Iron County register., 1893-08-03
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL


election of members of the French
chamber of deputies. Second ballots
will be taken September 9.
A PowDER-HoUsE located on the river
bank at the western limits of Hunting.
ton, Ind, and containing twenty-five
pounds of dynamite and 900 pounds OF
| powder was blown to atoms on the
Gath. Two bodies were discovered in
the vicinity horribly mangled, one be.
ing identified as Hugh Harvey. about
20 years of age. The other was Homer
Householder. They had been seen in
the neighborhood with a rife.
| SOME fifteen years ago a painting OF
the duchess of Devonshire by Gains.
borough and valued at a high price
was stolen, the canvass having been
cut from the frame. The Pail Mall Ga.
zette processes to have discovered the
purloiner of the painting in the person
of Adam Wirth, ''Brigand Interna-
tional.' who is we'll known to the po-
lice officials in the United States.
TERENCE V. PowDERLY has finally de-
cided to give up the Office of general
master workman of the Knights of La
Dor. He will not be candidate again
at the next election of the order, which
is to be held soon, nor will he accept if
reelected.
A MUNICH dispatch of the cath said
the condition of the king of Bavaria
was daily becoming worse. His NAL
aides have become SO serious that it is
the general belief that his end is near.
NJ. PAVE. French minister resident
at Bangkok, Siam, lowered the flag
over his Office on the 24th. and notified
| the Siamese government that he would
leave the city to go aboard the French
warship Inconstante on the Goth.
SPEAKING of the report of Assistant
Surgeon G. b. Young, of the Marine
Hospital service. stationed at Naples,
that cholera prevails and is increasing
in that city, Surgeon-General Wyman
says: 1.-The facilities for CARRYING out
the treasury regulations do not exist at
Naples, and the bills of health there
fore cannot be granted, and ships can
not bring immigrants"
NINE men are known to have been
killed, twenty more or less severely
wounded, and others seriously hurt,
by the destruction of the Albion dyna-
mite factory in Bon Fleur, near Havre,
France, on the 25th. There were four
separate explosions while all hands
were at work.
DESPITE the excessively warm wealth
er the parade of the commercial trav-
elers in Chicago, on the 25th. was a
magnificent success Over 1900 men
were in line, and no less than forty
four states and territories were repre-
sented.
THE Greek consul at Smyrna, Asia
Minor, reported, on the 25th, that five
cases of cholera and two deaths from
the disease had occurred there.
MARSHAL ALEXANDER .HAMILL, Of
Ashta bula. O., was fatally shot, on the
a5th, by two burglars whom he was
pursuing.
DIR. JOHN RAE, an English Arctic ex-
plorer, died in London, on the cath, af-
ter prolonged illness
In the court-martial sitting at Va
letta, Malta, investigating the loss of
the battle ship Victoria, Capt. Alfred
Leigh Winsloe, the prosecutor, on the
Goth, announced that the case for the
prosecution was closed. and an adjourn
ment for the day was taken.
The steamer Pearl was run into by
an unknown steamer off North Rock,
County Down, Ireland, on the 26th.
and sank a short time after, carrying
down with her seven persons. The
other five on board were saved.
JOHN EDMUNDs. employed at the Car
bondale Traction Co. plant, at May
field, Pa, in ATTEMPTING to jump upon
a moving electric car at Jermyn, on
the Goth, was thrown under the wheels
and cut to pieces.
THE electrocution of William G.. Tay-
lor. the colored murderer, at Auburn,
n. V, on the 27th. was not a success.
The foot-rest of the chair broke, and
the dynamo gave out, so that a second
current could not be applied until con-
nection was made with the city dyn-
amo, when he was promptly dispatched.
THE car has ordered Vice-Admira
Tirtoff, commander of the Russian
Pacific squadron, to proceed to Siam
with all available speed.
ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS in
gold bars We're purchased in London,
on the Goth, for shipment to America.
THE statement of the Imperial bank
of Germany. issued on the Goth, shows
an increase in specie Of $3.50, 600 marks.
A TRAIN load of unemployed miners
We're given free transportation east
ward from Denver. Col, on the Goth.
A DISPATCH from Rio Grande do Sui
says the revolutionists were beaten
near Livramento. Two hundred Cas-
tilhistas raided a ranch near the Uru-
guayan frontier, stole many horses and
i impressed poems into the Castilhistan
army. They also committed similar
acts on Uruguayan soil.
LORD DUNRAvEN, owner of the cut
ter yalkyrie. which is to make an at
tempt to win the Americas cup, ex-
rects to sail for New York on August
IL.
On the 27th Cashier Edward S. Fran
els, late of the Pittsfield Mass ma
tional bank. who had been the subject
of much unpleasant newspaper talk re-
Gently, committed suicide by shooting.
Mr.. PowpERLY will not resign his
position as General master workman of
the Knights of Labor.
SEVERAL persons at Pindo, in the
province lof Coruna, Spain, have been
attacked by disease that is strongly
suspected of being cholera. The Off
cials of the town and province are TAX
ing every precaution to prevent the
| spread of the disease.
VERY REV. ALEXANDER GRANGER,
first vice-president of Notre Dame uni
versity at South Bend, Ind, died. on
the night of the 26th. aged IS. He had
been connected with Notre Dame uni
versity fifty years, and for many years
he was the provincial general of the