Iron County register., 1896-01-09

DAVID CRocKETr BoGGs, who was tax
collector of Wyandotte county, Kas-,
in 1889, and who suddenly disappeared
in that year with shortage of about
5000, returned to Kansas City, No.,
on the 3lst- He had made fortune in
his absence of 35 years, and voluntari-
~ returned to make good his shortage
THE Pail Mall Gazette says that DIR.
Jameson, upon receiving summons
to proceed to johannesburg to assist
the Uitlanders. resigned his position as
administrators of the British South At
rica Co., and that his followers also
severed their connection with the COM
pany.
THE sixth session of the seventh par
Lament of the Dominion of Canada was
opened by Lord Aberdeen, the COVER
nor-general, on the I'd, with the usual
speech from the throne.
ANOTHER strike of motormen and
conductors was inaugurated in Phila-
delphia on the Sd. Many of the union
men who opposed the strike refused to
go out, and cars were run on the main
lines with noticeable regularity. In
the afternoon large numbers of the
strikers returned to work, and it was
thought the strike would be short
lived.
EIGHT loaded freight cars broke
away from an engine in the Pennsyl-
vania railroad yards at Pittsburgh, Pa,
on the night of the I'd, and. dashing
down the grade at Thirteenth street,
col1ided with the north wall of the
causing damage estimated
at $4,000
THE Anchor line steamer Italia,
from Mediterranean ports, which was
due at New York December 81, had
not been sighted up to the Sd. She
carries 267 immigrants.
IT was rumored, on the Sd, that
united action of France and Germany
in the Transvaal is projected.
THE treasury records show that the
entire issue of United Stated notes,
$40. .6s1 GIG, has been redeemed since
1870 and reissued.
PRATT & LETCHwoRTH's mal1eable
iron foundry and hame works at Buff
falo, n. Y, shut down, on the Sd,
about 600 men out of employ
ment
AN unconirmed report was current
in London, on the evening of the Sd,
that DIR. Jameson, leader of the filibus-
tering expedition into the Transvaal,
who was defeated by the Beers and
captured, had been tried by drum-head
condemned and shot.
THE number of victims of the ST.
Louis explosion and fire, of the I'd,
Known to be dead had been increased,
Up to the night of the Sd, to six, and
here were at least three more missing.
It is about settled that the explosions
we're caused by fire igniting a last
store of cannon fre-crackers.
GEN. DUFFIEI.D, chief of the coast and
geodetic survey. on the Sd presented to
he secretary of state the joint report
IN the Alaskan boundary, which was
agreed upon by him and the Canadian
representative, Mr.. King, at their re-
,ent meeting at Albany, \. Y.
GEORGE WASHINGTON DAVIS, the ne
sro convicted at Lincoln, Neb., of
vrecking a Rock Island passenger
rain near that city, August 0, 1894. by
which IL lives We're lost, was, on the
ID, sentenced to life Imprisonment.
FIRE was discovered. on the night of
he 3D., in the Cranberry colliery of
'ardee s. Co., at Hazleton, Pa, and
within an hour had completely de-
troyed the colossal structure. There
we're absolutely no facilities available
o fight the fire.
REV. NATHANIEL G. CLARK, D. D.,
IL. D., for nearly thirty years proni-
lently identified with the management |
f the American board of commission
rs of foreign missions, died at his
lome in Boston, on the Sd, from heart |
isease, aggravated by his advanced |
ge.
THERE was a rumor current at Nor |
ok, Va, on the Sd, that the yacht |
'alisman, having on board party of |
7ealthy gentlemen from New York, |
ad been wrecked off Cape Hatteras |
nd the entire party drowned.
SUBSCRIPTIONS are being raised in |
iermany in behalf of the Beers who |
Tere wounded at Kruegersdorf, and |
so, 900 marks had been subscribed up |
D the night of the 3D.