Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-06-26
PERSONAL AND GENERAL


Europeans who were captured by the
Mahdi have been released by him.
THE Big Four and the New York,
Pennsylvania e Ohio railroads, on the
18th, offered their striking switchmen
at Cleveland, O., all that was asked be-
fore the strike took place. The offer
was refused, the switchmen demanding
the Chicago scale.
THE beautiful new building of Wells
College for Young Ladies at Aurora, n.
Y, the alma mater of Mrs. Grover
Cleveland, was formally dedicated, with
a song and praise service, on the 18th.
THREE men employed in a Baltimore
(Md.) soap factory were literally
drenched and fatally scalded by the
bursting of a large tank of boiling fat
on the 18th.
A STOVE foundry is to be established
in Milwaukee, Wis, with a capital of
$780, 900. that will give employment to
from 500 to 1000 men.
THE wedding of Lena Caldwell and
Baron Won Zedwitz, German Minister
to Mexico, took place, on the 18th, in
the chapel connected with the new
Catholic University in Washington,
ID. C., which has been largely built by
the munificent gifts of the Caldwell sis
tiers.
MAYOR p. MCQUAID of Jacksonville,
Fla, was assaulted and beaten with a
billy by City Marshal Virgins, who is
under investigation on charges of Off
cial misconduct, and is supposed to
have held the mayor responsible for the
proceedings against him.
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of Lord Sackville-West, late Minister
from Great Britain to the United States,
was married, on the 18th, to her cousin
Lionel, who is heir to the family estate
of Seven Oaks.
ANDREW CARNEGIE expects to induce
Mrs. Mary Shenley to give to the city
of Pittsburgh twenty-acre site for the
81. 600, 900 free library which Mr.. Car
negie proposes to build for the city.
LIEUTENANT STAIRS, of SANKEY'S ex-
petition, has been appointed Adjutant
of the Royal Engineers at Aldershot.
Hon. C. C. SHORTER, of Eufaula,
Speaker of the Alabama House of Rep
resentatives. died on the 16t'I. He was
a young man of brilliant attainments.
Miss MARY ANDERSON and Mr.. An
tonic Navarro were married at St
Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Hamp-
stead, London, on the 18th.
NEARLY ten thousand men and wom-
en- engaged in the cloall-making indus
try in New York City went on strike on
the 18th.
JOHN O'NEII- one of the New York
Noodle aldermen of 1854, was released
from Sing Sing on the 10th.
chief stenographer of the House of
Representatives, died OF paralysis at
Atlantic City. n. j., on the 18th.
TIE Sugar Trust case was not men,
toned in the list of decisions handed
down in the Court of Appeals at Sara
toga, \. Y, on the 18th.
THE last vestige of hope for the
rescue of the thirty-two entombed
coal miners from the burning mine at
Dunbar, Pa, expired, on the 18th, when
nearly half an acre of the surface over
the mine caved in. stopping the escape
of the smoke. which would soon smother
any living thing therein.
THE steel mills of Carnegie. Phipps-
& Co. at Beaver Falls, Pa, were shut
down, on the 18th. on account of
strike of the rod-mill molders for in
creased wages The demand was re-
fused and the mill closed, shutting out
500 men.
Four men were killed and three bad
ly wounded by the wreck of two freight
trains on the Asheville branch of the
Western Il North Carolina railroad at
Melrose, y. C., on the 18th.
DEI-EG ATEs from the various life I'M
derwrlters, associations of the country
met IN Boston, on the 18th, and formed
a National association.