Iron County register., 1895-09-19
the nth ex-conuressman John A


McShane. of Omaha. and F. II. Culver.
a Chicago attorney. were arrested IL
the latter city, on warrants charging
them with fraud in a real estate deal.
A REPORT from Havana, on the 11th,
stated that a great battle had been
fought in Puerto Principe. and that
the Spanish had been defeated and the
capital captured by the insurgents.
Mr. JAMES GORDON BENEFITS Au
Train won the international Prix Pol
kaichick for harnessed trotters on the
Neully track, in France. on the 1Ith,
and his mare Helen Leyburn, was
second.
A DISPATCH from Tegucigalpa, Hon.
duras. on the 18th, announced series
of the most horrible seismic convul.
sions ever known in that country.
During the shocks of earthquake,
which continued for days. illuminated.
at intervals, by flames which burst
from the mountain sides, hundreds OF
lives were lost. accompanied by great
destruction of property.
DURING terrible thunderstorm in
the vicinity of Scituate, R. l., on the
18th, the famous Gen. Lafayette tree
was split in two The tree is the one
under which the marquis ate his dim
ner while the continental troops were
marching from Rhode Island to Con-
necticut.
A HEAVY earthquake. lasting ten
seconds. prevailed in lower east Ten
nesse, along the North Carolina state
line. at 5 o'clock on the morning of
the 18th. The country in that section
being mountainous, but little damage
was done.
DR.. ORLANDO E BRADFORD and John
Fl. Nixon, alleged counterfeiters who
were arrested in New York city, on
the 7th, were given an examination
on the 12th. Bradford was held in So5, :
600 and Nixon in $1,000 bail
A PARTY of men went down Shaft
No. of the Osceola mine at Houghton,
Mich, on the 18TH, and found twenty
three dead miners at the fourteenth
level and two at the third level. Five
were still missing.
THE province, and especially the
city of Grenada. Spain, was visited by
earthquakes. on the night of the 18th,
but, though the shocks were severe,
no damage was reported.
THE United States grand jury at Will
mington, Del. ,on the l2th, returned true
bills against the accused Cuban fill
busters, including Ralph de Soto, the
cigar dealer and bondsman for a num-
Der of the accused men. The case will
come up on the 18th, to which date the
petit jury was discharged.
THE Columbia Liberty bell started
from Chicago, on the 18th, on its trip
around the world. 1t left on special
train, going first to Atlanta, Ga,
where it will remain until the close of
the exposition. After that it will be
taken through the southern states and
Mexico From there it will go to Eu-
rope and thence around the world.
j. L. Mcneil, president; William n.
Byers, vice-president; J. E. Lozier,
cashier. and r. w. Woodbury., director
of the recently defunct Union national
bank of Denver, COL, were arrested,
on the 18th, on complaint of deposit
tor, who charged them with accepting
deposits when they knew the bank was
insolvent. They gave bonds.
On the 18th hAttorney-General Har-
mon instructed the United States dis
trict attorney at Chicago to take an
appeal from the recent decision of
Judge Seaborn in releasing from GUS
tody four Cinnamon in Detroit. Mich.
Miss ELEANOR CHITTY. daughter of
Sir Joseph Chitty, a justice of the
chancery division of the English high
court of justice. was drowned at Inver-
Iochy. county Inverness, Scotland, on
the 18th. while fishing.
CAPT. JOHNSON of the steamer City
of Sydney denies the story. published
in a San Francisco paper, of the sur
render of Gen. Bustamente, or that the
latter was burned to death.
REV. SAMUEL WAKEFIELD, of West
Newton, Pa. a veteran Methodist min
lister, died at a. m. on the 18th, aged
sc years. months and days
The French transport steamer CO.
morin was burned at her dock at Mar
settles on the 18th.
THE National bank of Kearney,
Neb.. apital 500. 900, closed it's doors
on the 18th.