Iron County register., 1897-09-16
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

ACCORDING to the estimate of Com
missioner of Agriculture Moore, of Ken
tucky, who has just sent TO the printer
his crop report for August, the farmers
of Kentucky now have more than &c.
900. 600 worth of wheat on their hands,
being IS per cent of the crop, the re-
mainder having been sold at good
prices. The wheat,crop of the state is
estimated at over IL, 900, 900 bushels.
DHE celebration of Labor day at
GAINESVILLE, o., was marred by several
accidents. William o. Berne was ia
tally injured while alighting from a
train, and nine other persons were
whom will die.
FIRE started at Cairo, w. Va, at mid
night of the 9Th, and by 2:30 a. N. of
THE 7th every hotel and business house
in the town had been burned, the losses
far exceeding $780,
Mrs. H. L. .SPELLMAS, mother of
Mrs John D. Rockefeller. died, on the
9TH, at Forest Hill, Mr.. Rockefeller's
FClsveland 20. home. She was SO years
old, and had benin falling health for
some time.
MARQUIS DE ,ROCHAlIBEAU, grandson
of Count Rochambeau. who command
ed the French contingent in America
during the revolutionary war, died re-
Gently in France.
HARRY f. LEADLEY, of Rochester, n.
/ Y, died in Bancroft, Mich, on the
9th. Before his demise he stated that
he had been guilty of killing a MISS
| Emerson, in Rochester, and of embez-
Element from a Rochester fire insur-
ance firm. Investigation proved both
statements to be false, and it is be-
lieved that Leadley's mind was wan
dering when he made them.
| POSTMASTER STULL, at Mt. Pleasant
| Ia, and Postmaster Hamilton, at War
rem, Ind, who declined to surrender
their offices, when removed, on the
| ground that the recent civil service or
der covered their cases, have both sur
rendered their Offices to the inspectors.
| JUDGMENTS by confession aggrega-
ting $50, 102, were entered, on the 7th,
| against the American Cycle Manufae-
| turing Co. of Chicago. and in favor of
| the Continental national bank and As
signee Boyd of the Haymarket Produce
| bank.
SENATOR MORGAN, of Alabama, sailed
from San Francisco, on the 7th, ON the
steamer Australia for Honolulu.
Hon. SIR LEWIS WILLIAM CAVE, judge
of the English high court of justice. died
in London on the 7th. He was born in
1882. and was the editor of many i'm
| portsAt legal works
CoMPTRoLLER OF THE CURRENCY JAMES
H. EcKELs, wife and daughter, arrived
at Yellowstone Lake, Wyo., on the
II n
Lynch went fishing and caught Al
trout
FORMER President Cleveland has fled
with the assessors of Mercer county,
n. J., a schedule of his property. He
fixed the value of his new home at $50,
600. and his personal property at $780,
600.
GEN. PANDo, who was relieved of his
command in Cuba, after threatening
to slap Gen. Weylers face. says the war
in Cuba is q mistake, and that Capt.
Gen. Weyler is making both neutrals
and the friends of Spain more hostile
than the rebels themselves
ANOTHER sensation has developed in
the Mitchell county Qa.) defalcation.
Some person or persons broke into the
county treasurer's Office and vault ut
Mason City, and burned and destroyed
large part of the records, which were
under examination by an expert.
ADvICEs from Uganda state that a
mutiny has occurred there among the
troops of the Congo Free State, in the
ToEo district The mutineers, it is
said, killed SO Belgian officers and de-
stroyed all the forts.
Mrs. SARAH HOSE, mother-in-law of
Preacher Hinshaw, who is serving time
in Indiana for numbering his wife, has
been granted q divorce at Muncie.
Hose believed Hinshaw guilty and Mrs
Hose thinks him innocent
ADVICEs received in Lima from Bo-
livia, on the sth, stated that $50 Para
guayans, who recently landed at Port
PacheO, had seized the Bolivian town
Chiquotos, in the province of Mojos.
On account of the immense shipments
of grain from the west the Pennsylva-
mia and Baltimore & Ohio railroads
are experiencing considerable trouble
in furnishing enough freight cars to
meet the demand.
THE customs authorities at Colon
have seized 30 cases of tobacco forward
ed there by the steamer Finance, Capt.
Daily, from New York, which were
down on the manifest as Lard. The
duty on the tobacco is 81, 600, or twice
the value of the tobacco itself
CONsUL-GENERAL MARATTA reported
to the state department, on the Sth,
that for the six months ended June SO,
1897, there were received at the Mel
bourne (Australia) mint 619, 214 ounces
ofgold. This came from Australia and
the surrounding islands.
ACCORDING to information brought
by the steamer National City, from St
Michaels, arrived at San Francisco on
the 9TH, an immense amount OF Klon-
dixie gold is on its way from the mouth
of the Yukon to San Francisco and tn
sound.
SIX YOUNG men were drowned in a
yacht near Windmill point in Lake St |
Clair, above Detroit. Mich, on the sth. |
The disaster was caused by four others,
who rocked the yacht till it capsized. |
The drowned men were in the cockpit |
when the craft went over.
HoS. WM. j. BRYAN was a passenger |
on one of the trains wrecked in Kansas |
on the night of the sth, and was fore |
most among those who aided in rescu-
ing the passengers from the wreck and |
in ministering to the injured.
1. LAMB. of Portland. ore., who re-
turned on the steamer National CITY,
from Alaska, is authority for the state |
ment that over fiftv men have nIraadv