Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-05-02
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

taken, resulting in the passage of a reso-
luton offering the freedom of Edinburgh
to the Irish leader by vote of q to l3.
A CASE of yellow fever was reported at
| Sanford, Fla, on the oath.
| The Eastern alumni of Wells College,
about fifty in number, had luncheon at
! Delmonico's, in New York CITY, on the
Esd, after which they held their annual
meeting, and reelected Mrs. Grover
Cleveland as president. The reports
showed the college to be in fiourishing
| condition.
| SEVERAL carloads of supplies for the
sufferers from the Dakota fires have been
sent from Black Hawk County, Ia. One
car was filled with seed corn and another
contained smaller grain, etc.
| THREE men were drowned in the lake
four miles west of Grayling, Mich, on the
21st. Nobody knew who they were or
where they came from. They were fish
ing in the lake when their boat capsized.
and that Is all that is known. The bodies
| were not recovered.
| PATRICK CARROLL, a shoemaker, aged
twenty-six years, jumped from the
| Brooklyn bridge into the East river on
the 23d. He was picked up by tug, an d
on reaching the shore was arrested and
taken to a hospital.
| A PORTRAIT by Menim of Chief Justice
John Marshall, the gift of Mr.. Justice
Bradley, of the United States Supreme
Court, was formally presented to the
District Court at Trenton, N. j., on the
| 23d.
| GENERAL STEINsDoRF, a retired officer
of the Bavarian army, died at Munich, on
the 23d, at the advanced age of ninety one
years.
MR.. JOHN DILLON, en- route to Australia,
| paid visit, on the 23d, to Arab Pasha,
| the Egyptian rebel, who is confined to
certain limits on the island of Ceylon.
| THE National Socialistic ommittee have
issued an address bearing upon the cele-
bration of the Washing ton Inaugural Gen.
tennial. They point to various respects
in which the ideals entertained by the
founders of the republic have not been
realized, and deprecate the prevailing
tendency to suppress this side of the
picture and to unduly emphasize the more
obvious facts of increased population and
| wealth.
THE Supreme Court of New York, on
| the 23d, appointed Mr.. Augustus Stein, of
New York City, receiver of the Tona-
wanda Valley & Cuba railroad, to sue
ceed General Bird w. Spencer, resigned.
THE Minneapolis street-car employees
strike was declared virtually ended, on
| the 3d. by serious breaks in the ranks of
| the strikers.
| AT the fair for the benefit of Catholic
| orphans opened in the City of Washing
ton, on the night of the 23d, Cardinal
Gibbons delivered the opening address.
COLONEL DAN LAMONT was, on the
24th, elected secretary of the New York
Loan and Improvement Company, in
place of VIM. II. Rockwell, who resigned.
ISRAEL FELLOWS, of Peabody, Mass,
fell in a fit from his wagon, at Tapleyville,
on ha 0ifh hnrsn hooana fr1p
ened, and kicked him in the head. crush
ing his skull and killing him instantly.
A NUMBER of Southerners residing in
Harlem, n. Y, met, on the 23d, and or
ganized a society T&ler the name OF
''The Harlem Southern Aud Lang Syne
Club" The constitution provides. among
other things, for the annual celebration
by banquet of January 10, the natal day
of General Robert E. Lee.
In the last two years the South has
raised over fourteen million bales of cot
ton lover one billion bushels of corn ;uear-
ly hundred million bushels of wheat, and
a hundred and sixty million bushels of
oats, the total value being over $1,000, 000,-
900, which is far in excess of the value of
the South's agricultural products in any
two consecutive proceeding years.
THE Austrian peso has been adopted as
the legal-tender of the province of
Mozambique.
AN application by Anthony Comstock,
of Brooklyn, for membership in U. S.
Grant Post, G. A. R., was rejected, on the
23d, thirty black balls being cast
THERE is much excitement in Parkers-
burg, w. Va, over the refusal of the
County Court to license liquor saloons.
A loss of $4,000 a year in taxes will re-
suit. Forty saloons are affected.
JAMES LEY, charged with highway
robbery, and James Smith, alias Morris,
broke Jail at Youngstown, O., on the
night of the oath. They cut their way
through the roof and dropped into gar
den thirty feet below.
ALBERT E. HOLT, aged thirteen, of Law
renee Mass, was examining gun, ON the
oath. when the weapon was accidentally
discharged, the ball passing completely
through his head and killing him in
stantly.
THE New Hampshire Sons of the Revo-
luton effected q permanent organization
at Concord on the oath.
LYsANDER 3. RANDALL, aged thirty
seven, of Bangor, Me-, was found dead on
the morning of the oath. He had commit
ted suicide by strangulatioa. A note was
found on his person saying "Rum did it"
JOHN MAYS and wife and James NJ.
Linderman, boy of twelve years, were
killed at Newport, five miles south of
Wilmington, Del, on the oath, by a train
on the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Balti-
more railroad.
IT is estimated that two hundred per-
sons were injured in the street-car riots
in Vienna, on the oath.
FULL returns from all cities and towns
of Massachusetts show the majority
against the prohibition amendment in
the election, on the 23i, to have been A.
499.
GENERAL BoULANGER arrived in Lon
don from Belgium. on the oath, and was
received at the railway station with min
gled cheers and Kisses. He took quarters
at the Hotel Bristol.
SECRETARY BLAINE was suffering from
lumbago, on the oath, and was unable to
attend to official business.
MURAT HALSTEAD was much improved
on the oath. and all fears of q fatal termi-
nation of his illness were allayed.
The Vanderbilt roads east of Chicago
on May will abandon great proportion
of their Sunday freight business.
THE chief feature of the o hio Grand
Army encampmeat at Dayt on, on the
oath, was the parade of the veterans, fol-
lowed by a number of carr iages of Geper-
al officers of the war, the rear being
brought up by ex-President Hayes and
General Alger. 1t was a clang of bands,
martial music and bugle calls, the col
umu with difficulty working its way
through the streets packed with specta-
tors.
AT the conference of the National Re-
form association at Pittsburgh, Pa, on
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