Iron County register., 1892-12-29
A PARTY composed of about ninety

A PARTY composed of about ninety
prominent merchants from all over the
country, together with several news
paper men from New York, Chicago
ana Washington. is being organized for
the purpose of making tour. this win
ter, through Mexico.
CLAUDE WOLFE, one of the most pop
ular young business men of Brazil,
Ind, committed suicide, on the 21st,
discharging the contents of an old shot
gun into his body.
The badly decomposed body of day
old infant was found in black satchel
under one of the seats in the New York
Central depot at Schenectady, n. Y, on
the 22d.
THE entire plant of the Home bleach
and dye works at Valley Falls, R. L,
was destroyed by fire on the 22d; loss,
about $40, 900.
Mr. AND MRS. GLADSTONE and the
members of their party arrived at Biar-
ritz, France. on the ed.
On the 22d the president recognized
Frank S. Pratt as consul from Hawaii
for the states of Nevada. Oregon and
Washington.
The commercial convention between
France and the United States was rati-
fed by the French chamber of deputies
on the 22d.
RELIABLE persons who have exam
ined the diamond basin, in Owyhee
county, Idaho, denounce the reported
find of diamonds in that region as q
cruel hoax.
E. n. MELLoR, Of the late Wisconsin
lumber firm of Hoxie & Mellor, which
failed two years ago for $500, 900 and
circles, committed suicide at the Vivian
hotel, Amigo, Wis, on the 22d, by blow
ing out his brains.
HERBERT TUFTS ALLEN, Harvard 's6,
died in New York, on the evening of
the 21st, of peritonitis He was sick
only few days. Bert" Allen was a
famous Harvard baseball player.
Nicholas and Allen" the famous
Harvard battery, were known all over
the country in 1855 and 1856.
THE joint congressional committee on
immigration, not satisfied with collect
ing huge volumes of matter relating to
immigration and preventing the pre-
dicted introduction of cholera next
year, has decided to send joint sub
committee to Cuba during the holiday
recess to gather additional informa-
tion.
SECRETARY OF STATE FOSTER has been
Informed of the appointment of Senor
Caesar Carevo as Peruvian minister at
Washington. The post has been vacant
some time. Gen. Carevo was one of the
leading military spiritsuin the last war
between Peru and Chill, and made a
gallant record.
ported to have left the City of Mexico
to join the revolutionists on the Rio
Grande border, is . famous character.
He is known to all the Mexican army
as ''The Tiger" When Maximilian
was fighting to establish an empire in
Mexico Rocha was one of his favorite
generals.
THE continued prevalence of cholera
in Europe excites apprehension in ad-
ministration circles. The hope enter
tanned that the dread disease had
been extinguished is dissipated in the
face of reports of new cases. and the
conviction is forced upon government
officials that, as predicted by many
scientists, the disease will reappear
with increased violence in the spring.
The fy-wheG at the White River
iron and steel works at Muncie, Ind.
burst, on the 22d, tearing the building
to pieces Head Roller Ed Perkins, of
Joliet, ILL.,, was instantly killed, En-
gineer Dave Collier was fatally injured
and Heater Lige Ward was badly cut.
Three hundred men are out of work
pending repairs
INQUIRIES of members of the Italian
legation in Washington elicit the reply
that there is no truth in the state
ment published in one of the Italian
in New York that Baron
Fava, the Italian minister to the
United States, had been transferred to
Lisbon.
SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY FOSTER
said, on the 22d, that the financial furry
seemed to have passed. Out of the SILL
O00, 900 gold exported the treasury had
sustained net loss of s., 600, 600, which
would be, he thought, replaced before
the first of the new year.