Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-04-09
NEWS. AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

| cLAiSidHI pdSSdSeS from herman ports
to America has advanced ten marks
| GEN. CHAs. A. JOHNSON, retired
army officer who served IL the Mexican
and civil wars, committed suicide at
New Haven, Conn.,, on the 3Oth, by
shooting. He was IS years old and a
descendant of John Quincy Adams.
THE reported defeat of the Goorkhas
escorting the British commissioner in
| Manipur, Province of Assam, in India
with a loss of 40 killed, is confirmed by
dispatches received from Calcutta on
| the 31St.
THE steamer City of Detroit went on
a rock at the Lime Kilns crossing in the
Detroit river during a fearful storm, on
the 31st, and sank in twenty feet OF
water.
EARL GRANVILLE, who bad been seri-
| ously i'll for several weeks, died in Lon.
don on the 31st.
EDWIN BOOTH, the eminent TRACE
dian, announces his retirement from
| the stage after this season.
THE United States revenue cutter
| Bear sailed from San Francisco, on the
| 31st, for Behring sea.
AN Italian gentleman of prominence
LII" Ia loIiuol. W iIo ID SohN SdllG " I'LL
| the feeling of bitter hostility toward
| the United States entertained by his
| countrymen because of the New Or
leans massacre, warns Americans
against touring in Italy during the pres
ent year.
HARRY A. GARFIELD, eldest son of the
late President Garfield, was defeated
for nomination to the city council of
Cleveland, O., on the 1st by John Hintze,
a saloOn-keeper in the Third district
Garfield ran for the board of education
year ago, and was defeated then.
MOsT REV. DR. WALSH, archbishop of
Dublin, fresh from a long audience
with the pope, in which Irish affairs
were fully discussed, says that Parnell
will soon be overwhelmingly con-
demned by the people of Ireland at
the polls.
EXCISE COMMISSIONERS MEAKIM, FITZ-
PATRICK AND KOCH, of New York,
whose trial for neglect of duty ended
before Recorder Smyth in the general
sessions, on the LIST. were acquitted on
account of material flaw in the in
dictment.
THE treasury departments monthly
debt statement, issued on the 1st, shows
a slight increase in the public debt dur
ing March amounting to $40, 125. The
total debt of the government, less cash
in the treasury, was $3.50, O29, 92O.
DURING dispute in a Hazleton pa
saloon among a number of Italians over
the New Orleans lynching, Anthony
Torrello received number of wounds
about the body, from the result of
which he died on the 31st.
THE second story of w. A. Haveland's
storage warehouse, corner Thirteenth
and Pike streets. Pittsburgh. Pa, col
lapsed, on the 1st, instantly killing John
Herman and fatally injuring John
Burns.
IN Brooklyn there has been a marked
falling off in the attendance of chill
dren at school owing to the grip. The
teachers and policemen are likewise af-
fected.
THE bill appropriating $40, 900 for
representation at the Worlds fair was
passed by the New Hampshire legisla-
ture on the 1st.
THE Delaware & Hudson canal opened
for the season on the 1st.
THERE are 200 New York policemen
laid up with the grip.
HE SUCCknOIueTS Oh Gne I'll
trust held their regular annual meet
ing in New York, on the 1st, and elected
John ID. Rockefeller. VIM. Rockefeller
and H. III. Rogers directors for the next
three years.
The president, on the LIST, refused to
grant pardon to Bood Crumpton, a
half-breed, convicted of killing a man
named Morgan in Arkansas.
Mrs. GREENWOOD, wife of the British
political agent at Manipur, the scene of
the recent massacre of the British ma
tive troops, has arrived in safety at
Lakipur, under the escort of Capt.
Boileau, and Messrs. Gurdon, Putcher,
Woods. Lugard and Calvert, attached
to the forces of the commission. Cow
ley's detachment has also arrived safely
at the same place.
THE middle building of the three
brick structures comprising the great
wire screen manufacturing works of E.
L. Burrows & Co., at Portland, Me-,
was burned on the 1st. The building
was full of valuable machinery. Loss,
estimated at $50, 900. One hundred and
thirty men are thrown out of work
THE Nicely brothers, who were exc
cuted at Greensburg, Pa, on the 2d, for
the murder of Herman Umberger. a
rich farmer, February ~, 1889, were sec
ond cousins of the notorious James
brothers of Missouri.
AFTER an interview with the Vene-
zuelan and Gillian ministers, on the
I'd, in regard to the carrying out of the
postal subsidy act, Postmaster-General
Wanamaller expressed the belief that
new lines of steamers will not only
start from northern ports for those of
South America, but also from the gulf
ports. The result is expected to be a
great increase in ocean-carrying facili-
ties, and consequently a great increase
of trade between the United States and
South America.
ABOUT forty American and Irish
quarrymen, employed by the Wheeling
Mining & Manufacturing Co.. at Wheel
ing, w. Va. struck. on the 2d, against
the employment of two Italians, be-
cause they would not work with citi-
zens of country which was threaten
ing war against the United States
The men in the ropewalk of the
Chariestown (Mass.) navy yard, except
ing six employed in the wire-rope de-
partment were discharged. on the I'd, the
reason assigned being Il want of stock
AS this was the only department run
ming at the yard. the place is now in
practically dead condition.
The treasury statement issued on the
1st, shows a decrease in national bank
note circulation during March of ST.
$50, 900, and a decrease during the past