Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-05-01
PERSONAL. AND GENERAL.

ISADOR WEINE, formerly of Charles
ton, S. c., and chief officer of General
Beauregard's staff during the war OF
the rebellion, died suddenly in New
York on the 2lst. After the surrender of
Appomattox he moved North and en-
gagged in several business enterprises,
all of which ended in financial disaster.
SHERMAN l.. KNIGHT, a country school
teacher, obtained 81, 900 at bank in
Tiffin, o., on the I'D, on note purport-
ing to be signed by his father, wealthy
farmer. The genuineness of the note is
questioned, the young man having dis
appeared. He had borne good charac-
ter.
THE Para Rubber Shoe Company, of
South birmingham, Mass, on the alst,
voluntarily increased the wages of
their employees an average of about
twelve per cent.
TIE New York State Senate, on the
22d, passed the bill recommended by the
Governor to require party agents. COM
mittees, etc, to file statements of cleo
ton expenses.
The Republican State Central COM
mittee of Iowa, at its meeting in Des
Moines, on the 22d, decided to hold the
next State convention at Sioux City,
June %.
EDWARD HASLAS and Fred Plaistcd
have been matched to row three races
on the Tennessee river at Bridgeport,
Ala, sn May 6, : and S, for the one
mile championship of the United States
and purse of So 900. Each race will
be one mile straight away.
TIE Pennsylvania railroad statement
for March shows an increase of SIS, III
in net earnings over March. 1889 For
the first three months of 1890 the net
earnings have increased S2S7,110 over
the same period of 1889.
THE Prince of Wales will visit HON.
burg in July.
RANDOLPH DUBOIS, who murdered his
wife, two children and mother-in-law in
the village of St. Adams, Canada, a couple
of months ago, has been sentenced to
be hanged.
THE ice broke up and went out of the
Lower Saranac lake on the 23d.
The main shaft of the Sanders power
line at Haverhiil. Mass, was twisted
off on the Esd. and over :, 800 hands were
rendered idle for two days. One-quarter
of the shoe district was shut down.
NOAH PALMER, aged seventy years, a
member of band of gypsies encamped
at Morrisville, \. j., who had been on a
protracted spree, shot his wife, on the
9th, killing her instantly. He nextat-
tempted to shoot his daughter, but
failed, and then shot himself in the
back of the head, inficting fatal
wound.
\ WE'LL To-DO farmer named Morri-
son, living near Shelburne, Ont,
drowned three of his children in a bar
rel of rain-water, on the 23d, and then
attenss ted to drown himself in creek.
THE Worlds Fair bill was approved
by the President on the 25th.
A SEVERE earthquake shock was ex-
perienced in portions of California
shortly after half-past three o'clock on
the morning of the 24th. Buildings
were shaken perceptibly and persons
were aroused from their sleep. Plas-
tering fell from the walls in places, but
no serious damage has been reported.
THE sixty days notice given by the
coal miners and coke workers OF the
Smithton pa district expired on the
24th, and strike taking out over LOCO
men was inaugurated. \ protracted
struggle is anticipated.
THE New York State Senate, on the
9th, recalled from the Assembly the
| Saxton Ballot-Reform bill and repassed
1T, after changing it SO as to agree with
the amended Saxton bill which was
recently agreed to by the Governor,
Mr.. Saxton and others.
EMIN PAsHA with 500 porters, Ave
German officers and large body of Nu-
bian soldiers started from Zanzibar for
, the interior of Africa on the 25th.