Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-05-23

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By ELL D. AXE.
RONToN. MISSOURI
NEWS AND NOTES.
q Summary of Important Events.
QUEEN MARY of Bavaria, mother of
King Otto, died, on the 10th, from dropsy
and cancer of the liver.
THE striking stone masons of Pitts
burgh, Pa, returned to work, on the 10th,
at the old wages, pending arbitration.
THE Municipal Council of Berlin voted
$50 600 marks for the expenses of enter
tanning King Humbert during his visit to
that city.
THE Connecticut House. on the 18th, by
a vote of 80 to a, defeated the amend
ment to strike the word male" out of the
State Constitution.
FRENCH papers unanimously compli-
ment Miss Sybil Sanderson, the Ameri-
can prima donna, upon her success in
Massenet's new opera.
THE United States steamship Dispatch,
with the President and party on board,
returned to Washington from a trip to
Fort Monroe on the 18th.
THE British House of Commons, on the
14th, rejected, by 2si to 81, motion to
disestablish the Welsh church. Mr..
Gladstone was not p resent.
THE largest oil well in Ohio was struck
at North Baltimore on the 18th. 1t filled
a l, S00-barrel tank in an hour. Land in
the town is held at enormous prices.
FRANCIS BARTON, the wealthy French
man who disappeared from his hotel in
New York City, and for whom the police
were looking, was found safe and well in
Philadelphia on the 18th.
An enormous landslide occurred in
the region of the Spiessbach, Switzer-
land, on the 14th, destroying several viii
killing large number of cattle.
DISPATCHES from various portions of
North Dakota state that snow fell in con-
siderable quantities, on the 18th, the fall
varying from two to ten inches. doing a
great deal of good to growing grain.
THE Senate committee on trade rela-
tons with Canada arrived at Los An
geles, Cal, ON the 18th. Senator Hale's
right leg was badly injured in a COLI
sion of trains near San Jose on the 18th.
SHANGHAI advices are that the claims
for damages growing out of the Chez Foo
riots have been settled. The English
and American flags have been again
hoisted and the Chinese troops have sa
luted them.
THE annual convention of the Order of
Railroad Conductors opened at Denver,
Col, on the 18th, the delegates represent
ing all the leading railroads of the coun-
try, with larger attendance than at any
previous convention.
HUNDREDS of the striking miners at Es-
sen, Germany, have, at their own request,
been sworn in as special police in order
to keep their fellow workmen from riot
ing and thus spelling their hopes of the
AMONG the passengers on the steamship
City of Paris, which sailed from New
York for Liverpool, on the 18th, were
Robert T. Lincoln, the new United States
Minister to the Court of ST. James, his
wife, two daughters and son.
Two THOUSAND men employed at the
National Tube Works at McKeesport,
Do CIV kha
cent. advance in wages. About six thou
sand more of the company's employees
threaten to join the strikers.
JUDGE MATTHEWS, who succeeds Judge
Durham as First Comptroller of the
Treasury, and Mr.. Huston, who succeeds
Mr.. Hyatt as Treasurer of the United
States, entered upon the discharge Of
their respective duties on the 18th.
MISUNDERSTANDING MILLER has au-
thorized the United States marshal of
Arizona to offer a reward of 500 each for
the arrest and conviction of the pan ties
who attacked and robbed Paymaster
Wham near Fort Grant on the 18th.
CHIEF ENGINEER L. HARRIS, who was on
the Naval Examining Board to test the
cruiser Charleston, but who became III
on the voyage from San Francisco to
Santa Barbara, and was incapacitated for
duty, died on the night of the 10Th.
) THE conductors employed by the tram
way companies of Vienna, whose drivers
recently enforced their demands by a
general strike, are threatening to take
similar action unless their pay is in
creased and their hours shortened.
q stated that the nolica raids on the
Adelphi aud Field clubs of London were
prompted by the father of one ard the
mother of another of the persons arrest
ed, with view to enabling the latter to
escape the payment of their gambling
debts.
THE principal publishing houses of
London are apparently vie.ng with eac h
other in their eagerness to obtain the
right of publishing the history of Lord
Lonsda1e's Arctic adventures. Several
houses cabled him magnificent offers for
the prospective book.
IT is limited that Attorney-General w.
n. II. Miller will probably be appointed
Justice of the Supreme Court vice Mat
thews, deceased, Secretary Noble to be-
come Attorney General and Assistant
Postmaster-Ge Clarkson to become
Secretary of the Interior.
ISDIANA's old State House at Indian
apolis is to be sold under the hammer.
1t has been officially appraised, and its
value fixed at $4,000. Fifteen years ago
the building cost the State that sum for
repairs and tine real estate on which it