Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-04-30

lex county, Va, tainted In the treasury
department, on the Esd, just after she
had finished signing her name for ST.
345.17 and received the draft for the
same. The money was due her under
the Bowen act for property destroyed
by the federal army during the war,
and the claim had been pending for
years.
THE 700 members of the New York
Stone Masons' Protective union struck,
on the Esd, for the eight-hour rule.
The union is composed almost entirely
of Italians who have been receiving
So. so day of nine hours. They now de-
mand the same wages for eight hours.
ROME vas shaken to its very founda-
tions, on the 23d, by the explosion of a
powder magazine several miles from the
city containing $50 tons of powder.
Seven persons were killed and & large
number injured. Forty houses were
demolished and throughout Rome many
buildings were badly shattered, includ-
ing portions of the vatican. King
Humbert, with his ministers, fastened
to the scene and aided in ministering to
the injured.
L. LATHAM. on the 24th, sued E.
Snider, wealthy grain buyer of Bur-
dette, Ia, for $4,000 damages for as
serting that Latham had killed and
eaten Snider's chickens. The two men
are rivals in business, and there is
much bad feeling between them.
IN view of the failure of the Canadian
oil works, the Dominion government
will place crude oil on the free list in
order to permit of the importation from
the United States of raw material for
refining purposes. The duty on sugar
will also be lowered.
THE British advancing on the Mani
puris have burned twelve villages occu-
pied by the rebellious tribesmen. The
insurgents retired to the hills, where
they were shelled and many were
killed and wounded. 1t is believed the
natives have been completely cowed.
ALL the plasterers in Minneapolis,
Mimi, ninety-seven in number, went
Oh strike, on the Esd, for an increase
from So to $3.50 a day. All the bosses
except one were willing to grant the
demand, and the strike was declared in
order to force the one boss to capitulate.
Mrs. ELIZABETH BRUNO and her
daughter Susan, aged 20, were fatally
field, Wis, on the gath, while burning
brush.
ACTING on the advice of the state
board of arbitration, the strike of the
Boston painters and decorators was
formally declared off on the cath.
LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL started,
on the 24th, on his south African trip.
He will inquire into the availa bility of
Africa for British immigration.
THE remains of John F. Swift, late
minister to Japan, are expected to ar
rives at San Francisco on the steamer
Belric May 7.
A DUEL was fought, on the cath, be-
tween Gen. Negrier, commanding the
French Seventh army corps, and NJ.
CASTOR lie Grand. Gen. Negrier was
wounded in the chest, while his adver-
sary received wound in the jaw.
A MANIFESTO calling for the passage
of an act making eight hours a legal
working day throughout France has
been issued by the May-day committee
of workingmen of Paris.
THE German government will shortly
apply to the federal council for grant
of credit to enable it to participate in
the Chicago Worlds fair.
SIMON PURvIs, who was to have been
married in Nova Scotia in two weeks,
was killed by lightning at Norwich,
Conn, on the oath.
GEN. COUNT Won MoLTKE, field mar
shall of the German empire and the
most conspicuous figure in the military
annals of Europe for the latter half of
the nineteenth century, died suddenly
in Berlin, on the gath, of heart failure,
shortly after returning home from the
session of the reichstag. He was born
October 26. $500.
A HORRIBLE crime, after the style of
the murders credited to Jack the Rip
per in Whitechapel, London, was per-
petrated in New York city early on the
morning of the Gath. Carrie Brown,
alias shakespeare" was murdered and
mutilated in an upper room of the East
River hotel, somewhat notorious
resort, by a man at last accounts I'M
known.