Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-08-09

ployes.
PILLAR of the cathedral at Seville,
Spain, fell, on the I'd, causing the collapse
of a portion of the nave and the destruc-
ton Of the organ, besides doing other
damage.
For the half year ending June 80 the
gross earnings of the Canadian Pacific
railway were S., $50, 800, and working ex-
penses 81, 719, $50, leaving q net profit OF
T,113,ST0.
THE post-ofice at Atlantic City, N. J.,
was entered by burglars on the night OF
the 31st, the safe blown open, and 81 200
in two-cent stamps and 500 in cash were
stolen therefrom.
SOME grim wag sent a wicked looking
section of gas-pipe, two feet long and
plugged at both ends, to Inspector Bon
field, of Chicago, over the Nickel Plate
railroad on the Sd.
THE paper mill owned by Geo. Friend.
located at Lockland, O., was totally de-
stroyed by fire at an early hour on the
morning of the Sd. Loss, $4,000. The
origin of the fire is unknown.
THE last wish expressed by the late
BARLEY Campbell, the playwright, was
honored when he was laid to rest by the
side of his mother in St Mary's Gene
tary, at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the I'd.
CAPTAIN WAGNER and crew Of the ship
Don Leon, which foundered in the South
Pacific last May, arrived at San Fran
cisco from Tahiti on the Cd. All hands
escaped, but endured great hardships.
THE annual examinations of the class
Of naval officers under instruction at the
torpedo station, at Newport, R. l., begun
y, 6-o11
modern and improved torpedo practice.
The London Chronicles Rome dispatch,
of the 3Oth. says that Emperor William
will not only visit King Humbert at
Rome, but will sojourn at the Quirinal
and hold receptions at the German en-
bassy.
REPRESENTATIVE FoRAN Dem.), Of
Ohio said, on the 3Oth, that the next
House will be Repu blican by about ten to
fifteen majority. He expects that his
own district and Mr.. Campbelps, in Ohio,
will be lost to the Democrats.
QU1cKENED interest and renewed hope
have been awakened il the fate of Mr..
Stanley by the recent arrival at Zanz ibar
of two messengers bringing more definite
news of the intrepid African explorer
than has been received for nearly q
year.
A COUPLE of boys named Golden, aged
ten and twelve years, living in East Des
Moines, Ia, went out on the Rock Island
track, about seven miles west of that
place, on the I'd, and tried to wreck
train by placing distractions on the
track.
SECRETARY Villas was before the Sem
ate committee on Indian affairs, on the
I'd. and spoke in advocacy of the bill es-
tablishing a court for the adjudicati on of
Indian depreciation claims to be known
as the Indian Depredati on Court of
Claims.
THE full text of the italian Premier
Cr1spi's dispatches concerning the Mas
sowah dispute was published on the
list. The dispatches assert that the de-
1iberate and habitual unfriendliness Of
France toward Italy is due to national
Jealousy
THIRTY machine molders went out on
strike at ]. w. Fo1ey's machine works, in
Cincinnati, on the 30th. The proprietor
discharged the shop committeeman,
Robert Schoor. because he had told the
Hence the strike.
Dr.. WINsLow s. PIERCE died at his res
idenoe in Brooklyn, on the 30th, aged
Tt
in-law Of the late Vice. President Hen
bricks. He was a cousin of President
Franklin Pierce. and related, on his
mothers side. to the Prescotts and Ban
crofts.
DR. SCHwEINFURTH, of London, be-
lives that Stanley may have reached the
southern part of the extensive and ILL.,
defined district of Bahr-Gaze from which
there are two available routes to W adelai.
Stanley, he thinks, is safe unless his
supply or ammunition has become ex-
hausted.
liz her speech on temperance in Wash.
lngton, on the 10Th, Mrs Clara Hoffman
salo tnat money and party were the gods
OF the American people: that Congress
could be bought, and that the courts
were renal She also condemned the at
fitude OF the Protestant church on the
question of temperance.
A NOVEL steamgenerator, a new de-
parture in steam boiler construction. the
invention OF Mr.. ]. McKim Chase a WELL
known master-mechanic of Washington.
was successfully exhibited In that citv on
the 1st steam was raised from cold
water in twenty minutes, and to two hun
dred pounds in thirty minutes
The scheme of the Winnepep IMAM.
Bank managers TO drive out American
currency by receiving it at a discount of
five per cent. has fallen through. The
plan was to have gone into effect on the
.81st, but merchants and others objected
so strenuously that several of the man.
:agers withdrew from the combination.
TaE Board of Aldermen of New York
City. on the 30th, passed an ordinance
prohibiting the Twenty third Street Sur
face Railroad Company from operating
any ears upon any portion of its road
without a 4 onductor as well as a driver,
and MAKING any violation of the ordi-
nance misAlameannr punishable by
6ns Of $50.