Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-08-21
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

JOHN HENRY NEWMAN, Cardlnal-Dea-
con of the Roman Catholic church in
England, died on the 18th, after an ILL
ness (pneumonia) of less than three
days duration, at the age of nearly
ninety years. He was a prolific and
| profound writer on theological subjects,
and was the author of the well-knOwn
hymn: LEAD Kindly Light" His rep
| utation is that of 1.-The greatest master
of English prose in this day and genera
ton
A PAIR of alleged lawyers have at
tempted to confidence Congressman
James O'Donneil of the Third Michigan
district by sending him a letter, written
in Spanish and dated at Toledo, Spain,
in which it is stated by the will of Mar
shall O'Donnell, he is made the heir of
a large estate, running into the mill
ions. No one in Washington looks upon
the matter in any other light than that
of a thin attempt at getting a fee.
TIE wonderful redwood tree shipped
from Tulare County, Cal, by Mr.. Van
Doorman, and which will be exhibited
at the Worlds Fair in Chicago, arrived
in San Francisco on the 18th. Three
fiat cars were required to haul the ex-
hibit to the city. 1t weighs 10000
pounds.
SENATOR BLAIR, on behalf of the ma
jority of the members of the woman
suffrage committee, on the 18th, report
ed favorably proposed constitutional
amendment to give women the right of
suffrage.
A Sue CEssFUL trial trip of n storage
battery system of electric street cars
has been made at Dubuque, Ia, and
the president of the Dubuque Street
Railway Company has closed contracts
for fifteen cars to be delivered in nine
ty days.
BREADSTUFFs exports during July
past aggregated $40, 733, 669, against 50,
$685. in July, 1889.
THREE convictS named Hanley, Tur-
colt and Manning, who were repairing
a windmill belonging to the California
State prison at San Quentin, made their
escape, on the 18th. after refusing to
halt at the command of the guards.
Two gatling guns were turned loose on
them. Bullets fell all around, but none
struck them.
JUDGES JACKSON and Sage, Of the
United States Circuit Court for the
UlSlrlCG Oh OHlo, nave ueCluou
| that under the Interstate Commerce
act, as under the Commentaries law,
railroads are free to make such con-
tracts as are for their interests, and to
classify and scale their charges as to
them seems best
FIFTY-NINE captains and majority
of the crews of the vessels of the Dan
| ube Navigation Com pany, have given
notice of their intention to strike in
September.
THE price of silver in Amsterdam
rose from 50 to so guilders per kilo on
the 18th.
CorrON exports from the United
States during July past aggregated in
value s. $50, S76, against S2,246,210 in
July, 1889.
The original package" saloons in
Iowa went out of existence as rapidly
as they made their appearance.
john W. MACKEY has been elected
director of the Canadian Pacific rail-
way.
THE report that cholera is prevail
ing in Smyrna is declared to be abso-
lutely without foundation.
". II. WALKER, OF Eugene, Ore, was
accidentally shot and killed while hunt
ing in the mountains, on the 18th, hav-
ing been mistaken for a deer
JOSEPH A. SARGENT, aged seventy
five, and his grandson, aged four, of
Ewing, Mass, while crossing the tracks
of the Fitchburg railroad just east of
Ewing station, on the 18th, were struck
by train and both were killed.