Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-05-14
THE bill to appropriate $50, 600 of the

THE bill to appropriate $780, of the.
direct tax fund to aid in entertaining
the national G.. A. R. encampment at
Detroit this summer was defeated in
the Michigan house of representatives
on the 9th. The vote stood So to 33, ten
less than the necessary two-thirds.
PRESIDENT BALMACEDA has rejected
the demands of the insurgent delegates
who We're attempting to bring about
some understanding with him by which
internecine strife might be terminated.
The peace negotiations are, therefore,
completely ruptured, and there appears
no alternative but renewal of the des-
olating struggle which has racked Chilli
for so many months.
REPORTS have been received from
Panama that a revolutionary move
ment is in progress in Costa Rica, and
that the president had declared state
of siege and suspended the personal
guarantee on the 1stof May.
SUPERINTENDENT CORNISH, of the
Pinkertons' Boston agency, said, on the
eth, that their efforts at unraveling the
Barnaby poisoning mystery had led
them entirely outside of the popular
line of suspicion. The evidence SO far
obtained implicated no certain person.
IN the British house of commons, on
the nth, the speaker read communica-
ton from Recorder Chambers informing
the house of the sentence of Capt. YER
ney, member for North buckingham,
to Imprisonment for the crime of pro-
| curation-
THE steamer Belgic, conveying the
! remains of the late minister to Japan,
John E. Swift. arrived at San Fran
cisco, from Hong Kong and Yokohama,
| on the eth.
CHAs. j. DIXON, the crank who said
he was commissioned to kill Jay Gould,
is confined in the insane ward at Belle
| vue New York city, hospital
THE Japanese government has Or
dered three Japanese doctors to pro-
coed to Germany for the purpose of
studying the Koch cure.
THE Peruvian government has Sus-
pended the decree taxing flour and ami
| mails for consumption.
DETROIT, Mich, has been agreed upon
| as the next place of meeting of the
American Medical society.
THE strike of workers in the granite
| quarries at Barre, VT, terminated, on
| the 18th. in victory for the strikers.
JOSEPH BARONDEss, the leader of the
| striking New York cloakmakers, who
| was convicted of eXtortion, was, on the
nth, sentenced to state prison for one
year and nine months.
The great fire in Long Island City, on
the night of the 9Th, is thought to have
caught from a spark from a casting
made in the Doncaster iron foundry just
before closing for the night. The loss
| was about S55O,OOO.
CHAs. j. DIXON, arrested in New York
as an insane person for having threat
ened the life of Jay Gould unless the
latter at once paid him a certain sum of
money. is the son of the late Rev. Dr.
Dixon, of Hartford, Conn. The latter
died in the insane asylum at Long
Meadow, Mass, where he was a patient.
State Senator Dixon is also an uncle of
the man who has threatened Mr.. Gould.
WILLIAM NOoNAN, of Wabasha, Mich,
IA years of age, was killed. on the Sth,
by being dragged three blocks by a
colt. He had tied the halter strap
around his wrist, and the colt became
frightened and ran. The boy was
kicked and badly mangled and was
dead before assistance reached him.
strike was settled, on the Sth, by the
bosses acceding to the advance of
twenty cents per day asked for by the
men.
IT has been learned that DIR. Graves
patent medicine used to be put up in
bottles like the one containing the fluid
which caused Mrs. Barnaby's death at
Denver, Col
THREE Philadelphia banks, the Spring
Garden, the Penn Trust and the Cir
ard. closed on the Sth.
WILLIAM GLASGOW, of Hull England,
has sold to the New York Land & Irri-
cation Co, IS, 900 acres of land in the
James River valley, South Dakota.
The company now has over 100000
acres in this locality, and is arranging
to irrigate all of it by artesian wells.
FREDERICK FEIsR, editor of the Co.
lumbus (O.) Westbote, from 1913 to 1854,
and at one time editor of the Cincinnati
Volksblatt, died, on the Sth, aged 81, at
Colum bus.