Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-11-12
NEWS AND NOTES,
a Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

SNss~ ~eHNenH1
On the Sd the district convention of
coal miners, in session in Pittsburgh,
Pa, declared their strike at an end,
and 100000 diggers in the Pittsburgh
district resumed work at the 20 cent
rate. They had demanded 90 cents per
ton for mining,
NJ. b. CURTIS, samuel of Posen,'' of
theatrical fame, who is charged with
having shot and killed Policeman
Grant, in San Francisco, on September
IL, was before Judge Trout, on the Sd,
for Arrangement, and pleaded not guilty.
The Peace congress opened in Rome
on the Sd, Signor Biancheri presiding.
M. Maillefeu, French delegate, ad-
dressed the meeting, and was followed
by Herr Baumbach, of Germany, both
speaking in the interest of universal
peace.
TYPHUs fever is prevalent and spread
ing in the famine districts of the gov
eminent of Kazan. Russia
EX-Gov. MARKS, of Tennessee, died
AIT Nashville, on the 4th, of heart fail
ure. He had been suffering from a
slight cold but was otherwise we'll and
in good spirits. Gov. Marks was sue
cessful lawyer 55 years of age. He
fought in the confederate army and
was governor of Tennessee from 1879
to 1881. He leaves a wife and two
sons.
GEN. E. BURD GRUB, minister of
the United States to Spain, and Miss
Violet Sopwith, daughter of Hon.
Thomas Sopwith, of Lismore, Scot
land, one of the board of governors of
the Bank of England, were married in
London on the Sd.
THE United States district court at
Los Angeles, Cal, has decided that
the purchase and shipment of arms on
the Gillian steamer Itata was a legiti-
mate commercial transaction, and THAT
the insurgents were not state, colony,
district, or people within the meaning
of section 1888. An appeal has been
ordered.
LORD HAWKE and his team of crick-
eters arrived at Queenstown, on the .4th.
en- the steamer City of New York. He
expresses himself as highly gratified
with the American tour, and saysthat
he will revisit the United States in
1898 with another picked team of
players
CAPT. ARTHUR B. YATES, command
ant of the Portsmouth On H. navy
yard, died from heart disease at
that yard on the 4th. Capt Yates
| was appointed from Nex York, and
had seen thirty eight years of service,
eighteen of which were spent at sea.
1t is announced in Paris that com
pany has been formed, funds sub
scribed, and all preparations made for
| the speedy laying of a cable from Per-
nambuco, Brazil, to Senegal. the. French
dependency of West Africa.
A BOAT attached to the British bat
tle-ship Howe, which contained a crew
of ten men, capsized at Portland on the
Sd. Four of the sailors were rescued,
but the other six were drowned before
assistance could reach them.
NOTICES of intention to cont eSt the
right to seats of six members-elect to
the house of Representatives. the Fiji
ty-second congress have been filed with
the clerk of the house They are as
follows: Henry T. Moves VS.. Hosea II.
Rockwell. from the Twenty-eighth New
York district; John f. Reynolds VS..
| George w. Sioux, from the Twelfth
Pennsylvania district; Thomas H.
Greevy VS.. Edward Scnl, from the
Twentieth Pennsylvania district; Alex
| ander D. Craig VS.. Andrew Stewart,
from the Twenty-fourth Pennsylvania
| district; Thomas E. Miller VS.. Elliott,
trict, and John v. MeDuffie VS.. Louis
w. Turpin, from the Eollrth alabama
district.
SPECULATION in stocks and grain with
the banks funds backing the deals is
70 hoan of no
collapse of the Maverick national bank
of Boston. A run on the Five Cent saw
ings bank of Boston, on the t4th, was
one of the incidental effeetssaf the Nav
erick failure.
A DISPATCH was received from Rio
Janeiro, via London, on the 4th, bring
ing news of what seems to he no less
than another revolution in Brazil. Con-
gress, the dispatch said, had dissolved
and martial law had been proclaimed
at Rio Janeiro and throughout the
provinces. No news was received at
| the state department in Washington
| confirmatory of the above
A STATEMENT prepared at the,treas-
| ury department shows that There was a
| net increase in circulation during the
month of October of $50. S1D, 1875, and a
| net increase of SO, 1S2. 4O3 ia the money
| and bullion in the treasury during the
same period.
THE marquis of Dufferin. formerly
encouragement of Canada andviceroy
of India. has been appointed lord
| warden of the cinque ports of England,
in place of the late Hon. w. IL. Smith.
| A FINAL vote was reached in the case
| of DIR. Briggs, on trial for h<aresy be-
| fore the New York presby terry, on the
| 4th, and resulted "a to 80 in favor of
| Diminishing the charges for the sake. of
peace in the church," SeveRty~one
| minister and % elders voted IN the
| affirmative, and &c ministers and %
| elders votediin the negative.
A PROMINENT Brazilian house In New
York attributes the crisis in Rio to bad
Istinanciering, in which Fonseca was
smixed up aB<iiin which he was opposed
Ito the congress.
A DIsPATcM from Shanghai states
that fund for the relief of the suffer
ers by the recent earthquake in Japan,
has been started IN that city.
IsIoMAs CoNDeN and John Gilhooly,
both members of parliament, were
among the injured in the Parnel lite
riots an Cork Wednesday night.
On the 5th William Downs, a de-
feated pugilist of Bridgeport, Conn,
stood upon a railroad track till an ap-
preaching express train struck and
killed him.
1T is officially announced that Hon.
j. a. Quimet, member of the Dominion