Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-08-28
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

| 'ROUGH counts" even though official,
are, as the term indicates, liable to err
| ror. The report that the aggregate
| population of the country will be under
| IA Their than over the 81, 600, 900 mark
need not be accepted as final just yet.
| The revised count will tell the story,
and that will be at hand few weeks
| hence.
THREE of the old States-Missouri,
| Illinois and usetts-gained %
per cent. each in population in the past
| ten years. The figures for the whole
country are not yet all in, but it is safe
to predict that not many of the States
of seventy years of age or upward will
beat this growth.
RANSOM SHIvERs, of Tennville, Ga,
wealthy planter and q leader of the
Alliance party, was thrown from his
wagon, on the 10th. and hurled head
foremost against tree, killing him in
stantly.
a CALL has been issued for Prohi-
bition State convention to be held in
Des Moines, Ia, September 4.
THE situation in Armenia is daily be-
coming more deplorable. A wholesale
massacre of Christians rece ntly occurred
at Moosh and outrages are reported
from other places.
TIE potato blight in Ireland has ex-
| tended to several districts in counties
| Mayo and Leitrim.
DAVIS DALTON, the American swim
mer, on the 18th, successfully concluded
| the task of swimming on his back from
| Folkestone, England, to Cape Gris-Nez,
| on the coast of France. He was in the
water twenty-three hours and thirty
minutes, and at Ihe finish was in ex-
celent condition. The swimmer was
piloted by a boat which kept within
easy reach Throughout the trip.
| ADvICEs from Uruguay. to the 10th,
state that the Minister of Finance in
sisted upon resigning and that the
other ministers would follow his exam
pie. The balanca-sheet of the National
Bank shows that $50, 900. 600 have been
lost
On the evening of the 18th fete
was given to the town folk of Narva, in
honor of the visit of Emperor William
| 20 Russia. The city of waterfalls was
| illuminated.
| GEORGE SHAW and John Davis, OF
Senecaville, o., were killed by light
| ou ilS 1sbh, "hAAS S1eshoAAS IA q
church doorway where they had taken
refuge from n storm. Two other per-
sons standing with them were badly in
iIred.
The city of Wilkesbarre, Pa, was
visited by terrific cyclone on the 10Th.
| Trees were uprcoted and hundreds of
houses were unroofed and many demol-
ished. Several persons were killed, and
the loss is counted by hundreds of
| thousands.
Miss POTTER. daughter of j. W. Pot
ter, of Lansing, Mich, was killed and
| several other persons were injured by a
collision, on the 10th, between west
bound passenger train and a freight
train at Garrison, Mont
ONE MILLION ONE HUNDRED AND TIIIR-
TY FOUR THOUSAND ounces ofsilver bull
lion was offered to the director of the
mint, on the Goth, but only 466, 000
ounces were purchased at the followin q
prices: $4,000 ounces at 81. 1945; 16, coo
ounces at SI.19S15; $50, 600 ounces at
| Sl.20. and $50. 900 ounces at 81. 2025.
AS A result of the bond circular issued,
on the 18th, by the Treasury Depart
ment for the redemption of Sis, 600, 900
four-and- a-half per cent. bonds the of
ferings, on the Goth, aggregated 81, 153.-
| $50, at 1O4JS. The Department also
purchased STA, 100 four-per-cents at 124