Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-06-05
Personal AND GENERAL

q quantity of cotton were destroyed by
fire at Charleston. 8. c., on the 9th. Loss,
$100, COO
THE spinners' strike at Fall River,
Mass, is over, and the strikers are return
ing to work, after having lost sixteen
weeks wages. ~ 1880
A FIRE at Harrisburg, Ark, on the 9th,
destroyed number of business houses.
The losses are only partially covered by
insurance. zsss5ssse-s.-ss.----.s-
REPORTS from San Antonio, Tex, are to
the effect that the floods along the Brazos
have caused great loss of stock and DAM
age to cotton lands.
HURRICANES in Spain have destroyed
many vineyards, rains have inundated
towns and the people have been compelled
to take refuge on the tops of houses. Re-
lief boats have been sent out from Madrid.
UPON examination the second suspen-
sion OF the Penn Bank at Pittsburgh is
thought to be due TO large overdrafts by
two firms on the wrong side of the oil mar
ket. A committee of experts will go over
the books.
THE Catholic Bishops of the Archdiocese
of Baltimore were in session on the 2Sth.
MINISTER SARGENT has returned to Ber-
lin. ti f4
AN attempt to blow up the xenia Qnd.)
Journal on the 18th with dynamite failed.
THE floods in Southeastern Spain de-
stroyed 400 dwellings and injured Ola per-
sons. +4s.-.s
A RECEIVER has been appointed for Fer
dinand Wards property in New York.
INDIANS raided settlement near Maple
Creek, Manitoba, on the 18th, murdered one
man and stampeded forty horses.
THE relief-boats in the Ohio Valley start
ed on their last trips among the food suf-
ferers on the 18th.
THE Greenback National Convention or
ganized at Indianapolis on the 18th with
General Weaver, of Iowa, as permanent
chairman.
THE executive committee of the National
Board of Trade was in session at Indianap-
oils on the 2sth.
THE third pool coal miners in Pennsy1-
vania will strike unless the district price
(three cents) is paid.
In the contested election case of Chal-
mers VS.. Manning, Mississippi, the House
committee will report in favor of Cbal-
mers; also in favor of John g. Wise over
Massey of Virginia.
CHARLES OCoNoR's will bequeaths val
liable legal works and money to the New
York Law Institute.
BANK EXAMINER GArEMAN, of st. Louis,
Mo-, has gone to take charge of the col
lapsed Hot Springs National Bank.
Mr.. REED, of Maine, has been nominated
by the Republicans of the First District as
candidate for reelection to Congress.
HENRY T. DUNCAN, of the Lexington
(Ky.) Press, was fined 5000 for publishing
Treacy's card rejecting on Judge Morton.
THE Arthur mass-meeting committee of
one hundred New Workers has been APP
pointed, and left on the 29th for Chicago.
THE Pail Mall Gazette declares that the
answers of ministers in Parliament to
questions regarding the management Of
Egypt were "evasive and shuffiing."
A RICH gold find near Denver, Col, is re-
ported.
WESLEY JOHNSON was executed at Ma
poleon, O., on the Goth for the murder OF
Mr.. aud Mrs. Williams. 81
SIR HENRY BARTEE EDWARD FRERE, Gov
ernor of Cape Colony, is dead.
The Union Deposit Company at Green's
burg, Pa, has suspended. Liabilities over
500, 900; assets half that much.
On account of the fifteen per cent. re-
duction in wages the Pittsburgh stove
molders have quit work in all establish
ments.
THE iron manufacturers of the Ma
honing and Shenango Valleys are willing
to sign last years scale of prices, but OPP
pose the new scale with proposed addi-
lions.
HENRY WARNER, assignee Of the Penn
Bank at Pittsburgh, has taken charge and
the clerks. The DEFICIENCIES, it
is believed will reach s., 250, 900.
A FOREIGNER, believed to have had in
tentions of shooting the Duke of Cam
bridge, was arrested at Dover, Eng, on
the 9th.
THE Exeter IN. H. team won the match
for aY-pigeon shooting at Chicago, with
the Cleveland team second. The individ-
ual championship diamond badge was won
by M. G. Stark, of Exeter.
THE French Government will celebrate
the centenary commencement Of the revo-
luton of 1898.
A scAFFoLD gave way at Knupp's tun-
mel, near Ligonier, Pa, on the goth, kill
ing nine men and dangerously injuring
8SYen.
: II was considered certain that work
would be suspended in the Pittsburgh iron
milH on the 3lst, and that fires will not be
re-lighted until it is demonstrated which is
manufacturers or the Anal.
gaInated Association.
NEGOTIATIONS are pending between
France and the Vatican for. the nomina-
ton Of French O1kdinais at the next Con-
sistory.
CzAR1NA, Queen of Denmark, and the
Princess of Wales visited the Empress Au-
gusta of Germany on the Goth.
HEAVY frosts have visited portions of
Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio and
The damage to growing
corn in parts Of the Northwest is re-
ported serious. Vegetables and fruit also
and tobacco was injured in
THE annual Spring review Of troops at
Berlin was held blythe Emperor on the
18th, who appeared on horseback. The
Royal Princse 4 and Princesses were
present.
The court Of inquiry investigating the
conduct of odcers of the Fourth Ohio regi-
nent during the Cincinnati riots found
nearly all OF them guilty, recommended
he disbanding of the regiment and that a |
new one Be formed with those officers not |
found guilty as nucleus
INFoRNER DELANEY's evidence at Sligo, |
has caused several Fenians to
cave Dublin.
PERRIN 81. SUMNER, New York broker, /
las been arrested on the charge Of swind- |
ing. 49,
The falling of a building in Baltimore,
Nd, on the 30th, caused the death Of six |
,ersons and serious injuries to others. /
Other victims were supposed to be buried
n the ruins.
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