Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-07-25
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

FEhSONaI ANU 06NEnAS
| The prize-fight, on the Sth, at Richburg,
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.
A RESOLUTION was passed in the Mon
tana Constitutional convention, on the
18th, that the accounts of all officials be
investigated at least once year, and
that State examiner be appointed for
! that purpose.
AMONG those subpened to attend the
McQuade trial in Ballston, N. Y. on
the 10Th, was Lawyer James NJ. Lydd :, of
New York City. He did not respond,
and Judge Daniels issued an attachment
for him, and he was arrested.
THE charter election called for the 10Th
at Oklahoma City, Okla, was suppressed
by military. No attempt was made to
hold the election, as it was seen that
trouble would ensue, and the matter was
postponed.
AT Puerto del Aqua, State of Nuevo-
Leon. Mexico, a fight took place, on the
10th, between a party of thirty smugglers
and force of custom house guards, in
which two guards and three smugglers
were killed.
The following is the statement Of the
operations of the entire system of the
Union Pacific Railroad Company for
May last: Gross earnings, So, 401, 124; ex-
penses, $1.s19.542. Compared with May,
1888, there is an increase of 1922 S5l in
the surplus.
W. T. LEWIS, of Pittsburgh, Pa, secre-
tary of the Miners National Progressive
Union, wrote to President Mcbride Of
that body, on the 18th, resigning his
Office. Mr.. Lewis intends to sever his
connection with labor organizations en-
tirely, and will go to the Paris EXPOSE
workmen. On his return to this country
he will begin to practice law.
In his annual report to the Chief of
Engineers, Lieutenant Colonel Mansfield
makes the following estimates for i'm
provements to rivers and harbors in
Massachusetts, for the fiscal year ending
June so, 1891: Newburyport harbor,
81 AZ, 800; Merrimac river, sos, 900; Glou-
cester harbor, S305, 200; Lynn harbor.
$4,000; Boston harbor, $4,000, and
Provincetown harbor, $500.
CHAs. H. BOLIVIAN, of the National
Fish Commission, died on the tn, in the
swamps of Southern Georgia, where he
was engaged in scientific work for the
Government He was a recent graduate
of the Indiana State University aud had
acquired a national reputation as nat
uralist.
A wATER-sPoUr destroyed the town of
Chilapa, State of G uerrero, Mexico on
the 18th.
THE engineers on the main line of the
Pittsburgh & Western railroad, on the
18th, asked for an advance of seventy-five
cents a day, and threatened strike if
their demand was not complied with.
GENERAL SCHoFIELD left Washington,
on the 10th, for New York City, to attend
a meeting of the Board of Fortifications
and Ordnance, of which he is a member.
THE Louis Pasteur, the first of the three
fumigating steamers for the use of the
Marine Hospital service, the more strictly
to enforce the quarantine laws. has been
completed and was launched at Whining
ton, Del, ON the 18th.
In the British House of Commons, on
the 18th, the Scotch Local. Government
bill passed the committee stage.
GEO. BECHTEL, the well-known Staten
Island brewer, died, on the 10th, after q
long illness. He leaves large estate.
THE Schuylkill Paper Mill. at Mana
yunk, Pa, owned by Frank Mcdonald,
was burned on the 10th. Loss, $50, 600;
insurance, $50, 600.
COLONEL G. L. GILLESPIE, of the Army
Engineer Corps, has made his annual
fiscal year just ended ON rivers and har-
though voluminous, does not contain any
thing of great importance or interest.
but deals largely with what has been ac-
complished in previous years.
THE cOmpositors of Vienna struck, on
the 10th, for higher wages.
IT is stated that Jack the Ripper wrote
a letter to the police officials of London
before the latest Whitechapel murder
stating that he was about to resume his
work"
AT meeting of the New York State
Hotel Keepers Association at Buffalo, on
the 10th, President Garrison preached the
subject of a National protective associa-
ton or "Hotel Mems Trust" The matter
was talked over, but no action was taken.
THE Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Com
pany, on the 10th, made application in
regular form to the Seaboard Trunk Line
for the privilege of making a
rate of two cents mile for parties of ten
or more travelling together on one ticket.
This is the rate which the Baltimore &
Ohio announced on June II, and withdrew
on July 3.
THE miners of Kladno in Bohemia, de-
cided, on the 10th, to renew their strike,
and gave notice to this effect to the mine
owners.
JUDGE COOLEY, chairman of the Inter-
State Commerce Commission. arrived in
Bismarck, Oak, on the 18th, and gave the
Cons titution- makers some sound advice.
1T is reported that Mr.. Lewis will watch
the proceedings of the special commits
sion in Mr.. Parnell's behalf.
The presence of prominent Western
railroad men in New York. on the 18th,
gave rise to the report that the Missouri
Pacific is to withdraw from the Presi-
dents Association.
THE State Department has been in
formed that yellow fever has broken out
at Colon, on the Isthmus of Panama.
LONDON landlords are being held rigid
ly to account under the law fixing their
to tenants.
IT is expected that meeting will take
place between Signor Crispi, the Italian
Premier, and Count Kalnoky before EN-
peror Francis Joseph visits Berlin.
GENERAL BoULANGER declares the in
dictment found against him by the French
is founded upon deliberate
Two runaway cars on the Lehigh VAL
ley railroad dashed into passenger train
near Shamokin. Pa, on the 18th, killing
three persons and badly wounding many
others.
A PROPOSAL from Belgian delegates to
unite with the Marxist Congress precipi.
lated long discussion at the labor con-
ference in Paris on the 18th. The Amer
lean, Belgian and Dutch delegates were
in favor of the proposition. The rest in
sisted upon strict examination of Gre
dentials.
IT was decided at Madgeburg. Ger
many, on the 10th, to allow the sugar ring
till September 10 to fill contracts. The