Iron County register., 1895-11-07
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
Personal AND GENERAL

29th, by the slow roasting at stake,
in the public square at Tyler, in Smith
county, of a negro charged with q
revolving crime eliminating in the
murder of his victim. Fully 1000 per-
sons witnessed the burning, and the
husband of the brute's victim applied
the match.
SIR MACKENZIE BOWEL, premier of
Canada, and Sir Charles Tupper, min
lister of justice, who are in Washing
ton to attend the Behring sea confer
ence, were presented to Secretary
Olney on the 2sth. They were accom-
panied by Sir Julian Pauncefote and
the staff of the British embassy.
A DISPATCH received from Seoul. on
cials have announced their intention
of evacuating Corea at the time of the
evacuation of the Liao-Tung peninsula
A PASSENGER train from Paris to
Toulouse came into collision between
Lexos and La Guepie. in the depart
ment of Tarn ct Garonne, France. on
the 29th, with train from Toulouse
for the north. Two passengers were
killed and eight injured.
The house of Francis Neil, of Os-
born. Ont, was burned to the ground
on the 29th. Mrs Neil perished in the
flames and Mr.. Neil was badly burned.
The couple had been married only a
few months.
GEoRGEsW. BoGGs, city treasurer of
Tacoma, Wash, from 1890 to April,
1894, is charged with the embezzle-
ment of slO9, 900.
The safe of U.aS. Leach's general
store at Van1ue. 90, was blown open
and robbed of 81, 100 on the morning of
the goth.
REPORTS on the progress Of the civil
war records show the completion Of
the first volume of the first series,
covering the campaign of the war in
Virginia and the Carolinas, and in the
transmississippi region. The remain
ing volumes of this series will be in
type :before the close of the current
calendar year.
DR. ORLANDO T. BRADFORD, New
York city dentist, recently convicted of
having in his possession plates for coun-
terfeiting 500 bills. was. on the 3Oth.
sentenced to six years in the Kings
county penitentiary.
AN explosion, supposed to have been
caused by escaping gas. wrecked a
house, reducing it to atoms, on New
Church Court, Strand, London, on the
evening of the Goth. Six persons were
killed and many injured by the col
lapse of the house. The building con-
sisted of three floors and its tenants
were mostly Covent Garden market
porters.
The Lagonda hotel at Springfield,
O., caught fire early on the morning
of the 3Oth. The guests escaped. The
Western Union Telegraph Co.. a cloth
ing store, the hotel and a drug store
were burned out The loss is about
$500. 900.
The contract for the construction of
the new tobacco and cigarette factory
of Ligget & Meyers in st. Louis, has
been let to Thomas Clark & Sons, of
Chicago. The cost will exceed 81, ESQ.,
600. There will be sixteen buildings,
mostly of large proportions. ranging
from two to six stories high, and all
connected.
DURING the performance of the ''Cap1
tain Paul" company, on the night of
the Goth. at the Bijou theater in Mil
waukee. Sol de Liser, the gunner of
the company, was fatally injured by
the premature discharge of his gun.
His right leg was shot off, and he died
in a short time.
THOUSANDS of tons of hay have been
burned by the marsh fires in Porter,
Laporte, Jasper and Stark counties,
Ind. Some farm houses have also
been burned, and many head of cat
tie. In some places the ground is
said to be burning to a depth of three
feet
THE South Carolina convention. on
the goth, voted down the woman's suf-
frage amendment by a most decisive
vote of 121 to 26. The whole morning
session was given UP to the discussion
of the question. George d. Tillman
made a great speech in advocacy of the
idea
THE Belfast and Sligo ship builders
have conceded the demands of their
employees for an increase of per cent.
in their wages, to go into effect Feb
ruary 1 next
Two STUDENTS have been expelled
from the State college at Bellefonte,
Pa, and fourteen Indefinitely sus-
pended for hazing.
The treasury deficit for October, from
figures officially announced, on the 1st,
is approximately Sc, 300, 900. The re-
ceipts show se7, 900, 600. and the expen-
ditures in round figures $34, ,200, 900.
j. LowENTRAUB's roller and ice skate
factory. a four-story brick stru cture
at Newark, n. J., was burned on the
3lst. Thousands of gross of skates
oil
worth of machinery. Loss, S240, GOO;
insurance, S7S, 600. Three hundred
and fifty employees were thrown out OF
work.
A DISPATCH from Trebizond, on the
3lst, said that three Armenians of
prominence, one of them a notable ec-
clesiastic, had been summarily tried
and condemned upon charges connect
ing them with the recent disturbances
there, and it was reported that the
government intended to execute them
without delay.
SIR CHARLES TUPPER and Hon. Mac
kenzie Bowel, who had been in WASH
ington for several days in the ca
pacity of advisory counsel to Sir Ju-
Ian Pauncefote, British ambassador.
returned to Canada, on the .lst, hav-
ing concluded their mission in con-
nection with the Behring sea negotia-
tions.
NUMEROUS cattle have died in south-
ern Kansas from q disease pronounced
to be dry murrain, caused by feeding
on dry cornstalks.
THE business portion of Miller's
Falls, Mass, was burned on the night
Of the s1st. Loss, SIS, 600: insurance