Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-02-06

The Hamburg Senate has approved a
project for the construction OF sailing
vessels for harbor defense at cost of
nearly 1000, 900 marks.
THE New York Clearing House. on
the 30th, suspended the Sixth National
Bank CT New York
| Miss BISLAND, the competitor of Nell
lie BLY, in the race around the world. ar
rived in New York on the Cunard line
| steamer Eothnia on the 3Oth complet-
ing the trip in three days less time
than Jules Verne's mythical hero
Phlneas togg, but over four days be-
hind Miss BLY,.
| The dock laborers' strike at Birken-
head am; Liverpool is spreading
y MEETING of London dock-owners
was held on the 3Oth. The president
stated that there had been a decrease of
%, 600 tons in freight handled, and e1a,-
5l' in receipts during the six months
following the strike of the dock labor
ers. lie said that the men had not been
working well since they took their old
places and that it may be necessary to
resume the struggle with them at all
hazards.
FROM Melbourne comes news that
Neil Matterson. the oarsman. has chal-
lenged Peter Kemp to row a race for the
sculling championship of the world and
81. 000
The steamer Porfirio Diaz arrived at
Guaymas, Mexico, on the 30th, with
twenty-five Cinnamon on board who
had been run out OF the State of Sina-
loa by the authorities.
A DESPATCH from Pictou, Nova Scotia,
says the steamer Stanley, from Pictou
for CharlOttetown, with mails and pas
sengers. is stuck fast in the ice five
miles off PictOu, and can not move in
any direction. She may be kept there
for some time.
EX-pEESIDENT CLEVELAND has shaken
the last particle of Buffalo dust off his
feet. lie has sold his valua BILE property
on Lexington avenue, which he bought
six years ago for a nominal sum and
which IS one of the choicest locations in
the city.
PELiIo, the Indian who was convicted
of murder in the first degree for the
killing OF Agnes Taison at Portland,
Ore, on the night of May 20. 1889, was
sentenced, on the 3Oth, by Judge Sabin
to be hanged Friday, June 6.
Oh the evening of the 30th Mr.. Phin-
cas- L. Harnum, the veteran American
Snowman, gave a 'drawing-room talk"
a the house of the Earl of Aberdeen,
for the benefit of charity. His discourse
was highly entertaining, and the affair
was financially successful beyond ex-
pectatiOn.
OFFICERS from Lincoln, Neb., arrest
ed Chas. Williams as he was alighting
IL,
Salt Lake City at Denver, Col, on the
30th. Williams is wanted at Frcdonia,
o., for the murder of VIM. McClain. {,
farmer. whom he killed seven years ago,
for money he had received for his annual
wool crop.
JUDGE MAsBAUM, county judge of
Forest County, Wis, who was accused
of selling liquor without a Government
license. was discharged by United States
Commissioner Ryan at Milwaukee. He
sold certain bitters and tonics which the
Government officials claimed were in
toxicating beverages.
FEARS for the safety of overdue steam
ers and sailing vessels are on the in.
crease in London, fed by the reports of
the great quantities of wreckage sight
ed by arriving ships.
The Smith-Jackson(W. Va.lcontested /.
election case was taken up in the House
of Representatives on the 31st.
FIRE was discovered between the !
decks of the White Star company's fast
steamship Teutonic at Liverpool on the /
31st 1t was speedily extinguished and .
very little damage was done.
MOST REVEREND JOHN MACEvILIY. /
Arch bishop of Tuam, died in Dublin on
the 31st.
THE Frankfurter Schustern, a journal .
devoted to the interests of the- shoe
trade, has donated the sum of s., 600 for
the purchase of shoes for the poor of
Germany.
THE scullers Matterson and Kemp, of
Australia, are matched to row a race on
the Paramatta course, in April, for 1900
a side.
AT Kalkberg. a suburb of Dietz, Prus-
STA. on the 31st. the fly-whcel of q
threshing machine burst while in rapid
motion, killing five men.