Iron County register., 1895-05-09

IN the Cape Colony parliament,
which opened in Cape Town, on the
cd, q proposition was submitted to alb
sorb Bechuanaland.
THE preliminary examination of Dur
rant on the charge of numbering Miss
Lamont was commenced at San Fran
cisco on the I'd.
The secretary of war has ordered two
companies of the Fifth infantry, now
stationed at Fort Mcpherson, Atlanta,
and the two troops of the Third caval-
~, with the regimental band, now at
Benton Barracks, Mo-, to attend the
encampment of the national guard to
be held at Memphis, Tenn. beginning
May IL and ending May 81.
THERE is an alleged shortage of
about S25, 900 in the office of the county
treasurer in Doniphan county, Kas.
When the present treasurer, J. Dew
eraux, took charge last October, he
discovered something was wrong. and
an investigation has revealed the al
legged shortage.
WILLIAM H. MEGQUIER, assistant
cashier of the First national bank of
Omaha, Neb., committed suicide, on
the I'd, by shooting himself through
the head at the residence of George
Barker, president of the National Bank
of Commerce. No cause for the act is
known.
A TELEGRAM received at the secret
service bureau in Washington from
Hamilton, Ont, on the I'd, stated that
Mrs. NJ. T. Mack, charged with being
member of the Chicago postage-stamp
counterfeiting gang, had been commit
ted for extradition.
THE mystery surrounding the disap-
pearance of Capitalist James e. Nc
Nab from Duluth, Mimi, on April 16,
was cleared, on the I'd. by finding his
body in Lake Gnesen. 1t is supposed
to have been an accident.
THERE is said to be good reason for
believing that the civil-service COM
mission will be completely reorgan-
lied. The voluntary resignation of
Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt is
soon to be followed by the involuntary
retirement of Commissioner Lyman.
The Chinese officials of the maritime
province of Fo-Kien, in which the
island of Fornosa is situated, have
sent a memorial to the throne protest
ing against the cession of the island to
Japan. They offer to contribute the
purchase money instead of Liu-kum-
vi.
ACCORDING to statement published
by the Marine Hospital bureau there
were 1,62O deaths from smallpox in the
United States in 1894, s77 of which oc-
Cured in Illinois.
A CYCLONE of frightful fatality
visited Sioux county, Ia, On the Sd, dis
mantling nearly u dozen towns, and
destroying crops, buildings and other
farm property in its track, and caus-
ing loss of human lives to the esti-
mated number of 200. The work of
rescue, promptly entered upon by the
survivors, was greatly hampered by
pitchy darkness, deluging rain and
wreckage strewn everywhere.
THE pope has expressed his entire
approval of the conduct of Archbishop
Agliardi, papal nuncio to Austria,
whose attitude upon the Hungarian
ecclesiastical bill was denounced in
the lower house of the Hungarian diet
on May day.
The steamer n. X. Fairbanks. from
CnlcdRO 10 ORueuSUurS Win oO,OO
bushels of corn, ran ashore on Nor
gan's point. about 9 miles west of Port
Colborne, Ont, on the Sd. She then
caught fire and was entirely consumed.
On the Sd the transport steamer An
tonic Lopez arrived at Santiago de
Cuba from Spain with 934 regular
troops.
WARREN T. THOMPSON was arrested
in Chicago, on the Sd, in connection
with the counterfeiting postage stamp
case. He was held in S5. 900 bail.
SERAPHINE CENETTE and Delphine
Chaput, two girls who jumped from
a fourth-story window during the
fire in the Mcdonald Tobacco Co. S fac
tory in Montreal, Can, recently, and
received external and internal inju-
ries, died. on the Sd, at Notre Dame
hospital.
By an explosion at the American
Powder Co.'S works near Concord,
Mass, on the 3D., five lives were lost
and three buildings demolished. The
company's big magazine narrowly es-
capped.