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

0ENEhAL DOULANGER mas lett the Hotel
Bristol, in London, and taken up his resi-.
dence in the house in Portland Place
which he leased a short time ago for six
months. He had not intended to occupy
the house SO soon, but the managers ot
the hotel insisted upon his changing his
quarters.
THREE men, Michael Flynn, Patrick
Ratchford and Martin Reagan were killed
by fall Of coal in the Hyde Park shaft al
Scranton, Pa, on the 1st.
A DRUNKEN man was picked up by the
New York City police at Grand street and
Bowery, on the 30th, and $1,91 was found
in his pocket. He was too drunk to give
his name, and was locked up.
THREE persons were killed and eight
injured by an explosion in the Recklin.
husenhaus colliery at Dortmuud, West
phalia, on the 1st.
HERR KoLIsCH, the famous chess player
of Vienna. died on the Goth.
E. S. LACEY, of Michigan. the new
Comptroller of the Currency, took the
oath of Office at the Treasury Depart.
ment, on the LIST, and entered upon the
discharge Of the duties of his position.
The reduction in the public debt, dur
ing the month of April, amount ed to S13,
0S7, 234, and for the ten months of the cur
rent fiscal year to $50, 979, 22s.
IT is charged that two young men, near
Somerset, Pa. on the 1st, hanged their
father and then shot their srep-mother, in
order that they might secure possession
of their fathers property.
THE London Stock Exchange was closed,
on the LIST, owing to its being a semi
annual settling day at the Bank Of En-
gland.
The greatest parade of the series that
has been held in New York in honor of
the Washington Inaugural centennial
was the civic display on May 1, in which
eighty thousand men participated. The
States, the nationalities, the trades and
guilds were well represented. The whole
parade was one vast panorama of the his
tory and progress of our Nation for the
past century. President Harrison and
other distinguished citizens reviewed the
parade.
POSTMASTER VAN Corr, of New York as
sumed the duties of his Office on the LIST.
THE Butler Club Of Boston, on the LIST,
celebrated by banquet the twenty-sev-
enth anniversary of the occupation of
New Orleans. About seventy-five guests
attended. General Butler spoke feeling
ingly of the honor done him, and paid a
glowing tribute to Admiral Farragut, by
whose cooperation and daring efforts the
victory Of New Orleans was won.
MARGARET BREsNAHAN, aged forty five,
was struck and killed by train at Law
renee, Mass, on the 1st.
HERREN RICHTER AND RICKART, on the
LIST, protested against the summary dis
missal of the German Landtag.
CAPTAIN MURRELL Of the Missouri and
his officers and crew were banqueted in
Baltimore, Nd, on the 1st, and presented
with medals in recognition OF the rescue
of the Danmark's passengers. j. W. Gads-
den, of Philadelphia, created a diversion
by presenting a check for s., 500, contri-
buted in the latter city, the money to be
divided between the officers and crew,
with promise of merit medals to follow.
THE British House of Commons, on the
LIST. rejected the bill proposing to give to
urban lease-holders the power to purchase
leases.
THE Plenary Congress, in session in
Vienna, adjourned, on the I'd, amid cheers
for the Pope and the Emperor.
The Comptroller of the Currency, on the
lst, declared final dividend of 15A per
cent. in favor of the National Bank Of
Henrietta, Tex, which failed July %, 1887.
THE Erie canal was formally opened at
midnight of April 80. and eighty-two
boats cleared from Buffalo. This was
much smaller number than usual.
ON the 3Oth he Catholic congress
urged the Vatican to support the move
ment making to dissuade people from en-
ierating to America and Australia.
A GRAND reunion of veterans of all G.
A. R. posts in the vicinity Of New York
City, was held, on the LIST, in honor of
Chief Warner.
CONSIDERABLE excitement was created
n Chicago, on Centennial Day, by an An
,rchist displaying a red flag from a win
low. The emblem was torn down. and
he crowd had secured rope to lynch the
nan when he was saved by the police.
IT is learned that q terrible riot recently
at Guanajuata, capital of the
Mexican State Guanaiuata, in which many
we're killed and wounded. The regular
roops were called out, and they fired into
he mob until the ground was wet with
blood and covered with dead and dying.
AURELIUS PAYNE, siXty-two years old,
lctive as a kitten, took unto himself his
,ighth wife at Fl. Wayne, Ind, on the LIST.
The last Mrs. Payne is twenty seven.
COLONEL CHAS. w. WILDER, died in
5oston, on the I'd, aged ninety years. He
vas one of the Oldest and best-known
obacco merchants of Boston; had been
IN alderman, State Senator and Quarter
Of militia, and was
prominent Mason and founder of the
Central Club.
DURING the Whitsuntide recess Mr..
Gladstone expects to enjoy a yachting
,ruise in the waters of Great Britain with
/ party of friends.
THE demand of the carpenters of
Quincy, Mass, for ten hours pay for
line hours work has been acceded to by
he master builders.
FATHER BoNIFACE, chief of the Bava-
ian African missionaries, and Sister
3enedicta, who were captured by the Arab
3ushiri and afterward released, are at
Augsburg, Bavaria. The latter has re-
entered the convent, and will not return
% missionary labors, but Father Boniface
will, after securing recruits, return to
Africa and continue his work.
THE Dominion Parliament was pro-
,ogued, on the I'd, by Lord Stanley, Gov
,rnor- General, after session of over
hree months, which was in many respects
,ne Of the most important Of the present
Parliament.
RETURNS OF the commerce of the Suez
,anal show that seventy-eight per cent.
If the ships passing through the canal are
British.
THE dynamite factory at Odell, near
hastings, N. Y, was blown up at noon,
IN the I'd, Just after the workmen had left
he building. The powder-house blew up
irst, and the factory, containing half
on of dynamite, followed.
THE British Government, seeing no hope
or the passage of the Sugar bill. have
abandoned it.
PURSUANT to their agreement, the
lnion carpenters of Lawrence, Mass,
about three hundred, left work
1T FIVE o'clock. on the 1st, pending set
cement in relation to their demand for
line hours for days work