Iron County register., 1895-05-09
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

at his home in that city, on the 30th,
aged 80. He was born in Green coun-
ty, Pa, and moved to Madison county,
Ind, in 1910, and to Wabash county in
1855. He was married sixty-fve years
ago. and his wife died two months ago.
THE United States treasury receipts
during the month of April did not meet
the expectations of the officials, and
the indications now are that the deficit
at the end of the fiscal year will be lit
tie. if any, less than s45. ZOO, 600.
THE steamer A. Everett, Chicago to
Buffalo with $4,000 bushels of corn,
was sunk by the ice in Lake Huron,
twenty miles above Point Auxbarques,
on the night of the goth. The crew
succeeded in escaping from the wreck
and were picked up by a passing
steamer.
CHARLES E. SwADNER and Charles d.
Iddings, for years prominent attorneys
of Dayton, o., were disbarred by the
circuit court, ON the 3Oth, for elnbez-
ling sums of money from clients.
The supreme court of Michigan, on
the SOth. ordered a new trial in the
case of James G. Clark, who was con-
of willfally and fraudulently forg-
ing and altering the tabulated election
returns of Wayne county on the state
salaries amendment in 1892. Clark was
never sentenced.
THE home of Stanford Kimely, in the
country near Atchison, Kas., was
burned, On the 3Oth, during the tempo
rary absence of Mr.. and Mrs. Kimley,
and their two children, aged years
and Is months, were cremated. The
origin of the fire is unknown.
The body of DIR. c. S. Dixon, prom
inent citizen of Ashland, Wis, who was
lost in the woods last winter, was found
by searching party on the 3Oth.
A CRUCIAL test of Carnegie Harvey
lied plate armor took place at the In
dian Head proving grounds, on the 1st,
in which, after all the required tests
had been successfully resisted by
plate 16 feet 91z inches long, 2 feet
11-16 inches wide, of tapering thick
ness from 1s to 8 inches, and weighing
20, 800 pounds, a 13-inch Carpenter
shell, weighing 1,1OO pounds, dis
charged with a velocity of 1,s1O feet
per second with striking energy of
1000 foot tons, was almost pulverized
upon the plate, which was penetrated
only to the depth of 10 inches.
THE Baltimore railroad tunnel, one
of the most remarkable engineering
feats of modern times, built under the
city of Baltimore, Nd, from Camden
station to Bayview junction, on the
Philadelphia division of the Baltimore
& Ohio railroad, a distance of ~
miles, was formally opened for busi-
ness on the 1st.
A NoRTH-BoUND passenger train on
the Chicago & Alton railroad was
boarded by three robbers at a point
one mile north of Carlinville. Ill, on
the night of the 1st, and in the fight
which ensued with the train men,
Engineer Holman, one of the oldest
engineers on the road, was killed. The
robbers were pursued and captured.
On the steamer Vigilancia, which ar
rived at New York, on the 1st, from
Havana, was Ramon C. Williams, con-
of the United States at
Havana. Mr.. Williams declined to
say anything about Cuban affairs.
THE town of Patterson. Kas., was
visited by death-dealing cyclone. on
the 1st, which destroyed property to
the value of of 1925, 200 and caused the
death of many persons and injury to
great many others.
GUATEMALA has united with Hondu-
ras in dispatch to Secretary Gresham
asking him to use his good Offices to
bring about peaceable solution of
the Nicaragua dispute with Great
Britain.
LARIMER, a small town in Union
Ia, was nearly wiped out by
fire on the 1st. Seventeen business
houses were burned. The loss and in
surance are unknown. The fire is sup
posed to have been incendiary.
The bondsmen of ex-City Treasurer
Czizek, of Mount Clemens, Mich, were
notified, on the 1st, that there is de-
of funds amounting to about
SO, 600, and they are requested to make
the shortage good.
THE department of state received a
cable message from Ambassador Bay
ard, on the I'd. stating that Great
Britain had accepted the guarantee
the indemnity by Nicaragua in Lon
don within a fortnight and that SO
soon as Nicaragua should confirm the
guarantee and SO inform the British
admiral the latter had been instructed
to quit Corinto.
On the 4th Warden Sage of the Sing
Sing On. W state prison sent out invi-
tations to the witnesses selected to at
tend the eIectrocution of DIR. Buchan-
an, the wife-murderer, the date of
whose execu tion had been twice post
poned through efforts of his attorneys
in his behalf.
REPRESENTATIVE of the Goeso pow
der mills, near Xenia, O.. were in Gin
cinnati, on the 1st, arranging to ship
forty carloads of powder to Cuba
They would not say whether the or
der was from the government or the
insurgents.
LIEUT.. VALENTIN GALLEGE, who sur
rendered fifty Spanish soldiers to the
Cuban rebels. and who was afterward
arrested andturned over to the Span
ish military authorities, was, after
trial by court-martial, shot, on the
1st, in the fortress of Cabana at Ha-
vana.
SECRETARY CARLISLE, it is stated,
will enter the Kentucky campaign
about the 18th of this month, and de-
liver two or more speeches, at points
yet to be selected, in favor of sound
currency.
JOHN HUFF, who is said to have fall
en- heir to 81 500, 900 by the death of
Charles Easthof. a wealthy Califor-
nian, in 1898, died at Mateawan, N.
Y, on the I'd. HUFF nursed EasthoH