Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-03-26
VS. AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

| the arsenal shattered and buildings in
the vicinity badly shaken up.
Nor since the deplora BILE disaster at
Samoa, in which so many American
| sailors were drowned. has the navy
| suffered so severely as during the storm
on the Massachusetts coast on the 14th
and 18th. Three vessels-the Triana,
| the Galena and the Nina-were driven
ashore with slight chance of escape
| from destruction. No loss of life was
reported.
THE site for the National home for
been selected, and construction will be
at once commenced. The site selected
is a twentyacre plot of ground near the
springs, which is the property of the In
ternational Typographical union. 1t is
the desire to have the work far enough
| advanced to lay the cornerstone on
May II, Mr.. G. w. Childs' birthday.
The Tower of Liberty" on the
washington Headquarters grounds
| at Newburgh, n. Y, which was erected
with funds provided by the United
| States and the New York state govern
| ments, has been completed and thrown
| open to the public No formal ceremony
| took place at the unwilling of the statue
| of Washington and the opening of the
| structure.
ACTING SECRETARY NETTLETON of the
treasury department issued a warrant
on the 18th for 81, 213, $50. 90 in favor of
| the governor of New York as payment
| in full on account of all claims arising
| in that state under the direct tax. This
is the first payment made under au-
thority of the direct-tax act.
The government organ at Ottawa,
Ont, speaking with authority, says that
Sir Charles Upper will represent Cana
da at the approaching negotiations at
Washington, while with him will be as
ISOLATED Sir William Whiteway on be-
half of Newfoundland, and Hon. Joseph
Chamberlain as the representative of
the British government.
Mr.. AND Mrs. CHARLES SHULTz, of
Greencastle, Ind, have a prodigy in
their cradle in the shape of girl baby
weighing only two pounds. 1t was born
on the 9th inst, and is as lively and
healthy as any other child of its age.
The other children born to them were
of the regulation weight.
THE decision in the Bovd-Thayer
gubernatorial contest in Nebraska has
been indefinitely postponed. 1t is
claimed that Justices Cobb and Maxwell
favor Boyd, while Norval favors Thay-
erS side.
1t has been discovered that G. Whar-
ton Rich, receiving teller of the Com
monwealth national bank of Philadel-
phia, robbed the cash box of that insti-
tuition of more than IS, 800, and since
February % has been a fugitive from.
justice.
On the nth w. S. Patterson, of New
Orleans, received the following note.
purporting to come from member of
the Malta society: ''You a doomed man
and God Amity can't save you. We
have it sworn. Our comrades you muir
dered and we kill you and your family.
You will be poison. The stiletto will
do for the wrest.''
THE treasury department has decided
that moneys found to be due importers
as an excess of deposit on certain goods
shall not be paid said importers when
they are indebted to the government
on other accounts.
THE Italian factions in New Orleans
are mutually accusing each other of
belonging to the Malta, and important
developments may result
THE residence of David Kupperman,
at Lawrenceville, Pa, was burned at
midnight of the 10th. When the fire.
men arrived, although the building was
completely enveloped in hames, the
family had not yet awakened, and but
for the cry of an infant within all would
have been cremated.
HENRY III. DAY, the st. Louis swindler
who tried to pass bogus check for ST.
700 in Milwaukee. Wis, was, on the
nth, sentenced to Imprisonment for
from one to seven years under the good
behavior law. He is wanted in Detroit,
Indianapolis and elsewhere for similar
crimes.
IN street duel in New Orleans re-
sulting from a quarrel growing out of
the late trial and massacre of Italians,
Capt. Arthur Dunn, of counsel for the
prosecution, shot and almost instantly
killed Frank Waters, an ex-journalist,
on the night of the 18th. Waters
returned the fire, seriously if not IA
tally wounding his antagonist.
MR.. MICHAEL DAvITT, speaking at
Blackburn, England, on the 18th, said
that he had no longer wished for sepa-
ration from the empire as soon as he saw
a chance for Ireland to gain her desire
by constitutional means. He predicted
the thorough defeat of Parnell in flu
ture elections.
LATER intelligence from the marine
disaster in Gibraltar bay places the
number of passengers and crew of the
Inflated Utopia missing and probably
drowned at 500.
JUDGE BENEDICT, in the United
States circuit court, criminal branch, at
New York. on the 18th, sentenced Gen.
Peter A. Claasen to six years imprison-
ment in the Erie county penitentiary.
Claasen was convicted of wrecking the
Sixth national bank.
THE correspondent at Rome of the
London Times states that investigation
esta blishes the falsity of the recently
circulated stories of massacres at Mas
sowah. Only few spies have been put
to death.
THE Merrimac mills at Lowell, Mass,
dismissed 40 hands, among them about
twenty females for remaining away on
ST. Patrick's day.
A LARGE part of Jefferson parish,
La, is being inundated by a crevasse,
and the loss will be very great.
URUGUAY has arranged for loan of
S., 600. 900 with the Popular Banco de
Brazil
THE two-cent passenger-rate bill in
the Nebraska legislature is dead.
THE statement of the Union Pacific
Railroad Co. for January, 1891, shows
gross earnings for the whole system at