Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-09-04

The London Dock LaDUrers' Union
has voted to subscribe shilling week
for each member for the benefit of the
strikers in Australia, and has sent a
telegram of sympathy to the striking
Knights of Labor on the New York
Central railroad, thus repaying in kind,
in both instances, the obliga tons in
CURED during their own great struggle
with organized capital.
IHE growing cotton crop of the South
is said to be the largest ever produced,
and it is estimated that the value of
this years agricultural products of the
Southern States will reach the
enormous aggregate of 81, $50, 900, 600, or
about $500, 600, 600 more than in 1880.
FEARS are entertained in Ireland that
in addition to the failure of the potato
crop other products will be njured by
unfavorable weather.
TIE Russian Minister of War is re-
ported to be enrolling the tribes of the
Caucasus and other districts with
view to the organization of an Asiatic
army, which may be relied upon to act
independently of the European forces
of Russia should war occur with any of
the countries of Asia.
THE Union Pacific railroad statement
for July preliminary shows, gross
earnings, So, S37, 362; increase, S263, 734.
Net earnings, S1.612, 722; increase. SILL
421. For seven months to July 81,
gross, S23, 1876, Ill; increase, So, PSI, 1877.
Net, 81, SOL, 34S; increase, 500, $50.
A CYCLONE, accompanied by light
ming. rain and hail, struck the south
side of the city of Coldwater, Mich, on
the night of the 2sth. The track of the
wind was about 12O yards wide, and the
damage done amounts to many thousand
dollars.
GOVERNOR BEAVER of Pennsylvania
issued proclamation calling for the
proper observing of Labor Day, on
the LIST, and ordering that the several
departments of the State Government
be closed to business on that day.
A TEAM of horses was killed, on the
Goth, by current from broken cleo
tric-light wire in Saratoga, N. Y.
THE fires in the window-glass facto-
ries of the country will be started on the
18th.
THE President, on the goth, approved
the act providing for the leave of alb
sence for per diem officers and en-
ployes in the customs service of the
Government.
THE Tunnel House, a large frame
structure at the Sarnia (Ont.) entrance
to the St. Clair tunnel, was burned on
the night of the 2Sth. a female en-
ploye, unable to escape, was burned to
death, and two laborers who were stop
ping at the house, are missing.
MERRILL E. GALES has formally ac-
cepted the presidency of Amherst Col
lege.
TIE Presidents family left Cape May
Point, n. Y, on the Goth, for Cresson,
Pa, whore they will spend the rest of
the Out-of-toWn season.
REV. MICHAEL BRENNAN, mem Der of
the congregation of the Mission of St.
Vincent de Paul, and professor of st.
Vicents College, Los Angeles Cal,
died of typhoid fever in Baltimore, Md,
on the Goth.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES celebrated
his eightyfirst birthday anniversary at
his Beverly Farms (Mass.) home sur
rounded by large party of friends who
called to extend their congratulations.
A beautiful array of flowers filled the
rooms with their sweet perfumes.
WALTER f. HORROR, timber inspector
of the Northern Pacific railroad, charged
with drowning his wife and daughter
in the Mississippi at st. Paul, Mimi.
was, on the Goth, held to the grand jury
on the finding of the coroner's inquest.
ALEXANDER PHILLIPsEN, the Swede
in New York on the charge of
the man whose remains were
there some months ago, packed
in barrel, and who was discharged by
reason of the real murderer being ar
rested in Sweden, has entered suit for
s25, 900 damages for false imprisonment.
COUNCILMAN SHARKEY, of Whining
ton, Del, was held for the Criminal
Court, IN the goth, for having chal-
enged Charles w. Edwards, news
paper man, to fight duel. The Della
ware statute imposes a penalty of 81, 900
fine and three months imprisonment
,or the offense, with no judicial discre
ion in mitigation.