Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-11-28
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vessels, thirteen sfngle-tnrreted mSl,i-
tors, twenty one steel cruisers OF CUR
boats, two dynamite cruisers, pr9:tica
cruiser for cadets, an armored ram, one
first-class torpedo boat and seven iron
steamers.
MRS. ErIzAHErH C..EMENrrNE KIM
SEY, mother of the poet. Edmund Clar-
ence Steadman, died, on the a1st, at
Summit. N. J. Mrs. Kinney was born
In New York on December Is, 1870 She
was an intimate friend of Tennyson.
Browning and Trollope.
JoHN b. ALLEN, ex-Delegate to Con
gress, was elected United States Senator
from Washington on the first ballot, on
the 18th, and Ex-Governor Watson C
Squire was chosen on the second ballot.
The Standard Oil Company, through
William Rockefeller, on the 21st sub
scribed 500, 600 to the New York
Worlds Fair fund, and Mr.. Jay Gould,
the Manhattan Elevated Railroad Com.
pany and the Western Union Telegraph
| Company each subscribed $25,000.
Ar meeting of the French Cabinet.
on the 21st, the Minister of Marine an
nounced that French corvette had
been dispatched to Brazil to guard the
Interests of French residents there.
SENIOR JUAN Francisco VELARDE,
who will represent Bolivian interests in
this country as Minister Plenipotentiary,
was formally presented to the Presi-
| dent, on the 21st, by Secretary Blaine.
Senior Velarde also represents his eoun-
try in the Three-Americas Congress.
JAMES BRowN, leading manufacturer
of Ireland, who has eighty nephews re-
siding in this country, spent an hour in
conversation with President Harrison
on the 21st. Mr.. Brown is personal
friend of Mr.. Gladstone.
A DISPATCH from Rio de Janeiro, on
the 21st, stated that universal suffrage
had been established throughout the
new republic.
Cured in stone quarry near Catas-
auqua, Pa, on the 21st, killing William
Hogh and Frank Burger.
Two of the most trusted employees at
| the Woolwich (England) Arsenal were
summarily dismissed, on the 21st,
charged with revealing secrets in con-
/ nection with the man ufacture of smoke
less powder.
OPTICAL returns from the late cleo
ton in Virginia, with Scott and Han
over counties estimated, give Scott
| (Dem.), for Attorney-General, 166,97S;
Lurty (Rep.), 1872, 6s1; McTeer (Pro. },
$50. McKinney's majority will be
greater than SCOTS.
| THE Government won q suit at San
Francisco, on the 22d, with a verdict for
1000, against Hite & Snyder, in one of
! the timber depreciation cases brought by
| Agent Morton, of the Interior Depart
| ment.
| EDWARD CUNNINGHAM, who was shot
by Italian poachers on his estate at Mil
ton, Mass, on the 21st, died ON the 22d.
He was very wealthy retired tea mer-
chant.
| HEREAFTER the trainmen on the New
York Central railroad will be paid for
extra work over twelve hours, but as the
company will fix it, the men will not
have to work extra very often.
| BARBARA KNoBLE, "a Pittsburgh (Pa.)
servant girl, struck a match to light the
natural gas in the kitchen range, on the
22d, when a terrific explosion occurred.
The girl was fatally injured, and the
three-story building was badly wrecked.
R. G. WooD, of the famous ballot-box
forgery case, which played 80 promi-
nent part in the late Ohio election,
was arrested at Cincinnati, on the 22d,
at the instance of Governor-elect Camp.
bell, United States Senator John Sher-
man and Congressman Butterworth.
In the lower house of the Hungarian
| Parliament, on the 22d, the Minister OF
| Finance, replying to criticisms on the
L 49, 1a o,1
| the people bore them more easily than
| in former times. He supported the po-
| litical cohesion with Austria.
AT the session of the General Grand
Chapter of Royal Arch Masons at At
lanta, Ga, on the 22d, routine business
was finished up, several minor amend
| ments to the constitution adopted, and
| Minneapolis, Minn,, chosen as the next
| meeting place. The chapter adjourned
to meet again three years hence