Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-08-29

COMMANDER II. L. JoHxsoN has been
ordered to command the Monocacy, at
Yokohama. He will leave San Francisco
by the mail steamer on September 10.
LIEUTENANT T. A. Lyons was, on the
22d. appointed a member Of the Board of
Inspection Of Merchant Vessels at New
York.
JANUS F. WILBUR, perhaps the most
important witness in the Governments
suit against the Bell Telephone Com
pany, was found dead in his bed. in Dem
yer, Col. on the ed. The death evidently
resulted from hard drinking.
TWO memorial brasses of the Washing
ton family have been stolen from the
parish church of Sulgrave, Northampton.
shire, England.
PRESIDENT HARRISON attended the re.
union of his regiment the Seventeen
Indiana, at TomIinson Hall in Indian.
apolis, Ind, on the 23d. He entered
heartily into the spirit of the occasion,
and for the moment lost sight of the
dignity of Office and was one of the boys.
The retiring mayor and thirty council
men of Madrid have been arrested,
charged with defrauding the city in the
sum of $4,000 900 during the four years
of their lncumbency.
MANY Parnellite members of Parlia-
to be held in County Clare. Ireland, next
month, to protest against Mr.. Balfour's
recent denunciation of the priests Of
Clare.
OFFICIAL reports from Constantinople
and from Athens agree that the situation
in Crete is improving.
HoAG's Touring mill, at Manchester,
Ia, was burned, on the 2sd. together with
the electric. light plant Loss. $50, 900; no
insurance. The fire is supposed to have
been the work of an incenGiary.
THE North German Gazette says: "Our
friendship for England forms the weight
lest security for the peace of Europe, and
our chief policy is to strengthen the
friendship of England. For the two ma
tions to estrange each other by public
manifestations is to play into the hands
of their opponents abroad"
EMPEROR WILLIAM reviewed the garri-
son at Metz. on the 23l wearing the uni
form Of the Garde corps. The Empress
witnessed the parade from her carriage.
Both afterward inspected the cathedral.
They were everywhere greeted with the
greatest enthusiasm.
1T is authoritatively stated that Messrs.
Gooderham & WOrts, of Toronto, Oat.,
have sold their distillery in that city to
an English syndicate for 81 900 900. This
distillery is the largest in Canada.
THE G. A. r. delegation from Florida
to the Milwaukee encampment left jack
sonville, on the 23d, in handsomely dec
GRATED Pullman car. A number of ladies
accompanied them.
THE London Standard denies the report
that Mr.. Parnell intends to visit America
during the recess of Parliament.
AN accommodation train on the Park
ersburg branch of the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad collided with special carrying
officials Of the road, between Petroleum
and Silver Run, w. Va, ON the 23l killing
one engineer and both firemen. and seri-
ously iujuring a large number of others.
FURTHER important arrests of Social
ist agitators in Galicia were made on
the 23d.
AN unknown man hanged himself at
Normal, Ill.,, on the sd. He had applied
at the Soldiers Orphan Home at Normal
for work, but was unsuccessful. In an
hour he was found hanging by a rope
around his neck to tree. He was aged
about thirty five. and neatly dressed in a
suit OF black and green mixed. There
was nothing about him to give his iden-
tity.
THE committee appointed recently by
the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce
to investigate the feasibility of laying an
ocean telegraph cable from that point to
Australia, has reported in favor of the
project and estimates the cost of cable
line from San Francisco to New Zealand
by way Of Honolulu and Tutuila at II, 900, =
COO.
JAMES HOPE, the notorious hank burg
lar, was released from Auburn IN. W
State prison on the 23d and took train
for New York City. He slept in a cell at
police headquarters in New York the
same night, being wanted for participa-
ton in the Manhattan Bank burglary,
ten years age. Hope is fifty
years old now.
JAMES SMITH, q farmer, living near CO.
lumbus. Ind, dreamed that he was tax
ing bath in the river, and, making an
imaginary big leap Into the water, he
alighted on bed post and was $50 badly
injured that his death is expected to &C.
cur at any time.
THE Minister of Customs of Ontario
say the government has not yet re ceived
any informatio n regarding the seizure of
the Pathfinder and Minnie in Behring
sea by the American revenue cutter
Rush.