Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-09-25


emanated from headquarters of Distric
Assembly No. 246
RECENT storms in Switzerland hav,
swelled the streams until they have be
come great torrents, and sweep through
the valleys with fury that makes i
dangerous for tourists to venture far il
their wandcrings-
THE Sultan of Sokoto who rules over
$4,000, 900 people in West Africa, ha:
presented Queen Victoria with a mag
nificent lion. The animal will proba
bly, be taken care of at the LondOI
Geological Gardens.
THE funeral of the late Canon Liddor
took place at st. Pau's Cathedral, Lon
don, on the 10th, the large editice being
crowded to Overlooking with people
gathered to pay their last respects to
the memory of the great prelate.
THE House committee on appropria
lions, on the 18th, reported the General
Deficiency bill-the last of the appro
priation bills-back to the House with
a recommendation that the Senate
amendments be non-concurred in.
s
Mr.. CoNNELI, of Nebraska, intro
duced in the House of Representa- tives,
on the 10th, a bill appropriating $50, 900
for the purpose of erecting n statue or
monument to the memory of John
Ericsson, in the City of Washington.
THE faculty of Lafayette College at
Easton, Pa, have suspended for one
year Juan Antonio Medina, young
Spanish student, and George Smith, of
Scranton, who recently attempted to
haze Freshman Shockley, of Milford,
Del.
THE snow in tho Upper Alps is phe-
nomenal this season. Several fami-
lies have been frozen to death and
in more than one instance physicians
have persisted while Drawing the storm
in the effort to reach the houses of their
patients.
THE London Times claims to have
discovered formidable reaction
throughout Ireland against the policy
so long pursued under Nationalist
auspices, and predicts that strong
''anti- plan of campaign" party will soon
be formed.
On the 18th the Secretary Of the
Treasury accepted the following bonds
SSH, 900 at 1876 or less; LIS, 900 al
1861; IS, 500, 900 at 126 74-1OO: S3, $50, OOC
at 1863. Total, $40, ia, 900. Offerings
above 1863 were received to the amount
of eleven millions.
AT New Orleans, Baton Rouge and
other places salutes were fired, on the
18th, by the Anti-Lottery League O.
Louisiana in honor of the passage by
Congress of the Anti-Lottery bill. The
Republican newspapers of the State
are. with one exception, against the
lottery.
TIE Treasury Department, on the
10th, received for purchase $50, O0t
ounces of silver bullion, 40, 600 of which
were accepted at the following prices
So 900 ounces at 81. 1914; 100 900 ounces
at 81. 1855: 100, 900 ounces at S1.164: $50,
900 ounces at 81. 1915; 10000 ounces al
S1.1649; 50,0 ounces at 81. 1928
THE Pottsyille express, on the Read
ing railroad, ran into some derailed
coal cars near Shoemakersville, Pa, or
the 10th. and was thrown down a twenty
foot enbankment into the Schuylkill
river. causing the death of a number Of
passengers and trainmen, and the
wounding of great many others.
OWING to heavy rains an iron ore
mine at Rittenhouse Gap, near Huff's
Church, Pa, sprung a leak, on the 18th,
and nearly 10000 tons of ore disap.
peared in a sink-hole 200 feet Deep car
rying with it two engines and all the
machinery. The mine is supposed tC
have been situated over subterranean
cavern.
THE union carpenters at work on the
Exposition building at Spokane Falls,
Wash, struck, recently, over a trivial
matter, and prominent citizens, includ-
ing merchants, bankers, lawyers and
councilmen turned out and laid shingles
on the roof Millionaires worked along.
side of laborers, in order that the com
pletion of the building might not be de.
1ayed.
THE Republican State convention OF
South Carolina met at Columbia on the
18th. There were 135 delegates pres.
emit, of whom not more than twenty
were white men. At the meeting oil
the State executive committee which
preceded the convention spirited
struggle for supremacy between sec
tions led to riotouS proceedings in
which fisticuffS were resorted to and
which had to be auelled bu the police.