Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-07-04

| A MEETING of the presidents of the
trunk lines was held in New York City,
on the 27th at which it was agreed to con-
| tinue in effect after July the rate of
| three quarters of a cent per mile on re-
frigerator cars carrying dressed beef
| A RICH vein Of coal has just been dis
covered in the town of Schonebeck, in
| Prussian Saxony.
| In the bankruptcy proceedings in Lon
don against Viscount Vaudeville, eldest
| son of the Duke of Manchester, the court,
on the 9th, granted him permission to
defer the payment of his debts until one
year after his fathers death, when they
| will have to be paid in full, but without
| interest.
JOHN MCGINNIs, an insane man, shot
| and killed the sheriff who went to arrest
him on farm near Charlton, Ia. on the
| 2Sth, and was in turn shot dead by con-
| stable and the farmer by whom he had
been employed.
passed a bill authorizing a government
| subscription to the stock of the Congo
| River railway. The subscription, on that
| date, amounted to 100000.
THE squabble over the adjustment of
| the Inauguration Centennial celebration
| finances was settled, on the 9th, by the
general committee handing over to Stuy-
vesant Fish the $4,000 due for tickets for
| the ball, and which the committee had
held back pending an accounting by Mr..
| Fish.
DR.. EUGENE THAYER, the we'll known
organist of New York, committed suicide
| at Burlington, VT, on the 9th. His wife
says the deceased had been mentally
wrong for some time.
Much excitement has been caused in
Cairo by the abandonment Of the scheme
for the conversion of the Egyptian debt,
| on account of the disagreement between
England and France. The works of i'm
| provement begun in Egypt will necessari-
| ly be abandoned.
OWING to majority of the shares of
| the Swiss Western railway having re-
Gently been purchased by Germany, the
French directors have been replaced by
Germans.
TIE steam yacht Elida, owned by Cyrus
w. Field, collided, on the 2Sth, with the
ferry boat Alpine off Yonkers, N. Y.
The Elida's masts were knocked off. Jay
Gould's yacht the Atlanta, and several
other yachts, narrowly escaped being run
| into. Nobody was hurt.
THE Cornells, elated over their victory
of the 9th, decided to challenge the win
ner of the Yale-Harvard race, but both
of the crews promptly announced that
they would under no circumstances row
Cornell.
GEO. w. WRIGHT, a well-known bust
ness man of Philadelphia, and supreme
treasurer of the order of Tonti, is report
ed to be $40. 900 short in his accounts with
that order, and warrant for his arresx
was issued on the 2Sth.
THE Neversink, the thirty foot boat
which sailed from Boston about the mid
die of May, arrived at Havre, France, on
the 2Sth. Captain Lawlor and his two
companions were we'll.
THE President, on the 2Sth, appointed
Frederick Douglass Minister to Hayti.
THE total export of gold, on the Goth,
was $1.5S0,000.
IT is announced that Prince Albert
Victor, the eldest son of the Prince of
Wales, has been betrothed to Princess
Victoria, sister of Emperor William. 1t is
reported that Parliament will not be
asked for a settlement for the couple, but
that the Queen, the grandmother of both,
will provide for them.
A SERIOUS accident occurred on the
Ohio G. Northwestern railroad, one mile
east of Batavia, o., a passenger train
being thrown from the track, by the wash
ing out of a culvert, caused by heavy
rains. Receiver Samuel Hunt, Passenger
Agent Rhodes, Conductor Kahn and sew
eral others were injured.
THE total number of bodies recovered
from the Conemaugh Valley disaster, up
to the 2Sth, as recorded by the chairman
of the committee on morgues, is 9, 253. to
which must be added about fifty that
have been found at points along the
river of which no accurate list has been
secured.
A CLoUD-B BURST occurred over the city
of Akron. O., on the 2Sth, and two inches
of water fell in an hour. The cellars Of
several business blocks were badly food
ed, and the damage to property is esti-
mated at $4,000. Sand was washed upon
the railroad tracks in such large quanti-
ties as to altogether prevent Transports
ton.
EXAMINATIONS for admissions to Har-
ward College were held, on the 2Sth, at
Cambridge, Quincy and Andover, Mass:
Exeter and Concord, n. H.; New York,
Albany, Philadelphia, Cincinnati. Chi
cago, St. Louis, San Francisco and Bonn,
Germany. The total number of candi-
dates is about seven hundred-greater
than in any previously ar.