Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-06-18
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Evsnta
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

disappeared since the murder of Gen.
Seliverskoff.
Ex-CIrY TREASURER BARDsLEY of
Philadelphia, by his own confession,
has been as INSCRIPTIONS and audacious
a rascal as ever infested an American
city since the days of the Tweed ring
in New York. His misdoings have been
brought home to him so palpably that
he has been constrained to plead guilty
to the indictments found against him.
He, and those who have shared the
plumber, should be vigorously punished,
and the era of ring rule, not only IN
Philadelphia, but other cities should be
promptly closed.
THE president, on the 10th, made the
following appointments of judges of
the court of private land claims: Jo-
seph r. Reed. of Iowa, chief justice;
Wilbur F. Stone, of Colorado; Henry
C. Sluss, of Kansas: Thos. c. Fuller, of
North Carolina, and William NJ. Muir
ray, of Tennessee, associate justices,
and Matthew G. Reynolds, of Missouri,
attorney for the court.
AN order was issued from the navy
department, on the 10th, ordering Rear
Admiral d. B. Harmony to hoist his
flag on the Lancaster, on the 23d in
slant, and proceed to the Asiatic station
and relieve Rear-Admiral Belknap of
the command of that station.
BoTH houses of the Canadian parlia-
ment adjourned, on the afternoon of
the Sth, until after the funeral of the
late premier. The leaders on both
sides joined in eulogies of the dead
statesman.
THE Philadelphia grand jury found
seventeen indictments against Treas
urer Bardsley on the Sth. The max
imum penalty is eighty-five years inn
prisonment.
THE new train on the Pennsylvania
railroad, known as the keystone ex-
press" which left Chicago at 10:45 a.
M, on the 18th, arrived in New York
city at 2 p. M. on the sth, promptly on
time, carrying a full complement of
passengers. This train is equipped the
same as the famous Pennsylvania linn
tied. but no extra fare is charged on it.
Acknowledgement MILLER has de-
cided that the North American Com
mercial Co. shall pay rent for the seal
fisheries in proportion to the catch.
The basis of the contract limits the an
nual catch to 100, 900 seals. The yearly
rent is $4,000. AS the catch for this
season is limited to 1900 seals, the rent
will be So, 700.
A DYNAMITE cartridge was exploded
in front of the police station at Clichy,
France, on the 9th. The station and
other buildings in the neighborhood
suffered much damage. 1t is supposed
that the outrage was committed by an
archists in revenge for the activity of
the police in suppressing the May-day
demonstration.
JAMES HUGHES. labor leader, was, on
the 9th, sentenced to serve one year in
the Monroe county On. " penitentiary
for extorting 81 900 from Adler Bros,
clothing manufacturers of Rochester.
THE London World says that British
troops are being concentrated in Africa,
and that war is probable in that region
this year to settle the conflicting
claims of the various powers.
THE funeral of the late Hon. John
Macdonald, premier of the Dominion of
Canada, took place on the 10th.
HARRY EDWARDS. the actor, died in
New York on the 9th. He was born in
England in 1880.
AS the result of over-speculation it is
estimated that Argentine securities
have shrunk in value S2S5, 600, 900 below
the highest point reached in 1889, TAX
ing no account of losses incurred by in
vestment in cedulas. While the greater
part of this loss falls upon British in
vestors. it is also borne in Germany,
France and Belgium.
On the 9th Peter E. Johnson, the gray
headed Indian who figured so conspicu-
ously in the saving of the lives at the
CITY of Columbus disaster, was foully
murdered on Egg island, Mass, by some
person unknown.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY CoUNz of the
treasury department has made ruling
in regard to the free entry of so-called
tools of trade" Under it machinery
and tools intended for use in manu-
featuring establishment are not exempt
from duty whether brought in by i'm
migrants or not.
A BLOODY battle took place at Grand
Rapids, Mich. early on the morning of
the 10th, between the striking street
car employees and the police, in which
clubs and revolvers were used by the
officers against sticks, stones and fire
arms in the hands of the rioters
| Many persons were severely and some
| fatally injured. The officers finally ar
| rested thirteen of the rioters
SIR WILLIAM GoRDON-CUMMING was
| married, in Holy Trinity church, Lon
| don. on the 10th, to Miss Garner, cid,
est daughter of the late William
Garner (son of the millionaire cotton
manufactured who, with his wife, was
drowned by the capsizing of their
| Yacht in New York harbOr in j uly, 1876.
| The brides income is estimated at S75,'
900 per annum.
| ANNIE ALLEN crept up behind Belle
Rogers, a rival in love, at picnic il
Chicago on the 9th, and plunged huge
dirk knife five times into Bellies necE
and back The victim died in ten min
utes. The murderess chung frantically
to the officers who arrested her. begging
| them not to allow the crowd to lynch
her.
A TERRIBLE wind-storm struck Pierre
S. D.. ON the eth. 1t was accompanied
| by a binding storm of dust. which en-
veloped the city in total darkness. The
storm lasted twenty-five minutes. Tx
add to the phenomena the mercury fel
from 90 in the shade to almost the freez
ing point.
A DELEG ATIoN consisting of seventy
five southern gentlemen, headed by
Senator Ransom, waited upon Presi
dent Harrison, on the 10th, and invited
him to attend the southern exposition
at Raleigh. \. c., in October. The
president said it would give him pleas
ure to accept the invitation if the STATE