Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-08-06

THE prohibitioniSts of Maryland met
| in convention at Glyndon, on the Goth,
| and nominated full state ticket All
| the nominees are gentlemen of excel
! lent character.
| THE treasury surplus. on the Goth,
| aggregated So, 742, 0S4, of which am cunt
S25, 660,5S6 is in depository banks, and
| SO, 369 146 in subsidiary coin.
Ex-SPEAKER THos. Il. REED was
among the passengers arriving on the
| steamer Citv of New York from Liver
| pool on the Goth.
\ MECCA dispatch says there are 40
deaths at that place and thirty at
| Djeddah from cholera daily.
Col ERHARDT, collector of the port
| of New York. resigned his office on the
| goth. His resignation was accepted by
the president and Hon. j. 5. Fassett
was appointed as his successor.
THE heavy iron and steel framework
of the new finishing department of the
E!b1 iron works at Pittsburgh, Pa,
owned by the Oil Well Supply Co., col
| lapsed. on the Goth, killing an unknown
Hungarian labOrer and seriously injur-
ing j. Parker, George Baker, Lemon
Schmidt and III. V. Cobra. Several
other worlzmen were painfully injured.
IT is announced that the wedding of
Miss Lincoln, daughter of Minister
Robert T. Lincoln. with Mr.. 1sham,
will take place early in September.
On the 3Oth Jesse Feathergill, En-
glish novelist, died in London.
On the Goth William Hacker, a vet
!. l..
Shelbyville. Ind, aged 81. He leaves
widow and six children. Mr.. Hacker
was made a mason by St Johns lodge,
No. Is, at Dayton, o., in 1922, and
passed through all the grades of ma
sonry, including the thirty-third de-
gree. He became 4 member of the
grand lodge of Indiana in 1885, and has
been a working mem Der ever since.
On the 30th n niece of NJ. J. Carpen-
ter, general manager of the Duluth II
Iron Mountain railroad, died suddenly
on her uncle's special car, between
Evansville, Mimi, and GAINESVILLE, Wis,
while en- route to Chicago.
THE reciprocity treaty between the
United States and San Domingo has
been signed, and will be proclaimed by
the president soon.
TWENTY-FIVE thousand people at
tended the funeral of the victims of the
railway disaster at Saint Mande,
France on the 3Oth. There were TWEEN
ty-four hcarses in the line. Thousands
of the spectators were in mourning at
tire. and all the houses We're draped.
a WASHINGTON dispatch of the 3Oth
stated that Secretary Mobiles resigna-
ton was in the hands of the president
There is said to have been no friction
between the secretary and the presi-
dent, but the office had become simply
irksome. Gen. Noble may go abroad
for a time.
THE steamer Godmunding collided
with and sank the Norwegian schooner
LORNA in the British channel on the
31st. Eight persons We're drowned.
THE cruiser Presidente Errazuris,
which was built for the Balmaceda
government of Chilli, sailed from Lis
bon at ) a. IN. on the 31st, but anchored
off the harbor. Her movements are
watched closely by the Portuguese au-
thorities and agents of other govern
ments
john ECNHART, a Young real estate
peared, leaving his accounts in badly
unsettled shape. He is thought to be
in Canada. Speculation in real estate
caused his embarrassment. His debts
aggregate about 500
LIVERPOOL suffered from $3.50, coo
fire OF the 31st. Many thousand bales
of cotton We're burned.
BEFORE the news Of the close season
reached the North American CONNER
cial Co. they had taken 800 sealslins.
A SEVERE storm, on the 31st did
much damage at Roclaway Beach, the
beach being badly washed out and
streets and sidewalks broken up by the
waves and the torrents of rain. Flee
trio lights were put out by the leak
ing of poles. Some of the hotels We're
considerably damaged, and bathing
houses were washed away.
EMMA EAMEs, the American opera
singer, and the son of w. w. Story, the
sculptor, were married in London on
the 31st.