Iron County register., 1894-04-05
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| A TYPOGRAPHICAI error has made an
| admirer of Kossuth say: His mastery
| of the English language amazed me:
| he was in touch with all the odiums. -
English idioms are doubtless odious to
foreigners, however, and the linotype
may not have been so far wrong as it
seems.
THE government of Portugal has re-
piled to the demand of President
Peixoto of Brazil for the surrender of
the insurgent refugees who sought an
asylum on Portuguese vessels after the
surrender in Rio harbor, refusing to
surrender them. It maintains that to
| comply with the demand would be con-
trary to the principles of humanity
and opposed to all precedents of inter-
national law.
Paris, aged IA, office boy at the Chesa-
peake & Ohio office in Cincinnati, was
sent to the Market national bank with
s25. He forged check for S625, sign
ing c. B. Ryan's name it, got the
money and decamped.
THE engagement of Howard Gould
and Miss Bessie Kirkland, better known
on the stage as Odette Tyler, promi-
nent member of Charles Frohman's
company, about which there had been
rumors for some time past, was an
nounced on the 27th. as positive fact
H. L. STOUT, the Dubuque Qa.) mil
lionaire, has made a gift of his prop
erty on the corner of Ninth and Iowa
streets to the Young Mems Christian
association of Dubuque. 1t is valued
at $50, 600.
STEPHEN T. GAGE. Mrs. Leland Stan
ford's representative in the Central Pa
cific Railway Co., has resigned, the ul-
innate object being the withdrawal of
the Stanford estate from the Central
Pacific.
AT the suit of Russell B. Harrison,
ex-President Harrison's law partner,
Howard Cole, was, on the 27th, ap-
pointed receiver of the Queen City
Electric Railway Co., of Marion, Ind.
WEMYss Bros, of Boston, manufac-
turers of furniture, made an assign
ment on the 27tk. A recent balance
sheet showed assets of about 500, 900,
and a surplus of nearly $4,000.
Col. JOHN PEAvY, for many years a
resident of Battle Creek, Mich, died,
on the Goth, aged SO. He was at one
time member of the Massachusetts,
legislature.
REPRESENTATIVES, BOEN, of Mime
sofa, has introduced a bill for the re-
duction of compensation of persons in
the government service. The bill re-
cites that the unit value of money is
decreasing and that private wages are
falling, while public salaries are kept
up to their old figures.
A PLOT was discovered on the 27th
by which three notorious murderers
expected to free themselves from the
county Jail in San Francisco. Already
| the tunneling through the Jail wall
| had begun. The three men who
had done this work were hurriedly
transferred to the county Jail at San
Jose. They are Thomas st. Clair, Her
man Spark and John Hanson.
THE European Union of Astronomers
| have announced the discovery of a
faint comet by w. Z. Denning, of Bris-
tol, England. Its position is: March
26, 396 Greenwich mean time; right as
cension hours and 55 minutes; decli-
nation north 33 degrees and Is min
utes- The daily motion of the object
is south following 1 degree.
HE VI thC oI
Gen. U. S. Grant, which occurs April
%, will be commemorated by the Ham,
ilton Republican club of New York
city, which will give dinner on that
night. Among the invited guests are
Gen. Horace Porter, John s. Wise, Cor
nelius n. Bliss, John A. Cockerill, d.
B. ST. John Rosa, Roswell c. Horr and
Congressman Lemuel E. Quigg.
ANsoN NoRTHUP, one of the best
known pioneers in the northwest, died
in st. Paul, Mimi, on the 27th, of
consumption. aged 76 years. He went
to the northwest with his bride in
1889, driving the first herd of cattle
across Wisconsin to st. Croix Falls.
He was a member of the territorial
senate in 1857.
LUTHER HARsHBERGER, a young man
of Newmarket, O.. accidentally shot
and killed his wife, on the 2Sth, to
whom he had been married but year.
He was trying to kill cats, and fell
down, discharging his gun in the fall