Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-05-16
NEWS AND NOTES.

NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary CT Important Events.
CoUxT ToLsroI, Russian Minister of the
Interior, died on the Sth.
On the 9th the coal-heavers of Ashland,
Wis, struck for higher wages.
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THE President, on the Ith. appointed
Frank w. Palmer, of Chicago,t to be Public
Printer.
GENERAL WILLIAM :. HARVEY, the
noted Indian fighter of a past generation,
died at Orlando, Fla, on the 9th, aged
eighty-nine years.
THEo. ROOSEVELT of New York, and
Frank Thompson, of South Carolina, have
been appointed members of the Civil
Service Commission.
TWENTY-FIVE acres of small buildings
at Moreland, a suburb of Chicago. was
swept by fire, on the sth, and seventy
i've families rendered homeless.
THE President, on the 18th, appointed
Arthur l.. Thomas, Governor; Elijah
Daggett, Surveyor-General, of Utah.
THE Findlay o. Goblet Works, said to
be the largest establishment of the kind
in the United States, were burned, on the
9th, throwing 800 persons out of employ
ment. The total loss is S125,oo0.
WALKER BLAINE stated, on the 10th.
that there was absolutely no truth in the
published report that the Danish Govern
ment had protested against the appoint
went Of Mr.. Enander as Minister to Den
mark.
THE indicted members of the Jersey
City,N. J., oard OF Public Works, Messrs.
Kern, Hilliard, Watt and Reynolds, COM
monty known as the big Four" were
placed on trial, on the 9th. charged with
malfeasance in Office.
REPRESENTATIVES of the Scotch Irish
citizens of the United States met at Col
umbia, Tenn, on the Sth, and organized
the Scotch-Irish Association. Ex-Gov-
ernor Proctor Knott. of Kentucky, deliv-
cred the opening address.
THE Interior Department, on the sth,
Instructed Inspector Picker, at Oklahoma
City, Okla, to notify settlers that sales Of
town lots by town-site companies or other
private individuals or organizations are
worthless under the law.
THEODORE WILDMAN, of New York City.
who was secretary of Typographical
Union No. 6 from 1884 to 1883, is said by
an expert who has examined the books to
be between 5000 and 5000 short in his
accounts with the Union.
THE Edward Rail Shoe Company, of
Boston, has assigned. The corporation
was organized in 1887 under Maine laws,
and with a capital stock of S250,0O0. The
cause of the assignment was an attach
ment by small creditor.
COLONEL F. C. LovELAND has been APP
pointed to succeed General Siegel as PEN
sion agent in New York. Colonel Love-
land formerly held position as special
agent in New York City, but was dis
missed by Commissioner Black.
' HENRY GEORGE consoles himself for the
Indifference of the masses in the United
States by the attention which he has re-
.ceived in Great Britain, where the halls
have proved to small to hold the audi
ences that nightly flock to hear him.
THE new suspension bridge at Niagara
Falls, to replace the one carried away by
q cyclone last winter, was opened for
travel on the eth. The bridge, which was
commenced March 81, is 40 feet long, II
feet wide and 1917 feet above the water.
THE Department of State has been in
formed by our Minister at Paris that the
French Government, in reply to request,
had cheerfully granted permission for the
thirty marines sent out for that purpose
to guard the American section of the ex-
hibition.
FoRrY-sIx of the striking street-car
drivers of Rochester, n. Y, united in a
petition, on the Sth, to be taken back into
the employ of the company, thus prac-
tically ending one of the longest and
most expensive strikes in the history of
that city.
THE Commandment of the Boston Navy
Yard has been directed to fire ational
salute at sunrise, on June l., the anniver-
sary of the battle of Bunker Hill, and,
should he consider it proper and expe-
dent, to direct the marines to take part
in the parade.
IRA W. HOPKINS, of Maiden, Mass,
whose coat, containing personal docu-
ments, was found in the railroad wreck at
Hamilton, Ont, is safe at home. He in
tended taking the Inflated train at Chica-
CO. but missed it. His trunk, however,
went forward.
A SUIT against Adam Badeau, ex-Con-
Sui 10 udNdud, Nuo ussuIco q Cloimtul
for compensation as the alleged author of
Grants Memoirs, has been filed in New
York by the Government to recover
money which it is claimed Badsau appro-
priated while in office.
EMMA ABBOTT, the prima donna, has
contracted with Philadelphia firm for
monument to her late husband, Eugene
Wetherell, to cost $4,000. 1t will be
erected at Gloucester, Mass, and will be
ffty-four feet high and composed of va
rious species Of marble.
The body of Thomas Downs, a promi-
nent Democratic politician, who had been
mysteriously missing for more than q
week, was found floating in the lake at
Cleveland, o., on the Sth. Inability to
procure employment is supposed to have
caused him to commit suicide.
IT is expected that the President will
soon be called upon to decid e dispute
between the Interior Department and the
Clvll-Service Commission as to which is
entitled to dispense the patronage of the
Census Bureau, numbering three thousand
clerks, besides local superintendents.
NEWS was received, on the 9th. that
Rev. Father Damien, who for the mast
sixteen years had devoted himself to
labors among the lepers at Molski.
Hawaii, died at Kalawa, April 10. of
leprosy, contracted in the performance of
his duties. He was a Belgian by birth.
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