Iron County register., 1892-10-13
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

1T is understood that progress is be-
ing made in the matter of preparing
the Behring sea case for arbitration,
but if the reports brought back from
the Bchring sea waters and the Priby-
loft Islands by United States Fish Com
missioner Alexander are to be relied
upon, by the time the case is finnl:y
settled the seals will have disappeared.
Mr.. Alexander declares that the fur
seal has already been virtually exter-
minated. This may be to SEINE extent
an exaggeration, but there is little
doubt that determination is rapidly
approaching.
IN the recent voting contest among
the commercial travellers assembled at
st. Louis ON .drummers' day." NJ. j.
Jones, of West Plains, No, was award
man; James A. Scudder, of Terre
Gilbert Bond, of Sullivan. Ind, for be-
ing the fattest.
The work which was lately begun by
| a number of farmers in Iowa to change
| the course of the Missouri river by ditch
| ing across the narrow isthmus near
Bellevue. where the river describes
| four-fifths of a circle, has been stopped
| by an injunction. 1t is estimated that
| had not the work been stopped about
5000 acres of land would have been
| changed to the other side of the river.
| JACK RAMSAY, the pal of Frank
Cooley, who was killed by Sheriff Nc
| Cormick's posse ON the evening of the
| I'd, was captured near Fair Chance, Pa,
on the Sd, and lodged in Jail. 1t is be
| lieved that since the death of Cooley
| and the capture of Ramsey the re-
mainder of the gang of desperadoes
will leave the country.
| j. BARLOW MooREHEAD, a young ac-
tor and manager of the Young Amer
| lean" theatrical company, committed
suicide in New York city. on the ed, as
per agreement with suicide club, of
which he was a member. He spent his
| last night of life drinking wine with
| friends. and then went to his room and
ended his life with pistol bullet.
FEARS are entertained for the safety
| of the two-masted schooner Nellie May,
which left Providence, r. l., August l3
| for Bravo, Cape Verde islands, a pas
| sage that is ordinarily accomplished in
about a month. She carried twenty
four persons, including passengers and
| crew.
LORD HOTGHToN, the new viceroy OF
| Ireland. took formal possession of Dub
lin castle on the Sd. His public entry
| into Dublin was made with the usual
| ceremony.
LORD TENNYsoN, poet laureate of
England, was reported, on the Sd. as
being seriously i'll with a complication
of influenza and gout at his home in
| Surrey.
On the evening of the Sd Edward s..
Damn, the Buffalo IN. Y bank wrecker,
died at his home in Buffalo from the
effects of a dose of opium taken with
suicidal intent
CHARLEY MITCHELL, the pugilist, was
in the prisoners dock of the Bow-street
police court, London, on the 4th, to
answer a charge of assault upon an old
| man named Salvage. He was re-
| manded to await the result of closer in
quiry as to the old mans condition.
HoN. PATRICK EGAN, minister pleni-
potentiary of the United States to
| Chill, arrived at New York on the
steamer Newport from Panama. on the
| 4th. in the best of health and spirits.
He brings with him treaty which pro-
vides that ali claims on the part of cor
porations, companies or private indi-
viduals shall be submitted to three
commissioners for settlement: also the
indemnity money for the Baltimore's
men.
AN important decision was handed
down, on the ith, by the United States
court of appeals for New York in the
case of the Edison Electric-Light Co.
against the United States Electric
Light Co.. granting an injunction, with
an accounting for profits and damages,
in a patent issued to Mr.. Edison ON an
electric lamp January 2T. 1850. The de-
cision carries with it n monopoly in the
incandescent lamp.
A PILGRIMAGE to Troitsa to celebrate
the five hundredth anniversary of the
death of st. Sergius. will begin on the
10th, from the Kremlin in Moscow.
The pilgrims number $4,000 and are led
by 1900 clergymen with images and
relics. at Troitsa the Moscow pilgrims
will be met by some $4,000 pilgrims
from other parts of Russia The peo-
pie carry their food with them and
sleep by the wayside at night.
Mounted Cossacks along the route pro
tect them and keep stragglers from
wandering from the road.
COUNT STARHEMBURG, one of the
long-distance riders from Vienna, ar
rived at Berlin at a. m. of the 5th.
He was only II hours and 35 minutes
on the road. This was the best record
made up to that time by any of the
riders
CANovAs DEL CASTILLO, Spanish
prime mi>ister, arrived at Huelva, on
the 5th, and was greeted by popular
ovation. He delivered the opening adj
dress at the congress of Americanists,
Prof. Adams, of France, speaking in re-
ply.
Col. JAMES III. RICE, ex-auditor of
state of Indiana, died at the Grand Cen
trail hotel in indianapolis on the 5th.
He was one of the most widely known
politicians in the state.
The annual convention of travelling
passenger agents met at the Metropoli-
tan hotel in Washington on the 5th.
About seventy-fve agents were present.
THE reports of an approaching cabi-
net crisis in Germany and friction be-
tween Count Caprivi and Count Zulen-
burg are denied officially.
F. GARCIA has been appointed Guate-
| malan consul general il New York
city. in place of Jacob Baiz, the late
consul general.
Ex-PREsIDENr CLEVELAND left New
York for Buzzard's Bay. on the 5th, on
c. E. Benedict's yacht Oneida.