Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-05-21
NEWS AND NOTES.
a Summary Of Important Events
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

1920, for the same period, the receipt:
were S3,571, 35l, showing falling off O.
about 40 per cent. The customs re
ceipts at New York are two-thirds o.
the aggregate customs receipts at al
the ports in the United States
A BLOODY battle between Officers
| Mike Coughlin and James Mcpherson
and gang of ten tramps occurred just
outside the city of West Superior, Wis,
on the 18th, precipitated by the attempt
of the officers to effect the arrest of the
gang. The tramps We're conquered
| finally, but were badly used up. One
of them is believed to be a murderer
wanted in Michigan.
RI. Hon. WILLIAM HENRY SMITH, the
government leader in the British house
| of commons, who was recently ap-
pointed warden of the cinque ports and
| who, in consequence of such appoint
ment, was obliged 10 go before his con-
stituents for reelection, was, on the
18th, returned unopposed.
| Two INDIANS known as ''The Dog
and Big Rib. " who were leaders in the
| Canadian northwest rebellion six years
ago, and who have been serving long
terms in the penitentiary at Winnipeg,
for murder, have just been pardoned
and released.
| THREE vessels with $4,000 tons of
| iron ore left Two Harbors, Mimi, on
| the 18th, for Cleveland, o. This was
| the first iron-ore shipment for this sea-
son from that point.
JAMES M. TURNER, of Lansing, who
| was the republican candidate for gov
ernor of Michigan, last fall, and who
has for years been reputed to be worth
many millions is financially embar-
raised.
SEVERAL collieries in the Schuylkill
pa coal fields, which had been idle
for many months. resumed on the 18th.
Over 5000 miners were given employ
ment.
A PARTY of campers near Liberty, n.
NJ, were washed away by a cloud
burst on the 18th. E. J. Wilcox was
drowned. The others had a naraow es-
cape.
A dynamite bomb was exploded, on
the 18th, at the office of the Portuguese
minister of the interior. The shock
was tremendous and caused great
alarm and excitement, but no serious
results followed
THE striking wOrkmen of France and
Belgium are communicating by means
of carrier pigeons. This is done to pre-
vent the opening of their letters by the
government officials of either country.
THOMAS A. EDISON is working on a
combination of electricity, and photog-
raphy that will enable a man to sit in
his parlor and see the faces and hear
the voices of players in a distant thea
ter.
CEsARE PoMA, vice-consul at Boston,
has been designated by the italian gov
eminent to discharge the offices of con-
sui at New Orleans vice Pasqual Corte
recalled.
THE Irish Americans of Des Moines,
Ia, refuse to contribute to the Parnell
fund until harmony between the two
factions has been restored.
ADvICEs from the Argentine republic
give the details of the murder, near
Carrienties, of family of four by or
der of the Malta. The mafiosi then put
the bodies in sacks and threw them into
the river, but they afterward floated
and were found.
THE authentic portrait of Columbus,
copied from miniature, and now on ex-
hibition in London, is to be exhibited
at the Chicago Worlds fair.
Mrs. john A. LOGAN, J ohm 4. Logan,
Jr., and family and Mr.. L. C. Bruce, of
the Field and Farm, were among the
passengers of the steamer COlum bia
which sailed from New York for Liver
pool on the 18th. Messrs Logan and
Bruce will make a tour of the horse
breeding farms in ENGLAND
FROM a report received at the post
Office department it appears that the
postal savings bank of the grand duchy
of Finland, instituted January 1, 1887,
is already n great success, and Illus
trates anew the value of this measure
in promo ting habits of economy and
thrift among the people.
II is announced that J. X. Emmett,
Rose Coghlan and Margaret Mather are
each ON the eve of committing matri-
mony again-Emmet with Miss Helen
Sedgwicl, Miss Coghlan with John T.
Sullivan and Miss Mather with Otis
Skinner. All are well-known profess
SIGNALS
SENATOR BRICE, Gov. Campbell and
Gen. Thomas are credited with having
dropped couple of millions into Jay
Gould's pocket by recent deal IN Rich
mond Terminal in which they had hoped
to down the Wizard.
OWING to the extreme vigilance of
the Belgian police authorities, the pro-
posed duel between NJ. Henri Rochefort,
editor of the Paris rIntransigient, and
NJ. Isaacs, sub-prefect of AveSneS, de-
partment of the North, has been aban-
doned.
THE bill to prohibit the use of fire.
crackers on July was defeated in the
Massachusetts house of representatives,
on the 18th, by a vote of 96 to St.
GEORGE L. STURTEvANT has just sue
cumbed to Addison's disease at San
Francisco. his skin at the time of his
death being as black as full-blooded
negro. The victim was % years of age,
and, contrary to the usual course of the
disease. failed to develop insanity in the
third year. The case is the first on rec
ord in California.
MARTHA MOODY, colored girl. has
been admitted to Baltimore hospital
suffering from a peculiar disease. She
is now Il years of age, and since her
ninth year has gradually been turning
white. She is very anxious to receive
treatment that will make her entirely
white or restore her to her normal
color.
IT is announced by the Dublin Ma
tional Press (McCarthyite organ) that
+. Dryer Gray, formerly member of
parliament for Dublin. and the holder
of half the stock of the company
which owns the Freeman's Journal,
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