Iron County register., 1897-10-14

The Mormon church has again en-
tered the political arena, and has start
ed out fiat-footed to control everything
in the state of Utah. The Gentle po-
litical leaders are discussing the ad-
visibility of recognizing the old lib
era1 party.
A DISPATCH from Lima, Peru, says:
after discussion, which continued
for several days, the chamber OF depu-
ties adopted the gold standard by a
majority of one vote"
c. E. HASTINGS, a nephew of Grover
Cleveland. has been arrested at Ellln-
wood, Kas., charged by State Agent
Yates of the Central Life Insurance Co.
with embezzIing $1,000 of the COM
pany's money.
WILLIAM j. SCANLoN, United States
consul at Port Antonio. Jamaica, died
of yellow fever on the 9th. He was ap-
pointed from the District of Columbia,
and had been only few weeks at his
post
A DISPATCH from Washington says
President Mckinley will probably go
to Canton to vote at the Novembe cleo
ton.
penny, to 81 pence, in London, and .
cents, to 5S cents, in New York Bull
lion dealers were unable to assign any
other cause for the rise than scarcity
of supply.
o. D. WEBSTER, of st. Louis, aged 20.
despondent from lack of employment,
took a dose of carbolic acid, on the
9th, and died shortly after his recep-
tion at the city hospital.
IT was made public in Vienna, on
the sth, that Count Wurmbrand, aged
10, the son of Count Wurmbrand, who
was minister of commerce in 1895, had
committed suicide by shooting himself
| in a cab owing to his unreciprocated
| attachment for the family's English
goyerness, who declined to marry him.
THE eleventh annual convention of
the Illinois union of the Christian En-
deavor society was called to order at
Central music hall, Chicago, on the
sth, by President o. w. Stewart, with
about 1900 delegates present, nearly
every district in the state being repre-
sented.
Hon. HoKE SMITH, former secretary
of the interior, has been elected presl'
| dent of the board of education of At
lanta, Ga, to succeed Judge Howard
Van Epps, resigned. Mr.. Smiths cleo
| ton was unanimous
On the sth the president appointed
| Ambrose w. Naulin collector of inter
nal revenue for the sixth district oi
Indiana, and David w. Henry collector
of internal revenue for the seventh
district of Indiana
| UNITED STATES CONSUL DAY at Annoy
has reported to the state department
that the bubonic plague, which hao
ragged in that section of China for three
months, is now regarded as having ruI
its course.
The president, on the Sth. appointed
George H. Bridgeman, of New York
minister to Bolivia.
CONSUL LATHRoP, at Briston, En-
gland, reports that the United State
supplies Great Britain with more thai
one-half of her foodstuffs. He say
that the reason American bacon sell
so cheapIy is that our packers do no
take sufficient pains in its curing.
GUSTAV MILLER gave himself up t
the police of Rotterdam, Holland, con
Tossing that he had murdered Ia wlve
in different parts of the world, and ais
his parents and his child. He produces
a handful of human ears as corrobora
ton of his story.
CARL. FABER, confidential man TO
Oelrichs & Co., importers, of New Yorl
city, was arrested on landing from
steamship at New York, on the Sth
charged with embezzling $40, 900 from
the firm. He confessed.
In the recent cable correspondence
between Capt.-Gen. Weyler and Pre-
mier Sagasta of Spain Weyler declare
that he could not resign because h
was face to face with the enemy.
WILLIAM CLARK, of Dubuque, Ia,
growing his third set of teeth. He
, 81 years of age. The dentists say thi
is a phenomenon of which the boo
records show but few instances.
THE bank clearings for st. Louis, a
reported to Bradstreets' for five day
{ ended the Sth, were S25. .30I 800, &
compared with SIS, 7O1, ,5s5 for the col
raSnoudinr neriOd of last wear,