Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-05-08

JAKE acKERMAN, thief With a Ma
tional reputa ton. was shot and killed
| in the Memphis (Tenn.) police court,
| on the 30th, by his wife.
THE Massachusetts House, on the
Goth. by a vote of ia to 20, passed the
Constitutional amendment abolishing
the poll tax as a prerequisite to voting
THE union and non-union fishermen
had a sanguinary encounter, on the goth,
on the Columbia river about forty
miles from Portland, Ore. Both parties
were armed with rifles. One of the
combatants was killed outright and two
were seriously injured
The electrical exhibition in Edin-
burgh was opened, on the 1st, by the
Duke of Edinburgh
THE House committee on labor, on
the 1st, authorized favorable report
on the bill to enforce the Eight-Hour
law on Government premises, except in
cases of extraordinary emergency aris-
ing in time of war, or where it may be
necessary to construct public works,
preserve property or prevent the de-
StructiOn of human life.
Mr.. CROMWELL, the assignee of the
late firm of Henry S. Ives tG Co., was
authorized on the 1st, by Judge Bar
rett, of New York City, to settle claims
against the firm at five cents on the
dollar.
TIE immigration season opened at
Quebec, Can, on the Goth, with the ar
rival of 1,600 immigrants.
TWENTY-FIVE female clerks in Brad
streets Commercial Agency at Omaha.
Neb., struck, on the 1st, against a re-
duction of wages.
EN-PREsIDENT CLEVELAND was, on
the 1st, admitted to practice in the SUI
preme Court of the United States.
TIE Wisconsin Republicans will not
make an issue of the Bennett law in
the coming State election.
A GENERAL amnesty was proclaimed
in the Island of Crete on the LIST.
THE American squadron of evolution
left Malta, on the 3Oth, for Algiers.
THE Des Moines Ua.) camp of the
Salvation Army were notified not to
parade the streets with their horns and
drums without permit from the city
authorities, but they marched as usual.
They were arrested, and had hearing
on the 1st. The efforts of the police
Judge did not suffice to restrain the
religious fervor of the prisoners, and for
time the courtroom possessed all the
features of Salvation Army prayer
meeting.
WHILE Miss Minnie Palmer, the act
ress, and her husband, Mr.. Rodgers,
were driving at Brighton, England, on
the 1st, their horse bolted and the car
riage was overturned. Both were
thrown out. Miss Palmer sustained
several bruises, and one of Mr. Rodgers
arms was broken.
ROLIIN ELLIS, private secretary of 4.
ii. Loeb, of Chicago. is in jail for sell
ing. with fraudulent intent, to accom-
plices for $4,000, real estate worth
500, 900, which Loeb intrusted to him to
sell. The land was to be afterwards
sold by the swindlers and the profits
divided.
MANY planters in Yucatan have de-
cided to stop planting hennequen, which
is quoted at low figures at present, and
will plant cotton instead, importing ne
gro and Chinese labor from Cuba.
FRANK WILLIAMS, convicted of rob-
bling the stage near Downieville, Call,
OF lnlIcu states mails some months
ago, vas, on the I'd, sentenced at San
Francisco to imprison ment for life.
TIE British steamer Yorkshire, Cap
tain Henry, bound for Baltimore from
Liverpool, returned to the latter city,
on the 2d, with her cargo on fire.
THE proposition to arbitrate differ
ences growing out of the Delagoa Bay
railway, is favorably viewed by the
Portuguese Government.
GOVERNOR HILL of New York signed
the Ballot Reform measure, on the I'd.
and wrote a memorandum to accompany
it.
THE Merchants Bank of Atlantic
City, y. j., suspended business on the
I'd.
THIRTY-FIvE wOrkmen employed If
the furniture factory of Joseph Par
fridge, OF New York. had narrow es
cape from death in the burning Of the
building on the 2d.
Hon. LEWIS +. ALLEN, uncle of ex
President Cleveland, died at Buffalo, \
V, on the I'd, aged ninety years.