Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-06-19
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

On the 18th the Lord Provost and the
Town Council presented Mr.. Henry NJ.
Stanley with the freedom of the city of
Edinburgh.
Hon. Tuos. c. PLATr was blackballed
on the 11th.
AS \ result of the charges that the
New York Mercury is a libelous publ
cation, the Dominion Post-Office and
Customs departments have ordered that
all importa tions of that paper be sent
to the customs officials for eXamina ii on.
GEORGE F. BLACK, representing the
jewelry house of Jonas, Dorst & Co.,
Cincinnati, was drowned, on the night
of the 10th, in the Mississippi river at
Memphis, Tenn.
II has been discovered that under a
long-forgotton resolution passed by the
Board of Supervisors of Marshall COun-
ty, Ia. a bounty of $50 with six per
cent. interest on deferred payments is
due to every soldier who enlisted from
that county during the rebellion. 1t
will take 500 600 to pay the claims thus
created.
Mr. FULLY, editor of the Roscommon
Ureland) Herald, has been convicted
under the Crimes act of publishing an
article denouncing land-grabbers, and
has been sentenced to three months i'm
prisonment, without hard labor.
ROBERT II. WALLACE and j. L. Low
itz, the two men who robbed the pro-
prietors of Wallace's Monthly Magazine
of so, 900 and fled to Cuba under as
sumed names, were brought back to
New York, on the 18th, by detectives
THE base price for pudding during
the next scale year in the mills Of Pitts
burgh and all Western and Southern
points will be $3.50 on two-cent card,
the same as this years scale. This fig
ure was decided upon finally at session
of the convention of the Amalgamated
Association in Pittsburgh on the 9th.
IT is estimated that the highwaymen
who robbed the mail-car on the North
crn Pacific road at New Salem, n. D.,
got away with about $4,000 contained
in registered packages. At last ac-
counts they were making for the Black
Hills, pursued by cavalry and citizens.
THE class-day exercises at Vassar
College began on the 10th, and the
days programme included the interest
ing ceremony of planting the class tree
on the lawn. The twentv-ffth ami
versary of the institution was celebrated
on the 18th.
A CAUCUS of Republican Senator'S,
held on the evening of the 10th, chose
Z. X. Valentine, of Nebraska, as the
successor of Sergeant-at-Arms Cana
day, whose resignation, previously ten
dered, takes place on the 30th.
THE president of the Senate laid be-
fore that body, on the 10th, petition
of the West Africa Steamship Company
of New Orleans, asking an appropria-
ton of $500, 900 to establish line of
mail steamers between New Orleans
and the west coast of Africa
Two slight shocks of earthquake were
felt at San Diego, Cal, on the 11th-
WARRANTS for the arrest of the
spectators of the McBride-Larue fight,
in San Francisco, in which the former
received injuries resulting in his death,
were issued on the 11th-
THE unrestricted sale of liquor in the
town of Ellsworth, Me-. during the visit
of circus, on the 10th, resulted in 4
disgraceful riot between local toughs
and the circus people.
GOVERNOR BURLEIGU of Maine was
renominated by reclamation at Augusta
on the 18th.
THE House committee on banking
| and cure ncy, on the 18th, heard argu-
| ments in favor of the bill to carry into
effect the recommendations of the Pam
| American Conference and of the Presi-
dent for the establishment of an Inter
national American bank.
IN the Eyraud case the authorities at
Havana have placed the murderer at
| the disposal of the French Consul, with
assurance thatall aid would be rendered
| to secure his safe embarkation for
| France.