Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-08-01

PERSONAL AND GENERAL
THE whaling schooner, Sarah w. Hunt,
while off East Greenland, lost boat
and crew in command of Mate John
Sharp. of New London. Conn. The boat
was fast to a whale, which sounded"
carrying down the boat and crew.
Rev. EDWARD E. RANKIN, D. D., of
Newark, n. j.. one of the best known
Presbyterian ministers in the country,
died. on the 22d. of heart failure, aged
seventy years. He was a graduate of
Yale.
EXAMINER RENsEN and samplers
Twamley and Cole, who were dismissed
from the New York Custom House by
Secretary Fairchild on account of the So
called sugar frauds, were. on the I'D,
reinstated by Secretary Window.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT MILLER left Wash
ington for Deer Park ON the 9th.
The Constitutional convention Of Mon
tana finally agreed. on the 2sd, to omit
reference to the Deity from their magma
charta.
The wage conference in Pittsburgh, Pa,
On the Odd, between the window glass
and workers, failed to
agree on scale for the comiRg year, and
adjourned until August 1a
Mr.. PARNELL says that the respect
which he entertains for Mr.. Gladsteae
will prompt him to act with that great
and good statesman in supporting the
government in the proposal to increase
the allowances to members of the royal
famits. Mr.. Sexton and other Irish mem
bers will probably do likewise.
IT as stated that the German Southwest
African Company is negotiating for the
sale of their entire African belongings
to an English syndicate.
MRS. JOHN MAcKEY, with the DE Cas-
tres. of New York, sailed from England,
OF the 23d, for America, on visit to her
husband.
LATE advices from China sag a recent
fire at Luchow destroyed $1,000 houses.
Over 200 persons were burned to death,
and 400 others were killed. Nearly 17O,-
900 people were made homeless, and at
last accounts were camping out without
shelter, and were dying at therate Of 100
day from want AMI exposure. The au-
thorities were providing for their necessi-
ties as far as possible.
THE trials of Messrs. Boulanger, Dillon
and Rochefort, in the Senate Court, have
been definitely fixed for Augusts.
THE Fourth of July was celebrated at
Yokohama Minister Swift gave a re-
ception. which was attended by all native
and foreign notables, and the American
and other men- of-war in the harb Dor fred
salutes.
A NEW trust'called the Knickerbocker
Bean Company was announced in New
York City on the 23d. 1t proposes to
supply all the saloons in the city with
for lunches.
REV CRoSsLET, prominent in mission
airy werk in China, died June 81. on ship
board, between Shanghai and Tien-
Tsin-
THE German press devours every scrap
of information from Paris about Bou-
LANCER. All agree that the brave Generals
chances for successin the coming cleo
tons are not injured by his Indictment,
to which they attach no Importance.
THE Austrian infantry has been in
creased by an addition of 5000 men. rails
ing that arm of the service to war footing
FOrtp-three regiments of cavalry have
been reduced by thirty-six men each.
WAYNE WHITTIER, aged twenty years,
was arrested, on the:24th, while attempt
ing to wreck a freight train on the Read
ing &Columbus road near Ephratah, Pa
He was committed to prison for trial.
THE steamer Bertha, from Ounalaska,
brings confirmation of the report of the
loss in the Arctic ocean of the whaling
schooners James N. Hamilton. Otter and
officers and men.
ANDREW F. CRUTcHFIELD, editor and
of the Baltimorean, a society
and literary weekly published at Balti-
more, Nd, died, on the 9th. aged about
sixty years. Mr.. Crutchfield was ma
tive of Richmond. Va, and was we'll
known throughout the State.
EMPERoR WILLIAM will attend the Wag-
ner festival which opened at Bayreuth
on the 21st, and is expected to arrive in
that city about the middle of August.
Apartments are being prepared for kim.
THE impediments and annoy ances to
which the German authorities are SUBJ
jecting all travel and traffic across the
Swiss frontier are becoming harsher
every day They now insist upon opening
and examining all postal packages going
to or coming from Switzerland.
COMMISSIONER GrLvEY, OF the New York
City Board of Public Works, on the
24th removed Thos. Connolly, the time
keeper who it was said blaokmailed
Hugh Cullum, the army veteran who
committed suicide recently.
THE party of American workmen who
are being sent to Europe by the .Seripps
Newspaper League to represent America
at the Paris Exposition. left New York on
the Anchor Line steamer City of Rome on
the oath. The party will visit the priuei-
pal towns in Europe, and will return in
September.
SECRETARY WINDOW was the guest of
Postmaster General Wanamaker ut Jen-
Pa, on the oath
FRANK SUTTON, a guest at the Grand
Union Hotel. New York City, was found
lead in his room, on the morning of tine
,Ath. from gas asphyxiation. 1t is sup
posed he committed suicide.
Mr.. PATRICK EGAN, United States Min
ster to Chill, arrived at Callao, Peru. on
he 1st, and proceeded on his journey on
The 5th.
Ex-KING MILAN arrived at Belgrade ON
he 2ith. King Alexander, his son. met
linn, as did also the Regents, members OF
le Cabinet and foreign representatives.
THE report of the committee on Judici-
Try to the North Dakota Constitutional
provides for a Supreme Court
With three judges. and six judicial dis
riots, with judge for each.
GEO. W. CHILDs, of Philadelphia, has
eceived from Colonel Fred Grant, Min
ster to Austria, a contribution of $142
rom the people of Carlsbad, $40 from
irs. U. S. Grant, and $40 from himself
or the Johnstown sufferers.
THE strike among the lasters at the
Athol (Mass.) Shoe Company's factory
nded, on the oath, by the lasters return
ug to work at an advanced price list. to
odd good until Mr.. Breeds return from
Europe about September -.
The trial of Mrs. Maybrick on the
harge of poisoning her husband will
commence at L'verpoos on the 31st. Sir
Charles Russell has been engaged for the
License, his retainer being 500 guineas.
The Secretary of the Navy. on the 25t h,
awarded the contract for furnishing 42S
ons of steel for the new cruiser Maine to