Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-08-07

Tee decided. on the 3Oth, to issue q call
TOR outside assistance for the cyclone
sufferers, and telegram was sent to the
mayors of Boston, Lowell, Worcester,
Haverhll and Lynn, Mass, and to Man
chester, n. H., asking for financial aid.
A GENERAL amnesty has been granted
by the Argentine Government to all
who took part in the late inSurrection.
Dr. PARKE, who has been in attend
ance upon MIR. Stanley since the ex-
plorer's recent attack of illness, has re-
turned to London, and reports that his
services are no longer required, and thu at
Stanley is making splendid progress to-
ward complete recovery.
THE United States men-of-war Chi
cago, Boston and Atlanta of the squad
ron of evolution, arrived off Quarantine,
\. V, on the night of the Goth, from
Rio de Janeiro
MORRILL, EDWARD GATES, president
of Rutgers College, was, on the 30th.
chosen president of Amherst College. to
succeed Julius Ii. Seelye, resigned.
FoETY-oNE dwelling houses were d.
stroyed by fire in Braddocl1, Pa, on the
31st, and more than three hundred per-
sons were for the time icing rendered
homeless. The manager of the steel
works, for which most of the men
worked Immediately commenced the
erection of new houses for his employees
on the fire-swept district.
VIsCOUNT BOYLE the missing heir
to the earldom of Shannon, arrived
in Liverpool by the steamer Teu-
tonic from New York on the 31st. He
had been running stock farm, incog.,
near Boise City, Idaho, for the past
three years, and only accidentally
heard of his fathers death.
TIE Newport (R- L. post-cGce was
robbed of $4,000 worth of stamps on the
31st.
COUNT ToLsToI's 'kreutzer Sonata"
has been excluded from the mails of the
United States. under the rule forbid
ding the transmission of libidinous lit
eraJure.
THE Turkish summer resort Pendill
was totally destroyed by fire on the 3lst.
Several persons were burned to death.
TIE cholera is raging at Mecca, the
deaths averaging eighty daily.
THE Salvation army is expanding
$3.50, 000 for new barracks at Sheffield
and birmingham, England.
THE confirmation of the reported eX-
istence of cholera to an epidemic de-
gree at Bagdad and Mecca causes
and strict precautions are being taken
at Marseilles and other entrepots of ORR
entail traffic to prevent, if possible, the
intrOd uction of infection through these
ports.
Mrs. HARRIET PHILLIPS, of Three
Rivers, Mich, was arrested, on the 1st,
on charge of attempted murder, the
being her husband,
George Phillips, who charges her with
putting croton oil in his medicine.
where it was found by his physician.
ENGLAND and France have demanded
indemnity from the Argentine Repub-
lie for property of subjects of those
countries to the value of so, 900, 900 de-
stroyed by the recent bombardment of
Buenos Ayres by the rebelious navy.
THE silver manufacturers of New
York City have decided to raise their
cent.
THE ravages of the cotton worm in
Egypt continue, and the prospects for a
crop are CONSIDERABLY impaired.
JAPAN is suffering from an epidemic
of cholera.
MIR. DEPEw had a long interview with
Lord Salisbury on the 31st. Minister
Lincoln introduced the distinguished
American to the Prime Minister.
Mi;. AND Mrs. CHARLES III. TONGUE,
of Philadelphia, were run down and
killed at Magnolia, n. j., on the 31st,
by train on the Philadelphia & At
lantic City railroad.
SEVERAL forest and prairie fires are
raging in Montana.
THE Marchioness of Londonderry will
visit America, shortly, her physician hav
ing recommended sea voyage for her
health.
THE schooner Charger, of Detroit. was
run down and cut in two by the big
steam barge City of Cleveland, on the
51st, about fifty miles outside of Toledo,
D. The crew of the schooner were
saved. but the vessel and cargo of 49,
500 bushels of wheat were total loss.