Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-07-24

RONTON. MISSOURI
THERE are 1000 men on strike in the
nitrate district of Chilli. Forty of the
strikers were killed or wounded in
recent conflict with the troops
SECRETARY TRACY officially accepted
the United States steamer Philadelphia
on the 18th. The Messrs. Cramp, the
builders, receive S135, 900 premium for
extra speed.
COUNT KALSoKY has recovered from
his recent illness and will accom- any
Emperor Francis Joseph on the latter's
visit to Germany to attend the annual
military maneuvers.
A CAPTAINS sword of the Revolution
airy pattern and bearing the inscription
in old English letters: major John
Andre" has been dug up on the Passaic
river at Avondale, n. Y.
THE Interstate Commerce Commits
sion decided, on the 18th, to issue an
order making a reduction in grain rates
from Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas and Mis-
souri, to ST. Louis and the Mississippi
river, and to Chicago.
THE acquisition by Belgium of the
Congo State is said to be simply pre-
paratory to the sale of that State to
Germany, its sale direct without the
consent of France being impossible of
performance by King Leopold.
WHILE out riding at Cape May, on the
nth, Mrs. Harrison and her daughter and
grandchild had a narrow escape from a
passing runaway horse. Mrs. Mckee
swooned from fright, but soon rallied,
and no serious consequences followed.
LONDON and the South of England
suffered enormous damage from a storm
on the 18th. Streets were submerged,
stocks of valuable goods damaged, and
in some cases houses were undermined
to such an extent that they will have
to be torn down.
Mr.. SPARKS, engineer of the Inflated
excursion boat Sea Wing, by the cap
sizing of which in Lake Pepin so many
lives were lost, denies the report that
there was liquor on board the boat for
crew had been drinking.
THERE was some excitement in the
House press gallery, on the 18th, over the
appearance of member of the House
from Texas, looking for the correspond
ent OF a Western paper with the an
nounced intention to shoot him on sight.
The correspondent was not in the city.
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THE contested-election cases of Good
rich VS.. Bullock, from the Second dis
trict of Florida, and McGinnis VS.. AL
derson, from the Third district of West
Virginia, were decided in favor of the
contestants, both Republicans, by the
elections committee of the House of
Representatives on the 18th.
A SYSTEM of electric cabs has been in
troduced in Stuttgart, Germany, with a
degree of success that promises the
permanent RELOCATION of the cab horse
to other fields of usefulness. The new
vehicles are already popular, though of
course their novelty has much to do
with the patronage they receive.
SEVERAL deeds have been recorded at
Rockville, the county seat of Mont
gomery County, Md, recently, of prop
erty bought at Washington suburb
upon the Potomac river by members of
the Presidents family. One of these
pieces is in the name of Mrs. Harrison,
the consideration named being SCI, 1913.
THE Supreme Court OF New York
City, on the 18th, reversed the convic-
ton OF Liverpool jack or John Fitz-
iol- -ho emil y- of L
mapping David Kennedy and sending
him into practical slavery in Yucatan.
The court held that the evidence was
not legally sufficient though there is
no moral doubt of Fitzpatrick's infamy. |
LIEUTENANT c. Y. DONALDSON, Com |
pany G, Twenty-fourth United States |
Infantry, quartered at Fort Grant, |
Ariz., lost his life, on the 18th, in gal |
liant attempt to save Miss Lettie Spur
geon from drowning, at Newport Beach, |
near Santa Ana, Cal, after having first |
rescued Mr.. Il. T. Hall and his daugh- |
ter.
ADMIRAL REISHOLD WERNER declares |
the recent acquisition of Heligoland by
Germany to be of more consequence
than the possession of territory in
Africa, inasmuch as it renders block
ade of the German North Sea almost
impossible and thus makes unnecessary
the maintenance of fleet in those
waters
A LARGE number of presents were
stolen from the Stanley collection on
the day of the explorers marriage.
Efforts were made to keep the matter
quiet. but the arrest and sentence of one
of the thieves gave it publicity, and later
developments disclosed the fact that
there were other thieves present at the
reception.
On the 10th Governor Hill of New
York committed the death sentence of
Joseph Chapleu to imprisonment for life,
thus still leaving Kemmler to be the
first person to suffer electrocution. The
Governor gave as his reason that the |
judge and jury favored Communication,
and the prosecuting attorney did not |
oppose it.
THE steamer City of Detroit, with |
three excursion parties on board, ''got |
sheer on the pilot" just as she reached |
Detroit, on the 18th, and ran into an