Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-07-17

WM. Wo0DsIDE, the bic..clist, died OF
yellow fever at Rio de Janeiro recent
ly.
THE Fort Dodge Ia.) servant girls
are forming a protective union.
THE House committee on labor has
authorized a favorable report on the
House bill constituting eight hours a
days work for all laborers employed by
the Government
Mr.. CHARLES KENDALL ADAMS, presi-
dent of Cornell University, was mar
ried in London, on the 9th, to Mary
Matthew Barnes, widow of the late Mr..
A. S. Barnes, the well-known publisher
of New York
RUDOLPH LUTGENs, a st. Paul (Minn.)
cigar-maker, became discouraged be-
cause he could not earn as much as some
of his fellow workers, and hanged him
self on the 10th.
BY the capsizing of sailing vessel
which was being launched at Osaka,
Japan, last month, fifty-nine people out
of one hundred who were on board were
drowned. The bodies of fifty were re-
covered. About twenty others were
more or less injured.
The butchers assistants of Berlin
have formed a union with the purpose
of demanding that the Government re-
scind it's prohibition of the importation
of cattle.
THE Pope will convoke a meeting of
Bishops and Cardinals at Rome in the
spring to consider the position of the
church and the question of his success
sor.
@a., nj nCr1~n
party was run down by steamer on
the Elbe, in Germany, on the 10th, and
three young girls were drowned.
THE Paris Zoir asserts that General
Boulanger has asked the French Govern
ment to pardon him and permit him to
return to that country.
THE Senate, on the 10th, adopted the
conference report on the Silver bill by
vote of 80 to 26. 1t was strict party
vote, but Mr.. Payne, who was absent,
released Mr.. Sherman from pair and
thus negatively supported the bill
THROUGH the earnest intervention OF
our Consul General in Cuba the impris-
oned missionaries, including Rev. A. j.
Diaz, have been released.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE
ADEE, on the 10th, formally presented
Senior ID. Pradenso Lazerno, the new
Gillian Minister, to the President.
Mrs. BERT CLEVELAND, widow of ex-
Sheriff Cleveland, of Tioga County, n.
Y; Mrs. James Shay and Mrs. Avery
Witmarsh, were killed at crossing OF
the Lehigh Valley railroad near Owego,
n. Y, on the 10th, and Thomas Behan
and Mrs. Harvey Vanduser, who were in
Ill, bod tyir
APPLICATIONS for pensions under the
new pension law are being received
daily at the Pension Office. The volume
is increasing from day to day.
A DEPUTATIoN of London post-men
called upon Postmaster-General Raikes,
on the 18th, and received his assurance
that the just grievances of the men
would be carefully considered.
OK the 18th the torpedo boat Cush-
ing made the run from the Brooklyn
Navy Yard to New London, Conn.,, one
hundred and twenty miles, in four
hours and fortyfour minutes.
THE degree of doctor of chemistry
has been conferred upon Albert Lin
coin Smith, an American student at the
Berlin University.
Stambuloff, denies that Prince Ferdi.
nand contemplates abdication.
AN explosion of fireworks occurred
in a house in Brunn, Austria, on the
18th, killing the owner of the dwelling,
his wife and two children.
SINCE the outbreak of the epidemic
of diphtheria in st. Johns, n. F., there
have been 2,671 cases of the disease and
SOB deaths.
Hon. BENJAMIN BUTTERwORTH, of
Ohio, was, on the 18th. elected secre
tary of the Worlds Fair directory.
HEAVY shipments of gold, caused, it
is said, by the financial crisis in Buenos
Ayres, are being made from the United
States to Europe.
A LIGHT frost was seen at Brookway
vile, Pa, on the morning of the 18th.
THE ferry landing stage at Dart.
mouth, n. S., while crowded with peo-
pie waiting for the ferry, on the even.
ing of the 18th, collapsed and threw its
human freight into the water, causing
great loss of life.