Iron County register., 1896-10-15
THE prince OF Montenegro and hla

THE prince OF Montenegro and hla
ministers arrived in Rome, en- the 7th,
for the purpose of signing the provi-
sions of the marriage contract between
the prince Of Naples, crown prince of
Italy, and Princess Helene. daughter OF
the ruler of Montenegro.
THE United States cruiser Mime
apolis. the flagship of the Mediter-
rean squadron, left Genoa, on the sth,
where she had had her semi-annual
docking, to rendezvous with the other
ships of the fleet at Smyrna, where
the United States dispatch boat Ban
croft was expected to arrive in a few
days.
THE Norwegian bark Ariadne, Capt
Pulsen, in ballast for Bay Verte, ran
ashore below Green Cove. five miles
west of Ingonish, Nova Scotia. during
an easterly gale, on the 7th and went to
pieces Immediately. The captain and
nine of the crew were drowned. Chris
tian Johnson, the second mate, and a
youth named Johannus Ravenburg,
are the only survivors of the crew of ~.
THE Boiler in a steam feed mill ex-
DuchudlH, OA tLC oblg
killing one man sand fatally injuring
two others. William Berch, the engi
neer, was killed; Jacob Huhn was SO
badly injured internally that he will
die, and Peter Oestrich had both legs
blown off
The morocco factories of Garrett &
Barr, Charles Baird & Co. and Wash
ington. Jones & Co., at Wilmington,
Del, were damaged by fire, on the Sth,
to the extent of S26O,OOO. William
McNeal, a fireman. was killed by fall
ing walls.
GEN. SIR HERBERT KITCHENER, COM
mander of the British Egyptian expedi-
ton; Slatin Pasha, of the intelligence
department, and other leading officers
of the expedition have returned to
Cairo.
Miss CLARA BARTON, the head of the
Red Cross society, was given welcome
on her return to Washington, on the
sth. from her trip to Turkey. A re-
ception in her honor at the Shoreham
hotel was given.
A BOMBAY dispatch, on the sth, said
there had been 81 fresh cases of bubonic
disease since October and 76 deaths.
A quarantine against Bombay has been
declared at Alden and at the Egyptian
ports.
A BERLIN dispatch says: The Kol-
nische Zeitung asserts that written
treaty of alliance is in existence be-
tween Russia and France, but that it
is only defensive in its provisions.
GEORGE DU MAURIER, the artist and
novelist, author of ''Trilby," died in
London on the sth. His death was
painless, and he passed away surround
ed by friends.
Rev. DIR. ANDREW ]. PURDY, pastor
of the Asbury NJ. E. church in Buffalo,
dropped dead on the street at Corning,
n. Y, on the sth. He was about fifty
years old.
THE Victoria (Australia) assembly,
on the sth, after an all-night sitting,
passed the second reading of the bill
esta blishing female suffrage and lone
man to one vote"
TEMPLE HoUsToN shot and fatally
wounded j. B. Jenkins at Woodward,
Okla, on the night of the sth. The
difficulty arose over the action of Jen-
kins in splitting in the face of Temple
Houston's son few days before. Hous-
JOn was p1dCCu uEdCE dTIcSG. ne ID d
nephew of Gen. Sam Houston.
NEAR the village of Holley, N. Y. on
the night of the 9th, two tramps tor
tured Joseph Colburn, aged IS, and his
wife, aged 20, in terrible manner to
make them tell where their money was
They were finally beaten
into insensibility and the house robbed |
of S42.
THE captain of a French steamer |
which took refuge at Holyhead from
the fury of the gale on the sth, re-
ported having seen a large steamer I
off the Bishop and Clerks, in |
St. Georges channel on that day.
H. NJ. HANNA, of Cleveland, o., own
er of the steam yacht Comanche, which /
was alleged to have been sold to the I
Cubans for a war vessel, denied the |
story on the 9th.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND, on the 9th, |
positively denied the report that he /
had purchased 60 acres of land near !
l.. l., which he intended to
occupy as summer residence.