BUILDING in course of construction
at the Solar Refinery at Lima, o., fell,
on the 18th, while a number of men
were at work upon it. Two workman
were killed outright and n dozen or
more injured, some seriously.
A RICH gold strike has been made in
the Happy Hollow and Free Gold mines
near Fort Collins in Colorado. Some of
| the ore asSayed shows an average of
| $500 to the ton.
| FRANCIS f. WARREN, of Cheyenne,
Governor of Wyoming, was on the 18th.
elected United States Senator on the
sixth ballot in the Legislature. His
colleague will be ex-Delegate James NJ.
Carey, also of Cheyenne.
VENICE MALTA, 4 burlesque actress
with the May Davenport Company,
| stepped on the register of heater flue
at the Carbondale Academy of Music at
Scranton, Fa., on the night of the 18th,
| and in an instant she shot through the
| fiue toward the blazing furnace in the
| cellar. At a bend in the flue the pipe
below, badly cut and bruised. The
lucky breaking of the fiuc saved the
actress from horrible death.
c. c. Hicks. of Providence, r. l., who
was injured in the recent New Florence
| pa railroad wreck, and died on the
night of the 10th, was robbed OF his gold
watch and SI75 during the excitement
attending the wreck.
THE carpet manufacturers of America
will advance their prices materially in
| 70 tho sod cost nf Drn-