Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-10-08


the preceding week, though in parts of
Arkansas and South Carolina the situa-
ton was more gloomy than at any time
this season. Nearly all reports esti-
mate q ute falling off from the yield
of last year.
SIn JOHN THOMPSON, minister Of JUS
tice, and Hon. c. f. Foster. minister CT
customs. will represent the Dominion
government at the reciprocity confer
ence to Ice held at Washington on the
L2th inst
THE business failures occurring
throughout the country during the
seven days ended on the I'd, number,
for the United states, col, and for Cam
ada, 90, or total of $50; as compared
with total of 244 the previous week.
For the corresponding week of last
year the figures were 1917, representing
16s failures in the United States and 81
in the Dominion of Canada.
CeMMoDoRE 2. weber has begssn &C
ton for SANDER at-J JAMESTOWN, n. Y,
against Hon. w, ID. Sessions. Mr.. SEES
SONS charged that Mr., Veder had pro-
cured his last three nominations for
senator from hrs district by bribery.
FIRE at Alexander City, Ala, on the
I'd, burned the alliance warehouse and
500 bales of cotton. The loss is S25.-
600: partially insured. The cause OF
the fire is unknown.
A BRISK exchange of kilograms be-
tween the European capitals continues,
with a view to reinforcing the European
suuadronS in Chinese waters.
SNOW more than three feet deep was
reported at Red Lodge, Mont. on the
| I'd, and business was heockaded.
c. 2. MIE4s, the English champion
| bicyclist who holds the English record
from Lands End to John O'Groat's,
has beaten his own time by twenty
two hours, having ridden on pneu-
matte bicycle between the two points
| in four DAYS, four hours and fifteen
| minutes.
| Ten of the most notorious criminals
| confne65in the ST. Louis jail made their
, escape on the evening of the I'd, by in
some manner gaining possession of the
keys and by the convenient absence of
| the guards from their posts of duty.
| Among them was Jack Shea, the muir
| derer ofjPoliceman Dolan, who was I'M
der sentence of fifty years, but await
| ing the result of "a motion fora new
/ trial.
1 THE, convention of the Irish National
/ league IN Chicago elected NV. Gan
| non, of Omaha, president to succeed
John Fitzgerald. Neither Parnell nor
Mccarthy was Endorsed, but the plat
form discountenances hero worship. "
| No more money is to be given until the
| Paris fund is disgorged.
| c. NJ. MORToN-"Charles lie Furst'
"a writer of humorous articles and
squibs for Puck and other funny pa
pers, has Just been discharged from the
! Minnesota penitentiary at Saltwater,
where he served a seven years sem
tence. He says he has drunk the
dregs of ill-doing and learned to do
well by hard experience. He had the
reputation of being a model prisoner.
| ALEX HUNT, who made q murderous
assault upon apt. ID. 2. Slattery in ST.
Louis i'll November, 1879, and who
jumped his bail bond, was arrested in
| Saginaw, Mich, on the I'd, and the st.
Louis authorities notified. He will be
| taken back to st. Louis for trial
| EXPLORATIONS made in Shiloh cave,
near the village of Fayetteville, Ind.
show that in beauty it rivals the Nam
moth cave of Kentucky. Several relics
of prehistoric man are said to have
been found.
OVER 1000 people assembled in the
Tyneside theater in Newcastle, En-
gland, on the I'd, to listen to an address
on the political issues of the day. The
Grand Old Man and Mrs. Gladstone,
who accompanied him, were accorded a
genuine ovation.
BRITISH COLUMBIA purposes binding,
at the Worlds fair, a structure made up
of every variety of wood known to the
forests of that portion of the continent.
SIMEON RAY, secretary of the Globe
| Democrat Printing Co, died at his home
in St Louis, on the I'd. of Bright's dis
ease, from which he had been sufferer
for some time.
A DECISION declaring option gambling
contracts void was handed down by the
Minnesota supreme court on the I'd.