Iron County register., 1892-08-04

wheat on his 4 -rm thrce-quarters of a
mile from -onroe. o., on the 27th. the
ooiier OF traction engine exploded, in
stantly Filling Engineer Ambrose AL
exaL1er and Fireman Perry Header.
Geo. Wiley and Mr.. Kyle were badly ii
not fatally injured.
WV. WILSON. who for two years past
has travelled over the country as Sir
Edward Cook. cousin of Earl Dudley
and Lord Vaudeville, was arrested in
New York. on the 27th, for swindling.
EX-LIECT--Gov- JoIIN REID, of Masssi-
| chusetts, died in Boston on the 2Gth,
aged 30. He was member of the old
book firm of Reid & Field.
Mr. FRrcK's physicians regard his
| phen omenai strides toward recovery as
something unprecedented in medical
history.
CHAUSCEY Vi. DEpEw sailed from New
York on the steamer Majestic for Eu-
rope on the 21th.
VIsCoUNT SHERERooKE, better known
as Rt. Hon. Robert Lowe, died in
London on the 27th aged 81.
A LARGE number of informations
| charging aggravated riot were sworn
out on the 2.th By the managers of the
Carnegie Steel Company against Home
stead workmen, and it was intinated
| that many more of like nature won Id
follow. it being the opinion of the COM
| pany that punishment could be more
| readily secured under such charge than
under the more serious one of murder.
MANAGER FRICK has ordered that
notices be issued to the ex-employes of
| the Carnegie Steel Co. that interest
| will cease al once on the S1SO,000 on de-
posit with the company, and that the
principal will be paid on demand to the
| depositors.
A COLLISION between two freight
| trains occurred on the Detroit, Grand
| Haven & Milwaukee road two miles
| from Holly. Mich. on the 2Sth. Both
engines and thirty ears were COM
pletely wrecked, and five carloads of
cattle, sheep and hogs were killed.
Brakeman Laghlan. of Holly, was Sc
verely injured by jumping.
SYLVESTER CRITCHLOw, one of the
strikers charged with murder on the
| day of the Homestead pa riot, APP
piled for relea Sc on bail. on the 2Sth,
but was refused and remanded to Jail
for trial VIM. Close, another striker,
was admitted to SO. 900 bail.
On the 2Sth Mr.. Hoyt. attorney for
Defaulter Damn, handed to the New
York state banking department $3.50
worth of property to apply on his de-
falcation. This makes something over
800, 900 that Damn has restored since
his arrest.
JUDGE JACKSON, of the United States
circuit court of Tennessee. refused, on
the 2hth. to grant writ of habeas
corpus in the case of Fl. Clay King. of
Nashville, sentenced to be hanged Au-
gust Il.
THE boiler of lumber-,nill. located
on Otsego creek. Gaylord. Mich, blew
up. on the 2Sth, killing four men and
injuring several
GEORGE X. SIsTARE, formerly a MEM
Der of the banking house of Sistare. of
New York, which made a sensational
failure few years ago, shot himself,
on the 2Sth, while temporarily insane,
in the reception room of the Manhattan
club. the room that was formerly A. T.
Stewards library.
TALTON HALL, the noted desperate
whose sentence of death was post
poned by appeal to the supreme court,
was again sentenced. on the Goth, to
hang September 2, at Wise c. H., Va.
A CHARGE of theft preferred at Balti-
more. Md, against DIR. Albert George,
an attache of the Swiss legation at
Washington, followedby by his arrest
and honorable release, may lead to in
ternational complications.
NEARLY $4,000, 900 of gold was shipped
to Europe on the 30th.
AN unsuccessful attempt was made !
on the 29th. by seven convicts, to escape
from the Massachusetts state prison.
When discovered they had succeeded |
in prying off a bar from one of the win
dow-s.
REV. Mrs AMANDA DEYo. the Uni ,,
versal Peace commissioner OF Scranton, |
Pa, who went to Pittsburgh as a rep |
resentative of the Universal Peace un- |
ion to settle the Homestead strike. has /
returned, having been unsuccessful in |
her laudable attempt.