Iron County register., 1892-03-31
THE German emperor is suffering

LIE ocilldi emperor Is Sufferlng
from emphysema and asthma
SPEAKING of the proposed return of
the flags captured by the American
army in Mexico, Gen. Marino Escobedo,
IN recent interview, is said to have
recalled the fact that the Mexicans still
had some cannon and flags captured
| from the Americans He didn't know
but what an exchange of trophies would
be fair.
Mrs. j. w. MAHoNEY, of Middleton,
Ind, while examining a revolver, on
the 22d, accidentally discharged the
weapon and the ball entered her hus-
bands side, fatally wounding him. He
is prominent physician of the town.
THE explosion of a barrel of benzine
in a drug warehouse at Amsterdam, on
! the Esd, killed six persons and injured
twenty-seven, some of them fatally.
Four houses were destroyed.
A BILL is now before the New York
legislature to repeal all provisions of
the legal code relating to imprisonment
in civil actions, thus abolishing the last
vestige of IMPRISONMENT for debt.
TIE steamship Majestic arrived at
New York on the 23d and J. Coleman
Drayton and Hallett A. Borrowe were
found to have made the voyage without
an effort to slaughter each other.
ANTHONY GOULD, a well-known law
yer and eX-recorder of Albany, n. Y,
was found guilty, on the oath, of aiding
and abetting eX-Bookkeeper George P.
Whitney, of the Albany city national
bank, in embezzling the banks funds
and falsifying its accounts Sentence
was deferred. Whitney is serving a
seven years term of imprisonment for
his crime.
THE Hotel Eldunot in Mount Wash
ington, Md, was burned to the ground
at 1890 a. m., of the cath. There were
a large number of guests in the hotel
at the time, but owing to the heroic
efforts of the employees, all were res
cued in safety. Loss, estimated at S25,-
600; insurance. S11, 900.
THE Wood VS.. Parnell formerly
Wood VS.. O'Shea) will case has been
settled ont of court on terms satisfac-
tory to all parties.
The Paris Debats says the anarchists
of that city are experimenting with
poison with 4 view to substituting it
for dynamite.
The house committee on appropria-
tions, on the Gath, completed the sundry
civil appropriations bill. The whole
amount recommended in the bill is
S25, 157, 7S7, being S1O O26, 16S less than
the estimates and S13, e37,574 less than
appropriated for the current fiscal year.
THE senate committee on territories
has ordered a favorable report on the
house bill providing for the refunding
of the do hf Of hriz ot
interest.
RETURNS compiled in Chicago show
that the total increase in registration
in the thirty-four wards of the city and
Cicero is 1920 over last year. Thou
sands of names are said to have been
illegally added to the registration
lists
THE Tennessee Rifles, a colored COM
pany of Memphis, disbanded, on the
25th. as result of the action of Judge
Dubois in ordering the arms of the COM
pany confscated during the excitement
following the lynching of the three ne
groes recently The judge feared the
members of the company might at
tempt to avenge the lyDching and use
the guns at their armory to that end.
The Prussian government has pro-
hibited all Russian Jews from crossing
the frontier. owing to the prevalence
OF typhus fever among them. The de-
cree is to be stringently enforced. and
it is reported that the guards on the
border have already shot four Jews
who tried to elude them
JOEL l.. HART, a prominent citizen of
England, Ark, and Sheriff J. w. Will
Jams. ordinarily the best of friends,
luarreled, on the night of the 24th,
while drunk, and Williams shot Hart
dead.
THE Importation of cattle form
Spain, Portugal, Sweden and Norway
has been prohibited by the English
government, owing to the prevalence
Of the foot-and-mouth disease in the
former countries.
THREE more of the ringleaders of the
recent riots in Berlin were sentenced,
IN the 25th, one to four years, another
20 three years and one to two years at
lard labor.