Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-04-03


| being cremated in the burning ruins Of
their homes. One hall containing over
one hundred people was wrecked, nearl Y
all the inmates perishing. Among the
other casualties noted was the topping
of the Union Depot, together with a
| train of cars, into the river.
IT was authoritatively stated, on the
27th. that First Assistant Postmaster
General Clarllson will resign at no dis
tant day. When Mr.. Clarl1son accepted
the Office it was with the understand
ing that he would leave it at the end of
a year.
THE Missouri Pacific Railroad Com
pany, on the 9th, declared cash divi-
dend of one per cent, payable April ID
THE United States Fish Commission
steamer Albatross arrived at san Fran
cisco, on the 27th, from a cruise along
the Pacific coast.
PRINCE BISMARCK was moved to tears
by public demonstration in his favor
in Berlin on the Goth.
THE appointment of DR.. Wescott to
the bishopric of Durham, England, has
given general satisfaction. Canon
| Westcott's History of the Canon of the
known work he has written, but per-
| haps he will longer be remembered as
| one of the conductors of the recent re-
vision of the New Testament.
II was reported, on the 27th, that the
| representa- veS from the South Amer
lean countries in the PanAmerican
congress had expressed their willing
ness to enter complete reciprocity in
every thing with the United States on a
| basis of absolute free trade.
The House, on the 21th, passed the
| bill for the admission of Wyoming into
the Union of States: Yeas, 139: nays,
121.
HENRY w. HOARsEY, for twenty two
years city treasurer of Portland, Me-,
died, on the 27th, aged sixty-nine.
TIE American ship G1endon was re-
ported on the 27th, ashore and a total
wreck at Yokohama, Japan. The ships
crew was rescued, and it is possible
that a portion of the cargo may be
saved.
TIE House and Senate committee on
immigration, at a joint meeting, on the
9th, determined to refer the general
subject of restricting immigration to a
subcommittee of six, and to make Il
like reference of the question Of the
purchase OF American industries by
foreign capital.
HENRY KLUTsCHAK, the artist OF the
Sir John Franklin Polar expedition
party, died in New York on the 26th,
aged seventy-three years
\ RAILWAY train consisting of thirty
eight ears loaded with petroleum
caught fire near Batoum, in Russia in
Asia, on the 2Sth. and was totally con-
sumcd. Three men were burned to
death.
THE Paris La Liberte declares that
tariff war with America will follow if
the Mckinley bill now pending before
the American Congress is adopted.
THE House committee on merchant
marine and fisheries, on the 2Sth, au-
thorized a favorable report on the Sub
sidy bill designed to place the Amcri-
can merchant marine engaged in the
foreign trade upon an equality with that
of other countries.
FRANCE has been approached by En-
gland with view to q more satisfac-
tory settlement of the Newfoundland
fishery question. The existing modus
vivendi applies only to the present sea-
son.
THE report that Archduchess Steph-
anie, widow of the Crown Prince Ru-
dolph, had been betrothed to Archduke
Franz. the heir to the Austrian throne,
is declared to be absolutely false
\ STRIKE for an increase of wages was
inaugurated, on the 2Sth, by the Welsh
THE English delegates to the Anti
Slavery conference at Brussels, sub
mitted a proposition, on the 2Sth. that
the sale of alcohol be prohibited in
Africa. The German members opposed
the proposal. All the other delegates
were in favor of it.
GOVERNOR Hill. of New York, on the
2Sth, appointed Maior-General Daniel
+. Sicklcs sheriff of the city and county
of New York, vice James Flack, resigned.