Iron County register., 1895-09-19
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

PERSONAL AND GENERAL
The twenty-ninth encampment of
the Grand Army of the Republic was
| opened at Louisville. Ky, on the 9th,
on the arrival of Commander-in-Chi
Lawler. with parade
LATEST reports from the seal islands
indicate that the North American
Commercial Co. have taken about 49,
600 skins, the maximum limit imposed,
during the season closed August l.
The Norwegian steamer Kama was
sunk in a collision with the Spanish
steamer Manila, near Flushing, on the
| 10th, and six of her crew were lost
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has refused to
| pardon c. n. Boyer, sentenced in Mis-
sissippi to imprisonment for fifteen
| months and fine for violating the
pension laws. Upon the papers in the
case the president wrote: Denied. l
shall refuse all applications for pen
sions in cases involving violations of
the pension laws, except when very
strong and unusual reasons are pre-
sented."
QUEENIE CARROLL, young lady 16
years old, committed suicide at Alton,
that she should attend school, and she
wanted to learn the millinery trade.
Rather than accede to her fathers
wishes she shot herself through the
heart
TWENTY-FIVE mail carriers connected
with the post Office of Milwaukee were
cited. on the 9th. to show cause why
they should not be removed. suspended
>e
ceived a letter from Washington, in
which the nature of his offense was set
forth, and the men were required to
make an answer within one week from
date.
For the vacancy in the corps of army
chaplains occasioned by the recent re-
| tirement of Chaplain John d. Parker.
there are now 100 applicants, The po-
sition is practically life sinecure with
good pay.
Mrs. PIETZEL and her daughter Das-
sa, the only child that escaped the
murderous clutches of H. FL. Holmes,
| went before Coroner Carter at India u
apolis, Ind, on the 10th. Mrs Piet-
eel, while looking upon the trinkets
found in the chimney of the Irvington
house. where little Howard Pietzers
charred remains were found, went into
Mysteries, and sobbed almost continu-
| ously during her testimony.
JOHN NORRIS, aged 25, was burned
to death, and William Laidlaw, an
other employe. was badly injured at
Winnipeg. Man.. on the 10th, by the
explosion of powder in the mill OF the
| Robin Hood SmoKeless Powder Co. of
| that city. The mill was burned down,
and Morris was incinerated.
Miss LONDONDERRY, the lady cyclist
who left Boston, June 25. 1894, to make
a tour of the world within fifteen
months. arrived at Clinton, Ia, from
the west on the 10th.
LORD ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL and his
Highland pipers marched through
Glencoe, Scotland, on the night of the
9th, playing dirge. Lord Archibald
devised this project as an expiation for
the historical massacre of Glencoe by
the Campbells.
THE Spring Valley Coal Co. has be-
gun suit for SIG, 200 damages against
the city of Spring Valley. Ill, for
damages alleged to have been sus-
| tanned at the hands of the mob that.
on July 6. 1894, looted the company's
store This suit will involve the right
of the corporation to operate truck
store contrary to the provisions of its
charter.
THE Clyde steamer Delaware. which
arrived at New York, on the 10th, from
Haytian ports, reported that whilst at
Port de Paix information was received
that great fire ragged at Les Gonaives
on the 4th. No particulars could be
4 l. d.. H.
wires were interrupted
WALTER SCorT, a leading druggist
and business man of Des Moines, Ia,
was forced to make an assignment on
the 10th. AS soon as the papers were
filed he went to his room and took
prussic acid and died shortly after.
His failure had been forced as result
of the drug store war.
PRINCE Won HoHENLoHE, chancellor
of the German empire. arrived in st.
Petersburg on the 10th. He was re-
ceived at the railway station by Prince
Radolin, German ambassador to Rus
sia. and escorted to the German en-
bassy.
THE death of Mr.. ]. c. Ashbury. for
! merly a member of the British house
| of commons and a well-known yachts
man, was announced in London on the
1Ith. Mr. Ashbury brought the yacht
| Cambria to America in 1870 and unsuc-
cessfully competed for the Americas
| cup. In 1871 he again contested for
the cup with the yacht Livonia. and
won one out of the four races sailed.
| HENRY NJ. STANLEY, the African ex-
plorer and author, recently elected a
member of parliament, arrived in New
York city, on the 11th. He was met
at the dock by Maj. Pond and a
half dozen newspaper men.
BY the ridiculous mistake of band
of train robbers in detaching the wrong
car, the robbery of the express on a
Rio Grande Western train at Crevasse
siding, in Colorado. near the Utah state
line, at 2:35 o'clock on the morning of
the 11th. was prevented. After the
robbers discovered their mistake they
became panic-striclen and took to the
| woods.
| A DISPATCH from Christiana, on the
11th, said that the yacht Windward, of
the Jackson-Harmsworth expedition,
had arrived at the island of Sardoe. in
the Arctic ocean, having broken out of
and Barents sea.
BY the explosion of ammunition in
caisson in Louisville, KY. early on
the morning of the 11th, four members
of Battery A Louisville Legion were
killed and two wounded.
| The Western Union Telegraph Co..
on the 11th, declared the regular
quarterly dividend of IA per cent,