Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-06-25

many. The house caught fire and they
were overcome by the smoke before
they could escape.
The Philadelphia jury in the Meyer &
Dickinson test suit against the govern
ment to recover alleged excessive duties
paid on importations of hat trimmings,
returned a verdict, in the United States
circuit court, on the 10Th, in favor of the
plaintiffs, who claimed that the goods
were liable to only 20 per cent. duty,
while the officials held that they were
dutiable at 80 per cent.
THE defeat of the British government
on the subject of employing children
under II years of age, is not a cause OF
general congratulation among working
people of England, many of whom are
in favor of permitting young children
to work half time. The government
will appeal.
IT is said that the course of the
United States in regard to the 1tata has
aroused deep anxiety in Berlin, it be-
ing feared that Balmaceda's govern
ment will grant more favorable com
mercial conditions to the United States
to the detriment of European coun
tries.
THREE children, living about 1:
miles southeast of Tilden, Neb.. were
drowned during a storm while re-
turning from school on the 18TH
ravine which the children were accus
toned to cross suddenly filled with
flood water and washed them away.
SECRETARY FOSTER has appointed
Hon. Chas. III. Grosvenor, of Ohio, John
NJ. Butler. of Philadelphia, and John NJ.
Ellis, of Oberlin college, Ohio, treas
ury agents to promote foreign exhibits
at the Worlds fair.
PREMIER ABBOTT has announced tn at
no special legislation will be introduced
in the Dominion parliament by the
government, and that the policy of Sir
John Macdonald will be continued.
A DISPATCH from Calcutta says that
sixty earthquake shocks were expert
| enced throughout the province of Ben
lgal on the 18th. Many buildings were
destroyed.
On the 10Th Emma Belcher, of River.
side, O., was burned to death by inhal.
ing the flame from gasoline lamp.
SIX dwellings We're washed away and
| a numb err of persons injured by a flood
caused by cloud burst, on the 10th, at
Leechburgh, Pa.
THE will of the late Gen. Albert Pike,
grand commander of the Scottish Rite
Order of Masonry of the southern juris-
diction, was filed in Washington on the
10th. He leaves all articles of person
atty to trustees for the benefit of the
| order CT which he was grand COM
mander, and directs that if any of his
| children attempt to prevent carrying
out this bequest they shall forfeit what
| is devised to them.
THE tower of the new stone court
| house at Liberty. Ind, fell in, on the
| 18th, crushing out the front of the
building and causing loss of $4,000.
| 1t has been discovered that the collapse
| was the result of a dynamite explosion.
| Several citizens saw the flash at the
| time, and two or three men We're seen
| m aking their escape in the darkness.
| A LARGE number of passengers over
the Cincinnati and Covington suspen-
| sion bridge saw man deliberately
| Jump into the river ninety feet below
| on the 10Th. He was rescued alive by
| bOatmen and taken to the hospital,
where he died two hours later. He re-
fused to identify himself further than
| to give the name of Richard Rhein.
! THE two persons who accompanied
| the aeronaut in the ascension of the
| balloon which left La Nillette, France,
on the 18th, and who were carried sky
ward after the balloonist fell from the
| car, succeeded in reaching terre firma at
| Versailles.
| WILLIAM BEELER, of Lincoln, Neb.,
asks for divorce from his wife because
| 4 L.
| the attic for the reason that he would
not go to school. Beeler is only 10 years
| old and his wife is rs.
| Gov. PATTIsoN of Pennsylvania has
signed the ballot-reform bill and the
bill authorizing constitutional conven-
ton.
THE grasshoppers are reported in
large quantities in Otter Tail and Mar
| shall counties, Mimi. and much dam
age, it is feared, will result to crops