Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-06-05

at Milwaukee on the Goth.
THE famous Louis-Quinze clock. be-
longing to Earl Fitzwilliams, has been
purchased by Baron Rothschild for
$4,000
SIX children were killed by the fall
ing of a swing at a kindergarten in the
village of Reimskindorf, Germany, on
the 3Oth-
THE monument 10 General Robert F.
Lee, erected by the ladies of the South,
was unvailed at Richmond. Va, with
imposing ceremonies on the 10Th.
EX-ALDERMAN kEENAN. of New York
Doodle fame, presented himself at the
district attorneys Office, on the nth,
and announced his readiness to give
bail.
WILLIE DAY ran three miles in II
minutes and 50 seconds at the New Jer-
sey Athletic Club grounds, on the 5Oth,
beating his own land the world's) best
record OF 15:OS
EVERY State and every Territory and
many foreign countries contributed to
the Garfield memorial fund, in sums
ranging from $50 600 for Ohio to 81 for
South Carolina.
Two hotels and nine lodging houses
in Seattle, Wash, were destroyed early
on the morning of the 29th. The in
mates escaped with their lives but with
out their wardrobeS-
TIE Senate finance committee began
the consideration of the House Tariff
bill on the 10Th. and made consider
able progress with the chemical sched-
ule, the first on the list.
L. L. Watson Rcp.l has been renomi-
mated for Congress from the Twenty
eighth Pennsylvania district. Nomi
nation on the Republican ticket in that
district is regarded as equivalent to an
election.
The fire which broke out on the
White Star Line freight steamer Runie
aJ Liverpool, on the 2Sth, consumed
1000 bags Of sulphur, many drums OF
caUstic and several bales of iutc, which
formed part of the vessels cargo.
TIE sudden breaking of a wheel of
hand-car on which seven men were re-
turning TO supper at MOnico Junction,
Wis. on the 31th, resulted in the death
of one and fatal in iurics to another. The
leg of third was broken and foot
crushed.
On the 2sth j. c. Tarbcll of Pitts
burgh, Pa, entered suit against the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company for
$50, 600 damages for the death of his
wife and two children, who were lost on
the day express the morning of the
JohnStown flood.
ISAAC BUIIFANr, of the firm OF Bull
FAINT Bros. e Co, of Philadelphia, con-
fessed. on the 9th. that notes aggre-
eating s., 600 which he had negotiated
through the Northern Liberties Bank
of that city. purporting to be signed by
his father, |. w. 7. Bulifant. OF Peters
burg, Va, were forgcrieS
ANDREW SUNDBERG, of Minneapolis,
Mimi, while celebrating his release aft
er a thirty days Imprisonment by
mutual drunk, inflicted mortal injuries
on his wife and then cut his own throat
from ear to ear. Mrs. Sundberg died
on the 2Sth. but her husband will prob
ably live to stand trial for murder.
TnE Jury in the case of p ]. Classen,
on trial in the United States Circuit
Court for New York City, for appro-
priating funds of the Sixth National
Bank OF New York. while its president,
after six hours deIiberation returned
verdict of guilty. Sentence was de-
fCrrcd pending 4 motion for a new trial.
DIFFERENCES III regard 10 passenger
rates in the Northwest we're adjusted on
the 2Sth, and an agreement Was signed
by all the roads 20 restore passenger
rates TO the same figures as on Deem
Der 81. Tho agreement goes into effect
on the 10th, and will continue for sixty
lays. No road can withdraw except on
thirty days notice.
THE National convention of colorei
men in session in Washington, on the
4th perfected permanent organizatio
by the election of Rev. J. c. Price, of
North Carolina, as president, and w. c.
Chase, of Washington, secretary. Alist
Of honorary vice-presidents, one from
each State represented in the conven-
ton, was also selected.
RICHMOND, Va. was crowded on the
s9th with visitors who assembled to
witness the Unvailing of the Lee statue.
Confederate cmblems, draped in gra ceful
harmony with the National colOrs, fes-
.OOned the fronts of houses and adorned
.hc corridors of the hotels State cclors
we're swung like banners across the
principal streets.
THE dead body OF Ma jor A. y. Kim
oall, Il native OF New Hampshire, but
or forty years prominent newspaper
nan of New York, and receiver of pub
&c moneys under President Garfield,
Mas found by the roadside, on the morn
nT of the 21Jh, at jackson. Miss He
lad been attacked while on his way to
:is residence, just outside the city
limits, after midnight and beaten to
leath with 4 club.
4 MODEL for the Worlds Fair build
n was forwarded from Jacksonville.
;la., to Chicago on the 21th. 1t con-
,cmpiatCS structure in the shape of a
pyramid !, 200 feet at the base and 1900
Get high 20 he arranged in sixty stories,
Zach twenty feet high, or IN forty stories
sach thirty feet high, the material to he
Entirely OF steel, glass and iron. Two
electric railways are 70 wind about the
building on the outside from top To bot
ON.
THE American colony in London en-
aimed Mr.. Stanley at a banquet on the