Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-07-24
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

JOuN f. RUBSEN has begun suit in
Washington to test the validity of the
viii of his late wife who left $40, 900 in
trust to have her grave kept green.
FIRE in the STEAMBOAT quarter of Con-
stantinople, on the 18th, destroyed l, 900
houses and burned an immense amount
of timber, compile tely running 125 timber
merchants.
THE yacht Marion, of South Boston,
from Rye Beach to Pigeon Cove. struck
a rock, on the night of the 18th, and
sank. The crew of four got into the
tender, which was swamped several
times. and three of them were drowned.
Work was resumed in the Maltby
colliery, at Wilkesbarre, Pa, on the
18th, after suspension of nearly six
years. The colliery now gives employ
ment to over three hundred men and
boys.
GOLD was quoted at 207 per cent in
Buenos Ayres pm the 18th.
PROF. NORMAN DUNsHEE, of Drake
University, Garfield's Latin and Greek
teacher at Hiram College, died sud
denly at Des Moines, Ia, on the 18th,
of heart disease.
New York; reservoir, on the 18th. for
the first time through the new Croton
aqueduct, which had been six years in
building.
THE new territory acquired by Ger
many in East Africa is about twice the
size of Germany, not including any part
of the great African lakes in the meas
urement.
A BILL was presented in the House of
Representatives, on the 18th, granting
pension of So, 900 year to the widow
of the late General John C. Fremone
By ruling under Maryland State
law professional baseball playing is
work" and can not be performed on
Sunday.
TIE coming Encyclical of the Pope
urges the nations to resort to papal
arbitration for the settlement of social
questions and national wars.
THE Department of State was in
formed. on the 18th, of the arrest of
Minas, who assassinated the wife of
Rev. John n. Wright, an American
missionary, in Salinas, Persia, on the
14th of May. Minas was a teacher in
the mission school, and had just been
conduct The arrest of Minas was
mainly due to the efficiency of the
British Consul General at Tabriza and
Colonel Stewart, before whom he will be
brought for trial.
IT is said gigantic scheme to de-
velop the oil territory of West Virginia
is under way, with j. G. Blaine, S. B.
Elkins, Senator Camden and the Stan
dard Oil Company at the head of it.
BY an explosion at Kings Powder
mill, on the Little Miami railroad,
twenty-nine miles east of Cincinnati,
on the 10th, twelve persons were killed
and twenty-one seriously injured.
IMMEDIATELY upon receipt of the
news that President Harrison had
signed the Silver bill. the price of bar
silver, in the London Stock Exchange,
advanced to fifty pence an ounce, the
highest selling price reached in several
years.
TIE White Star steamship Teutonic,
which arrived at Sandy Hook at 7:15 p.
M, on the 10th. from England,
made the run from Roche's Point by the
long route, 2,S3s miles. in days, 81
hours and So minutes. This is equal to
or better than the.5 days, 10 hours and IS
minrt es' trip of the City of Paris, the
latter coming by the short route, 2,7SS
miles.
DURING the absence of John Hamlet
from his home near Valparaiso, Ind. on
the 10th, his residence was destroyed by
fire and his wife and four children were
burned to death.
THE golden jubilee of Bishop De
Goesbriand, was celebrated in Burling-
ton, VT, on the 18th.
ADvIcEs from Africa state that the
natives have routed, and, it is feared,
cut off the retreat of the French expe-
dictionary force now in the Upper Niger
country.
THE Native Sons of the Golden West
propose to start movement to inter
the remains of the late General John
c. Fremont in Golden Park, San Fran
cisco, and to erect a monument to his
memory.