Iron County register., 1891-10-15
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

ministrator of the estate of Mrs. Hop
kins-Searles. He states that the es-
tate in California is valued at 50, 600, 900
and brings in a rental of S5, 900 per
month.
CAMPos PEDRO. Admiral Jorge
| Months brother-in-law, is en- route to
Washington with important documents.
1t is alleged that grounds exist for
criminal charges against several polit-
ical refugees now stopping at the
| American legation in Chill, but that
| Minister Egan has never been officially
notified of the fact.
| DANIEL, the 15-year-old son of Rev.
A. L. Chilcoat, of Orbisonia, Pa, fell
| from a hickory tree, on the 9th. dis
tance of 43 feet and was instantly
killed. Learning of the fatality his
mother became frenzied with grief and
| it is believed her mind is permanently
| undermined.
| DR.. WILLIAM w. LOCKWOOD, formerly
of Stamford, Conn.,, was found. on the
| morning of the 9th, choked to death on
| a road near Berkly. Robbery is sup
| posed to have been the motive for the
murder, as the deceased was thought to
have some money. No trace of the
murderers could be found.
THE Spanish government is negoti-
ating treaty of commerce with Por-
tugal. In this connection it is inti-
mated that no future Spanish treaty
| will contain the favored-nation clause.
FIVE men were run down, on the
18th. by train on the Pennsylvania
railroad, at sharp curve in the Union
| tunnel. between Pennsylvania avenue
and Fulton station, Baltimore, Md.
Two of them were instantly killed and
the others were fatally injured. They
were employed as track-walkers in the
tunnel.
IN confession made to newspaper
correspondent, on the 18th, NJ r
Trombour, assistant treasurer of the
Ulster County IN. W savings bank,
said that ''The bank was rotten to the
core. and has been robbed from the
time it was incorporated forty years
ago.
A VALPARAISO dispatch says it is
evident that there is now disposition
on the part of the authorities of Chill
to observe the usual courtesies toward
United States Minister Egan. Visitors
to the legation are no longer troubled
by the police.
THE second ecumenical Methodist con-
ference began its sessions in Washing
ton city on the 18th. There were 500
members in attendance, representing
all the various branches of the Metho-
dist church in all parts of the world.
THE treasury department, on the
Tth, redeemed S91, ,45O four-and-a-half
hnnIS lyinn fha rnfa1
demptions SIS, S41, roo and leaving out
standing Sc, 66*, 900.
THE twenty-third annual reunion of
the Society of the Army of the Tennes-
see opened with imposing exercises at
the Auditorium in Chicago on the 7th
IT is reported that yellow fever is
raging at Coneyver, small town of
Hayti, and that many ships crews have
been attacked with the maladv.
TwENTY-THREE houses were burned
in Santander, Spain, at midnight of
the 9th, and a number of persons were
injured.
SIR JOHN Pore HENNEssY. NJ. P for
Kilkenny, died in London on the 7th.
GEORGE S. DUNCAN and Sheldon A
Birmingham were putting burner into
an oil stove in Detroit, Mich, on the
7th. when Birmingham lighted match
and the oil in the stove exploded Burn
ing oil flew over the men, and the clothes
of both took fire. Birmingham was
burned to death before assistance could
reach him, and Duncan was removed to
the hospital in a dying condition.
Town TREASURER L. b. BOOTH, of
Newuown. Conn, is missing. There is
a shortage of several thousand dollars
in his accounts with the town. He also
improved the opportunity to rob the
Episcopal church, he having full con-
troll of the funds of the treasury,
amounting to about $4,000.
The queen, the prince of Wales and
all the cabinet ministers and the lead
ing members of the opposition have
sent letters of coincidence to the family
of the late Rt. Hon. William Henry
Smith.
JACOB BARE, a wealthy farmer of
Bethlehem, Ind, jumped into an ash
pit at the Louisville e Nashville rail-
way yards in Louisville, few weeks
ago, and lay for many hours before be-
ing found. He suffered cOncussion of
the brain, of which he died on the 7th.
OVER 81 200 worth of beer was spilled
by the sheriff and deputies at Creston,
Ia, on the 18th, on an order from a
Justices court
DR.. HIRAM Il. WRAY. aged S3 years,
a prominent and promising young ply
sician of Adams, Ind, committed sui
eide, on the 9TH, by taking poison. He
had just returned from completing a
course of lectures at Cincinnati
SADIE, the 1s-year-old wife of Charles
l.. Irwin, attempted suicide at Indian
apolis, Ind, on the evening of the 7th,
by firing bullet into her breast. She
will die.
A STUBBORN fire broke out in the attic
of East Divinity hall, Yale university,
on the night of the 9th, and before it
was brought under control damaged
the building to the extent of about S10,
900.
O'Malley, indicted on charge of brib
ing the jury which acquitted the Ital-
ians accused of assassinating Chief of
Police Hennessy of New Orleans, came
up for trial, on the sth, the state was
unable to offer admissible evidence and
the prisoner was set at liberty.
A FREIGHT train on the Albany &
Suseuehanna railroad jumped the track
IL miles east of Binghamton, n. Y. on
the Sth, and ffty-five cars were wrecked.
Engineer James Patterson was killed,
and two other employees were injured
The loss will foot up $50, 600.
CASHIER JONES of the Phillipsburg
(Pa.) Banking Co., issued statement
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