Iron County register., 1893-08-03

On the 27th Vice-President Stevenson
left Tacoma. Wash, on the steamer
City OF Kingston for visit to Victoria,
b.
DIRECT communication over the Cen.
tral and South American telegraph
wires was opened between Guatemala
and the United States on the Goth.
FIVE HUNDRED hands were thrown
out of employment in Cincinnati. on
the 21th, by the shutting down indefi.
nitely of the Deer Creek cotton mills
and betting factory.
THE extensive wooden mills o1
Scatchard Bros, of Philadelphia,
which had been giving employment te
about ESQ hands. shut down indefinite
1y. on the 26th, owing to the depression
in trade.
NOTWITHSTANDING the official denials
OF the Italian government of the re-
ports that cholera had appeared in
Italy. it is known that the disease is
prevailing in Alessandria and othe,
provinces of Piedmont
CHOLERA has reappeared in Moscow
KieF and northeast Hungary. In Mos
COW the outbreak is most serious.
There were thirty-two cases and eleven
deaths in the convict forwarding prison
at that city between the 1st and 11th
THE Indianapolis national bank OF
Indianapolis, capital s300,00O, closed its
doors ON the 25th. The failure is for
81. 200, 900. The bank was a United
States depository and had federal
money in it amounting to exactly
100000
On the 25th County Treasurer Reed.
of Council Bluffs, Ia, seized fifteen OF
the best locomotive engines of the
Union Pacific Railroad Co. and chained
them in the roundhouse under care OF
deputies to secure a claim of S10, 900 for
1891 taxes.
IN accordance with the decision of
the miners federation the great strike
of the English coal miners was inau-
gurated on the 2Sth. No disorder was
reported from any quarter. Something
like $50, 900 men are directly affected
by the strike.
REFERRING to the report that he was
dying from a cancerous affection in the
neck, Mr.. Joseph jefferson said to a
United Press reporter on the cath:
''You may deny the story. 1t is abso-
1utely false. i never was in better
health and spirits than ut the present
time"
THE government has begun an in
vestigation into the immigration of
Chinese at the port of New York. EX-
tensive frauds are charged in the adj
ministrat!on of the Chinese exclusion
act and hundreds of Chinese are alleged
to have been s..suggled in on fraudu-
lent certifcation.
A SINGULAR feature of the Worlds
fair thus far has been the absence of
heat victims. Up to the 10Th there had
pot been single fatal case Of sun
stroke, nor even one of prostration
from the effects of the heat, although
the thermometer had scared up in the
nineties and above.
CHOLERA has broken out in st. Louis,
the capital of the French possessions in
Senegambia, West Africa. The deaths
reach an average of fifty daily. and a
genuine panic prevails among the in
habitants- The disease is spreading
among the European residents also,
some of whom have died.
SECRETARY CARLISLE has received
from Collector Clark, at Chicago, a de-
tailed report of the trouble growing
out of the examination of certain
goods on exhibition in the Russian sec
ton. He fully sustains Collector
Clark in the acts which gave such Of
fense to the Russian exhibitors.
THE board Of foreign missions in
New York city has received news of
an unprovoked and brutal assault upon
Miss Anna Melton, an American mis-
sionary, formerly Of Randolph, I'LL.
who was stationed at the time of the
outrage in little village among the
HISTORIANS mountains, in Turkey.
THE potato king of Kansas this sea-
son is a colored man. His name is II.
p Ewing. and he lives about a mile
south of Loring. on the Kaw river bot
tom, has 500 acres of the tubers in, and
while in Kansas City, Kas., the other
day, said they would run $50 bushels to
an acre, making his total crop $4,000
bushels.
THE Pail Mall Gazette, of London.
of the 2Sth, says: We learn from au-
thority deserving of the highest re-
spect that the Franco-Siamese diff
Guilty has been settled. France has
agreed to accept Slams proposals. and
has abandoned her claims to the terri
tory lying between the eighteenth and
twenty-third parallels of latitude.
JOSE ANDRAPE. the tyrant of the
Pedro Gorda district in Guanajuato,
Mexico, was arrested recently on a
charge of committing a number OF
atrocious crimes in his official capacity.
1t was alleged he had shot a number
of innocent persons without trial. lie
was tried, found guilty and shot. the
execution being witnessed by hundreds
of people.
r. r. NEMIrz and his two sons, aged,
respectively, 12 and Ia. of Genoa,
Switzerland, who left Chicago some
lsays ago under suspicion of embez.
cling $50, 900 from Swiss exhibitors a,
the Worlds fair, were arrested in
Toronto. Ont. on the Goth. The po'
lice found s24. 600 in securities, 81 .OO(
in cash and twenty-three watches in
their baggage.
NJ. PAVE, the French minister resi-
Glenr. prior to his departure from Bang
kok. had final interview with Deva'
xyonpz. the Siamese foreign minister