Iron County register., 1890-03-06
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

THE entire property of the Crsuline
convent, at Pittsburgh, Pa, with its
magnificent buildings, will be offered
at public sale in spite of the interfer-
ence of the Pope. The sale is the out
come of a quarrel between the mother
superior and five French sisters, and
Bishop Phelan, who deposed Mother
Superior Alphonse and placed another
sister in charge of the institution.
GEORGE CLARK was hanged at Waynes-
burg, Pa, on the Goth, for participation
in the murder of William McCausland,
drover of Allegheny City, on -Septem-
Der 10, 1887.
CADETS Cassett and Lawton, members
of the fourth class at the West Point
Military Academy, fought six rounds,
regular prize-ring rules. In the last
round Cassett was knocked out, and had
to be taken to the hospital. His iniu-
ries are not severe, however. Lawton's
face was badly bruised. The fight grew
out of an insulting remark made by Cas-
sett, who is said to be an overbearing
snob.
THE Law and Order League of the
United States has decided to change its
name to the international Law and Or
der League, and it may now include
leagues of the different provinces in
Canada as well as the leagues of the
several States of the Union.
TIE House ways and means committee
on the 25th, discussed the bill to admit
free of duty articles grown or produced
in Mexico and intended for the st.
Louis Exposition this year. y favor
able report on the bill was ordered.
THE Secretary of Agriculture has is
sued an order to the managers and
agents of railroad transportation com
panies, regulating the transportation
and handling of Texas cattle from the
18th day of March to the 1st of Decem-
Der, 1890.
THE steamship Manitoban, from Glas-
gov, landed at Halifax, y. S, on the
26th, thirty-seven men composing the
crew of the French steamer Nautique,
which was overtallen by the Manitoban
in a sinking condition, and sank soon
after being abandoned.
TIE stockholders of the New York
elevated railroads, at a meeting on the
Goth, adopted resolution authorizing
the procurement of mortgage of S4O,-
| 600, 900 on their property.
SEVEN miners were killed by an ex-
plosion in a colliery at Dartmund, Ger
many, on the Goth.
| WEST TENNESSEE was visited by de-
.Structive storm, on the 25th, in which
much property and some human lives
were lost.
THE King of Corea is about sending
another envoy to England, despite the
vigorous protests of the Chinese Govern
ment.
THE steamer Ems, which arrived at
| New York on the Goth, from Bremen,
reported making an Intellectual attempt
| TO rescue the crew of the dismasted
British ship Hebe. y boat manned by
volunteers was swamped in the attempt
| and one man was drowned.
II is said that no raw rubber is now
| being gathered in Para, and that the
prices of rubber lAust shortly advance e
very sharply.
| MARTIN Il. ANDERSON. formerly presi-
| dent of Rochester On. W University
and one of the oldest and most widely
known educators of the country, died
at Lake Helena, Fla, on the Goth, aged
seventy-tive years.
| WAIsroN II. BROWN, as receiver for
the firm of Brown, Howard X Co., the
| aqueduct contractors, has begun SUIT IN
the Supreme Court to recover from the
City of New York S16S, 1876, with IN
terest from July /, 1883, for extra aque-
duct work.
REAR-ADMIRAL JAMES F. JoUETT was
placed on the retired list on the 21th-
CLAUDE CHAFFoNJoS, the prominent
silk manufacturer of Jersey City, n j.,
was found dead in his bed on the morn
ing of the Goth. Death is supposed to
have been caused by heart disease.
THE Treasury Department. on the
2sth, purchased $50, 900 AZ per cent.
bonds at 103l5 net.
SMALL-PoN is epidemic in many places
along the Rhine.
THE estimated reduction of the pub
lie debt during February was S5,0O0,o00