Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-07-02

BY ELI D. AXE.
FIRE in the cotton in J. Fl. Gilmore
New York storage warehouse, on the
a4tf. caused a loss of $40, 900.
= ALBERT HAMM, the well-kEown soul
Ter, died at his home in Sambra, \. s.,
on the ed, of hemorrhage of the lungs,
after prolonged illness He was 81
years old.
The United States treaSurer's state
ment, issued on the 25th, showed net
balance in the treasury in addition to
fractional silver and deposits in national
banks, of s., $50, 600.
THE contract for furnishing the treas
ury department with distinctive paper
upon which to print money, bonds, etc,
was awarded, on the 22d. to Crane &
Co., of Dalton, Mass, at 431a cents per
pound.
THE St. James Gazette says the state
of Mr. Gladstone's health is alarming
to his friends, and Sir Andrew Clarke
fears Mr.. Gladstone may not recover
from the effects of the grip from which
he suffered some time ago.
Col. THOS. FITZGERALD, founder and
for forty-fivc years publisher of the
Philadelphia Item, who had been
travelling in Europe for two months,
died suddenly in London, on the 18th,
from an attack of the grip.
THE Irish ENJOYS and members of
parliament, J. j. O'Kelly, William Red
mond, John O'COnnor and Henry Har-
rison, have left Chicago, for London.
Their mission to this country is said to
have been not SO successful as they eX-
pected.
w. P. BLACK and c. b. Waite, as at
torneys for Miss Phoebe w. Couzins,
have filed with Assistant Secretary
Nettleton a brief in her behalf. setting
forth the fact that she was illegally re-
moved as secretary of the board of lady
managers of the Worlds fair.
THE grand jury in Philadelphia, on
the 22d, returned true bill for criminal
libel against Rev. j. Wesley Hill, of
Ogden, Utah, for writing and publishing
defamatory letters charging criminal
conduct upon Rev. Sam Small in con-
nection with the funds of Utah univer-
sity.
DALTON, the American swimmer, and
a man named Fisher. engaged in
swimming race between Dover and
Ramsgate, England, on the cath. After
being two hours in the water Dalton
became so chilled that he was compelled
to give up the contest. Fisher was de-
clared winner.
THE report received from Simla to
the effect that among those killed in
the last engagement between the Brit
ish, under Lieut.. Grant, and the Mani
puris at Fort Thabet was the usurping
rajah is erroneous The person meant
was the commander-in-chief of the
Manipuris in the field.
THE will of the late Sir John Mac
donald leaves an estate worth about
800, 900, exclusive of Earnscliffe hall, to
be divided equally between Lady Mac
donald and Hugh John Macdonald. his
son. After her death it goes to the
sons OF the family. His law library is
bequeathed to Hugh John Macdonald.
THE Norfolk wooden mills at East
Dedham, Mass, were shut down, on
the 27th, for an indefinite period, and it
is reported that the Merchants wooden
mill, which is owned by the same COM
pany, will also be shut down. The
cause assigned is that there is a dull
market and no money in the business.
A CABLEGRAM has been received at
the New York office of the White Star
line, from the chief executive officer in
Liverpool, directing that in future no
cotton shall be carried on the mail and
passenger steamers 1t is also learned
that the matter is receiving careful
consideration by all the ocean steam
ship companies.
In regard to the advance of one-eighth
of a cent fpound in raw sugar, Mr..
Searles, of the sugar trust, says such
an advance is usual at this season Ow-
ing to the increased summer demand.
The trust is not forcing prices up be-
cause it has secured control of most of
the Cuban crop, as alleged, the Cuban
crop being only about one-sixth of the
worlds crop.
JUDGE BARTLETT, of Brooklyn, has
appointed the Peoples Trust Co., the
Kings County Trust Co., and the Brook
lyn Trust Co. receivers respectively for
the De Castro & Bonner Sugar Co., Ok
nard Bros Sugar Refining Co., Dick e
Meyer and the Havemeyer Sugar Co,
under the recent order for a dissolu-
ton of the corporations forming the
old sugar trust.
CAPT. J.. ROTTENDORFF, the Russian
messenger who was reported to have
been murdered at Denver. Col, by a
Japanese assassin, left that city on the
Burlington route, on the 5th, and is be-
lieved to have taken the Canada South
ern from Chicago. Rottendorff was
not attacked in Denver. and was with
Daniel Mays, of that city, most of the
time during his stay there.
A MELBOURNE dispatch says that the
Victoria parliament opened there on
the ed. III opening the session the
of tba COLONY, aarl of