Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-05-08
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Two negroes entered the Georgia
Southern & Florida depot at Jasper,
Ga. about one o'clock on the morning
of the 29th, and called for ticket
While Mr.. Haley Frink, the night agent,
was preparing the ticket one of the ne
groes shot him, and then they robbed
the office and fed. One of the negroes
was subsequently captured at Melrose.
UNITED STATES MINISTER RYAN en-
tertained ID. @. Mills and party, of New
York, at dinner in the City of Mexico
on the 27th. The nu and appoint
ments were never surpassed by the
Tivoli San Cosme, the Delmonico of
Mexico.
AN organization to be known as the
Independent Order of Machinists of the
United States was instituted in Lynn,
Mass, on the 29th, with a charter list
of $50 members. a full board of Off
GERS was chosen. 1t is the intention to
have the supreme lodge in Lynn. and
to organize one or more lodges in every
city in the country.
WILLIAM RICHARD HINTON was, Oh
the Goth, appointed superintendent of
arteSian irriga ton, Department of Agri-
culture, with an appropriation of $40, 900
to expend before July proximo, in as
certaining whether the agriculture of
the Dakotas and adjacent States can be
benefited by the artcsian system.
TIE Homestead Bank of New York
closed its doors on the 10Th. Bad bust
ness is said to be the cause of its suS
pension. The bank has capital of
500. 900, and it is said the depositorS
will be paid in full.
II was stated on good authority, on
the Goth, that the governments of the
United States and Great Britain were
further apart in their negotiations in
regard to the question as to whether or
not Behring Sea is a closed sea, than
they had been at any time since the ne
gotiations were begun.
THE Fish Commission steamer Alba
tross, having been thoroughly repaired
at Mare Island Navy Yard, California.
is now on her way to the Aleutian ISL
ands.
WOLVES have been doing such great
damage in Iowa that the citizens are
going to Join forces and eXterminate
them in a grand wolf hunt.
MINISTER TO STAIN PALMER. who had
been mentioned as a candidate for the
Governorship of Michigan, and was en-
route home to take part in the cam
pairn. on the 3Oth cabled his with
drawal from the race. The death of
his niece, his last living relative, has
broken him down completely.
JUDGE WAILACE'S action in signing
the Kemmler writ of habeas corpus, is
criticised as unprecedented by competent
legal authority, especially since the
writ was in itself defective, lacking
Kemmler's signature and the seal of
the court.
c. L. BILLINGsLEY, a grader and con-
tractor of St. Paul, Mimi, while exca-
waiting under a house, on the 30th, pre-
paratory to moving it, was killed by
the house tipping over and crushing
him beneath the timbers.
THE British press speaks in compll-
mentary terms of the skill in seaman
ship and effectiveness of equipment OF
the American squadron of evolution in
the Mediterranean.
| RICHARD SMEITKA, a German farmer
of Rochester, Mimi. committed suicide,
on the Goth, after first taking the life
of his three-year-old boy. He had just
quarreled with his wife, from whom he
had separated.
JAMES PALMER was hanged in the
State prison at Concord, n. H., on the
LIST, for the murder of a fellow-workman
] named Whitehouse. May %, 1856