Iron County register., 1895-05-16

COL A. d. Cross, one Of the best
known men in southern Indiana, died
at Shelbyville. on the evening of the
sth, from stroke of paralysis. He
located in Shelbyville in 1910. moving
from Lexington, KY, and at the time
of his death was drawing a pension of
S72 per month.
j. C. MONAGHAN, United States con-
sui at Chemnitz, Germany, reports to
the department of state that an effort
is being made there to keep foreigners
out of the technical and industrial art
schools. Petitions to that end are be-
ing circulated throughout Saxony.
The covert object is to keep out En-
glishmen and Americans
ACTING SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY
CURTIS has decided to invite proposals
for temporary public building in
Chicago, to be occupied as local gov
ernment offices pending the construc-
ton of the new pu bile building.
NINE HUNDRED employees in the
wooden and worsted mills of James
Lee & Son, at Bridgeport, Pa. were
thrown out of employment on the 9th.
Three hundred of the hands struck for
an increase in wages and the firm de:
cided to close down the mills. The in
crease demanded was 40 per cent
SAMUEL AYMER, the defaulting book.
keeper of the National Shoe and
Leather bank of New York city, who
embezzled $4,000 belonging to that
institution. pleaded guilty. on the 9th,
before Judge Benedict in the United
States circuit court, and was remanded
for sentence.
JUDGE THOMPSON after listening to
arguments for four hours in the Cor
don-Brown murder case at Louisville,
KY, on the 9th. decided that Fulton
Gordon should not be held for trial,
and discharged him.
THE Delaware legislature adjourned
sine die, on the 9th, with the sena-
torial deadlock still unbrolxen.
Speaker McMullen of the house de.
clared H. A. Dupont elected United
States senator.
RT. Hon. SIR ROBERT PEEL, baronet,
eldest brother of ex-Speaker Peel OF
the British h ouse of commons, died in
London, on the 9th, aged 73 years.
AT the meeting of the Greek cabinet,
on the 9th, the ministers decided to
resign after the public business then
in hand should have been arranged.
An explosion, supposed to have been
caused by natural gas, wrecked big
lodging house at No 10 Sherman
street, Chicago, at lis o'clock on the
morning of the 11th. The entire front
of the building was blown out and
flames Immediately burst from the
side and alley windows. y number of
the occupants were either killed out
right or so badly injured that their re-
covery is doubtful.
PAssENGERs arriving by steamer at
Tampa, Fla. on the 10th, reported the
condition of things in Cuba as very en-
couraging to the insurgents, who had
captured the city of Guaymaro, on the
9th, after despera tie battle in which
the insurgents lost 700 killed, and the
Spanish troops 5000.
Four men were instantly killed by
an explosion of coal dust in a mine as
Sopris, near Trinidad, Col, on the 10th,
supposed to have been caused by flames
communicating through a crevice from
an adjoining shaft which was on fire.
THE Spanish postmaster at Santiago
de Cuba has been tampering with
United States Consul Hyatt's mail.
His copies of American papers deliv-
cred to him on the 10th had all the
Cuban news cut out
On the 10th Gov. Morton signed AS
semblyman Lawson's New York city
magistrates bill, which legislates the
New York police justices out of office.
FOURTEEN dwelling houses were
burned in Fayette City, Pa, on the
10th. as the result of trying to start
fire in a stove with carbon oil.
THE plant of the Imperial varnish
works at Akron. o., was destroyed by
fire on the 10th; loss, S35, 200.
THE failures in the United States fer
the week ended on the 10th, as re-
ported by r. G. Dun CO., were 227.
against 2O6 for the same week last
year. In Canada the failures were 81,
against 42 last year.
On the 10th Judge Shaw, of Rock
ford, ILL.,. ruled against the motion of
the attorneys for Schweinfurth to
quash the indictment against the pre-
tended messiah.