Iron County register., 1895-05-16
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

EnSONAI Anu GENERAA
THERE is some force in the idea of a
southern banker that the low price of
cotton has proved to be blessing in
disguise by impressing upon the farm
ers the necessity of diversifying their
crops. Certainly the south has too
long neglected the work of raising her
own supplies of all kinds, and the pro-
duction of more grain and vegetables
will materially promote her prosperity.
LORD DOUGLAS OF HAwIcK, eldest
surviving son of the marquis of Queens
berry, and Rev. Stewart DeHedlam,
we'll known as staunch supporter of
stage dancing, appeared in the Bow
Street police court, London, on the
9TH, and became sureties for Oscar
Wilde.
On the 7th the committee appointed
to select a course and date for the race
between the boat crews of Columbia,
Cornell and the University of Psnnsyl-
vania, decided to hold the race on the
Hudson river at Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
on June 81. The course will be q
triangular one.
MICHIGAN CENTRAL freight cars were
broken open, on the night of the 9th,
between Niles and Jackson. Mich, and
plundered of their contents No esti-
mate is given of the loss, which is be-
lieved to be heavy.
On the 7th notices were posted in the
Berkshire (Mass-) cotton mills that on
and after the Goth instant, the opera
tives would receive an increase in
wages
IT is claimed by the London police
that an ex-soldier named Granger, a
native of Cork, now doing a ten-year
term of penal servitude for stabbing a
woman in the Whitechape1 district of
London, is the real Jack the Ripper. T"
THE Paris newspaper La Lanterne,
in an article on the result of the pro-
tests against japanese occupation Of
Chinese mainland territory, says:
Russia has duped France unless she
returns the service in Egypt which we
rendered to her in Pe-Chi-Li."
In an explosion of dynamite at the
Albright colliery. near LIewellyn,
Pa, on the 7th, one man was killed
and several others inj ured, perhaps ia
tally.
On the sth four freight conduct ors
and eight brakemen on the Nickel
Plate railroad, who had been long in
the service, were discharged for vio-
lation of general order to the effect
that ''all trainmen, engineers and fire
men seen entering or leaving a saloon,
either while on or off duty, would be
discharged" Forty other
employees were ordered to report for
examination on similar charges.
THE stage coach running between
Calistoga and Clear Lake, Cal, was
held up and robbed. on the eth, by two
masked men who secured about 81, 200
cash and looted Well-Fargo's treasure
box.
FIFTEEN workmen employed in the
cement quarries at Cementville,
Ind, were re ported, on the Sth, in a
critical condition from asphyXiation,
as result of the influx of gas and
foul air, generated by blasting into
the quarry where they were working.
The quarry is fully 800 yards deep.
underground, backwards,
from the edge of pond.
4 DISPATCH from Shanghai, on the
7th. said that the Chinese emperor
had sent an autograph letter to the
czar, and another to President Faure,
asking Russia and France to assist
China in bearing her war expenses,
and promising special commercial ad-
vantages in return.
Col. JOHN E. GOwEN, who died re-
Gently at Paris, France, after an illness
of three days, was born in Lynn, Mass,
March 6. 1925. He was an engineer of
ability. 1t was he who
raised the Russian feet, sunk in the
harbor of Sebastopol by the Russians,
after the Crimean war.
EDWARD b. CLARK, a tool dresser, was
caught in the rope of a hosting der
rick near Fin nilay. O., on the sth, and
his body was carried to the butt wheel
and literally cut into four pieces.
CHARLES JOHNSON, post Office rob
Der, wanted in the Indian territory,
escaped from United States deputy
marshals between Olean and Sala-
n. Y, on the sth. He was
in Brooklyn and was being
taken west in an Erie train. He was
to a seat and was seeming
ly in safe custody.
NATHANIEL STRoUGHER, 104 years of
age, celebrated his birthday anniver-
sary, on the sth, near English. Ind,
and took part in the festivities with
more agility than many present, who
were almost half q hundred years
younger than himself. Mr.. Strougher
is one of the Oldest if not the oldest,
men in the state. He is native of
Tennessee.
The question of intercollegiate foot
ball was brought up again, on the sth,
in the meeting of the Harvard faculty.
No official statement was given out,
but it was learned from authentic
sources that a motion prohibiting the
students from taking part in intercol-
legiate football contests failed to pass
by good majority.
B. l.. BURROWS. Mayor Strong's conf
Dental secretary, on the sth, delivered
to Clerk Kenyon, of the senate, the
mayors approval of the Lexow New
York city bipartisan police commission
bill, together with memorandum stat
ing his reasons for approving it.
DR. S. c. HOOKER, mayor of Stanford,
KY, prominent business man, COM
nitted suicide, on the sth, by hanging
with a small cotton rope in his meat
house. He was sa years old. "a family,
consisting of a widow and two chill
dren, survive him. His enemies had
accused him of illegally selling whisky
in his drug store. and were continually
him.
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the eth
said: UNLESS there is a decided change
ia the sentiment of Justice Jacksoa
toward the ineome-tax law. he will
vote against that law. In that event
,he whole section of the Wilson-Gor-