Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-04-17

TIE Conemaugh river and Stony creek
| in Pennsylvania are again on high
| and the lower portion of Johnstown was
under water on the 9th. Several bridges
| were washed away and operations sus-
pended at the mills situated along the
| banks of these streams.
| A STEAMED. sailed from Hamburg for
Zanzibar. on the 9th, with cargo of
| railway iron, bridge material, arms,
| ammunition, etc, in response to re-
quisitio from Major Wissmann.
Four murderers were executed in
Pennsylvania on the 9th. They were:
William Bartholomew, for the murder
of Aaron W. billiard, at Easton; Alfred
Andrews, who rkilled Clara Price, at
Bellefonte; Zach Taylor, one of the slay
ers of William McCausland, at Waynes-
burg. and Charles Carter who killed
John Matthews, at Ebens5urg.
SILVER ore has been discovered twelve
miles southwest of Mitchell, S. D., in
four different places at a depth of sixty
feet Assayers in Chicago who have
tested the ore pronounce it genuine.
The metal exists in large quantities.
THE inquiry into the financial condi-
| ton of the City of Rome shows the sit
| uation to be worse than indicated by
the most gloomy anticipations. As the
government refuses relief to the NUM-
cipality, a crash with numerous result
ing failures is expected.
THE military trial at Fort Yates, n.
D., of Captain Frecht, Eighth Infantry,
on the charge of being drunk while
president of court-martial, was con-
| cluded on the 9th. The findings will
no oIo until
proved by General Ruger in command
| of the departments.
THE Liquor License bill was defeated
in the Iowa Senate, on the 10th, by a
vote of Fl yeas to 30 nays
THE verdict of the court-martial which
tried Lieutenant Steele for assaulting
Private Wild is reprimand and con-
fnement for three months to the limits
of his post.
Mrs. FERDINAND WARD, wife of the
ex-broller now in Sing Sing prison, died
at Stamford, Conn. on the 10th, of in
f1ammation of the stomach, aged thirty
five.
TIE will of the late Prince Doria, of
Rome, bequeaths 5000, 600 to charities.
THE late Jersey City mayoralty cleo
ton which resulted in the success of
Orestes Cleveland, the Democratic can
didate. is to be contested by Mr.. George
f. Perkins, the Republican candidate,
who was defeated by heavy Democratic
ma jorities. said to be fraudulent. rolled
up in the first and second aldermanic
districts.
FoKTY molders employed in the steel
plants at West Superior, Wis, struck
on the 10th.
JOHN NELSON, wanted for the murder
of Nels Carlson in Superior, Wis. in
November last, was arrested at La
Prairie, Mimi, and returned to Superior
on the 10th.
GENERAL. JOHN c. FREMONT. who had
been seriously i'll for a few days, had so
far recovered. on the 18th, as to be able
to be out again.
HENRY NJ. STANLEY, the African ex-
plorer arrived in Rome, on the 18th,
and was welcomed by an enthusiastic
crowd of people, who saluted him with
vivas and cheers. A formal reception
was rendered him by the Geographical
Society, whose president, Signor Vitel-
leschi. presented Stanley with gold
medal.
THE residence of Ferdinand Roths-
child at Waddesden, England, was par
TALLY destroyed by fire on the 18th. A
Gainsborough picture, valued at e10, 600,
and much old and rare tapestry were
destroyed.
The Boston Duck Company at Bonds
Vile, Mass, will suspend opera tions
Friday and Saturday of each week for
an indefinite period, owing, it is stated,
to overproduction.
THE non-Socialist trades unions of
Berlin, numbering SO, 600 men, have re-
fused to observe May l as labor holt
day.
UPWARDS Of fourteen hundred plumb
ers, gas-fitters, carpenters, stair-build- |
ers, painters, varniShsrs, marblecut /
tiers. hod-hoisting machine engineers, !
electric-wire men. tile-layers trainers, |
etc, employees of the firm of Paulsen & |
Egan, of New York City, which signed |
an agreement to comply with union |
rules and afterward refused to keep it,