Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-09-03
NEWS AND NOTES,
A Summary Of Important Events
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

City, MO-, on the 24th We're 667 cars
which is the greatest number of cars O
wheat ever received there in one day
The largest number received in one da,
heretofore. was COL cars, in 1882.
FRED MASON, secretary of a cattl,
company, was shot and fatally wounded
near Elizabeth, Col, on the oath, b,
one of the herders of the company
named S. W. Parry, who escaped Ma
sons home is at Vergennes, Vt
The socialist workingmen's congress
at Brussels passed resolutions, on tn,
Gath, condemning the sweating system
of piece work.
| X. w. PILISBURY'S cooper shop ant
eight residences in Manchester, n. II.
were destroyed by fire on the gath
Loss, $50, 900; partially insured.
BY the premature explosion of 3;
dynamite blast in a quarry at Kingston
n. j., on the 25th, Daniel Hagerty wa.
killed and five of his fellow workmer
badly injured, some perhaps fatally.
| THE sixth annual encampment of the
Union veterans opened at Cleveland
O., on the oath, with a number of ole
soldiers present from all parts OF the
country.
THE state department is informed
that President Balmaceda of Chilli ha.
removed F. A. Beelan as Gillian con
sul-general at New York, and appointed
Charles R. Flint to fill the vacancy
Mr.. Beelan has represented Chilli a,
New York for twenty-six years. Sym
pathy with the revolutionists is given
as the reason for Mr.. Beelan's removal
EDITORS and reporters in Mexico
whose productions do not suit the gov.
eminent are being ordered out of the
country or imprisoned on trivial
charges The government is just now
trying to trace the identity of an Amer.
lean writer who sent to his paper a long
article rejecting upon President Diaz
and his following.
IN the Doodle investigation at OF
tawa, Ont, on the Goth, Mr.. Langlir
testified that S113, 200 of the subsidy to
the Bal Des Chaleuras railroad had
been embezzled. He read a deposition
| of j. A Taylor, a contractor, to that
| effect.
A CONSTRUCTION train, south bound,
| on the railroad between Savannah,
Ga, and Columbia, S. c., was wrecked
| 40 miles west of Savannah on the Goth.
Two men were instantly killed and five
| wounded, probably fatally.
THE sixth annual Minneapolis (Minn. J
Industrial exposition was opened with
due ceremony on the Goth. The ''Siege
of Vera Cruz" and the Mexican band
are among the leading attractions.
THE only surviving officer of the bat
tie of Waterloo, Gen. Whichotte, died
in London on the 25th.
NJ EPITCurv of h11rCr
has opened war on the electric street.
car company, and, on the Goth, put a
hundred of its employees in jail for at
tempting to make an unauthorized
connection between its two lines.
VERA CRUZ, Mexico, is still infested
with yellow fever, many deaths occur
ring.
AN Italian bandit organization, sim
liar in every respect to the New Orleans
malta, has been located in South Brook
lyn, n. Y. 1t may be branch of the
New Orleans malta or not. At all
events its principles seem to be of a
similar character. The ruffians COM
posing it want money or life.
IN the Georgia legislature, on the
Goth, the tender of the Confederate
Veterans home at Atlanta, esta blished
by private contributions, to the state
was rejected by the votes of the alli-
ance memb ers, who, under the plea of
economy, declared that the poor-houses
were good enough for people who could
not support themselves. There is much
Indignation throughout the state.
UNITED STATES MARSHAL GRIMES of
Oklahoma has received special instruc-
tions from Washington to send large
posse of deputies into the Cherokee
strip, with orders to arrest all persons
attempting to make settlements or burn
the grass.
Gov. PAGE of Vermont having noti-
fed Secretary Proctor of his intention
TO appoint him United States senator,
vice Edmunds, resigned speculation is
rife as to Mr.. Proctor's successor in the
cabinet. Ex-Gov. Cheney of New Hamp-
shire, is mentiCne among the possibili-
ties
The belief is growing that Musgrave,
the fugitive from justice who was al
legged to have been cremated in burned
cabin near Terre Haute, Ind, put up a
job to deceive the authorities. Color is
given to the belief since it is ascertained
that he carried $40, 900 life insurance.
THE British merchant ships which
We're put to inconvenience and some
what damaged during the fighting in
Pisagua, Chilli, have prepared their
claims for damages for presentation to
the Gillian government. The vessels
claim to have been made depots of ref
uge for thousands of noncombatants
during a period in some instances of
six weeks.
A LETTER from Cape Town says the
Germans in Damaraland are thoroughly
sick of their attempt to settle that part
of Africa, and King Harmamo says
they must go home. The king has just
awakened to the idea that the Germans
got the best of the treaty, which he
signed when drunk, giving them his
country for few trinkets.
DR.. l.. c. DRAPER, the noted his
torian. died in Madison, Wis, on the
Goth. He occupied a position quite
unique in American scholarship, and
was regarded as an oracle on western
topics among historical specialists the
country over.
SOUTHWESTERN AUSTRIA and north
ern.Italy were swept by terrible thun-
derstorm, on the Goth, causing much
damage to property and the loss of
many lives.
THE total French CONSUMPTION for
the present year calls for 1s3, 567 re-
cruits- OF this number $50, SS7 men
will be assigned to the land forces,