Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-08-29
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

GnSSNAI ANU 1cN6nAS
WIN. T. HIGGINS, a local Republican
politician, widely known on the Pacific
coast. died at San Francisco on the 21st.
THE funeral at Hastings, Neb., on the
18th, of the late Jas. 8. Laird, Member of
Congress, was the most largely atten de6
of any ever held in Western Nebraska.
The services were conducted by James
G. Tate, chaplain of the State Senate,
and Governor Thayer aud staff attended.
The procession to the grave was two
miles long.
JOHN L. SULLIVAN arrived in New York
City. on the 18th, and was at once taken in
charge by WakeIey, Johnston and others
or his cronies, AMI proceeded to have q
good time.
On the Goth Past Master Grand Com
mander VIM. n. Peckham, Thirty third
degree, resigned his membership in Ger
neau Consistory No. ], Thirty-second de-
gree, of New York City. thus severing his
connection with Scottish Rite Masonry,
because Of the afiliation of the Supreme
Council of that body with the Grand
Orient of France. which does not recog-
nize the existence Of a personal God, and
is consequently under the ban OF nom
Masonic intercourse.
A RECEPTION was held at the Vatican,
on the 18th, the anniversary of the Feast
OF St Joachim, the fete- day of Pope Leo
XIII. The visitors were entertained by
His Holiness in his private library.
JOHN SIMoNEs, ten-year-old boy of
Dubuque, Ia, recently witnessed para
chute descent from q balloon, and thought
he would initiate it He secured an UNI.
brella, and going to the top of the house,
spread his umbrella and made the leap.
To- he hnf
broken. his head badly cut and otherwise
injured.
The New England Cracker Bakery in
New York City caught fire in the base
ment on the Goth, which quickly commune
Gated to the first floor. On the floor
above over sixty girls were at work.
They were panic-strickeu, and for time
it was feared that they would perish.
The flames below were fortunately quick
ly extinguished aud the girls escaped
without injury.
BERT MILLER and John Olcott ten
year-old sons of prominent men at Pome.
roy, Ia, were smothered to death in a bin
of fax in the elevator at that place on the
18th.
BIDS for the construction Of a post
Office building at Bridgeport, Conn.,, were
opened at the Treasury Department on
Mass, was the lowest bidder, at SOL. 200.
BOND offerings and acceptances at the
treasury, on the Goth, aggregated $4,000
as follows: 5000 registered As at 12S,
and SO. 900 coupon AIS at 1867.
1T is understood that the report of the
court of inquiry which investigated the
mishap to the cruiser Boston in New
port Or. L. harbor, exonerates Captain
O'Kane from all responsibility, the ves-
sell having struck a sunken wreck not
down in the regular charts.
THE first State nominating convention
of North Dakota met in Fargo on the
21st. Judge Cochrane was elected tenn
porary chairman and II. A. Libby, tenn
porary secretary.
NUMEROUS severe hailstorms are re-
ported from different points in Austria.
Many people have been killed aud much
damage has been done to property.
The Keystone Furnace Company of
Reading. Pa. operating two large fur
naces with a capacity of $50 tons per
week, made an assignment on the 21st.
DIR. E. PARSONS, said to be the oldest
practising dentist in the United States,
died at his home in Savannah, Ga, on
the 21sL DR.. Parsons was born in
Mass, in 1906, was educat-
ed in Cincinnati and Philadelphia, and
had practised in Savannah since 1913. He
invented a number of instruments used
by dentists.
The abandonment by the British Gov
eminent of the Tithes Recovery bill is
by wall OF despair from the
clergy in Wales, who have been for years
in condition bordering on restitution,
owing to their inability to enforce the
payment of their tithes.
nd Of
treasury, on the 21st, aggregated $75l, 100,
as follows: $500 registered As at 12S,
and 1901, 100 registered AIS at S1O6zs.
WHILE speaking in a session of the
Grand Lodge l. o. o. F. at Rome. Ga, on
the 21st, Colonel Adolph Brandt fell dead
Of apoplexy. He was prominent law
yer of Atlanta and was we'll known
the State of Georgia
The creditors of the LaMay Company,
Of Lynn, Mass, dealers in stoves, hard
ware, etc, on the 21st accepted secured
offer of fifty cents on the dollar, payable
in nine months.
THE Pope, on the 21st received Able
Won Schrader, hitherto professor of
theology in the Cologne Seminary, who
has been transferred to the Washington
His Holiness expressed him
self as gratifed that Able Won Schrader
ABOUT 400 cigar makers are on strike at
Fla, for a change in the
system of paying wages. Both sides are
firm, but the strikers are said to be with.
out funds.
IT is thought that Hon. John A. Kas-
son, of Iowa, is the mostformidable can
didate for the Russian mission. 1t is of
the frst-class and pays S17,500 annually.
Besides this mission that of China, S12,-
BOO a year, Corea, $500, and Bolivia,
Persia and Siam, 5000 each, are vacant.
IT is said at the State Department that
no more diplomatic or consular appoint
ments can be expected until about the
of September.
A CRANK arrived at Washington few
days ago from Massachusetts, desiring to
had been enacted requiring him to marry
all the women in the United States, and
he desired the President to use his infiu-
ence to have the law repealed.
CAPTAIN SAMUEL GREENWOOD. Sr, of
Bay, N. Y, eloped with his
law, but was arrested. The
Captain is over seventy years of age, and
buried his wife only three weeks ago.
A TRAIN containing a select party of
composed of members of
the City Council, the Board of Public
Works, representatives of the Chamber
of Commerce and the very flower of the
business and professional men of Knox
vile. Tenn, the guests of the Knoxville.
Gap & Louisville Railroad
Company on the first train over their
newly completed road, went through a
trestie ut Flat Gap creek, twenty three
miles from Knoxville, on the 22d, and
three of their number were killed and
h RI frrh arso Il 80,
JOHN O'CoNNoR, aged eighteen years,
q porter on the propeller Chicago. fell