Iron County register., 1892-12-29


States consul at Batavia, and r. F. Nc
Crillis. of Massachusetts,, as United
States consul at Denia-
THE Atlanta has been dispatched tc
relieve the Kearsarge at La Guayra
Venezuela Lieut. Com. Webb, who
has been sick, was transferred to the
hospital at Portsmouth, Va, and Lieut..
Com. w. Fl. Bicknell, of the Franklin,
succeeded him.
o. E. SIMMONS, the Indian agent al
Fort Belknap, Mont. who was shot by
an Indian several days ago, died of his
wounds on the 21st. Commissioner
Morgan requested that an army officer
be Immediately detailed to take charge
of the agency.
Nh. THEODORE FOLSOM, a cousin OF
Mrs. Grover Cleveland, was instantly
killed, on the night of the 21st, at a
crossing of the Lehigh Valley railroad.
three miles west of Railway, n. j., by
the fast east-bound train. He leaves a
wife and six daughters.
A COMPANY with IS, OOO, 900 capital is
looking over the ground at New Haven,
Conn, with a view to establishing a
steel manufacturing plant The COM
pany will use a new process which, it is
expected, will revolutionize certain
lines of steel manufacture.
The result of the congressional in
vestigation into the Sweating" system
in New York, Chicago and Boston. is
that the abuses of the system are un-
doubtedly great. but the charges OF
immortality in connection with it are
utterly unfounded, and very little
child-labor was found.
THE celebrated trotting stallion
Stamboul, 2:071f, the property of the
late Walter s. Hobart, of the Hobart
farm, San Mateo. Cal, was sold at
auction at the American institute
building in New York, on the Goth, for
al. .O00. The purchaser was d. H. Har-
riman, q banker of New York city.
On the 22d Justice Cox of the district
of Columbia supreme court refused an
injunction in the case of the lnterna-
tional Contracting Co. versus the secre-
tary of war. The company sought to
restrain Secretary Ell<ins from grant
ing the contract for dredging Gowanus
bay, New York, to any other bidder.
THE final meeting Of the committee
appointed to receive subscriptions for
the relief of the sufferers by the st.
Johns IN. F.. fire was held in London
on the Goth. The total received was
a24, 500. Parts of this sum had already
been sent to St Johns The balance
wasuremitted and the committee dis
solved.
DURING a s2O, 900 fire in their New
York home, on the 22d, Mrs Aspinwall.
wife of Lloyd Aspinwall, director in
the Colon line of steamships, tried to
escape from the second story window.
She got out and hung from the sill by
her hands, from which perilous posi-
tion she was rescued by the firemen in
q fainting condition.
The funeral of the late Capt. John
G.. Merritt, assistant doorkeeper of the
United States senate, took place, on the
10th, from the family residence in
Washington Rev. DIR. Butler, chap
lain of the senate, performed the fu-
neral ceremony and delivered a very
touching address upon the career and
last hours Of deceased.
In the suit against Edward Parker
Deacon by the proprietor of the Hotel
Splendide, at Cannes, who sued for the
damage done his establishment when
Deacon killed NJ. Abeille in Mrs. Dea-
cans apartments in February last, the
case resulted. on the Goth. in a verdict
for Mr.. Deacon, each party to the ac-
tion to pay his own costs.
ADvIcEs from Bajokote. capital OF
>the state of that name, in the province
of Guzerat, India, report an encounter
between a body of Dacoits and a force
of native policemen under command of
British military officers Lieut. Cor
don, of the Bombay Lancers. and four
policemen were killed. No mention is
made of the loss sustained by the Da-
colts.
FOURTEEN of the villagers of Berson.
France, were either burned to death in
their homes or killed while attempting
to escape. during great confagration
on the 21st When it was seen that the
town could not be saved, attention was
turned to saving the aged and the little
children, and it was in this work of
rescue that several of the villagers lost
their lives The greater part Of the
village was destroyed.
THE San Francisco Examiner says
that President Harrison has accepted q
proposal from President Jordan of the
Leland Stanford, Jr., university, TO be-
come q member of the faculty of that
institution. His duties will comprise
Q series of law lectures, which will call
him to Palo Alto two or three times q
year. and it is probable that he will
make California his winter residence.
ANoNe the inventories recently filed
ut the probate court at Salem. Mass.
is that of the estate Of John G. Whit
tier. The amount is SIS, ,729, Of which
O., 500 Is real estate. The balance Is
personal property, largely in stocks
and bonds; household furniture. ap.
praised at $1,000; portraits and pic.
turea. 1915; copyright of ''Childlife" in
prose, Songs Of Three Centuries" and
sChildlife," $500; all other copyrights,
$4,000.