Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-06-12
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

A NUMBER of officials at the minor
German courts have been dismissed for
intriguing, at the instigation of Count
Herbert bismarck, to obstruct the En-
peror's policy.
SIR GEORGE BURNS, one of the pro-
moterS OF the Cunard line of steam
ships, died at his residence on the
Clyde on the Sd. He was ninety-five
years of age.
ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY German
sharp shooters sailed from Hoboken, y.
v, on the Sd. on the steamship Fulda for
Bremen. They 60 as part of the TO-,
600 German marksmen from all parts of
the world, who are to assemble in the
early part of July at Pankow. Germany,
and shoot for prizes.
THE new Japanese war ship Chyoda
was successfully launched in the Clyde
on the Sd. The yes sci is iron-clad, 800
feet long, and is designed to carry
twenty-eight guns. She is also fitted
with three torpedo tubes.
COLONEL THOMAS NJ. BAYNE, Con-
gresham from the Twenty-third Penn
sylvania district, declined 4 renomina
ton, on the Sd, and Colonel William NJ.
Stein was then nominated. Great dis
satisfaction resulted and resolutions
were passed demanding that the CEN
trail committee call new convention
to place another man in nomination.
THE jury in the case of the late Mar
row Gauge disaster at Oakland, Cal,
after short deliberation, rendered
verdict, on the Sd, that the victims of
the accident came 20 their deaths by
drowning; censures the railroad com
pany for not taking sufficient meas
uTes to signal trains, and finds Engineer
Dunn guilty of manslaughter.
THE Standard Oil Company has pur-
chased the Forest Oil Company for ST.,
600 600 and promise to take the re-
manning 800, 600 stock at above par. and
is negotiating for the purchase of the
Anchor Oil Company, the second larg-
est and richest predicting company in
existence.
ENGINEER FOLK, while repairing
pump in the Gallagher shaft of the
Midland company's minos at Leadville,
Col, on the night of the Sd, fell to The
bottom, a distance of 209 feet, and was
crushed into a shapelesS mass.
THE fast stock train on the Illinois
Central railroad was completely
wrecked, on the 18th, by washout near
Ackley, Ia. More than 100 head of cat
tie were killed. The train men escaped
uninjured.
THE steamship City of Pekin made
the fastest time ever made from Hong
Kong to San Francisco, arriving in the
latter city, on the 4th, after run of
fifteen days and two hours.
THE Marquis de Moces has been sem
fenced to three months Imprisonment
for trying to incite the people of Paris
against the Government on the occasion
OF the May-Day demonstration. The
Anarchist, Nalee, was sentenced to one
months Imprisonment for a similar
oifcnsc.
Two deaths from smallpox have oc-
CURED at iIillsboro, n. NJ. The quar-
antine laid by the citizens n short time
AFRO was declared off and the guards
taken away from the infected families,
which seems to have increased the
spread of the disease.
Herr KEurr, the gun-maker of Es-
sen. has made a proposition to construct
a ship-canal connecting the Danube
with the Adriatic sea.
THE Gar of Russia has issued a ulIase
ordering the abandonment of the Rus
sian anti-.Iewish policy for one year.
This measure is understood to have
been taken in Difference to the numer-
Gus protests against the recent whole
sale explosions of Jewish merchants,
lawyers and other prominent Hebrews
which have taken place in Russian Po-
lard. Southern Russia and other parts
of the Empire.
FIFTEEN children were rendered I'M
conscious by stroke of lightning
which struck the Blissman school-house
at Flandreau, =. d., on the 9Th. All
subsequently recovered.
THE first reception of the newly
formed Northern Society was held at
atlanta, Ga, on the 5th, and was
largely attended by Northern-born and
Southern-born Georgians. Interesting
speeches were made by prominent citi-
Gems The society is on the same gen.
eral plan as that of the Southern So
ciety of New York.