Iron County register., 1893-11-02

MARITAL law has been declared
throughout Guatemala. The govern
ment is making active military prepa.
Eations, giving as an excuse fear OF an
stack from Salvador.
The discouraging outlook for silver
in the senate had a heavy effect upon
9he stocks of silver mining properties
in the mining exchanges OF Colorado
Springs and Denver on the 25th.
THE supreme court of Michigan has
declared that the woman suffrage law.
passed by the last legislature, permit
ting women to vote at municipal cleo
lions, is utterly unconstitutional and
y0id.
Rev. SAMUEL. w. HADDAwAY, chaplain
OF the house of representatives, and
pastor of Marvin chapel, NJ. E. church,
south, in Washington, died at o'clock
ON the morning of the Goth. OF Brlghts
disease.
THE steamer City of Concord and her
consort, the Danford, are missing.
They left Port Huron, Mich. about the
1st, to load cedar in Georgian bay, and
nothing had been heard of them up to
the 27th.
OWING to drought that has prevailed
Tor some weeks in the Hartlepool
Enp.) district, the water companies
gave notice. on the 25th, that the supply
for manufacturing purposes would be
stopped.
SEVERAL treasury officials connected
with the customs service left Washing
ton, on the oath for Chicago. to be
present at the closing of the Worlds
fair, to decide such customs matters as
might arise.
Miss SALLIE WHEELER died in Phila-
delphia, on the esd, aged 103 years.
She was born in birmingham. En-
gland, December 16. 1890. Up to the
time of her death she was in possession
of all her faculties
The bitum1nous coal trade in the
Gearfield and Broad Top regions of
Pennsylvania is duller now than ever
before known. The largest collieries
are idle, and there are no prospects for
q revival of business.
FATHER CLARK, of Brantford, Ont,
who was reported among the missing
ut the Battle Creek (Mich.) horror,
turned up in Chicago on the 24th.
where he had been since the day of
the accident, enjoying the fair.
CHOLERA has reappeared in Moscow.
Kien and northeast Hungary. In Mos
COW the outbreak is most serious
There were thirty-two cases and eleven
deaths in the convict forwarding prison
a4 that city between the 1st and 11th
The damage caused by. the eruption
of the volcano of Calbuco in Chilli
e incalculable. Many residents have
been compelled to abandon their
homes because of the great volumes of
ashes and volcanic cinders which have
fallen.
TnE president has approved joint
Eesolution providing for the disposition
of certain personal property and money
now in the hands of a receiver of the
Mormon church, and authorizing its
application to the charitable purposes
Of that church
ASSISTANT SECRETARY HAM.IN has
decided that the buildings in jackson
mark, Chicago, shall be regarded as
bonded warehouses until December 81,
the date on which the exposition au-
thorities will terminate their occupa-
tioa of the grounds
EncnrrARY CARLISLE has directed
Chat all persons designated for ap-
uointmeut rs assistant inspectors OF
7hulls and boilers in the treasury serv-
Zoe must first submit to non-competi-
two examination to establish their 1T
ness for the positions sought.
VISITORS to the Worlds fair, on the
35th. were entertained with marine
parade in which every ship, including
the caravels, whale boat Progress. :"
the Viking ship and the queer little
craft of foreign nations to be found on
the waterways of the park was in line.
A TIRE in the manufacturing build
ing connected with the Nebraska state
penitentiary near Lincoln, on the Goth,
destroyed property to the value OF
eloo. 900. oue-haif belonging to the
state and uninsured; and the other
half. insured, owned by firms and in
Glividuals
THE senate. on the 27th, rejected Mr..
PETERS amendment to the silver pur-
chase-repeal bill by o vote of 50 to %.
1t also adopted Mr.. Voorhees, substi-
tute by the practically unanimous vote
of 50 to ., with the understanding that
It would then be treated as the original
hill and open to amendment
The battle-ship Oregon, which, when
c0mplete, will cost, exclusive of arma-
ment. $4,000. 900. have a displacement
OF 10,29S tons, q maximum of 5000
horsepower and speed of 16 2-10
knots per hour, was successfully
launched from the ways of the Union
iron works at San Francisco on the
18Th.
TaE Central and South American
Oriental Commercial Co. of San Fran
cisco has closed a contract with brokers
In China to supply $4,000 Chinese labor
ers to planters in South America II
has also closed contract with the Pc.
xuyian consul general an San Francisco
70 supply planters in Peru with 10. .ooe
lsborers recently arrived from China