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

| SENATOR FARwELL introduced a bill,
on the 18th, to pension Mary. widow of
| the late General Crook, at the rate of
| s., 900 per annum.
| COUNT HERBERT BISMARCK, after a
short stay at FREDERICKSBURG, will visit
| England.
| EMPEROR WILLIAM, on the 25th, &C
| cepted the resignation of Count Herbert
| Bismarck as Minister of Foreign Affairs,
and appointed Herr Won Alvensleben,
| German Ambassador to Belgium, to
| succeed him.
Mr.. DAvITT, at a meeting of the
striking Liverpool lockers, on the 25th,
approved their aim, and assured them
of the support of the Knights of Labor
and other labor unions.
TIE .illage of Womelsd,-rf, Pa, is
greatly excited over the stlr Ling death
of Johnny Lehman. aged mn. years. y
thorough investigation leaves no room
to doubt that it was a genuine case of
black yo.nit-
FIVE negroes, two men, One woman
and two children, We're drown I'd, on the
25th, at Arkansas City, Ark. seven got
into a boat to go to the RAILROAD that
they mighS go out of the water and hunt
work. The boat sunk and five ost their
lives. One man and a child fire years
old were saved.
TIE cask.t with the body Of General
Robert c. Schenck arrived at Dayton,
O., from Washington, on the eve. ling of
the 18th, in charge of Captain N'oodhull
Schenclz, nephew of the deceased.
The Generals daughters were ALSO of
the party. The body was taken 80 the
residence of Robert C. Schenck, Jr.
THE steamship City of Pekin arrived
from China and Japan on the 25sn,
bringing advices that on February -
$50 houses were destroyed by fire IN
Toxic. Two persons were killed AID
about twenty-five firemen more or less
injured. One hundred and eighty-seve,,
houses were burned in the city on the
preceding day, and on March ) about $50
were destroyed, and several firemen
were injured The fires originated ac-
cidentally.
THE Liverpool dock-iaborers' strike
ended on the Goth.
THE entire northwestern portion of
the town of Pioneer, o., was destroyed
by fire on the Goth.
THE Senate committee on claims rem
ucTbI Il Oh Glic ~OOL,
on the French Spoliation or Fourth of
July Claims bill as it passed the House
TIE case of Reporter Choate for
eavesdropping in the Flack jury-room,
was called in the New York Court of Oyer
and Terminer, on the Goth, and an effort
was made to make the city editor of the
World co-defendant.
MAJOR GEORGE CHRISTIAN, Jacob
Wissler and Mr.. Prince, representing
the Farmers Alliance of the United
States. have concluded to establish the
Alliance Agricultural Works at Iron
Gate, Va. The works will employ from
500 to 500 hands, and their products will
go to every SURVEILLANCE in the country,
representing four million members.
THE various detachments of troops on
the island of Crete are being supplied
with large quantities of ammunition.
MANUFACTURERS at Manresa, Spain,
are closing their mills in anticipation
of q general strike.
THE House committee on agriculture.
on the 26th, authorized favorable re-
port on Mr. Butterworth's bill defining
options and futures and imposing
special taxes on dealers therein.
THE new Servian loan offered in Paris
has already been taken up. The
amount of the subscriptions was three
times as great as the loan.
HERR NoN ALvESsLEBEN has declined
the office of German Minister of For
eign Affairs.
john y. DAVIS, late city treasurer of
Rochester, \. ", pleaded guilty, on the
21th. to the charge of embezzlement
and was sentenced 70 Tho
prison for five years.