Iron County register., 1892-03-31
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

THE Hotel Drechausen at Halle
Prussian Saxony, was destroyed by fire
on the 21st. Two boys were overlooked
in the excitement and perished in the
flames.
A NOTE of apology has been sent
from the government of the United
States for the late visit of the Alba.
tross to the Galapagos islands where
Investigations were made by the scien-
tific commission on board without hav-
ing previously obtained the consent OF
the Ecuadorian authorities.
IT has been proved that Frederick w.
Milley, who killed his wife and then
shot himself, in Pittsburgh, Pa, re-
Gently, was bigamist as well as muir
derer and suicide. He was married to
the woman he murdered nearly four
years ago, but also had wife and fam
lily in Philadelphia.
JUDGE PHILLIPS. of the United States
district court in Kansas City, on the
1st, sentenced w. A. Wray, E. T. Lane
and F. NJ. George, Cass county (Mo.)
judges, to pay fine of $500 each and be
court in failing to make a tax levy for
MARIE JUNEAU, a French woman,
living on the outskirts of Guayaquil,
Ecuador, recently gave birth to seven
children, all perfect and healthy.
HENRY w. MOORE, formerly manag-
ing editor of the st. Louis Post-Dis-
patch, died at his home in New York
city, on the night of the Goth, of infiam-
nation of the kidneys. He will be re-
mbered in connection with his elope-
ment from st. Louis with Mrs. Emma
Norton.
GEORGE NICHOLS, aged IS years, and
Mrs. Elizabeth Grantham, aged Il
years, were married, on the 21st, at
Charlottesville, Ind. Both parties have
been twice married before, and both
have numerous grandchildren, all of
whom attended the wedding.
HENDERSON Bios immense carriage
factory and repository in Boston, en-
ploying nearly 100 men, together with
nearly 1000 carriages and hundreds of
sets of harness and several stores on
the ground floor, were burned on the
22d. Several small tenement houses
were also burned; loss, over 5000, 900.
THE Russian government and loca,
authorities in the typhus-stricken prov
inces are taking active measures to
prevent the spread of the disease, which
now RACES in Samara, Tampoff and ad-
joining districts. The sick are being
isolated and medicine and food provided.
THE supreme court of Wisconsin has
declared the apportionment bill passed
by the legislature (dem.) unconstitu-
tional and therefore void.
THE attempts of missionaries of the
Russian orthodox church to convert the
native Mongols of eastern Siberia have
provoked an outbreak of the Mongol
tribes. The revolt is spreading
throughout an extensive region of ST.
IBERIA, and the Russian forces on the
spot are unable to cope with it.
A SERIOUS conflict occurred on the
18th, at Paipa, United States of Colom-
bia, between civilians and military
company that was returning from
Cocuy. Five persons We're killed and
fourteen wounded. The distur bance
had nothing to do with politics.
The Iowa house defeated the Catch
local option bill, on the 22d, the vote be-
ing SO to 46 for indefinite postpone
ment.
WALTER LEIGHTY, formerly a mer-
chant, but latterly a railway postal
clerk, was arrested at Lincoln, Neb.,
on the a1st, on the charge of tampering
with the mails and Matchmaking r. c.
Oulcalt, a bank cashier.
THE senate, on the 22d, by a vote of
4s to 5, passed the bill appropriating
SIS, 80. 900 for improving the Mississippi
river from its mouth to st. Paul, Mimi,
not more than S3, $50, 900 to be expended
in any one year.
EUGENE KIRBY, formerly cashier of
the First national bank of Marshall,
Mich. who pleaded guilty recently to
EN- mbezzlement and forgery. was SEN
fenced, on the esd, by Judge Hooker to
ten years in jackson prison.
Ex-CITY TREASURER MICHAEL KRAUs,
one of the best known German resi-
dents of Milwaukee, died the Esd, of
apopiexy.
On the 23d Judge Van Brunt, of New
York, committed E. w. Field to the
Buffalo state hospital.
THE mystery of the disappearance of
Miss Eta Mcbride, the lost Blue Earth
MINI. school teacher, bids fair to be
cleared up now. Miss Mcbride has
been located in Lake Mary. Fla, under
the alias of Eliza beth Brown.