Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-09-03

The Lead trust has been reorganized
in New York without opposition. The
capital stock will be reduced two
thirds.
Mrs. II. NJ. HoTCHKIss. of New Ha-
ven, Conn, has presented S275,0 200 to
the Yale preparatory school which she
founded. II addition to this gift,
Mrs Hotchkiss has given the school
seventy-fve acres of land. Seventy
five thousand dollars of the cash gift
will be expended upon a building, and
the remainder will be used as an en-
dowment fund for professorships, etc.
THE London Standard, in an article
on the grain shortage, advises the con-
sumption of Indian corn by Europeans,
saying that the United States could eX-
port 400. 600, 900 bushels of maize, and
that an extra shilling per bushel would
attract all the maize in America neces-
sary to supply Europe with wholesome
nutritious food.
THE town council of Moscow is con-
sidering a proposition to compel en-
ployers to furnish their vorkmen with
rye bread at the normal, or about one
half the present price. Experienced
pei SoilS UlldI tliC rye utAdSC w LII
merely have the effect of enriching a
few dealers who are holding grain for
famine prices.
The Lumber Showers union of Buff
falo, n. Y, held meeting. on the
27th, and came to an agreement with
the stevedores. Only union men are
to be employed at a stated rate of
wages. This settles the lumber SHOW
erS' strike.
JUDGE JOHN F. DILLON, of New
York, was, on the 2Sth. elected presi-
dent of the American Bar association
in session in Boston. A report was
adopted urging all the states to ap
point committees on uniformity of state
laws.
THE preliminary examination of wit
nesses summoned to testify in regard
to the Park place disaster was begun
by Assistant District-Attorney Town
send, of New York on the 2Sth. The
testimony introduced in contradictory.
AN international congress for DELHI
Grating the question of the treatment
of criminals and the most effective
means of improving 1.-THE condition of
the criminal classes is in session in
Christiania, Norway.
THERE was a cloud-burst in the
mountain near Sand Lake, n. Y, on
the 9th, and the damage resulting was
the heaviests that ever visited that
vicinity from such cause.
A YOUTH named Ballet, convicted of
a number of murders under circum-
stances of exceptional atrocity, was
guillotined at Douai, France, on the
2sth. He jol1ed and laughed during
the march to the guillotine, refusing
the spiritual offices of the priests, and
shouted "Vive la Republique."
HINDosTAN, Martin county, Ind, in
1920 was an important manufacturing
and trading post. Eastern capitalists
owned all the business and the town
was settled by eastern people. In 1928,
when it was made the county seat, it
had Il population of 6,OOO. An epidemic,
thought to be cholera, carried off the
people by scores. The town was soon
ard where once the town
stood is now a field of corn.
THE most audacious robbery on rec
ord is reported from kingman, kas A
man passing himself off as John Mar
rick "a nonresident farmer) hired
threshers and had threshed and pocl1-
eted the proceeds of ten stacks of wheat,
rounding up 5000, with which he skipped.
Marricl1 has the straw for his seasons
work.
If is now thought that the terrible
accident on the Western North Carolina
was the work of two tramps
who had been at off train near the
bridge where the wreck occurred, as
the nuts from the bolts of the loosened
rail We're found on a rock near the
bridge.
THE treasury department received
on the 2Sth, that certain
bankers in New York were selling f.
percent. bonds and buying AS with
view to having the latter continued at
2 per cent, and using them as a basis
of circulation of national bank notes.
LARGE quantities of dynamite were
recently exploded from the highest
peak of the Socorro mountains in New
Mexico. and as result the heaviest
rain of the year fell, breaking the long
continued drought.