Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-07-18
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

built at New Ork, were opened at the
Navy Department on the Sth. The bid
ders were the London Steel Company,
Pittsburgh. Pa. $34. 1850, and Carnegie,
Phipps & Co., Pittsburgh, 500, 294.a 80.
The prize-fight on the Sth, at Richb burg,
Miss, between Sullivan and Kilrain, for
a stake of $4,000 and the worlds cham
pionship, was won by the former In the
seventy fifth round.
In the South Dakota Constitution al
convention, on the 9th, memorial was
received from large colony of Russians
who want the Constitution of the new
State to give them absolute exemption
from military duty, as they have consci-
entious scruples against taking up arms
against their fellow men. The memorial
was referred to the military committee.
WILLIAM KIRBY, one of the assistant
bathing masters at Long Branch, N. j.,
was drowned, on the 9th, while attempt
ing to save the life of VIM. Hirsch, of
New York, who had got beyond his depth
while bathing. Hirsch was brought
ashore in an exhausted condition.
COUNT HERBERT BISMARCK is quietly
spending his holiday in the Taurus
mountains.
IT is significantly commented upon in
Berlin that the Emperor has not Of late
invited Count Herbert Bismarck to ac-
company him on any of his numerous
excursions.
COUNCILLOR ALTMAN and his son, Franz,
engaged jointly in the banking business
at Bingen, Germany. were, on the 9th,
convicted of fraudulent practices and
sentenced, the father to three years and
the son to four years of penal servitude.
THE general term of the New York
City Supreme Court. on the 9th, sustained
the action of the Surrogate in admitting
to probate the will of the late Louis c.
Hammersley, by which all the testator's
property was left to his wife, now the
Duchess of Marlborough.
RUSSELL HARRISON, who is in England
on business connected with his newspa-
per, attended Lord Salisbury's garden
party at Hatfield on the Sth. 1t is stated
that Mr.. Harrison is negotiating with a
syndicate of English capitalists who made
an offer to purchase his paper.
THERE is considerable uneasiness in
the Pension Office over impending
changes. especially in the Board of Med
ical Examiners. This board is composed
of twenty-five members, and it is said to
be almost unanimously Democratic.
On the Sth Governor Hill of New York
appointed General Dan D. Wylie and
Edgar L. Ridgway emigration commits
SECRETARY BLAINE announced, on the
9th. that the permission sought by the
Massachusetts, Rifle team to enter
France as an armed body had been OBJ
tanned.
A CARLOAD of canned fruits and wines,
donated to the Johnstown sufferers by
the citizens of Los Angeles, Cal, was
sold at auction in Philadelphia. on the
9th, and realized $l,212. The money was
turned over to the Johnstown relief COM
mittee.
THE Paris police have definitely put
stop to the bull-fghts at the Exposition
grounds, many protests having been
made against the shocking cruelties per-
petrated by the fighters.
1T is stated that the Emperor of Ger
many has forbidden German officers visit
ing Paris to attend the Exposition.
GEORGE CLARK, at one time owner of
900 acres of land in Central New
York, died, on the 9th, of cancer of the
stomach.
The British Liberal leaders have deter
mined to bring up for discussion in the
House of Commons at an early date the
question of the outrages in Armenia.
They claim to have positive information
that the reports of cruelties practised
upon the Armenian Christians by the Mo-
hammedan rulers have not been exag-
gerated.
THREE battalions of British infantry
and squadron of Hussars were, on the
9th, ordered from Cairo, Egypt to As
souan.
JONES & LAUGHLIN, of Pittsburgh, Pa,
signed the Amalgamated Association
scale on the 10th. They employ nearly
4, 900 men. The Oliver Iron and Steel
Company signed for its Thirteenth street
steel plant: The other signatures were
Mclean & Co., of Pitts
burgh; Coleman, Shields & Co., of
Ohio, and the Calumet Iron Company, of
Cummins, Ill.
The Malone State committee were in
session at Petersburg, Va, on the 10th.
A sub committee was appointed, con-
sisting OF General Malone. Geo. NJ. Bow
den. p. McCaull and General Craig, to
confer with the National Republican
committee with view to harmonizing
the party in the State. and subsequently
to fix on date and place of meeting of
t hesitate convention.
IT is not positively known how many
persons were lost by the falling of the
Perry Street bridge in the flood at Johns
town, n. Y. The latest estimate places
the number on the bridge at twenty. If
this is correct ten or more are still to be
accounted for.
THE Snowden mountain, the Hottest
mountain in Wales, has been sold for
f5, $50. 1t forms part Of freehold estate.
MIR. HENRY CHAPLIN has been offered
the office of British Minister of Agricult-
ure without seat in the Cabinet.
w. K. GoRDoN's Guy trotted an exhibit
ton mile at Cleveland, O., on the 10th, in
2:11Z, beating his own record quarter
of a second.
GOVERNOR LOWRY, of Mississippi, says
that those who are sneering at his at
tempt to stop the Sullivan Kilrain prize
fight will learn that he was in earnest be-
fore he gets through with them. He in
tends to prosecute every one connected
with the affair, especially General Super
intendent Carroll of the Queen 6 Cres-
cent route.
CONSTABLE HAMILTON, Of Des MOines, Ia.
was arrested, on the night Of the 9th, by
Deputy United States Marshal Ether
idge, and held under 5000 bonds for
breaking the seal of a freight car and re-
therefrom its contents, which
consisted Of bottled beer. The car was
in transit to Nebraska Hence the ar
rest.
Two passengers were instantly killed
and about twenty seriously injured in
WTech Ou tue MeAlCdu SoheioA ioA' 80
miles north OF chihuahua, on the 9Th.
Heavy rains in the mountains had turned
a dry arrayo. spanned by an iron bridge,
into raging river, and the waters had
the track by washing away
the sand abutments and left the track
standing.
1t was reported from Rome, on the 10th,
that the Pope had selected successor to
DIR. Power, late Bishop of Waterford, and
that DR.. Ciery, Bishop of Kingston, Ont,