Iron County register., 1895-05-16

would be issued.
Mrs. MARY BROWN, a monogamian
pepsioner, died, on the 10th, at her
home 5 miles from Knoxville, Tenn.
She was the widow of Joe Brown, a
soldier in the revolutionary war, and
was born in 1904. Her husband died
6fty-one years ago.
IT was announced IN London, on the
9TH. upon authority of the Exchange
Telegraph Co., that the Nicaraguan
government would pay the entire
by Great Britain at the foreign Office
In London in a few days
OK the 9th Gov Morton signed the
Lexow New York city bipartisan po-
lice bill and Assemblyman Ainsworth's
bill, prepared by the New York city
tenement commission, providing for
the construction and supervision of
New York city tenements-
SCOTLAND YARD detectives, on the
9th, submitted to United States Am
bassador Bayard evidence that Mendal
Howard, now in custody in London as
q counterfeiter, was fully prepared to
make and issue spurious United States
greenbacks and postage stamps.
RALPH z. PAIGE was paroled by the
Ohio prison board of managers on the
9TH. Under the Ohio law this gives
him the same freedom as a pardon,
save that he may not leave the state
and must report to the state peniten-
tiary authorities once each month.
THE Els, 500 for settlement of the
British demands was deposited by
Nicaragua with the Managua agency
of the London Bank of Central Amer
lea, on the 10th, for payment in Lon
don in accordance with the agreement
reached by Nicaragua and Great Brit
ain.
THE government is endeavoring to
secure possession of some 5000 letters
of great historic interest and public
value, owned by a member of the JEFF
ferson family residing near Charlottes-
vile, Va, to whom they were handed
down by inheritance from Thomas JEFF
ferson.
AS result of the action of the i'm
migration authorities in Washington,
General Manager Carter of the Detroit
& Cleveland Steam Navigation Co., on
the 10th, directed that all aliens in the
employ of that company be removed
and that none but citizens be en-
ployed.
DESPITE an almost universal belief
TO the contrary, Mr.. Lorrin A. Thurs
ton is still recognized by the state de-
partment as minister from Hawaii.
The diplomatic list for May, an official
issue of the department, contains his
name with the simple word absent"
after it.
PREMIER TURNER of British Col
umbia, on the 10th, presented to the
British colonial Office a protest on be-
half of British Columbian seal fisher
men against the delay in the payment
of the compensation to seized vessels
awarded by the Behring sea arbitra-
ton tribunal.
1T was stated in Santiago de Cuba,
on the sth, that the revolutionary
chiefs, in interviews, had declared
their opposition to annexation to the
pendence of the island under the pro-
lection of and free trade with the
United States.
The Nicaraguan legation in Wash
ington received a telegram, on the sth,.
from the minister of foreign affairs at
Managua, stating that there was no
foundation for the reports that rioting
1,ol hot o;f In
part of Nicaragua during the British
occupation of Corinto.
THE post Office department has re-
voked fraud order, issued in Febru-
ary last, against the Hematic Brother
hood Circle of Isis, represented by DR..
Phelon, of Chicago, DIR. Phelon having
agreed not in future to send out
through the mails the curative discs
which were the subject of the order
A DISPATCH from Toxic, on the 10th,
said that Admiral Viscount Kabayama,
with Mr.. Mdzuno, chief secretary of
the lower house of the diet, the latter,
as the head of the civil administration,
with suitable escort, would proceed
to Formosa in few days for the pur-
pose of formally annexing that island.
THE post Office department has taken
steps to secure and destroy the coun-
terfeit postage stamps Recently un-
earthed in Chicago. Should a coun-
terfeit be discovered in the mail, the
parcel carrying it will be held for
postage and not delivered until the
name and location of the sender are
discovered.
GEN. MARTINEZ CAMFos has offered
the American Railroad Co. in Cuba
monthly payment of $4,000 in eonsid-
Grafton OF the company's employing
the idle natives along the route in the
work of extending their lines of track
Gen. Oampos has also advocated an ex-
tensive improvement of the harbors as
. means of giving work to the unem-
ployed-
In fight between striking furnace
men from the Illinois steel works at
South Chicago and a large force OF
police, on the eth, quite number |
ON both sides were more or less seri-
ously injured. though NO one was
killed The strikers were finally
routed and the immense works of the
company were taken possession OF and
pstroled BY the guardians OF the pub
lie peace.
WARDEN s. w. CHASE of the Kansas
state penitentiary, ON the 9th, swore to
D complaint against Edmund N. Nor