Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-08-20

formed by the minister of the United
States at La Paz, that on June % last
the Bolivian government issued q de-
cree revolSing the decree of May %,
1890, declaring the republic in a state
of siege.
A. BACKER, the New York dealer in
commercial paper who recently failed
for 81, 900, 900 and made an assignment,
was arrested. on the 18th, charged by
a creditor with the larceny of 500
c. A. PILLsBURY, the Minneapolis
flour king. says that but for gambling
by board of trade operators, wheat
would now be selling at S1.25.
THE treasury department has decided
that the words British manufacturer
may be accepted for the marking OF
goods from Great Britain.
THE postal authorities have declared
the Tanquerry Portrait Co. of Brooklyn,
n. Y. fraud and the delivery of its
mail has been stopped.
EX-SENATOR BRUCE, of Mississippi,
opposes the scheme of negro emigra-
ton to Liberia.
MESSRS. BUTTERwORTH AND HANDY,
of the foreign committee of the Column
bian exposition, who had been in Aus
tria explaining the advantages of the
enterprise, went to Buda Pesth, on the
18th, to perform similar work in Hun
gary. They will visit Roumania. Bull
garia and Servia, and, finally, Con-
stantinople, and expect to return to
London about September /.
A LARGE two-story building used as
a carriage factory in the village of New
Midway. Md, was burned on the l4th.
1t is believed that it was set on fire by
white caps, who objected to it's being
remodeled into a school building.
JOSEPH FRANzRED, secretary of the
Camp Washington Building association
of Cincinnati, is accused of misappro-
priating $4,000 by means of spurious
checks. An investigation is progress
ing.
THE remains of Editor George J:
Jones of the New York Times We're in
tered, on the 18th, after appropriate
ceremonies. in Woodlawn cemetery.
A REPORT from Highstown. n. j., in
dicates that many of the Jewish eXiles
from Russia have been driven from
the old world only to be swindled in
tors of the Baron Hirsch fund.
THE funeral of James Russell Lowell
took place in Appleton chapel, Harvard
university, Boston, at noon of the 14th.
The services were of a simple charac-
ter. There was no service at the house
or the grave. 1nterment was in the
family lot at Mount Auburn.
DAVID JACOBS and Mrs. Mary John
son, who were to have been hanged at
Chesterfield, S. c., on the 14th. for the
murder of the woman's husband, re-
ceived a respite after the black caps
and nooses had been adjusted and
while awaiting the signal that would
have launched them into eternity.
THE national encampment of the Sons
of Veterans will convene at Mime
apolis, Mimi, August 25, and it promises
to be the largest and most enthusiastic
ever held by that order.
1t is estimated that fully 1O,OOO mem
bers will be present.
IN January last Thomas B. Car
ruthers was murdered at Rat Portage,
Ont. On the 14th his widow was arrest
ed in Toronto charged with having muir
dered her husband.
THE furniture factory of Stille e
Mudhe at Cincinnati was completely
by fire or the evening of the
18th. The loss will probably exceed
500, 900; insured.
WHILE Harry feathers was tearing
out an old fireplace in his home at
Mooresville, Ind, on the 18th, he found
thirty crisp $40 bills that had been hid
den beneath the hearth by some former
occupant.
THE engagement is announced of DR..
Paul Thorndyke, formerly of Milwau-
kee, but now of Boston, to Miss Rachel
Sherman, daughter of the late Gen. w.
T. Sherman. The young people met
while in Europe.
THE republican congressional com
mittee of the second Tennessee district
met at Knoxville, on the 14th, and can
vassed the returns of the recent primary
election. The official figures are: HouE,
Is. 2S,: Woodruff, 6.O57; Houl>'s MAORI
ty, 9,22S.