Iron County register., 1892-07-07
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

IN mis- address to the electors of Mid
lothian, Mr.. Gladstone refers to
the fact that he is in the sixtieth
year of his public life. and says: ::
Il necessarily feel that this is
the last general election at which
| can expect to solicit your suffrages." :"
1t has fallen to the lot of few statesmen
in any age to remain on the political
stage for so great length of time. and
whatever may be the rank assigned to
Mr.. Gladstone by the historians of the
future, it will be unanimously agreed
that he was in more than one respect a
truly remarka Bile man.
THE cause of good roads goes march
ing on There is no politics in it, con-
sequently when people get tired of dis
cussing the presidential canvass in all
of the sharp disagreements which that
exercise implies they can get together
and relieve the strain, republicans,
democrats and the rest, on the good
road issue.
INDIAN COMMISSIONER MORGAN says
that Rev. Sheldon Jackson, who was
reported murdered on May 20. has ar
rived safely at his destination in Alaska.
and that at the time of his reported as
sassination he was on shipboard 1,000
miles from the place where the assassi-
nation was said to have occurred.
THE Tennessee peoples party state
convention met in Nashville, on the
2Sth, with 200 delegates present. j. c.
Roberts was made temporary chairman.
AFTER suffering long and severely
10, in, ha Sfn al,
DIR. E. NJ Booth. of VaIlonia. Ind. on
the 21th. swallowed a strong emetic ard
vomited a live lizard six inches long.
He is much better.
YEARS ago George NJ. Withers sepa-
rated from his wife at Columbus, Ind.
leaving her to care for a small child.
Recently he returned and found his
wife working in a tailoring establish
ment and his baby boy grown up and
manager of the Postal telegraph office.
A happy reunion took place, and a
palatial home will be built with the
fortune which he has accumulated.
HoS. JOHN FITZGERALD. of Lincoln,
Neb., eX-president of the Irish League
of America. has sailed for Ireland as
one of the committee from the United
States to bring about a reconciliation
of the Irish factions and to secure
united action in the approaching elec-
ton.
Mrs. NETTIE COLBURN MEYNARD, a
weil-known spiritualistic medium, and
author of WAS Abraham Lincoln a
Spiritualist?" died at her home in
White Plains, y. Y. on the night of
the 27th.
THE United States battle ship Texas
was successfully launched at Ports
mouth, Va. on the 2Sth, in the pres
ence of $4,000 spectators.
A DENVER dishwasher calling himself
Fl erbert Sullivan, out of work and i'm
pecunious, essayed the role of bank
robber. on the 2Sth, and took a drop on
Paying Teller Barton of the bank of
Commerce, demanding $1,000. Barton
had what the would-be robber lacked
nerve, and the result was that the bank
lost nothing and Sullivan is in jail.
A TERRIFIC storm passed over eastern
Pennsylvania on the night of the 27th.
In many sections it assumed the pro-
portions of a cloud burst, and resulted
in much damage.
MYRON PRATT, the gray-haired old
man who. on june Ii. killed Mrs. Mar
garet Sperry. at Lincoln, Neb., died at
the county Jail, on the 21th. of brain
fever, brought on by remorse for his
crime.
THE Townsend prize of Yale univer-
sity for the best Grafton was awarded,
on the 2sth. to L. r. Milfiey, of Mexico,
Mo. 1t was pronounced by competent
judges to be the best ever delivered for
the Townsend prize.
Rev. SHELBY HARDY and two daugh-
tiers were killed by lightning near
RidgAville, Tenn. .on the 2Sth- The
three We're returning home in a buggy
when the storm came up and they
sought shelter under a tree. The bolt
which killed them did not hurt the
horse.
J. EDWARD STONE, who claims to have
started to walk from San Francisco on
February 30. last, to make a transcon-
tinental tour on foot. arrived in New
York city on the 2Stn and reported at
the Police Gazette Office at noon. He
was not due until July 4. Mr.. Stone
looked as fresh and clean-limbed as IL
he had just taken constitutional
CONSIDERATION prevails in some parts
of the Russian empire owing to the
rapid spread of cholera At Ballu. capi-
tai of the government of Balu, on the
| west coast of the Caspian sea, thirty
five new cases were reported on the
21th. Baku is great petroleum ship
ping port
/ Mrs. JANE BENNETT died at Big
Mound, Ia, on the 2sth. at the ad-
vanced age of 11O years She was a ma
tive of West Virginia, and was one of
Iowa's earliest pioneera