Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-07-04

ALL sections Of Germany and Austria
report the prospects for a large crop
extremely favorable.
LIGHTNING struck the Cologne Cathedral,
on the 9th. hurting a gigantic stone from
the famous lower tower.
THE North German Lloyds Steamship
Company have decided that their steam
ers will hereafter discontinue calling at
Southampton.
THE Western Union Telegraph Com
pany was fined 500 in New York City. on
the oath, for causing one of their Iinemen
to string wires on Sunday.
THE French Government has stopped
the payment of General Boulanger's PEN
sion. The latter will bring suit against
the authorities to compel its payment.
THE United States steamer Adams was,
on the 9th, ordered from Honolulu to
Samoa, to take the place of the Alert and
Nipsic, then en- route to San Francisco.
Mrs. R. B. HAYES, wife of ex-President
Hayes, died at Fremont, o., on the morn
ing Of the 18th, from the effects of shock
of paralysis received several days before.
ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY pounds of
quartz, carrying gold at the rate Of $780,
600 to the ton, were taken to Ishpeming,
Mich, from the Michigan gold mine on
the oath.
BURKE, the Winnipeg suspect. was ar
raigned, on the 26th, and remanded for
one week, to await the arrival of evil
dence from the United States. He was
nervous and excited.
YALE won the fourteenth annual
straight-away eight oared boat race from
the Harvard crew on the Thames river
course, at New London, Conn, on the 18th,
by six boat lengths.
THE Princess Louise, aged twenty two
years, youngest daughter of the Prince
of Wales, has been betro thed to the Earl
of Fife, her fathers bosom friend and the
Queens neighbor at Balmoral.
RUSSIA has occupied Deer Island, in
Corea, as a coaling and naval station.
There is Russian man. of-war there, and
nobody is allowed to land or leave with.
out permit from the Admiral.
DISPATCHES from Delagoa Bay, Africa,
state that the force employed in the con-
struction of the railway there are max
ing ready to resist any attempt of the
Portuguese authorities to seize the works.
THE United States steamer Kearsarge
arrived at Nicholas Mole, Hayti, on the
9th, after a stormy voyage from New
York. The vessel proceeded at once to
Port-au-Prince. All on board were well.
On the 26th Surrogate Ransom of New
York City granted letters of administra-
ton upon the personal estate of the late
Washington Irving Bishop, the mind
reader, to his widow, Mabel Taylor
Bishop.
THE funeral of General Cameron. of
Pennsylvania, took place at Harrisburg
on the 10Th. The State departments were
closed and flags were displayed at half
mast over the several armories through
out the State.
THE Inman Line steamship City of New
York, which sailed from New Y ork City
on the 26th, had among her passengers
Russell Harrison, son of the President.
He goes to Paris and London in the in
terest of his publications.
A LARGE number of weavers have left
the Blackstone (Mass.) mills during the
past two months, their complaint being
that they can not make sufficient wages
to support themselves. Many looms are
now stopped on that account.
THE flood-devastated city of Johns
town, Pa, was visited by another calam-
ity ON tie oath. Fire destroyed twenty
five or thirty buildings, and at one time
threatened to make a clean sweep of all
that had been left by the flood.
THE twenty-four star route conspiracy
cases remaining on the docket after the
Governments failure to convict ex-Sena-
tor Dorsey and T. j. Brady, were nolle
prosecuted in the Criminal Court of the
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THE American Institute of Homeopathy
in session at Lake Minnetonka, Mimi, on
the 9th, elected DIR. A. j. Sawyer, of Mon
roe, Mich, president. The Institute pro-
tested against the shutting out of homes
opathists from State medical boards.
The Life-Saving Service is taking steps
for the establishment Of two ife-saving
stations on the great lakes. provided for
by the last Cougress-one at Marquette.
Mich, on Lake Superior, and the other
at Kewaunee, Wis. on Lake Michigan.
DIR. A. N. FRETz and David Kline, of
Fleetwood, Pa, who are charged with
taking an illegal pension fee. were taken
before the United States Commissioner
at Philadelphia, on the 9th, and placed
under 81, 900 bonds for a further hearing.
THE Civil-Service Commission, which
has been on a tour of investigation among
several of the larger post-offices through
out the West, has issued a report in
which the postmaster at Milwaukee, Wis.,,
is severely censured for violations Of the
Civil.Service law.
A LETTER from the Lower Congo re-
ports the death of Mr.. Swinburne, Mr..
Stanley's assistant in his previous ex-
petition, but more recently assistant
manager of the Congo Commercial Com
pany. He died of fever, May 81. He was
a great favorite of Stanley's.
The Portuguese Government has can
celed the concession granted some time
ago for a railroad at DalgOa bay. 1t is
suspected that Germanv's hand is in this
affair. The British Consul at Dalgoa has
wired for a man-of- war for the protec-
ton OF British interests there.
The preliminary surveys of railroad
to ran from Jaffa, on the sea coast of
Palestine, to Jerusalem, and thence to
Betnlehem, have been completed. A COM
pany has already been formed to build
the road, in which a number Of English
and French bankers are interested.
THE Attorney General has rendered a
decision in which he holds that a Nation.
al bank can not be established anywhere
in the territory of the five civilized ma.
lions in the Indian Territory, owing to
the nature OF the treaties now in force be-
tween the United States and the five ma.
tons.
A NEW YORK HERALD special from the
City of Mexico says: The Bank of Lon.
dom Mexico and South America a branch