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


to have the English navy by 1894 equal
| to any two navies in the world, and
says that work is progressing rapidly in
| accordance with the programme.
WILLIE GRIFFIN, aged seven, fell into
the Humber river at Bolton Village.
Ont, on the 10th, afh his grandfather
went to his rescue, when both were
| drowned.
IHE whole number of post-offices in
operation on July l, 1890, was 81, 400,
the increase during the last year being
3,401, the largest in the history of the
| country.
D. JACOBSEN and Mrs. John J. Hud-
dart were drowned. on the night of the
18th. in Berllely lake near Denver, Col,
by the overturning of their boat Mr.
Jacobsen was the business partner of
Mr.. Huddart, who was at the time in
Salt Lake City.
In petition to the Republican mem
bers of Congress to pass the Federal
Election bill, the Southern States Col
ored Republican Association say it is
not domination but participation that
they want.
TIE Government is asked for an ap-
preparation to keep the Sisseton and
Wappet ton Indians of the Lake Traverse
reservation in south Dakotafrom starry
ing.
FIVE persons lost their lives in fire
which originated in Quebec, Cam
bar-room on the 18th.
THE Wisconsin Democratic State con-
vention will meet at Milwaukee August
THE Michigan Democratic State con-
vention will meet at Grand Rapids Sep
TENDER IL.
THE wrecked schooner Maud, before
reported lost, arrived at Provincetown,
Mass, on the 18th, in tow of two tugs.
THE President, on the 18th, appointed
o. L. Spalding, of Michigan, Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury, vice George
c. TichenOr, resigned.
THREE sons of Otto Goldner, of
Monroeville, O., were killed by the
same stroke of lightning while sitting
on lounge in their fathers house on
the nth. Miss Kate Smith, neigh
Dor, who was in the house at the time
was badly burned about the face and
body.
THE steamer St Lawrence, returning
to Alexandria Bay, \. Y, on the night
of the 18th, from an electric search
light excursion, ran down the steam
pleasure yacht Cathlene with ten pas
sengers on board, of whom five were re-
ported missing.
THE threat of the Mussulmans to
sack the Christian quarters of Ere
roum has alarmed the residents of that
district, and they are moving out with
all possible haste. The increased gar
rison has had very little effect in sup
pressing acts of violence, and the infer
ence is that the soldiers are in SYM
pa thy with the mob. Men and women
have been murdered without provoca-
ton, and number of women have been
carried off.
GOVERNOR BoIEs of Iowa has COM
muted the sentence of Fred Munchsrath
from imprisonment in the penitentiary
for four years to three months. Munchs-
rath was convicted of conspiracy to
murder Rev. Geo. +. Haddock at Sioux
City, for making temperance speeches.
EUGENE CARROLL, a lad of five years,
was ground to death in stone-crusher
at Pittsburgh, Pa. on the 18th. He,
with others, had climbed on the ma
chine, whence he fell into the rolls
and was crushed to death before the
machine could be stopped.
HoS. JOHN p. BUCHANAN, president
of the State Farmers, Alliance. was
nominated for Governor of Tennessee
by the State Democratic convention in
session at Nashville on the 18th.
THE House committee on invalid PEN
slonS, on the 18th, authorized a favora-
bic report on the House bill granting a
pension of s., 900 per year to the widow
of General Fremont.
TIE famous forest of Ebersburg, Ba-
varia, is infested with worms, which
have denuded the trees of their verdi
ure and stripped the more tender of the
branches of bark. Twelve hundred
men of the Munich garrison have been
sent to fell the entire forest and burn
the timber. In this way it is hoped to
get rid of the worms and prevent their
spread to other and larger forests.