Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-06-06
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

I
Ariz., was arrested at San Francisco, oil
the 9th. on charge of stealing $500
from the Wells Fargo Express Company
JOHN GRASS. Of Standing Rock. d. T.
the leading chief of the Sioux Nation
says that while its provisions are not en-
tirely unobjectionable to them, his peo-
pie will sign the Sioux bill.
FIRE was discovered on the Cunard Lin,
steamer Servia upon her arrival at Liver
pool on the 28th. 1t caused little alarm
as il was found that only q few bales O
cotton, composing part of the cargo O
the forward hold, were smoldering. TIL,
danger might have been serious had the
vessel been at sea and the fire not dis.
covered promptly.
In the Anti-Progressist riot which oc
CURED in Belgrade, Servia. on the nigh
of the 9th, gendarme was killed, ;
Lieutenant badly wounded and Colone
commanding some of the military wa
dragged from his horse by the mob ant
maltreated.
Mutual Life and Accident Underwriters
began at the National Hotel In Washing.
ton on the 2sth. About fifty companies
were represented.
CARNEGIE, Philips & Co., of Pittsburgh
Pa, have postponed the enforcement OF
their new scale until after the conclusion
or the Amalgamated convention.
WILLARD WILLIAMS, arrested at South
Bend, Ind, for completely in the Cronir
murder case, is not the person wanted,
and was released on the 18th.
A JUDGMENT against Clark Robinson
Griggs. Of New York, for 81, 1874, 131.54 was
filed in the county clerks Office at Elmira,
N. Y, on the 29tt. The judgment is in
favor OF the executors of the estate OF
Cornelius Garrison, of Baltimore.
II. c. LOWELL, who has for long time
been assistant to the chief clerk of the
Treasury Department, was, on the goth,
suddenly stricken with a dangerous af-
lection of the brain. 1t is understood
that serious affection of the heart COM
plicates the case.
THE seventy fifth annual meeting of the
American Tract Society was held in Bos-
ton on the 29tb. William C. Chaplin was
elected president for the ensuing year.
The reports showed that the work Of the
society is being constantly enlarged.
A DISPATCH from st. Charles, MIMI,
place from Rockford, ILL.,, for the arrest
of George Schweinfurth. the head of the
Beekmanites. Schweinfurth is said to be
in st. Charles among his followers, of
whom there are quite large number.
SENATOR PAYNE, Of Ohio, announces
that he will not, under any circums tances,
be candidate for reelection to the
United States Senate.
WHILE raising barn on the Boerster
farm, near Loyal Oak, O., on the 10Th, the
framework fell. crushing a score of per-
sons, three of whom are supposed to be
fatally hurt.
A DISEASE of an exceptionally virulent
and fatal character has broken out in
Tukadagun, Japan. Those attacked with
it die within FIVE hours after being taken.
IT is reported that the brewery Of Geo.
Bechtel, on Staten Island, N. Y, has
been purchased by an English syndicate,
the price being 81, $50, 600.
The Hawaiian Princess Kalulani sailed,
on the 10Th, on the steamship Germanic
for Liverpool.
THE Dutch and Belgian societies formed
to teach the rising generation the his
tory, and inculcate the doctrines and
ideas of the French revolution of a CEN
fury ago, have gained membership that
has attracted the unfavorable notice of
their respective governments, and meas
ures are being taken to prevent their
further growth and nullify their infiu-
ence.
THE Connecticut Senate, on the 10Th,
passed the House bill forbidding rail-
roads from issuing free passes to mem
bers Of the Legislature, and ordering the
State Comptroller to furnish necessary
railroad tickets.
A FIRE occurred, May 8, at Yokote- Akita-
Ken, Japan, destroying over 1000 houses.
The Mikado has subscribed $1,000 out of
his own purse for the relief of the suf-
ferers.
A BILL to increase the specific tax on
railroads from two and three per cent.
according to the amount of their gross
earnings) to three and four per cent,
was brought up in the Michigan House
on the Goth. The conflict was short, but
decisive, and ended in the defeat of the
bill beyond recall.
ADMIRAL GHERARDI, who arrived in
New York from Hayti, on the Goth, on the
United States steamship Galena, says it
is true that Hippolyte is rapidly gaining
the advantage over Legitime.
THE deputation of Unionist members of
appointed at recent meeting
Of Unionists called upon Lord Salisbury,
On the Goth, and presented petition ask
ing for the abolition of the Office of Vice.
roy of Ireland, and the merging its duties
into those of the Chief Secretary. The
Premier replied that he would faithfully
consider the request.
THERE is movement on DOT in Helena,
Mont, to form syndicate of lumber
dealers, who propose to make an advance
in prices. The enormous amount of
buildings being put up, mostly frame, is
the cause of it.
DECORATION DAY was very generally
observed throughout the country this
year, though in some localities the cere-
were greatly interfered with by
rain.
FIVE men were killed and seven In
iured by the falling walls of an uncom-
pleted tobacco factory in Danville, Va,
On the 30th.
A HUNGARIAN was placed at one Of the
furnaces of the Pottstown (Pa.) Iron
Company, on the night of the 10Th, to
help, whereupon the puddle helpers noti-
led the bosses that unless he was taken
away at the end Of an hour they would
eave the mill. The request was not COM
piled with, and the helpers went ON
strike. There are fifteen furnaces in the
mill.
DIR. 81. L. MOODY, Of Washington, one
IF the shrewdest forgers in the country,
t is alleged. has just been captured by
Chicago detectives. He had eluded the
pest or the Government post ONCE ana
detectives for upward of a
rear. For eight months one man had done
,othing else but follow him, and the chase
lad led him to all parts Of the United
States, Canada and Mexico.
CARROLL & BARCLAYS mammoth -four
ng mill at Adairville, Ind, was struck by
lightning, on the 10Th, and was burned to
he ground. Loss, $4,000; insurance,
49,
The Belgrade police have made one
hundred arrests of persons involved in
he late riot there. Ex-Premier Cara
,hanine is among those arrested, wit
1esses averring that he melted the Pro-