Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-06-20

THE international typographical Union
has decided to establish home for indi-
gent printers near Colorado Springs,
Col, the citizens OF shat place having Of
| fered a donation of eighty acres of land
| for that purpose.
CHARLIE MoRICH. nine years old, of
| Cincinnati, was fatally burned by the ex-
plosion of the tank of gasoline stove on
| the 18Th.
ALL the stokers on the Antwerp line of
steamers struck work on the 18th.
The North German Lloyd steamer
Trave, from Bremen to New York, sank
| the Russian schooner David in the North
sea on the 18th. The Trave rescued the
schooner's crew and landed them at
Southampton on the 18th.
THE will of the late Carl Rosa, of Lon
don, has been entered for probate. The
instrument makes requests aggregating
f1S. 900.
THE steel torpedo depot ship Vulcan
was launched at Portsmouth, England,
| on the 18th. She is the largest vessel the
British Government has ever built.
LORD ADELBERT PERRY CECIL, the evan
gelist, who was drowned at Picton, Ont,
on the 18th, was a brother of the present
Marquis of Exeter and distantly related
to Lord Sails bury.
THE Iowa State Normal School gradu-
ated fifty-three students, on the 18th,
gain of twenty-one over last year.
A CALL for Territorial convention in
Oklahoma has been issued, signed BY
Mayor Dyer of Guthrie and committee
Guthrie. Wednesday, July II.
VIM. SEMPLE, the we'll known dry-goods
merchant of Allegheny City. Pa, died on
the 14th, aged sixty-two. Mr.. Semple had
been engaged in the dry. goods business
in Allegheny since 1913, and was largely
interested in a number of railroads,
banking institutions, etc. He had amassed
fortune of about 5000, 900.
The period Of mourning prescribed for
the late Emperor Frederick of Germany
expired on the 14th.
IT is probable that date will soon be
fixed for the marriage of Prince Leopold
Of Prussia and the Princess Louise of
Schleswiy- Holstein, which was indefi.
nitely postponed when Emperor Freder-
lex died.
THE Prince of Wales, on the 13th b, visited
the British American Home in Paris, sup
ported by the Christian societies. He ex-
pressed himself as highly pleased with
the institution, and particularly eulogized
Mrs. Lewis, through whose instrumental
ity the home was founded.
THE Lord Provost OF Edinburgh has re-
fused to confer the freedom of the city
upon Mr.. Parnell on the occasion of the
visit OF the Irish leader in July. The sem
ior magistrate present at the ceremony
will therefore officiate.
A BANQUET was given. on the evening OF
the 18th, by the executive of the Paris Ex-
ibition. Among the $50 guests were sew
eral Cabinet ministers and many diplo-
mats. General Franklin, the American
Commissioner to the exhibition presided.
ADvICES from Malone and other points
in New York as far east as Champlain,
say that the report of the powder explo-
sion at Brookville, Ont, on the 14th was
distinctly heard at those places.
The Comptroller of the Currency. on the
18th, declared second dividend of ten per
cent. in favor of the creditors OF the FL
deity Bank OF Cincinnati. making in all
thirty-five per cent. on claims proved
amounting to So, s33, 29S. The bank failed
June %, 1887.
The ship builders in Great Britain
have never been so busy as at present.
They are so hard pressed that many of
them are absolutely refusing all orders
for new vessels.
A SCOTLAND YARD detective is said to
be in New York watching developments
in the case of the murdered DR.. Cronin
and the men under arrest there charged
with completely in the crime.
PATRICK A. WARD, president of the
Irish. American Republican Club of In
dianapolis, and a prominent Gamma
Gael man, committed suicide, on the 18th,
by taking prusslc acid.
KING LEOPOLD of Belgium is seeking
to interest American capitalists in the
development of railways in the Congo
country.
THE fatalities resulting from the Ar
magh (Irelaud) railway disaster. reached
seventy six, on the 14th, thus exceeding
the number lost in the wreck of the Tay
bridge several years ago, which hereto
fore ranked as the most terrible in the
history of the United Kingdom. by two.
On the 18th. Edward Crawley and an
other mau known as the 'Australian,"
were burned to death in a fire at Lead
vile, Col, which resulted from drunken
orgie.
THE New Hampshire Republican caucus
chose w. E. Chandler as the party NOM
inee for United States Senator on The
18Th.