Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-06-27
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

PERSONAL AND GENERAL
ONE method adopted by the Antl-Pro-
hibitionists to reduce the vote of their
| opponents in Pennsylvania, on the 18th,
was to steal all the tickets for the amend
ment when it was too late to secure a
new supply. This was done in several
places.
| WITH the exception of the blooming
and wire mills, the Cambria Iron Com
| pany of Johnstown, Pa, stated, on the
| 18th, that they were ready for work in all
| departments. The large number of men
at work will be permanently retained in
the employ of the company.
| THE fishing schooner Elmer P. Wright
reports that, on the 10Th, when sixty miles
| off Chatham. Mass, and in a thick fog
she lost dory containing John Shaugh-
messy. single, native of Cape Breton, and
Eugene Burden, of Wellfeet, Mass, who
leaves a wife and two children. The men
were picked up by the Italian barge Chi
| oggio and landed at Boston.
The forty third annual meeting of the
| Association of Medical Superintendent
| of American Institutions for the Insane,
was opened at Newport, R. l., ON the 18th.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
Railway Company, on the 18th. recorded
mortgage in the county clerks Office at
Chicago for S15o000,00 to the United
| States Trust Company.
BENJAMIN FOSTER and Robert Smiley
| were drowned near South Brothers.
| Island, New York harbor. on the night OF
| the 18th, by their row-boat coming in
| contact with sail and capsizing.
JOHN L. LAwES, the professional fat
man, died at his home in Elmira, N. V
on the night of the 18th. He was I'M
doubtedly the heaviest man in America,
! weighing at his death $40 pounds. He
was born in England and was about forty
years of age. He was a blacksmith, and
worked at his trade up to three years ago.
THE jury in the case of W. E Howard,
of New York City, rendered verdict, on
the 18th, of guilty of grand larceny in OBJ
tanning Sc, 500 from the Electric Sugar
Company by false pretenses. Sentence
was deferred.
AT Gastein, Germany, on the 18th, a
monument to the memory of Emperor
William 1. of Germany was unvailed.
WILLIAM E. CHANDLER, Republican
was reelected United States Senator
from New Hampshire on the 18th.
THE announcement made, on the 18th,
that President Harrison intended to APP
point Rev. NJ. r. Meminger as postmas-
ter at Charleston, S. c., caused much
comment. Mr.. Meminger is son of G.
G. Meminger, who was Secretary of the
Treasury of the confederacy.
GEO. RYER, of Indianapolis, secretary
of the Western Shooting Association,
while out hunting, on the 18th, fell fl ON a
fence and accidentally discharged the
contents of his gun into his chest. He
died instantly. He was once German
Methodist preacher, but had become a
disbeliever. His family are distinguish
ed and wealthy.
Er arr- lii
for laying the foundation stone of a
statue of Emperor William 1. at Metz, on
the 30th. which ceremony will be per-
formed by the Kaiser.
LATE dispatches on the morning of the
10Th stated that destructive fire was rag
ing in Jersey City, n. j., and that the en-
tire fire department had been called out.
The fire menaced manufacturing and ship
ping interests.
THE New York Central freight house at
Buffalo, n. Y, was entirely destroyed by
fire on the 10th. A number of the in
mates were severely burned, loss, abo ut
S15, 900.
On the 10th Attorney-General Miller
received the resignation of George A.
Allen, United States attorney for the
Western district of Pennsylvania.
w. II. DERBY, former cashier of the
Mutual District Messenger Company of
Boston was, on the 10Th, sentenced to
three years Imprisonment for embezzle-
ment.
THE National Association of Stove
Manufacturers of the United States as
sembled in semi-annual convention at
Saratoga, n. Y, on the 18th, with seven
ty-five delegates in attendance.
THE graduating exercises of Smith Col
lege, at Northampton, Mass, took place
on the 10Th. The graduating class num-
bered fifty young ladies from different
sections of the country.
THE Paris Soliel says that the German
Government has made demand upon
France for compensation for the arrest
of the alleged German spy, Lechmer, who
was captured near Belfort on Whitsun-
day. The French officials declare that
the documents found on the person of
Lechmer abundantly justified his arrest.
SENATOR HENDERSON, of Nebraska, who
has long drawn pension for a gun-shot
wound received during the civil war, has
discovered that under the law he is en-
titled to an increase of pension with ST.
900 arrearages.
EDWARD B. Cox, wel1-known politi-
clan and bOok-keeper of New York City,
was committed to the Tombs, on the 10Th,
to await the action of the grand jury on
charge of embezzling 5000. Cox's pee
ulatlOnS extend over period OF three
years.
The Treasury Department, on the 10Th.
rejected the appeal of the Central Stamp
ing Company of New York for the allow
ance of a drawback on imported tin
plates used in the manufacture of various
articles intended for expectation.
The mayor of Belfast, Ireland, cabled
to General Hastings at Johnstown, on the
10Th. to draw upon him for the sum of
f5OO as an installment of the citizens re-
lief fund for the Conemaugh food suffer-
erS.
THE second section of mail train No. !.
west bound, on the Pan Handle railroad,
was wrecked, On the 10Th, while pasings
New Cumberland Junction. two miles
east of Steubenvilie, O. Two persons
were killed outright and eight injured,
four of them seriously.
The Senate committee on Indian ae-
fairs, of which Senator Dawes is chair
man, will start West early in July to re-
sumo its investigation into the conduct Of
Indian traders.
Mr.. THOMAS POWER O'CoNNoR testified
before the Parnell Commission. on the
Goth, that the turning point of the agra
rian struggle in Ireland was the rejec-
ton by Parliament OF the bill to COM
pensate tenants for the improvements
made upon their holdings. Disturbances
thereupon began, and the tenants were
compelled to combine.
THE management of the Nott1n CHAM
colliery of the Lehigh & Wilkesbarre
Coal Company, on the Goth, discharged
all the Polanders and Hungarians en-
nj in, ha rpir