Iron County register., 1893-09-28

REV. SAMUEL Is. HALLIDAY. former
ly assistant pastor to Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher, was stricken with apoplexy
in the parlors of Plymouth church.
Brooklyn, on the Goth.
ELIZA PORTER, aged 101 years and Il
days, died, on the 10th, at Oak Mills,
kas- Mrs. Porter was born in Vir-
ginia, and was owned by near relatives
of George Washington.
THE well-known steeple-chase horse,
Futurity, owned by Alderman Nolan.
of Albany. n. Y. died in Chicago, on
the 10th, while on his way from the
east to San Francisco.
THE paid admission to the Worlds
fair. on the Goth, were liz, ,42s.
THE executive committee of the
Worlds fair directory met on the Goth,
and decided to promptly close the
Worlds fair October 80. This practi-
cally settles all talk of extension. An
other 20 per cent. was ordered paid on
the bonded Indebtedness, making a to-
tai of 20 per cent. of the 81, ,455, 900 now
ordered paid.
A SERIOUS mine accident occurred. on
the Goth. at the Dolcoth mine, at Cam
borne, Cornwall. A portion of the
mine caved in, burying thirty of the
miners in the ruins. Eight are be-
lieved to have been killed. Twenty
two were taken out alive but badly in
jured.
THE twenty-third anniversary of
Victor Emanuels unification of Italy
was celebrated in New York city by a
parade of the united Italian societies
Mayor Gilroy's refusal to place the
Italian flag in the place of honor on
the city hall was denounced by the
paraders.
PRESIDENT BoNNEy, chief of the
Worlds Congress Auxiliary, refused to
allow the international congress of
Free Thinkers the use of the Art insti-
tute, the now famous structure in Chi
cago. Mr.. Bonney said he would not
sanction the use of the hall by any
body likely to criticise the church or
drag the name of the Creator in the
mire.
FEVER has added its terrors to the
already overfowing cup of misery of
the unfortunate dwellers on the sea
islands on the coast of South Carolina.
Hundreds of people are reported sick
on these islands as result of the
stencil and putrefaction of dead bodies
left unburled from the great storm of
August.
Mrs. DAVID DOwDENA living six miles
southwest of West Elizabeth, Pa, at
tempted to light the fire with kerosene
on the 21st. An explosion resulted,
and Mrs. Dowden and her child were
burned to death. The house and con-
tents were destroyed.
DURING the twenty-four hours ended
at noon on the 21st. there were twelve
new cases of cholera and three deaths
thorities in Hamburg.
The 21st was the forty-seventh anni-
versary of the admission of Iowa into
the union.
CHOLERA is spreading among the
wealthier classes in Buda Pesth.
On the 21st the Bank of England re-
duced it's rate of discount to 80 per
cent.
FIVE men were killed and five were
seriously injured by gas explosion in
the Lance colliery No. IL of the Le-
high and Wilkesbarre Coal Co. at Ply
mouth. Pa, on the 21st.
THE prompt arrival of the firemen at
the burning of a five-story tenement
building, 433 west Fiftyfourth street,
New York city, at 3 o'clock on the
morning of the 22d, whose occupants
were only aroused after the stairway
was ablaze, prevented dreadful holo-
caust. One man lost his life by rush
ing down the burning stairway. The
others were rescued by fire escapes.
JULES H. BURwELL, vice-president,
treasurer and general manager of the
Mast, Buford & Burwell Carriage Co.,
of st. Paul, oMinn., is charged with
m misappropriating s5o,OOo of the funds
of the firm.
A PRIVATE telegram sent from Rio
de Janeiro, which reached London on
the 22d, said the government troops
still held possession of the city.
THERE were three new cases of yel-
low fever reported at Brunswick, Ga:
on the 22d.
NINE fresh cases and two deaths from
cholera were reported from Hamburg
on the 22d.