Iron County register., 1897-10-14
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


THE steamer Victoria, which arrived
in Tacoma, Wash, on the 4th, brought
news of the most disastrous floods that
have visited China for many years
Sixty villages near Tung Chou, con-
tanning over so, 900 inhabitants, were
| destroyed, and Is, 900 to 10000 persons
were drowned.
| CONSUL GRIMKE at Santo Domingo,
informs the state department that, on
| August 9, a new tariff law was enacted
which imposes tax of three per cent.
on all exports and imports
THE Iowa supreme court, on the 5th,
affirmed the decision of the lower court
| in not holding S. j. Spaulding, who
embezzled SI3, 600 from the secretary of
the state pharmacy commission.
THE October term of the United
States supreme court begins on the
| 11th. There are 466 cases on the
docket, as against 616 at the beginning
of the October term in 1895, of which
8S3 came over from the last term, and
SO have been added during the courts
| vacation.
A HEAVY explosion of gas occurred
in No. slope of the Parrish Coal Co.
4 al Gd, Oh LAC OthS OJ
which three men lost their lives.
| The defense in the Luetgert alleged
wife-murder case in Chicago rested, on
| the 5th, and the prosecution resumed,
in rebuttal, on the 5th. Both sides pro-
fessed to be satisfied with the showing
thus far made.
THE president has appointed L. 8.
Swenson, of Minnesota, envoy extra
ordinary and minister plenipotentiary
| to Denmark. Prof. Swenson is well
known among the educators of the
country. He comes of Norwegian
stock, but was born in Minnesota.
INDIAN AGENT WISDOM, at Tuska-
homa, I. T., where the Choctaw coun-
Gil is now in session, wired another re-
assuring message to the Indian bureau
on the 9Th. He says the lower house
had concluded to vote to refer all mat
ters of dispute to the attorney for the
Choctav nation and to abide by his de-
cision.
EIGHT masked robbers held up the
st. Louis-Chicago express on the Chi
cago & Alton railroad within one mile
of the famous Blue Cut, about six miles
east of Kansas City, Mo. After detach-
ing the engine and baggage and express
cars and running them to . safe dis
tance they were frightened from their
work by q charge of dynamite placed
upon the through safe, and which.
failing to explode, they were afraid to
re-enter the car and made off through
the underbrush.
MAJ. MOSES B. HANDY, the special
United States commissioner to the
, Paris exposition of 1900, has secured 25
per cent. additional space for the Amer
, lean exhibits, making the space of the
, United States equal to that of the
other big nations.
. Two MASKED men held up Night
Agent Cass at the Chicago Sc Alton
depot in Louisiana, Mo-, on the 9th,
at a. M, and with revolvers held at
z his head compelled him to give up the
: contents of the money drawer, amount
1 ing to about $40.
e AT a monster meeting in Cooper
s Union, New York city, on the night OF
S the 5th. Henry George formally entered
e the lists as candidate for mayor OF
Greater New York of what is known
as the "Jeffersonian Democracy"
J, The general officers of the Nationa
n Woman's Christian Temperance Unior
r have requested all local unions to holC
memorial services for the late Gen
= Neal Dow
= AT the launching of the Kaiser Fred
: erich at Dantic, on the 5th, Empero
" William said: II ought to be jealou
of the Lloyd fleet, as it is larger thai
mine"
e VIM A. STILES, editor of Forest an
l. Stream and a park commissions
l. of New York city, died, on the 9th, O
. cancer of the stomach.
l. Two CoLoRED women, Mrs. Mar
+ Sammon and Mrs. Jennie Layton, wer
= arrested, on the 7th, at Camden, n. j
= charged with causing the death c
three children. All of Mrs. Layton
= five children had diedunder peculia
:. circumstances, requiring coroner
No certificate.
GEN. WILLIAM THOMPSON, retired
"a died. on the 7th, at Tacoma, Wash
* aged S4. Deceased served Throughout
the the civil war, retiring, at his ow
request, with the rank of captain in tn
G. Seventh cavalry. By q vote of the las
lie congress he was breveted brigadiel
at general in the regular army.
G. FIRE which originated on the stag
lie of the Detroit (Mich.) opera house, o
y the 9th, at g. m, caused loss OF o'
10 tween $500, 900 and 500, 600. The fl
s, spread to the block bounded by tt
Campus Martius, Woodward, Grati'
and Monroe avenues, in the center
Ae the business district
FIFTY high-class horses perished b
"a fire in the stables of the Cheshire In
e, provement Co., on Ocean parkwa.
III Brooklyn, on the 7th; loss, $50, 900.
Mrs. MARY McNIFF, widow OF
re wealthy St. Louis merchant, hired a
10 expressman to haul a trunk, said
have contained SIS, 600 worth of negot
able paper, 81. 900 worth of jewelry ar
pol 81, 900 in gold. The expressman disa
= peared with the trunk.
- THE sum of gi0O. 900 in Americs
eagles was withdrawn from the Bar
- of England, on the 7th, for shipmel
he to the United States
"a A HAVANA dispatch states that 5
norita Evangelina Cossio Cisner
made her escape from the Casa
h;. Recocidas some time during the mig
! a of the 9th or early morning of the at
m One OF the bars on the window of b
~ room was cut and bent outward. We
Id ler is furious.
N A sEvEN-FooT vein of rich gold ore
"a said TO have been struck in the r
NO Rover mine at Acton, Cal. 1t is ss
nd to be sprinkled freely with free gol
he There are tens of thousands tons Of q
4, Sinhk