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

PERSONAL AND GENERAL
DEPOSITS of gold have been discovered
in the province of Obers chin, Germany
and samples of the ore have been for
warded to Berlin for the purpose of OBJ
tanning concession from the govern
ment to work the mines.
A LARGE number of eXcurSionists were
lost on the steamer Ocotolan, founderet
on Lake Chapala, near Guadalajara, Mex.
leo, on the 10Th. Fifty bodies have beer
recovered, and many more are known te
be still in the wreck. Efforts are being
made to raise the steamer, when it is ex.
pected additional bodies will be secured
On the Goth eX-President Cleveland an(
party were entertained at dinner in Hav'
ana by Salamanca, the Captain Genera
of Cuba.
JOHN SHERMAN and family will go tC
Europe after the adjournment of the Sen.
ate. The Senator goes abroad for res
and recreation.
JUDGE Rowland, of the Marion County
Superior Court, has decided that Governor
Hovey of Indiana must issue commissions
to appointees OF the Legislature. The
case goes to the Supreme Court.
THE total damage to property by the
Chinese riots in Ching kiang-Foo is
placed at S103 900.
THE Republican Senators held caucus
Immediately after adjournment, on the
9th, and discussed the question of allow
ing clerks to all Senators, authorizing in
vestigations during the recess, etc. Nc
action was taken.
1t is said that General Johnston, aged
eighty-two, is to be retained as Commits
sioner of Railroads.
THE United States steamer Adams, re-
Gently returned from Samoa. has been
put out of commission, and will undergo
thorough repairs at the Mare Island Navy
Yard.
In his eulogy on John Bright in the En-
lish House of Peers, on the 2Sth, Lord
master of English oratory of the present
generation. He possessed singular
rectitude of character, and inspired his
followers to pure patriotism"
A LEGISLATIVE committee sent to inves-
tigate stories of cruel treatment of pa
tients in the insane asylum at Pontiac,
Micn., have already discovered that at
least three patients have met painful
deaths as the result of cruel and violent
treatment at the hands of their attend
ants.
THE managers of the proposed banquet
to Mr.. Parnell emphatical1y deny that
they have the slightest intention of Civ
ing up the affair. They are still looking
for hall large enough for the occasion.
Mr.. GLADSTONE returned from Scot
land, where he had been to attend the fu-
uneral of his brother, on the 2Sth. On
the Goth he pronounced the eulogy on
John Bright in the House of Commons.
SENECA Y. TAYLOR. of st. Louis; Ste
phen White, of Los Angeles CAL; Geo. S.
Graham, of Philadelphia and S. F. White,
Of Duluth, Mimi. were admitted to prac
tice in the Supreme Court Of the United
States on the 2Sth.
THE nomination cf Murat Halstead as
Minister to Germany was rejected by the
Senate, on the 2Sth. Mr.. Sherman, who
voted in the affirmative, changed his vote
to the negative, so as to be in q position
to move a reconsideration.
GENERAL BoULANGER has been com :
peeled to resort to the use of morphine to
deaden the pain caused by the reopening
of an old wound.
THE Cologne Gazette says that if the
United States does not send Minister to
Germany until after the Samoan confer
ence, the Minister and Ambassador who
represent the other two powers will out
rank tee American delegates, which will
embarrass the conferrees.
THE second mission to Germany from
Morocco will arrive in Berlin in May for
the purpose of buying machinery to send
to Morocco for the manufacture of arms.
A NUMBER of French societies and citi-
zens of New York are arranging to cele-
brate in fitting manner, on July 4, the
centennial of the French Revolution.
There will be a parade, banquet and
speeches.
LIEUTENANT HARVEY BATEMAN, of the
Init fafc inf fry xuhn &c OF
Fostoria. O., was found lying on the Bee
Line railroad track two miles west of
Muncie, Ind, on the 2Sth, with his head
entirely severed from his body and both
legs cut off. There are suspicious Of foul
play.
GEORGE POWELL, alias G. Barnett
Young, who, attired in priestly sarb, was
arrested at Toronto, Ont, charged with
swindling jewelers. in Ottawa and Toron-
to out of watches aud diamonds, and who
confessed many other such crimes. was
sent by police magistrate to the King
ston penitentiary for five years.
ALEX. GRAVES. employed by James
Ferguson, near Terre Haute, Ind, was
sentenced to the penitentiary for two
years, on the 2Sth, for stealing 800 from
his employer. Graves was engaged to be
married to Fe-guson's pretty daughter.
1t is said in Washington that President
Harrison will probably send a colored
man as Consul-General to the Hawaiian
Islands.
THERE is a sensation at Fl. Wayne, Ind,
caused by the marriage of a man thirty
hve years of age to school girl of four
teen.
HUNGAEIANs near Wilkesbarre, Pa, have
organized White Cap societies, and have
begun to regulate" those OF their race
who become obnoxious.
HE Indiana Scottish Rite Masons
closed very successful session ut In
dianapolis on the 2Sth. Forty-four can.
didates received the Thirty-second de-
gree. They are from all sections of the
State. and embrace a number of we'll
known divines, judges, doctors and other
professional and business men.
THERE was great excitement at the New
York Coffee Exchange, on the 10Th, and at
one time the situation verged ON a panic.
Before noon, prices declined about fiftv
points. The market was unsettled owing
to decline Of two francs at Havre.