Iron County register., 1893-04-06
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

would be adopted. The senate then went into
secret session.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
MONTREAL. Can, was visited, on the
night of the 27th. by another disastrous
| fire, and for the fourth time ini is exist
ence the Daily Herald was completely
burned out. The second floor was oc-
cupied by the Bennlock Lithographing
Co. and Southam & Carey, printers.
This building was burned to the
ground. The total loss will reach $780,
600, of which the Herald loses about
$40. 900; insurance about $50, 900.
REV. DIR. RICHARD GANTER, rector of
ST. Paul's Protestant Episcopal church
of Akron, o., died on the morning of
the 27th, after an illness of many
months. He had been for twenty-three
years rector of ST. Paurs church, and
had long been one of tie most promi-
nent clergymen of the Episcopal church
in the west.
THE revival meetings at English.
Ind, are the most successful ever
known in that section. Many persons
stop business to attend, and the men,
bership of all denominations has been
greatly increased. Sixty persons were
baptized by immersion in the stream
near that place on the Goth.
GEORGE II. GAIT, one of the best
known men in the art world of New
York died suddenly in his studio in
that city on the night of the 27th. He
was English by birth, but had dwelt
in New York for many years.
FERDINAND ]. THRUM, the man who
is charged with one of the biggest
schemes to defraud an insurance COM
panv on record. appeared before Justice
Merrill. of Oshkosh. Wis, on the 2sth,
for preliminary examination, but the
case was postponed in order to give
more time for investigation by the at
torneys.
PETER W. PERSON, wealthy livery
man of South Omaha, Neb.. who was
living apart from his wife, was found
dead in a bed in his Office on the morn
ing of the 2Sth with his skull fractured.
The murder had evidently been COM
mitted with a club found on the prem
ises.
PRINCE BISMARCK, the famous "Iron
Chancellor" of the German empire, is
very near death. according to private
cablegram received in New York on
the 2Sth. The person who received the
news is DR.. Emil Dorm, who was for
many years an aid-de-camp on Count
Won Moltke's staff.
Rev. JAMES HILL, Baptist minister at
Cascade, Ia. has received from the
war department a medal of honor,
awarded by the secretary for distin-
guish ed conduct at the battle of Cham
was at that time first lieutenant of Co.
/, Twenty-irst Iowa infantry. and the
act was the capturing of three con-
federate pickets single-handed and
bringing them into camp.
JAMES WHITcoMB RILEY, the poet, is
superstitious. Upon his arrival at a
Baltimore hotel, the other night, the
clerk gave a key to the bell-boy and
told him to show the poet No. IS, one
of the best rooms in the house. "Whatr'
exclaimed Mr.. Riley, as he sharply
eyed the bell-boy. "a cross-eyed coon
to show me to room No. 13. Well, not
tonight" He was given a room with
Q number more to his liking.
MARTHA BELL. who for years boasted
that she would come back after death
and demonstrate the truths of spirit
ualism. was stricken with apoplexy at
her home in Brooklyn, N. ", on the
night of the 27th, and died before med
ical attendance could reach her. Miss
Bell was 50 years old.
The captain of a cattle steamboat
sailing from Liverpool, marooned nine
American stowaways at Capel island,
of the Irish coast, recently, which is
uninhabited. They were rescued by
the crew of fishing boat and conveyed
to the neighboring headland of Knocka-
doom, whence they proceeded to Queens
town.
FRANK NIcoLIN, the big mill owner
at Jordan, Minu., has made an assign
ment for the benefit of his creditors.
The assets and liabilities can not be as
certained. Careful estimates, which
include 100, 900 bushels of stored wheat,
make the liabilities about $120, 200. The
assets will be about $40, 900.
The cholera scare is back again. A
train load of 1870 immigrants was
stopped at Windsor, Ont, on the 2sth,
upon orders from Washington. DIR.
Dufield refused them entrance into
Detroit until satisfactory evidence was
furnished that they had undergone
proper disinfection.
A DISASTROUS fire at Alton, Ia. on
the morning of the esth, destroyed q
half block of the business portion of
the city. causing a loss of thousands of
dollars. This is the second conflagra a.
ton within a few weeks, both fires de-
stroying about $50, 900 worth Of prop
erty.
SEvENrY-FrvE core-makers employed
ut the Worthington pump works at
Elizabeth, N. j., struck. ON the goth,
ON account of tho firms refusal to dis
charge non-union man who had been
employed 1T the foundry for two
weeks
A TYPEwRTTER company with . cap
tai of $50. ooo. 900 has been formed in
Trenton. N ].