Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-06-11

NEWS was received on the Sd that the
steamer Itata had arrived safely at
Tocopilla. and she was at once ordered
| by the insurgent authorities to proceed
| to Iquique. The CHILEAN congressional
| party are highly elated over the clever
| manner in which the Itata eluded the
| United States cruiser Charleston, and it
| was expected she would receive an ova-
ton on arrival at Iquique.
| A MOB attacked the house in which
| Schweinfurth, the Rockford UlL)
Christ" was domiciled in Kansas City,
| Mo-. on the night of the Sd, and but for
the interference of the police would
| have carried out their threat of treating
| him to a coat of tar and feathers.
| ARCHBISHOP CROKE, in an interview
on the 4th, stated that the project of
settling the Irish troubles by forming
union of the factions under the leader
ship of John Dillon was strongly advo-
Gated by many of the Irish members of
| parliament. The archbishop stated
that Mr.. O'Brien favored Justin Nc
Carthy as the party's leader.
| THERE is complete stagnation among
| the lumber firms of Bangor, Me, owing
to the boycott existing in the lumber
| trade in New York. \ number of YES
sells are lying idle in the harbor await
! ing cargoes. Nearly all the saw mills
have suspended operations and no lum-
| Der whatever is being shipped.
| IN the house of commons, on the
| 4th, Under Foreign Secretary Fergus
son denied that England had pledged
herself to employ either her naval or
military forces in the defense of Italy
| against French attack, as reported in a
| recent publication.
ORDERS were telegraphed from the
treasury department to the revenue
| cutter Corwin at San Francisco, on the
| 4th, to be in readiness to proceed to
Behring sea at a days notice.
THE surplus in the United States
| treasury, on the 4th, was S57, 900. 900, a
| smaller surplus than has been in the
treasury within the memory Of the old
est official.
CONWAY, the seaman accused of muir
| dering the boy Nicholas Martin, whose
| mutilated body was found in bag
floating in the harbor at Liverpool, was
committed for trial in that city on the
| 5th. When asked to plead he declared
to the court: Il am regularly guilty"
innocence.
THE business failures occurring
throughout the country during the
seven days ended on 25th, number, for
the United States, 211, and for Canada,
IS as compared with total of 254 for
the previous week, and 2O5 for the cor
| responding week of last year.
ED ELLIOTT, of Boston, was drowned
in Prospect Lake, near Colorado
| Springs, Col, on the 5th, by the over
turning of a boat. He was a brother
of John Elliott, and son-in-law of Julia
Ward Howe, the lecturer.
a STORM passed over Burns City,
Ind, on the night of the 4th, destroy
ing large amount of property. Alb
SALON Sharpless was killed, and Miss
Dora Fortney severely injured. Much
stock was killed.
THE steamers of the Gillian South
American Steamship Co., have been
placed under the British flag on what
| is presumed to be sale to an English
company pending the pacifcation of
the country.
On the 5th the Lisbon police seized a
supplement of the Union Civicu con-
tanning violent protest against the
British convention concerning Africa.
The other papers do not oppose the con-
vention.
SIX sugar factories are to be erected
in the vicinity of Bay of Nipe, Cuba, by
an English and French syndicate, which
! also contemplates building railroad
and developing rich mines in that 10
cality.
ID. ". WooD, of Lubec, Me-, was
| fined 81, 500 and costs in the United
States circuit court, at Boston, on the
5th, for smuggling opium into the
country.
On the 5th thirty students of Harvard
college were fined sos each for having
liquors stored in their rooms.
The Italian and Spanish commercial
banks of Buenos Ayres were reopeneG
on the 9Th.
GEORGE d. HACKETT, treasurer of the
Boston Speculation Co., was convicted
in the United States court, on the 5th
for violating the lottery laws.