Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-05-30

CHARLES CLENDENNING, the DIGEST resi-
dent of Allegheny County, Pa, died, on
the 23d, aged one hundred and one years.
The deceased never used whisky or to-
bacco in any form, and up to a few weeks
before his death was remarkably healthy.
THE Pope will protest at the coming
consistory in Rome against the erection
of the proposed monument in honor of
Giordano Bruno, the Italian philosopher,
who was burned as hereto in 1900.
THE appointment of Captain VIM. NJ.
Meredith, of Chicago, to be chief of the
Bureau of Printing and Engraving, is to
be made at once.
JOHN BRIGHT's will was probated in
London on the oath. He bequeaths ia
estate of about f36,00) to his childrel.
There are no public requests in the will.
IN the Massachusetts House of Repre-
sentatives, on the 9th. the bill granting
suffrage to women on liGuor-license ques-
tions was referred to the next Legislature,
after hot debate.
THE German Government has arrested
number of Frenchmen at Soultzrnatt,
Alsace on a charge of treason.
IN the race between the yachts Val
kyrie, Yarana and IreX, on the oath, the
finish Was made with a good southeast
breeze after q splendid race. The VAL
kyrie again proved the winner.
THE Wayne Iron Works, of ittsburgh,
Pa, will probably remain closed for some
time, as the Amalgamated Association
has sustained the demand of the puddlers
for one dollar extra per ton for making a
certain per cent. of Bessemer iron. About
four hundred men are out.
MIR. ROBERT T. LINCOLN, the new Amer
lean Minister to the Court of st. James.
fn1 IN Vicfn ip1
sor Castle on the 18th.
THE Olphert evictiOns in Ireland, on the
oath, were characterized by desperate re-
sistance on the part of the tenants. Dur
ing one of the many melees, Police In
spectOr Duff was severely wounded, and
several policemen and bailiffs were pain
fully scalded by hot water thrown upon
them by the inmates of various houses.
Fourteen persons were arrested.
THE Lord Mayor of London received
Captain Murrell of the steamship Mis-
souri, and his officers and crew at the
Mansion House, on the oath, and present.
ed them with testimonials for their
bravery in rescuing the passengers of the
sinking steamer Daumark. A letter
which had been received from Prince
Bismarck was read. 1t was highly lauda-
tory Of Captain Murrell and his men.
THE Ordnance Bureau of the Navy De-
partment has completed two of the ten
inch steel breech-loading rifles for the
monitor Miantonomah. These are the
largest and most powerful guns yet
turned out for the navy.
CARNEGIE, PHIPPs & Co.. of Pittsburgh,
Pa, have just finished two steel plates,
each nine inches wide, $50 inches long and
three inches thick, weighing nine thou
sand pounds each, and showing sixty
thousand pounds tensile strength. krupp,
of Germany, was first asked to manu-
facture the plates, but was unable to pro-
duce them.
THE Aged Workmen's Insurance bill
was passed in the German Reichstag on
the oath. The bill provides that a small
monthly amount be deducted from the
wages of all working people, the money
thus collected to be laid aside for in
surauce against old age and sickness.
The state adds to the insurance fund
a sum equal to one third the amount col
lected.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY TICHEvoR has
affirmed the decision of the collector a
New York in assessing so-callcd vinegar
as wine. The importers claimed that the
liquid when shipped was vinegar, and
must have changed to wine during the
voyage.
A LARGE meeting of persons in favor of
the Sugar Bounty bin was held in London
on the oath. Mr.. T. Richie, president of
the Local Government Board, was pres
ent and attempted to address the meet
ing. but was Missed and hooted until he
was obliged to leave the building. a
resolution was passed denouncing the
government.
THE warden of the Hudson County On.
j. penitentiary, at Snake Hill, discov-
cred plot, ON the 24th, for a general de-
livery of convicts confined in that insti-
tuition. The cells and persons of five
long term prisoners being searched, files,
knives, saws, drills, a pair of compasses
and key which readily unlocked the cell
and corridor doors, were discovered. The
culprits were placed in close confinement
on bread ana water.
THE German Reichstag adjourned on
the oath.
THE Shah of Persia arrived at st.
on the 24th. He was received
by the Gar and CZarina, by banquet in
the Winter Palace, at which the Shah sat
at the Czariua's right. The Car offered
a toast in honor of his guest, and the
Shah responded by toasting the Czarina.