Iron County register., 1893-01-26
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


five cents per ton per mile to haul
freight over an ordinary dirt road in
the ordinary farm wagon. A team can
haul 500 per cent. more on a macad-
amized pike than on a good dirt road,
as has been found by actual expert
ment On a railroad the necessary cost
is put at one-fourth of cent per ton
per mile, or even less-a fact which
shows how much room there is for re-
duction of the cost of transportation on
wagon roads.
Gov. TURNEY of Tennessee took the
oath of office at his home, "Wolf's
Crag." near Winchester, on the 10th, in
the presence of Legislative committee
sent from Nashville. Judge Turney re-
manned seated during the ceremony,
being still crippled by rheuma tism,
from which he has suffered much of late.
GEORGE r. GRAHAM, founder of Gra-
hams Magazine. is i'll at the Memorial
hospital at Orange, n. j., and his death
is expected at any moment Mr.. Gra-
ham has been an inmate of the hos
pital for several years, his board being
paid by George w. Childs, of the Phila-
delphia Ledger. At one time Mr.. Gra-
ham was worth between 5000, 900 and
$500, 600. but lost his money in specula-
ton.
GEORGE A. STANTON, a well-known
rested, on the 10th, on an indictment
for criminal libel Stanton is charged
with having issued circular rejecting
on the standing of the American Assur-
ance L1oyds.
SENATOR GEORGE GRAY, of Delaware,
was reelected to the United States SEN
ate, without opposition, on the nth.
THE vicinity of Mount Pleasant, Ia,
has nearly had an epidemic of gold
hunting. While digging post-hole,
recently. Farmer Riddle found a pot
containing s6pc in golA. He concluded
it was buried by his father and divided
the money among relatives. Now 9TH
ers have gone to digging post-holes.
NEWS was received on the 10th that
indicates that the long threatened rev.
olution against the government of
President Hippolyte of Hayti has bro
ken out 1t is stated that battle had
been fought in the streets of L'AAse de
Neau, a settlement back of Port-au-
Prince.
SENATOR SHERMAN, from the finance
committee, reported a bill, on the nth.
to suspend silver purchases after Jan
uary l, 1894, and allow national banks
to issue circulation notes to the full
value of bonds deposited. 1t was placed
on the calendar.
The Massachusetts buildings at the
Worlds fair narrowly escaped destruc
ton. on the 10th, by fire. While the
foh 0ff
blocks away, stove upset in the struc-
ture. The damage was not serious
A TRAIN of several cars filed with
recruits, was running from Slatousk
to Samara, Russia, on the 18th. when
flames burst forth from the foremost
car. The train was going at full
speed, and the tongues of fire swept
backward. and in a few minutes all
the cars were blazing. The train was
entirely consumed with the result of
forty-nine killed by jumping from the
cars or burned to death, and twenty
injured.
THE extensive tobacco and cigarette
works, of Allen & Ginter, at Richmond,
Va. were burned on the 1Tth. The
Valentine meat juice works were also
destroyed. Loss, about $3.50. .0O0; in
sured. During the fire two fremeE
were badly frozen.
BY the death of q rich uncle in Aus
tralia William III. and Robert Mitchell
and John Duff, of Louisville, KY, find
themselves heirs to something like
$500, ,000 each. Robert and William
Mitchell are brothers and are half
breeds and half-brothers to John Duff.
All are butchers.
SECRETARY JOHN W. NOBLE of the
interior department is being sued in
the United States circuit court in New
York by w. R. Lapham for sea. .0oa for
defamation of character. Lapham was
formerly in the service of the depart
mept of the interior as superintendent
of the division of printing and sta
tionery.
MIrTESs WILLErr, the actress, is dy-
ing of cancer at her mothers home in
New York. She was born in Column
bus, KY, and is about "a years old
Mrs A. f. WooD, wife of a prominent
pioneer citizen of Hardin county, Ia,
died at Union, Ia. on the 18th, of what
is said to have been leprosy in its most
malignant FORM She had been bed
ridden and utterly helpless for num-
Der of years. her body finally becoming
so shrunken. distorted and: disfigured
that she scarcely resembled human
baina.