Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-06-11
NEWS AND NOTES,
A Summary Of Important Events
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

George F. Hoar and the other the wife
of ex-Congcessman W. w: Rice.
A BOAT with a man in it was seen to
capsize and go over Horseshoe falls at
| Niagara on the 31st.
| THE condition of Mrs. Duncan, whose
American husband attempted to kill
her near Mount Snowden, Wales, is
again becoming serious. and apprehen-
sions are entertained that her injuries
may vet prove fatal. In that event the
charge against Duncan would be
| changed from attempted murder to
| murder.
OK the ID Secretary Foster took the
immigration business at the ports of
Baltimore, Md, Philadelphia and Bos-
ton out of the hands of the state boards
| of immigration and transferred it to
federal control The change places all
details of the immigration business
throughout the country in the hands of
the federal government.
| DISPATCHES received at st. Peters
| burg, from the districts of Samara and
| Simbersk, state that the peasants re-
Gently revolted against the authori-
ties. The revolt was only suppressed
after number of desperate and bloody
| conflicts between the peasants and the
| troops.
THE National Press of Dublin ac-
cuses Mr. Parnell of Incorporating
certain funds, and says it will reiterate
| the charge in order to compel Mr.. Par
nell to take legal proceedings against
the publishers.
INan attempted rescue of two prison
ers by mob at Savon, Italy, on the
| I'd, two of the rioters were killed by
| the gendarmes and a number wounded.
| Many of the gendarmes were also seri-
| ously wounded
THE three murderers Smiler, Slocum
and Wood, whose appeals to the New
| York supreme court against electrocu-
ton failed, We're resentenced, on the I'd,
| to be executed during the week begin
ming July 6.
VICTOR CAvENDIsH was elected. on
Derby to the British parliament to sue
| coed his father, the late Lord Edward
Cavendish, unionist.
THE ear has returned to st. Peters
! burg from Moscow. The cZarina and
| the other members of the imperial fam
| lily will visit the Crimea-
IT is announced that President da
Fonseca of Brazil, who had been seri-
ously sick from an attack of asthma at
| Petropolis, has recovered.
FIVE men were killed and eight
wounded by the bursting of boiler in
j. l.. Jordan's saw mill, at Bowling
| Green, Va, on the I'd.
OWING to the general feeling of dis
trust in regard to the financial situa-
| ton, there was run on all the banks
| of Buenos Ayres on the I'd. Large
crowds of depositors surrounded the
various institutions and considerable
excitement prevailed. The outlook is
very unfavorable.
On the I'd the New York board of
| electrical control ordered proceedings
| against the Electrical Subway Co., to
| forfeit its bond of $3.50, 900 and cause
| the property of the company to revert
to the city, because the subways had
not been completed by Jupe 1, accord
| ing to contract.
BISHOP FLAsCH, of the Catholic
| diocese of La Crosse, Wis, returned from
| the south, on the Sd, suffering from
cancer of the stomach. His condition
| is very low and his recovery is doubtful.
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| covered in the securities of the New
York and Brooklyn Arcanum Building
and Loan association. The where
abouts of the treasurer, j. j. Ashforth,
! is not known.
THE German socialists have issued a
| manifesto protesting against the gov
ernment's refusal to reduce the grain
duty.
rnI,lna1 ha 81
years sentence OF Robert Sigel, son of
Gen. Sigel, to two years and nine
months, and directs that pardon then
issue to young Sigel.
THE budget of the Uruguayan gov
eminent is considered as satisfactory.
surplus is looked for after paying
public debt obligations and railroad
guarantees.
THE pope has made will bequeath-
ing all his personal property to the
| holy see.
Mr.. VANDERBILT has purchased the
well-known steam yacht Conqueror,
lately used by tee grand duke of Neck
| lenburg-Schwerin.
| \ FIRE in the rag room of the Patton
paper mill at Appleton, Wis, on the I'd,
| DESTROYED $4,000 worth of property,
! and two mill men. Cornelius Johnson
and Henry Ryan, who were using the
| mill hose were smothered to death
CHIEF SECRETARY FOR IRELAND BAL
FOUR has sold his Scotch Highland es-
tate for 5000 to Mr.. Coombe, a
brewer.
THE monument reared through the
| efforts of the women of Mississippi to
the fallen soldiers of that state at the
state capital was dedicated with appro-
pirate ceremonies, on the Sd. in the
| presence of an immense gathering and
amid much enthusiasm. a large mum
| Der of confederate veterans, among
them many prominent generals, assist
ed in the proceedings.
DURING the prevalence of a thunder
night of the Sd. much damage was done
to shade trees in the parks and else
where, and the telegraph and telephone
service was badly demoralized. A
horse was killed by lightning. its driver
escaping injury, and buggy was al
most demolished by the wind, the We
locity of which, for at least ten min
utes was fully sixty miles an hour.
Mrs. JOYCE attended a dance at Ad-
vance, Col. taking her 2-year-old child
with her. The child becoming fretful
about midnight the mother chastised it
but not succeeding in quieting it. in a fiji
of rage choled it to death and then re
Joined the dance.
The losses by fire in the United States
from January to Nav Is according &c