Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-07-05

TIE iron and steel manufacturers of
Pittsburgh, Pa. gave notice to their Gus
| TONERS, on the 18th, that no orders would
be received after the 30lh, and that none
would be taken which could not be filed
| by that time. This is indicative that they
regard shutdown as inevitable.
FARMER named Theodore Caster, who
had just sold team OF horses, was at
| tackled, near Kingsley. Mich, on the 9th.
by three brothers named Droste. He shot
one dead, fatally injured another, and
| thinks he got some lead into the third,
| who escaped.
OWING to the chilly, rainy atmosphere
that prevailed in Washington, on the 2Sth,
the saltwater trip planned for General
Sheridan was postponed temporarily.
THE New Workers won the two-mile
race in the Harvard Columbia contest, at
New London, Conn.,, on the 2Sth.
THE Union Windmill Company's shops
at Albion, Mich, were partially destroyed
by fire on the night of the 9th, causing a
loss of $4,000; insurance, $4,000
JoHNsoN's block of two stories, at Dun
dee, Mich, occupied by E. c. Kenyon,
dry goods, and L. 1. Flint, groceries, was
burned on the 2Sth. Loss, $4,000; in sur
ance small.
The Spanish Cortes has rejected by a
vote of 1874 to 80, proposals to increase the
duties on foreign agricultural produce
and cattle.
JOSEPH GREENFIELD, who stole furs
valued at s., 500 from his fathers store at
go Broadway, New York, was charged
with theft in court, on the 2Sth, by his
father, and committed in default of bail
for trial.
THE sentences of Imprisonment recent
" passed on Major Popoff and five alleged
accomplices, for defalcations in the Bull
garian War Office, have been RENTED
by Prince Ferdinand.
The Third district Minnesota Republic
an convention, held at Red Wing, on the
2Sth, nominated State Senator d. s. Hall,
o. Reyville County, for Congress. Judge
Mcdonald, Democrat. is the present in
cunlbent.
THE London Daily Neaos says that the
French Government has bought Maxim's
new repeating gun, which fires sixty
rounds minute.
In the suit of Alice Potts VS.. Emily
Willard, at Port Huron, Mich, for $780,
600 damages for alternating the affections
of her husband, Lewis Potts, the jury re-
turned verdict, on the 2Sth, for $40, 900
damages.
Mrs. GEO. MARSHALL, aged sixty eight,
living in Council Bluffs, Ia, committed
ceased remarked few days previous that
she thought she had a cancer, end it is
thought brooding over this caused her to
commit the act.
OzIAH PHELPS WATERS died at Burling-
ton, Ia, on the 18th, aged fifty-eight He
Was past grand master of Masons in Iowa,
past grand commander Of the Knights
Templar, and well known to the craft
throughout the Northwest.
A NEWPORT (Ky.) inventor claims to
have produced a smelling furnace by
which he can produce from common clay
aluminium 95H per cent. pure at cost of
one dollar pound, while the present cost
Of aluminium is one dollar an ounce.
THE new building erected by U. U. Mills
on the grounds of Bellevue Hospital, New
York, as a training-school for male
nurses, and presented to the city by that
gentleman, was accepted by Mayor Hew-
lit on the 2Sth.
ROBERT HALE, Secretary of the Mime
apolis (Minn.) Board of Trade, died sud-
denly on the 2Sth. He fell down an eleva-
tor shaft in the Nicollet House on the oath,
and his death is attributed to this.
A DISPATCH from Elma, a small station
on the Western New York & Pennsyl-
vania railroad, on the 2Sth, states that a
negro farm hand had murdered his wife.
UreaU oXClUem0nC prevailed III the uelSQ-
borhood and there was some talk of lynch
ing.
VALUABLE discoveries of iron have just
been made by Duluth explorers on the
north branch of the Vermillion range, on
the Canadian side of the Minnesota line,
q considerable distance east of Tower and
Ely, and closely adjoining the interna-
tional boundary.
SECRETARY OF STATE BAYARD has Of
ficially called the attention of the British
Minister resident at Washington to the
case of the American ship Bridgewater,
unlawfullv seized by the customs officials
OF the Dominion of Canada year ago
and detained for eighty-one days at Shell
burne.
SUIT has been commenced at Chicago by
J. B. Mayo and Franklin Spencer, stock
holders of the American Exchange Ma
tional Bank, against David w. Irwin to
compel him to refund the bank 1890, 200.
The suit is an outgrowth of the celebrated
June wheat deal in 1887, which wrecked
the Cincinnati Fidelity Bank and H. L.
Harper.