Iron County register., 1898-11-24
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

John Stefancin was shot and killed
at Cleveland, o., and John Fedorco
mortai1y wounded, on the goth, by
Sam Carr, a colored man from South
| Carolina. Carr entered Stefancin's
yard in an intoxicated condition.
| Stefancin attempted to pat him out.
A quarrel cnsued and Carr pulled re-
volver aud began firing. The muir
derer was arrested.
The Spanish government, it is semi
officially announced, intends to notify
the Cuban bondholders that Spain will
not pay the Cuban debt, which will
not be mentioned in the peace treaty.
| The government considers itself COM
| pletely freed from these eentanglements,
which fall upon the nation exercising
sovereignty and collecting taxes in
Cuba.
Members of the national grange, in
session at Concord, n. H., attended
service twice, on the goth, by invita-
ton, at the White Memorial Universal
ist church. In the evening the pulpit
was occupied by Rev. Olivia Carpenter
Woodman, of Michigan, wife of j. J.
| FSoOuludiA OI TIC NdllO1lSfI
ecutive committee.
A freight locomotive on the Chicago
& Erie railroad exploded near Lima,
o., on the Goth, killing David Little,
the fireman, and probably fatally in
| juring Walter I. Hirtleff, engineer;
Edward Quick, conductor, and Frank
| Smith, brakeman. About twenty-five
cars were wrecked, and the track was
| blocked.
A terrific explosion occurred in
Paris, on the goth, underneath the of
fees of the Havas agency. A woman
was killed outright and eight other
persons were seriously injured. It is
| thought that the explosion was due to
| ignited pas, but there are rumors of
an anarchist plot.
Ex-Mayor P. P. Mast, of Springfield,
o., died on the goth, after a lingering ILL
ness of several months. His estate is
estimated at over a million and a half,
| invested in manufacturing interests.
| He was father-in-law of F. B. Loomis,
| United States minister to Venezuela.
Dispatches from Perpignan, capital
of Pyrenees- Oriental, on the right
bank of the River Tet, report that the
region has been visited by severe
storms. Many villages have been
| flooded and traffic is interrupted.
Almost llnprecedentedlym mildweath-
.er for this time of the year is being
experienced in England. The open
gardens are full of flowers which are
blooming in profusion.
An injunction was issued, on the
a21st, by Judge johnson of the district
court at Denver, Col, restraining the
| international Association of Machin-
lists and its officers and the striking
! machinists formerly employed by the
+. NJ. Dav;; Iron Works 20. from in
terfering in any manner with the nom
union men employed in the shops
and from boycotting the company's
rights.
On the 21st the Philadelphia coun-
ty (Pa.) grand juryr presented to the
county court true bills of Indictment
against United States Senator NJ. S.
Quay. his son, Richard NJ. Quay, and
ex-State Treasurer Benz. j. Haywood,
charged with conspiracy to unlaw-
fully use public moneys deposited in
the Peoples national bank of Phila-
delphia.
Ex-Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii ar
rived, on the 21st, at San Francisco,
from Honolulu, accompanied by Col.
G. w McFarlane and Hon. Paul Neu-
man. The object of her visit is to try
and influence congress to allow her
to retain possession of the crown
lands, in Hawaii, valued at $5,000,o00.
Emmett Loucks, a young man of
Cheyenne, Wyo., fell from a Union Pa
cific train, on the night of the goth,
near Rorie station, and one of his legs
was c,1t off by the wheels. He lay be-
side the track all night with the
temperature near zero, and died soon
after being found.
The Admiral Dewey, the first aug
iliary crusier class of merchant ves-
sells to be constructed under the act of
congress authorizing the work, left
Boston, on the 21st, on her speed trial
over the government course off the
New England coast.
Secretary Bliss received dispatch
from Indian Inspector Wright, on the
21st, in the Indian territory, announc-
ing the rejection of the Dawes COM
mission treaty by the Creek Indian
nation.
The French line steamer La Nor
mandie, which arrived at New York,
on the 21st, from Havre, was detained
at quarantine owing to smallpox
among her steerage passengers
The Alabama house of representa-
tives, on the 21st, read and ratified
joint resolution appropriating $500,
TO buy sword for Lieut. Hobson. OF
Merrimac fame.
The statement of the condition of
the treasury. on the 21st. showed:
Available cash balance, $296. sos, ,062;
gold reserve, $240,417, ,525.