Iron County register., 1892-04-07


in dread of an eruption of Vesuvius.
The flow of lava is redder than usual
and other signs indicate danger.
OK the 31st Mrs. Margaret Doane.
handsome, middle-aged woman. the
wife of New York produce dealer,
threw herself with her 5-year-old son
Frank from third-story window of
her residence, $50 Elworth street, Ho-
boken. Her arm and leg Were broken
and she was probably fatally injured
internally. An boys skull was frac-
tured. Mrs. Doane is believed to be in
sane.
PRINCE BISMARCK was ~ years old on
the 1st.
DEEMING, the murderer, arrived at
Melbourne, on the 1st, on the steamer
Ballarat. An immense crowd awaited
him, but the wharf and the streets
were strongly guarded by the police,
and he was safely escorted to Jail. The
crowd hooted the prisoner, but at
tempted no violence.
Mrs. MARY RIoRDoN. mother of Arch
bishop Riordon of San Francisco, and
of Father P. J. Riordon, prominent
ecclesiastic of Chicago, died at the resi-
dence of her daughter, in the latter city
on the 1st. She had just reached her
SD birthday anniversary.
IT is now known that there were
eight persons, and perhaps nine,
drowned from the steamer Golden Rule,
which was burned at the wharf in Gin
cinnati ON the 31st.
THE duchess of Pastrana died sud
denly on the 1st. She leaves her great
wealth to the Jesuits.
The cotton spinners of Ashton, En-
gland are agitating for stoppage OF
work for month, in order to reduce
the stock of goods on hand.
HoN. WARNER MILLER, president of
the Nicaragua Canal Construction Co.,
announces that Henry NJ. Flagler, John
w. Mackay. Austin Corbin and Andrew
Carnegie have become largely interested
in his company.
THE supporters of President Diaz.
who favor his reelection, held great
demonstration in the City of Mexico on
the 1st. 1t was participated in by all
classes. On the I'd the storming and
capture of Puebla under President Diaz
was celebrated.
FIRE early on the morning of the 1st
burned Churchill & Kroech's lumber
yard, T. 5. Bowers coal and gasoline
shops and VIII Griffith's barn at Shenan-
doah. Ia: also, barn and eight horses
in the country belonging to Edward
Day. The losses are large. Both fires
were caused by lightning.
GEN. JAMES w. SINGLETON is lying
seriously i'll at his home in Baltimore,
Md. Gen. Singleton was born eighty
one years ago. He served two years in
congress and went to Richmond at the
instance of President Lincoln to confer
with jefferson Davis just before the
close of the war.
BERTHA JONES. aged II years. daugh-
ter of Charles Jones. of bethlehem, Pa,
was reprincanded and chastised by her
parents on account of the alleged theft
of a cologne bottle. The girl stubbornly
denied the charge, and the treatment
she received so angered her that she
took large dose of poison. At last ac-
counts she was lingering at the point of
death,
THE unemployed workingmen Of Lon
don threaten to give the police trouble
before they end their demonstration. A
meeting of the unemployed was held at
Tower Hill on the 1st. Conspicuous
above the heads of the assembled crowd
was black banner bearing the words:
eve Demand the Right to Work.
+ IF the multiplicity of petitions pre-
sented in the senate were an index of
popular feeling on public questions, the
closing of the Worlds fair on Sundays
and the prohibition of the sale of intox-
icants there on all days would seem to
take precedence over tariff and silver
matters, and over all the subjects of
legislation which state, granger and
la Dor organizations take under their
special cognizance
THE Rice trust is attracting a good
deal of attention in New Orleans.
Planters, brokers and others, who con-
slider the combine against their inter
csts. have called meeting to take steps
to conduct an active fight. The four
rice mills in operation under the trust
were shut down, on the 1st. and the
move is supposed to be induced by de-
sire To force m the price of rice.