Iron County register., 1892-10-13

On the 9Th all the street-car conduc-
tors and motorrnen of Memphis, Tenn,
struck for an increase in wages from
fourteen to eighteen cents an hour.
One of the strikers attempted to shoot
a non-union conductor.
THE steamer Norman and the steam
barge Republic collided at st. George
Flats. Saalt Ste. Marie, Mich, on the
9th. The Norman wascut down to the
waters edge ten feet back from the
stem. The Republic was crushed
twenty feet back from the stem to her
bridge, but proceeded on her trip.
A FLYING column of 1000 men sent
out under Col. Lockhart to puniss the
Black mountain tribes in Simla British
Indies, captured Baio without losing a
man.
The granite manufacturers of Boston
have decided to offer the cutters the
same terms as those offered by tie
manufacturers Of Barre and Quincy,
Mass.
On the 9th an Oxford student, raned
Brice, shot himself dead, because he
failed in his examination,
A DESPERATE battle has taken place
at Los Tequas, small Venezuelan
town on the railroad to Valencia. equi-
distant from that place and Caracas.
Six hundred men were killed and many
high government officers were cap
tured.
On the 9th the Allen line steamship
State of Georgia, from Montreal for
Aberdeen, with flour. cheese, butter
and lumber, besides 500 cattle, went
ashore in the st. Lawrence river. near
Cape La Roche, and may prove a total
loss
A DECISIVE battle has been fought in
Dahomey, in which the rebellious ma
tives were defeated and 1000 of their
warriors killed, among them twenty
Smazons. The loss to the French
troops is given as eight killed and
thirty-three wounded.
AN attempt was made, on the 7th, to
blow up a non-union boarding house
in Homestead. Pa, with dynamite.
so one was hurt, but the house was
badly damaged and the occupants
were greatly frightened.
HUGo LoEwY, the Berlin banker who
was convicted of fraudulent practices,
has been sentenced ito a term of two
and half years imprisonment, and to
pay fine of 1000 marks.
JAMES LINDSAY, of Blythebourne, n.
Y. quarreled with his wife, on the 9th,
and went out and threw himself in
front of an approaching train and was
instantly killed.
A DEMONSTRATION of Chicago work
ingmen the day preceding that set for
the Worlds fair dedicatory exercise is
said to be among the proba abilities.
Two NEW cases of cholera were re-
ported from Ironton, near Tonawanda,
y. Y. ON the 7th, and the excitement
there was tense.
A TRIP to Niagara Falls and Lewiston
marked the close of the formal pro-
gress, which ended its session in Buff
falo, n. ", on the 7th.
REPORTS from Santos, Brazil, to a
Philadelphia merchant reveal a sad
story of yellow fever at that seaport in
South America An epidemic has been
raging there for months and the dead
have been piled in trenches of great
length 1t is claimed that more victims
have been swept away in and around
Santos than have died in central Eu-
rope from the cholera plague.
FREDERICK FRIsCH, one of the leading
cotton men of New Orleans, was arrest
ed, on the 7th, for embezzling $40. 600.
Frisch has been the New Orleans rep
resentative of the large cotton house of
Gassner & Co. of Liverpool. He has
occupied the position of manager of the
firms business at this end for some
time and has been noted for the bold
ness of his operations.
JOHN WILLIAMS, colored, who killed
J. +. Henneman. the mayor of Spar
tansburg. S. c., on Sunday, September
%, 1891. and Mildred Brown, a 14-year-
old colored girl. who killed the 1-year-
old infant of w. c. Carpenter, of Gaff
ney City, III June last, were hanged on
the same scaffold at Spartansburg on
the eth.
NOTWITHSTANDING the repeated ar
rests of dishonest employees of the New
York post office, thieving goes steadily
on there On the 7th two more clerks
were captured by the post-office in