Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-02-26
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

THE Worlds Fair people in Chicago
are having lots of trouble. The latest
has arisen from the employment of
gangs of Italian cheap laborers to the
exclusion of the American (native or
naturalized) element in performing the
preliminary work of preparing the
grounds for the Exposition buildings.
Organized labor is very strong in Chi
cagO, and q repetition of the present
trouble is sure to follow every attempt
of the managers to carry on an Ameri-
can enterprise with foreign and unor-
ganized la Dor.
s.TAPs'' are being sounded with con-
stantly increasing frequency for the
prominent figures in the war for the
Union, and with each departure of these
comes the reminder of how steadily
and surely the men who bore the brunt
of battle are passing away. Only few
years more, comparatively speaking,
and the Grand Army will be thing of
the past and its achievements matters
of history instead of comrade gossip.
JAMES II. KYLE was elected United
States Senator by the South Dakota
Legislature on the 10th, the vote stand
ing: Kyle, rs: Sterling, 55; Trip, s.;
| Campbell, 1. Kyle is Congregational
minister, staunch Prohibitionist, and
| was formerly Republican. He is a
native of st. Lawrence County, n. Y.
GENERAL HENRY HASTINGS SIRLEY,
| who was the first Governor of Mime
sofa, and the oldest living white inhabi-
| tant of the State. was reported to be
dying on the morning of the nth.
QUEEN VICTORIA has called upon the
Earl of Coventry, Master of the Buck
hounds, for full statement regarding
! the gaming scandal in which the names
| of the Prince of Wales and Sir Gordon
Cumming are involved. Her Majesty is
said to be greatly annoyed over the in
| cident.
| GENERAL MERRITT, on the 10th, issued
orders for the assembling of United
States troops at St Louis to form the
military escort to the remains of Gen
eral Sherman Among those summoned
| were six troops of the famous Seventh
Cavalry, who fought at Wounded Knee
creek under command of Colonel For
sythe.
A CLERK named Mckenzie, aged about
seventeen, was neatly robbed of a pack
age of Bank of England notes, on the
| 10th. amounting to 1890 by two
dudish-lool>ing young men, while stand
ing at the teller's window of one of the
London banks. The thieves, who es-
capped. are supposed to be Americans.
| BY the burning of the steamer Ramed
at Wuhu, recently, two hundred Chi
nese persisted.
AN entire train of thirty cars on the
New York Central railroad, was
burned near Churchville. on the 18th,
by the overturning of five oil cars in a
collision, the oil from which was ignited
| by fire from the locomotive.
BISHOP FREPPEL departed from Rome.
on the 18th, having failed to induce the
Pope to disavow the policy of Cardinal
| Lavigerie.
MICHAEL CROSBY, well-known citi-
zen of Huntington, Ind, attempted to
commit suicide on the nth. He sue
ceeded in hanging himself in a hay-loft,
but his children found him and cut him
down in time to save his life.
! ERNEST j. T. BARTON, an artist sixty
three years old. was found dead in his
studio at Providence, r. l., on the nth
by his son. He sat with his face buried
in a sponge saturated with chloroform-
He had been slightly demented for some
time.