Iron County register., 1894-03-29
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

A SPECIAL treasury agent has arrest
ed in Chicago three Chinese VINO are
believed to have sneaked in from Can
ada, and, as they would not talk or
give their names, he has called them
according to their respective sizes: One
Lung. Two Lungs and Three Lungs,
and so they figure, in an inflated sort
of way, on the warrant.
Boss MCKANE says the newspapers
are responsible for his condition, and
there is no doubt about the newspapers
cheerfully accepting the responsibility.
Hooray for the newspapers! Mckane
is not the first man they have brought
to righteous judgment.
FORMAL ratifications of the Russo
German commercial treaty were eX-
changed in Berlin on the 10th. The
treaty goes into effect at once.
WHILE n mum ber of workmen We're
engaged in excavating at Thorn, West
Prussia, on the Goth, an embankment
fell, burying five of them underneath
hundreds of tons of earth.
SENATOR BoULANGER-BURNET has
been appointed to the newly-created
position of minister of the colonies in
the French cabinet.
LOUIS KOSSoUTH, the Hungarian pa
triot, died at Turin on the Goth.
THIRTEEN county prisoners at Grip
pie Creek, Col, broke Jail, on the night
of the 10Th, and gained their liberty,
friends on the outside having knocked
the locks off and opened the doors.
THE arrest of w. z. Darrow, alias
w. f. Shaw, at Sioux City, Ia, Mon
J,1- for Lii forfeit silver coin
was reported to the treasury depart
ment on the Goth. A large assortment
of tools, files, lathes, etc, was cap
tured.
INCENDIARIEs attempted to burn the
business portion of Clinton. Ia, on the
morning of the Goth. AN alarm called
the department to the residence part
of the city. and Immediately after two
fires were discovered in the business
district. This necessitated a division
of the department, and, with high
wind prevailing, the fires were only
subdued after much hard work.
THE dwelling of the chief of the
Cherokee nation at Tahlequah, 1. Il.
was burned on the night of the 10th.
The structure was u two-story frame
Nothing was saved. Chief Harris had
a narrow escape, barely escaping with
his babe, in his night clothes. His
hands were badly burned.
1T was reported in Athens, on the
21st, that an earthquake had occurred
at Tarissa, near the Gulf of Salonica.
destroying many houses Particulars
were not obtainable.
THIRTEEN persons were INJURED in
the wild rush of 100 men, women
and children. from the ''MiXed Ale''
flats, big six-story double-decl1ed
tenement house in New York, on the
21st. The panic was caused by a IRE
which destroyed the upper portion of
the building.
THE four-story public school build
ing in South Evanston. 1s miles north
of Chicago, was completely destroyed
by fire on the 21st; loss, $50. 600.
Several pupils were severely injured
by jumping from the third and fourth
story windows.
On March 16, at a. M, James Mel
vile, aged 80, a steerage passenger on
the steamer Anchoria, en- route to New
York. and an American citizcn, in a
moment of temporary insanity stab
bed Charles Macklehcm, also Il steer
age passenger, causing 4 slight flesh
wound, and then jumped overheard.
THE eighth annual convention of the
Michigan Christian Endeavor union
met in Detroit, on the 21st, about
1,5OO delegates being present
AT St Paul, Ind, on the 21st, An
drew Gayheimer. an aged and re-
spected citizen. .clim bed to the top of the
railway bridge which spans Flat Rock
river, the top of which is so feet from
the river bed, which is solid limestone
rock. and without saying word de-
liberately walked to the edge and
jumped. Every bone in his body m ust
have been broken.
JOHN H. PERKINS, of Lebanon, Ind.
received letter, on the 21st, contain
ing s26 and note saying: Il sent
this for Jesus Christ's sake" There
was no signature 70 the note. About
eight years ago Mr.. Perkins store was
robbed and about $50 worth of goods
taken, and the supposition is that the
money he received was sent by sae rob
bex.