Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-07-09
NEWS AND NOTES,
a Summary of Important Events
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

is lying at the point of death at Winni
peg, and his recovery is believed to be
impossible.
SIEGFRIED JAIN, son of Frederick
jain, founder of the German. turner's
societies, was buried at Graceland Gem
etery, Chicago, on the 2Sth. The re
mains were followed to the tomb by COZ
Turner's in uniform. He was born il
1915. and for many years had been to
tally blind.
The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
May statement shows: Gross earnings
Sa,61S,T07: decrease, 1865, OS4: net earn.
ings, 1888, 23S. decrease of S13,O7O.
LADY MACDONALD has been-raised tc
the British peerage, with the title OF
countess of Earnscliffe, Queen Victoria
taking this method of testifying her ap
probation of the services of the late
Canadian premier.
THE Central Statistical society of St.
Petersburg announces that in Deem
Der last the inhabitants of that empire
numbered 10, 600, 900, showing an an
nual increase of ]. 500, 00O
By the stoppage of the Welsh tin.
plate works $50, 900 boxes of tin-plate
will be kept off the market, the aver
age consumption being 1,OOO,O 600 boxes
a month.
LIEUT.-COM. GEORGE A. NORRIS, OF
the United States steamship Omaha,
died at San Francisco. on the goth, of
pneumonia. He was born in Maine
and graduated from the naval academy
in 1866.
SECRETARY NOBLE has appointed
Hon. III. c. Hallam, of Illinois, to be as
sistant chief clerk of the pension office,
vice Green Il. Raum. Jr., resigned.
ADvICEs from Santiago, Argentin
Republic, are to the effect that the re-
cent peaceable revolution in that
province is supported by all it's in
fluential citizens. Troops have been
dispatched to the scene by the govern
ment. A commission has also been
sent to the province to arrange the diff
ficulty.
WIN Ok and his wife, Di Toy, cut their
the Chinese quarter of Sacramento
the woman will probably die of her in
juries. The pair were old and poor,
and for the past two years the China
mans sight has been failing until he
had to give up work.
KILBURN J. BROWN, a sleeping-car
conductor between Montreal and Bos-
ton, has been arrested for smuggling
goods into the United States by conceal
ing them in the pillow boxes of his
car. 1t is said that the frauds have
been very extensive.
THE British Official Gazette announces
that, by order of her majesty, the name
of Sir William Gordon-Cumming has
been stricken from the list of the dep
uty lieutenants of Elginshire, Scotland.
THE surprise of the day in Boston, on
the 30th, was the failure of j. Nj. Hill,
the widelyknown theatrical manager
and restaurauter of Boston. The liza
bilities are said to be very large.
c. D. EVANS, compiler of the Mem
phis and the Philadelphia city direc-
tories, was found dead in his room at
Memphis. Tenn, on the night of the
30th. A vial, supposed to have con-
tanned poison, was on a table near his
bed, and suicide is inferred.
THE fires in the seven large glass
factories at Muncie, Ind, went out, on
the 30th, for the annual two months
which the 500 employees will
spend in reinvigorating their systems
and fresh airing their lungs after their
ten months service with the blow
pipes.
THE United States steamship Alert
left Victoria, b. c., for Behring sea on
the 30th. She is in command of Lieut..
Coal and supplies for the
have been shipped on the
steamer Costa Rica.
THE Southern Passenger association
has made the rate of one lowest first
class fare for the round trip to the ma
tional G.. a. p. encampment in Detroit,
Mich, in August. The Boston Passen-
ger association has made a rate of SIS
from Boston to Detroit and return, Au-
gust $50.
AT Magdalena, n. NJ, on the 3Oth, W.
b. Newberry and w. V. Nolan, promi-
nent cattlemen, quarreled. Newberry
began firing at Nolan and two shots
took effect in the groin. Nolan returned
the fire with a Wincester. the second
shot passing through the heart, and
New berry fell dead.
REPORTS from various portions of
mense crops of wheat, cotton and corn.
The wheat crop is being threshed and
is yielding from fifteen to thirty bushels
to the acre. Corn is insured by recent
rains and is already in the ear. The
cotton crop, it is estimated, will yield
from half to bale per acre.
THE friends and trustees of KENYON
college, the old and wealthy Episcopal
Institution at Gambler. O.. are greatly
excited over the discovery that SCI, 200
IF the endowment fund has been used
% meet the running expenses of the
college. For several years the treas
lrer's reports have shown small def
,iencies, but no one was aware that the
rust funds had been impaired.
SAMUEL MYERS, an employee of the
Iew Adirondack & st. Lawrence Rail-
Dad Co, went away from his camp
lear Saranac Inn. n. Y, on the after
loon of the 2Sth, for a stroll, and has
lot been heard from since. Fifty men
With experienced guides have been
the woods for him.
THE Minnesota state democratic con-
erence gathered at Minneapolis. on
he 1st, with $50 leading politicians in
The ostensible object of |
he gathering was to organize the club |
movement of the state and discuss cam |
aign plans.
\ SPECIAL from Bar Harbor, Me-. |
avs that Mr.. Blaine had a bad turn |
hortly after dinner. on the LIST, and a |
MUSICIAN was summoned. The attack |
roved to be not very severe.
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urg says unless France and Russia |
lalle a formal alliance the p3rtieS TO |