Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-04-18
PERSONAL AND GENERAL


wagered that they will cover the distance
between st. Petersburg and Paris, or
horseback, within forty-five days. The
wager has been accepted, and the officers
will start on their journey some time dur
ing the month Of May.
THE Austrian colony in Buenos Ayres
has sent golden wreath, valued at 10, 600
francs, to be placed on Prince Rudolph's
tomb.
ALMOST the entire fire department OF
Milwaukee, Wis, was temporarily laid
out, on the 10th, by smoke from a smol.
dering fire in the glazing rooms of the
Sanger g. Rockwell Sash and Door fac
tory.
ONE hundred and twenty men aud boys
employed in Clark's o. N. T. Thread
Works in East Newark, N. j.. went on
strike on the 10th, against a fifteen per
cent. reduction in wages.
THE Cologne Gazette, in an article on
the future of Luxembourg, says it trusts
that the German habits, languages and
influences that now prevail in the Duchy
will continue to do SO under the Duke of
Nassau.
SEVERAL accidents occurred at the
Charlottenburg Germany races on the
10th. some of which may prove serious,
and one probably fatal. Count Heinrich
Donna was thrown from his horse in q
hurdle race, and injured internally.
There is little hope of his recovery.
THE Spanish Government has pur-
chased a site in Berlin and has begun
building palatial embassy for her rep
resentatives to Germany.
The coroner's jury, inquiring into the
cause of the death of Willie Berg, who
was shot in Buffalo. N. Y, on the sth, by
his playmate Charles Muse, returned a
verdict, on the 10th. of accidental death.
THE anniversary of the birth of Edward
Hahnemann, the founder of homeopathy,
was celebrated, on the 10th. by the pro-
mOters of the new Hahnemann Hospital
ing of the hospital.
THE Secretary of the Treasury has
awarded the contract for excavating, con-
creting and underpinning the Philadel-
phia Mint to Paul j. Essick & Son, of
Philadelphia, for So. S31.
THE coroner's jury that inquired into the
death in London of the American suicide,
Rev. Sydney Hunt rendered verdict, en-
the 10th, stating that Mr.. Hunt was tenn
porarily insane when he committed the
deed. All save the technical evidence in
the case was suppressed.
JAMES LAMEY, foreman in charge of
the iron work at the new post office, I'M
der construction at Brooklyn, n. Y, fell
from the second story to the basement, q
distance of fifty feet, on the 10th, and sus-
tanned injuries from which he died short
ly after.
DIR. CHAS. PELLEGRIHI, Vice-President
of the Argentine Republic, and Mr.. W. K.
Vanderbilt arrived in Paris on the 10th.
The Balloon Society of Great Britain
has bestowed a gold medal upon Mr..
Williams, of Cincinnati, who has given
numerous exhibitions in England OF his
skill in the use of the parachute in de-
scending from balloons.
THE special National convention to con-
slider the question of consolidating the two
systems of Sons of Veterans met at AL
bany, n. Y, on the 10th. Commander
in-Chief George Marks, of Brooklyn, pre-
sided.
SIX English boys. between sixteen and
nineteen years old, who were brought over
on the steamer Wyoming by a man named
Rev, under an agreement to work on his
ranch in Iowa a year for their passage
money, were detained at Castle Garden,
on the 10th, and will probably be sent
back.
A SECOND attempt was made, on the
night of the 9th. at Louisville, O., to wreck
the vestibule train on the Pitts burgh, Fort
Wayne & Chicago railroad, by strapping
ties to the track. Timely warning was
given, and the train was stopped just as
the locomotive reached the obstruction.
The New York Stock Exchange will be
closed on Good Friday, April 26, and on
April 80 and 80.
A SAD accident occurred on the Chi
cago, Santa Fe & California railway, at
Lorenzo, fifty-seven miles south of Chi
cago, on the morning of the 10th. During
q fog an extra freight train ran into the
rear of a passenger train, smashing to
bits private coach, not q single one of
the occupants of which escaped. Four
people were killed and four seriously
Among the killed was young
lady on her way East to be married.
THE jury in the case of Miss Libb:e
Beechler, on trial at Omaha, Neb., for the
killing of Harry King, of Chicago, re-
turned a verdict, on the 10th, of not guilty
of murder. King had lived with the woman
as his wife, but never married her, and
a lady at Omaha, Miss Beechler
going from Chicago to kill him.
THE schooner Carrie y. Bucknam ar
rived at New York on the 10th, andreport-
ed that when off Saona island she was
chased by a Dominican war vessel and fired
upon. The schooner was flying the Amer
lean flag at the time.
NATHAN F. DIXON (Rep.) was elected
United States Senator by the Rhode
Island Legislature on the 10th.
REAR-ADsifRAL THOMAS II. PATTERSON
died at Washington on the 10th.
WILLIAM WHARTON, of Massachusetts,
the wly-appointed Assistant Secretary
of State qualified, on the 18th, and as
sumed the duties of the position at once.
T
Herman were, on the 18th, placed on the
retired list of the navy.
Mrs. NJ. l.. GRASTY was found dead in
her residence at Danville, Va, on the
morning of the 18th, with an empty choral
bottle beside her. The coroner's jury gave
it as their opinion that she took an over
dose of the drug, but not with suicidal in
tent. She had been separated from her
husband for several months. They were
one of the prominent families of thatsec-
ton of the State.
THE annual oratorical contest, on the
11th, for the Yale junior exhibition prize,
was won by John Crosby, of Minneapolis,
Mimi, who had seven competitors. His
subject was "John Wilmot, second Earl
Of Rochester"
IT is alleged that the steady advance in
the price of raw sugar for the past two
months has been due to the existence of
q combination among Cuban producers
with view to securing better terms from
the Sugar Trust.
THE New York Yacht Club, on the 18th.
voted to accept Earl Dunraven's chal-
lenge for a match for tho Americas cup.
A committee was appointed to arrange
the prelisninaries which are to determine
what yacht shall be put toward against
the Valkyrie.
THE Planet Mills factory at Brooklyn,
for the manufacture OF jute bagsing,
Irvine, jute carpets, ETC., was totally de-
stroyed by fire at one O'Clock on the