Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-05-09

| IHE Merlden Maileable Iron Company
one OF the big concerns of Meriden, Conn.
is financially embarrassed, owing to sew
eral recent failures of Western houses
whose notes the company hold. Abou
two hundred and fifty men are thrown on
of employment.
ON the Sd Sir Julian Pauncefote pre-
sentsd his credentials to President Harri
son as Envoy Extraordinary and Ministe
Plenipotentiary from Great Britain to tn,
United States.
The funeral Of Hon. w. II. Barnum, late
chairman of the Democratic Nationa
committee, occurred, on the Sd, at Linn
Rock, Conn.
| FOUR children were burned to death il
the destruction Of their HON at Abing
don, Md, on the Sd.
GENERAL BoULANGER will hold a con
| ference with his followers in London OF
| the 10Th.
PROF. HARRISON, who was arrested an
| committed to Londonderry Jail for tria
| for supplying food to the besieged ten.
| ants of Gweedore, Ireland, was taker
| into court at Dublin, on the Sd, and, afte
| a hearing of the case, discharged.
HENRY CAMMETT, of the Geological Sur
vey, has been appointed biographer OF
| the census.
THREE children Of Portuguese famil,
| named Silvey were left alone in the house
| at Ashtabula, O., on the Sd. The building
| took fire, and one of the children was
burned to death and the other two wer,
fatally burned.
Mr.. VYNER'S Minthe won the 1000
guineas stakes for three-year- old FLIES
on the Sd, the last day of the first New
market tEngland) spring meeting.
MICHAEL RIZZALo, one Of the murderert
! of Paymaster Mcclure, near Wilkesbarre
Pa, will be hanged Oh Tuesday, June Is
in Luzerne County. Governor Beaver
signed the death warrant on the Sd.
A CARRIAGE containing q number O.
passengers was struck by train on the
Pennsylvania railroad. at Bridesburg
| crossing, near Philadelphia, on the 3d.
Two persons were killed and four badly
injured.
THE horses attached to an Indianapo oils
! undertaker's wagon loaded with corpses
being removed from Green Lawn to
Crown Hill Cemetery, ran off and scat
tered the corpses along the streets for
half q square, presenting a sickening
sight.
A DISPATCH from Cape Town, Africa,
announces the death of Lord Walter
Campbell, the third son of the Duke of
Argyle, from a fever contracted while
travelling in South Africa.
KERN'S cigar-box factory, at New Or
leans, was burned on the Sd. Loss, $40, =
600; no insurance.
THE Dowager Empress Augusta of Ger
many, on the Sd, presented to Chief Chap
lain Reichter heavy gold chain to wear
on state occasions.
A DESTRUCTIVE explosion of Ere damp
occurred at the Beechwood (Pa.) colliery
n nna fafo 1yyir o1
and considerable damage was done to
the property.
The Cologne Glee Club presented 5000
francs to the poor of Rome on the Sd.
SUIT has been instituted in the Superior
Court at Keokuk, Ia, by the Fort Madi-
SON Lumber Company against the Chi
cago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Com
pany for SAC, 900 damages arising from a
destructive fire ignited by sparks from a
passing locomotive.
DETAILS of the defeat of the Abyssinian
army and the death of King John state
that the Abyssinians attacked the strong
hold of the dervishes at Nelammeh on
March 10, but were repulsed with many
wounded. On March IL the dervishes as
sumed the aggressive, and comp letely
routed the Kings forces. Among the
large number killed were King John and
Aim.
SECRETARY WINDOW was slightly indis-
posed, on the 81, and, on the advice of
his physician, decided not to leave his
room.
THE parochial residence of the Church
OF the Holy Name at Chicopee, Mass, was
broken into, on the night of the Sd, and
all the silverware in the dining room and
$3.50 in money from the library were
stolen.
THE block coal miners of Brazil, Ind,
rejected, on the Sd, by vote of 26s to 1172
the scale of prices prepared by the oper-
ators.
HERR MEYER, of Berlin, the largest
ivory importer in the world, and a BROTH
er-in-law of Carl Schurz, died at Kiel,
Germany, on the Sd.
Mr.. CoNYBEARE, Gladstonian NJ. P. for
the Camborne division of Cornwall, Ire
land, has been convicted of violating the
Crimes act and sentenced to three months
without hard labor.
OWING to the activity of the sugar mar
ket freight rates on sugar from Mauri-
titus to England advanced ten shillings
ton on the Sd.