Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-04-16
NEWS AND NOTES,
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

dent, and the San Salvador government
thus becomes a nice little Family affair
for the Ezetas.
THE British parliament reconvened,
on the 9th, after the Easter holidays.
A COMPANY under the title of the
Mancora PERU Petroleum syndicate.
has been organized in London, with
capital of s120, 600, the object of which is
to purchase and develop the petroleum
wells at Mancora, extending along the
coast of Peru from Talara to Tum bez-
This is the third petroleum company
that has been organized in London
within the last year for work in Peru.
OK the 18th the state veterinary in
spector of Maine found twenty-siX Jer
sey cows on the farm of Eben Kent &
Sons, at Newmarket, afflicted with
tuberculosis. and ordered them killed.
PHINEAs 7. BARNUM, the great Amer
lean Snowman, died at his residence in
bridgeport, Conn, on the 18th, after an
illness of twenty-One weeks, growing
out of the debilities of old age.
On the eth Judge Barrett, in the New
York court of oyer and terminer,
granted an application for a ten days
New York e New Haven railroad di-
rectOrs indicted for the Harlem tunnel
accident.
THE Pittsburgh Pa.) firms having
contracts for the manufacture of iron
and steel for government war ships
have been ordered to hurry up the
work, as n result of the talk of war
with Italy.
EXCLERK of the Lynn (Mass.) Board
of Health Henry a. Plimpton, who was
deposed from Office several months
ago, is now alleged to be a defaulter to
a considerable amount.
THE republicans carried the state of
Michigan, on the 9th, in an election for
justice of the supreme court and two
regents of the state university, by from
5000 to 1000 majority. Judge r. NJ.
Montgomery, of Grand Rapids, was
elected to the supreme court bench over
Judge Champlin, who was a candidate
for reelection after serving ten years.
IN letter to the governor of Yer
mont, under date of the 9th, George F.
Edmunds rendered his resignation as
United States senator, to take effect
November l, next.
The president of the Japan house of
representatives has resigned, owing to
charges that his rulings were unfair.
EMPEROR WILLIAMS prestige in Ger
many has been entirely destroyed by
the failure of his ill-advised attempt to
enter into amicable relations with
France.
j. Il. Brown was chosen president of
the Florida senate, on the 18th, and DIR.
IL
the house.
THE coke strikers at Mount Pleasant,
Pa, threaten to use dynamite if neces-
sary to carry their point
ANOTHER conspiracy against the life
of the ear has been discovered in st.
Petersburg.
THE Stockbridge (Mass.) savings bank
has been placed in the hands of a re-
ceiver owing to the defalcation of S29. 900
by eX-Treasurer Willis and poor loans
amounting to $4,000 made by the
banks trustees. The depositors will
lose about 30 per cent.
THE feeling of uneasiness at the Gu
ropean capitals is increased by the ac-
tivity in Russian military circles and
the fact that French troops are appar-
emily being prepared for movement to
the frontier.
THE annual proclamation of the pres
ident was issued, on the Sth, calling at
tention to the provisions of the Revised
Statutes regarding the Behring sea seal
fisheries, and which direct the president
to warn all persons against entering
such waters for the purpose of violating
the provisions of said section under
penalty of confiscation.
IT has been decided by the family of
the late Prince Napoleon not to publish
the political part of the princes will,
which treats his eldest son, Prince Vic
tor, with extreme severity, denouncing
him as traitor and rebel and COM
manding him not to be present at his
funeral.
THE New York grand jury has in
dictcd Cassie Brooks, Lawyer Cohen,
James Dasllem and Howard Be1cher
for conspiring to swindle the Robert
son estate by claiming that Cassie
Brooks was Robertson's widow.
THE candidates for Senator Ed
munds' place are Secretary Proctor,
Congressman W. III. Powers and ex-
Gov. J. Gregory Smith. The governor
will make the appointment, as the
Legislature is not in session.
THREE Hungarian laborers who We're
engaged in the riot at the Edgar Thorn
son steel works, at Pittsburgh, Pa,
where Michael Quinn lost his life. were
sentenced, on the sth. to be hanged.
TIE morocco workers of Lynn,
Mass. have abandoned their strike.
which begun last August and at one time
affected $4,000 men, The strike was a
total failure, and the men surrendered
Internationally.
THE Diamond elevator at Minneapo-
lis, Mimi. was burned on the Sth. Loss
$40 900, half on the building and half
on the contents; fully insured 1t con-
tanned hay. corn. oats, bucl1wheat and
three cars of flour.
THE extraordinary concentration of
Russian troops on the frontiers of
Silesia and Galicia has decided the Ger
man war department to at once materi-
ally strengthen the eastern frontier
garriSons-
GEN HORACE PORTER has been Sc
lected to deliver the Grafton on the oc-
casion of the breaking of ground in
New York. on the 27th, for the me-
mortal to Gen. Grant.
FoR the first time in her history Den
yer. Col, has a democratic mayor.
A NEW indictment has been found
against the New York excise commits
sioners for neglecting their duties. A
former indictment was dismissed as de
fective.
GILBERT WICKs. n well-known farmer
who lived near Davenport, Ia, died sud-