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

| in session in New York, on the 18th,
| yoted-122 to 17-for union with the
other branches of the denomination.
| THE House of Representatives, on the
| 18th, agreed to the conference report on
| the Senate Pension bill: Yeas, 145;
| nays, So.
| IN the suit for damages of e1OO, 600
| brought by the American, George Wash
ington Butterfield, against the London
Financial News for having libeled him
in connection with certain mining
schemes in the United States, the jury
found against Butterfield, thus justify
ing the Financial News.
ABOUT one hundred members of the
Independent New York Schutzen CORPS
were among the passengers on the
steamship Wieland, which sailed from
New York for Hamburg on the 18th.
COLLECTOR PHELPS of San Francisco
states that there are now fully $50 Chi
nese encamped at Nogales waiting for
an opportunity to cross the Mexican
border into the United States.
CHARLES CLARK, aged twenty-six, was
drowned at Portsmouth, n. H., on the
10th, by the capsizing of a small skif.
He leaves wife and child.
Mr.. DOLPH introduced in the Senate,
on the 18th, a bill to appropriate $780,
600 to establish branch home for vol
unteer soldiers in Oregon.
REV. JOSEPH LAGARCIE, with half a
dozen aliases, a notorious thief and con-
fidence man who has operated through
New England and Canada for several
years, was arrested in Boston, on the
81, +la tlaf 1f :.
worth of jewelry from Mrs. Zeuss
nearly year ago
SETH l.. MILLIKEN, of Belfast, Me-,
was renominated for Congress from the
Third district on the 18th.
THE ninth annual convention of the
Young Peoples Society of Christian En-
deavor began its sessions in the Grand
Music Hall of the st. Louis Exposition
building, on the 18th, there being reg
istered at the opening meeting $500
delegates, with as many more en- route
who were expected to arrive by the
evening trains.
GENERAL SHERMAN delivered an ad
dress to the graduating class at the
West Point Military Academy, on the
18th, and when he referred to the fact
that it was the fftieth anniversary of
his graduation a great shout went up
from cadets and audience that made
the walls fairly tremble.
On the 18th Southampton, Long Island,
celebrated the two hundredth anniver-
sary of its settlement. A great crowd
was present to participate in the festivi-
ties, among whom were few remaining
Indians of the Shinnecook tribe, which
originally owned the land upon which
the town stands.
THE fifth volume of Shells ''History
of the German Empire" reveals the fact
that in 1867 the Crown-Prince Fred
erick William proposed that his father
should assume the imperial crown.
This action King William deemed to be
premature at that time.
\ RUMoR is current at Yankton, S. D.,
that Senator Pettigrew is a bankrupt
and is trying to settle at sixty cents on
the dollar. His transfer of $500, 600 of
Silver Falls realty to Senator Don Cam
eron gives color to the statement.
Mr.. JAMES f. KELLEY, the famous
New York sculptor and designer of the
proposed Red Jacket monument to be
erected in Buffalo, y. Y, and Mr.. Con-
verse, of New York City, were adopted,
on the 10th, with all the old-time rites,
into the tribe of the Seneca Indians.
Mr.. Converse is the husband of Mrs.
Harriet Maxwell Converse. who is al
ready Seneca by adoption.
THE indictments against John Kee-
nan and Doodle Alderman Henry L.
SayleS, of New York City, who were
charged with participating in the steal
of the broadway railway franchise,
were dismissed on the 18th.
IT is said the German Minister to
Morocco has secured a three years mo-
nopoly of the wheat and barley export
trade of that country.
TIE German wool markets are glut-
ted and prices are consequently falling.
THE English Tories have abandoned
their proposed memorial in favor of an
autumn session of Parliament. This
action is taken in consequence of the
threatened resignation of Mr.. W. III.
Smith. the government leader in the
House of Commons.