Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-07-31

A LARGE number of medical men
delegates to the Berlin congress-
sailed from New York for Hamburg on
the steamer Augusta Victoria. of the
Ham burg American Packet Company,
on the 24th.
THE Minnesota Republicans, on the
Gath, nominated w. R. Merriam for
Governor. with full State ticket
THE New York City cloak-makers'
strike ended, on trfe cath, by the manu-
facturers agreeing to every thing de-
manded by the strikers.
JAY GOULD is said to have gained con-
troll of the principal elevators of st.
Louis.
IHE recent conviction of six Italians
for engaging in vendetta at New Or
leans, through Italian testimony, is
taken as marking decided step to-
ward wlping out that institution there.
VERY rigid censorship of news is be-
ing carried out of San Salvador.
AN effort is being made to get Lord
Randolph Churchill back into official
life.
Miss KATE FIELD is reported to have
been recently squeezed in real-estate
deal in the West.
EZRA II. HAYWOOD. the famous New
England apostle of free love, has been
sent to State prison for two years.
MEssRs. RIGGS and Retlinger. Amer
leans, have been created Knights of the
Legion of Honor for their services to
French trade, but more especially for
the work they did in connection with
the French Exposition of last year.
AT the investigation into the Sea
Wing disaster, on the 25th, it was
shown that there were 203 persons on
the steamer instead of lat, as reported
by the captain.
THE House committee on invalid pen
sions, on the 25th, ordered favorable
report on the House bill granting PEN
sion of $4,000 year to the widow of the
late General George B. Mcclellan.
THIRTY Arabs were killed during
recent attack upon the Spanish
convict settlement of Melilla, on the
Morocco coast.
THE city of Pueblo, Col, has doubled
its population in the past two years.
MEMORIAL services were held at Red
Wing. Mimi. on the 18th, for those who
persisted in the Lake Pepin disaster.
Special trains were run from every di-
rection, and so many people never as
sembled there before. Business was
suspended and the city was draped in
mourning.
SEVENTY fatal cases of Asiatic cholera
have occurred in Bakuande, Russia in
Asia, and vicinity. The heat in that
region is intense.
TIE members of the House commit
tee on foreign affairs are pleased with the
stand taken by Mr.. Blaine in the corre-
spondence on the Behring Sea contro-
versy.
ATTORNEY GENERAL DoLLARD of
South Dakota rendered an opinion, on
the 25th, that the maintenance of a
place where liquor is drank is a viola
tion of the law, and the seller must
prove that he is not violating the law.
:. CURTIS SCOTT, a farmer who lived
near Kenny. ILL.,, and his son were
struck by passenger train on the 1lli-
nois Central, near Clinton, ILL.,, on the
25th. The father was killed and the
son fatally injured.
Hon. w. T. HENDERSON, exAttorney-
General of Arkansas, died in Washing
ton on the 25th He was a Federal
Judge in New Mexico during Cleve-
lands administration.
On the 25th DR.. Starr, exSecretar of
State of the Republic of Texas, died.
A MAss-MEETING of the Labor party,
to be held September 3, has been called
by Willis w. Jones, of Chicago.
THE French grain crops are reported
to be very poor.s
IT is charged that the boats of the
Egypt, burned at sea, were in bad
shape.
IT is expected that Vicar-General
Brady will be raised to the vacant
Omaha Arch bishopric.
A MISUNDERSTANDING girl died at Hous-
ton, Tex, on the 25th, from the effects
of morphine administered by herself.
NATHANIEL R. LOCKE, the venerable
father of the late d. r. Locke Petrol
cum V. Nashy), died at Toledo, O., on
the 25th, aged ninety. seven.
ST. LOUIS has bonded debt OF SOL
S73, 100. During the past fiscal year the
debt was reduced $50, 900.