Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-02-19
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

THE three miners who were hemmed
in by water and supposed to be drowned
in No. 3 colliery of the Susquehanna
Pa Coal Company. were rescued alive,
on the 9th, after lis hours imprison-
ment. The names of the men are
John W. Rineer, VIM Cragle and
Michael Shilling. They could not have
lived much longer on account of the
scarcity of air.
SIR JAMES FERGUSON, of the British
Foreign Office, answering question to
Parliament relating to the American
reciprocity treaty with Brazil. as to
whether Great Britain would have
equal commercial advantages in Brazil
with those bestowed by the treaty on
the United States, replied that Great
Britain had no commercial treaty with
Brazil, and could not, therefore, de-
mand the same trading rights be
slowed by the treaty on the United
States.
THE neighborhood of Seymour, Ind.
is greatly excited over the discovery of
what is supposed to be very large and
valuable deposit of anthracite coal in
the hills near Seymour. and within six
miles of the Ohio Il Mississippi railroad.
\ company is organizing to develop the
find.
CALVIN S. BRICE contemplates re-
signing his seat in the United States
Senate
THE Treasury Department has de-
cided that tobacco imported and entered
for warehouse prior to October /, 1890,
and now in bonded warehouse. is duti-
able by weight at the ii me of its with
! drawal for consumption: also that seed
wheat is dutiable, and that mahogany
and ebony imported lin the log, rough
| or hewn." is free of duty.
THE surplus in the Treasury is gradu-
ally creeping up. and at the end of bust
ness on the 9Th was $50, 100000. Asthis
| will be required to meet pension pay
ments the latter part of this month and
| the first of next month no bonds, in
| addition to those now being daily pur-
| chased (4H-per-cents.) J, will be bought.
| ARRANGEMENTS have been effected at
| Minneapolis Mimi. for a joint debate
the last of March between Ignatius
| Dcnnelly and Robert lngersoll-Don-
nelly to defend his cryptogram and In
gersoll to uphold the Shallespeareane end
of the controversy.
In his annual report. made public on
the 10th. State Examiner Bisbee. OF
| Maine. gives the number of savings
| banks in the State as 81. Total deposits
ST.. Isl, 166. a gain of So, S04. 900 during
the year; the number of depositOrs is
14O.521. a gain of $500; reserve fund,
81, 941. 169. a gain of S162.234. Aggre-
gate reserves. so. 901, 527: surplus. So
OS5. 900. The ten trust companies have
deposits of s., 126, 031, and assets of S.
629. S95.
THE foreclosure sale of the Central
Trust Company on the property of John
Z. burton. the man who first got pos:
session of the Gogebie mines, and al
one time owned $4,000 of mining
property, was held at Lake Geneva
Wis, on the 10th. and the property SOLD
for $780, 25.
The Alabama State Senate, on the
10th. passed a bill appropriating $50, 00C
to represent that State at the World't
Fair.
DECIDED sensation has been caused
in financial circles in Paris by the dis
appearance of NJ. Mace, a well-lnowt
private banker, who is known to have
left debts to the amount of $1,000, 00(
behind him. and who may have com
plitted suicide.
NELSON PECoR, of Dubuque, Ia, tool
out license to marry Miss Rosa Weber
who lives in the country. The marriage
was to have taken place on the 10th
but did not because of dispatch re
ceiyed bv the chief of police, from Mrs
Pecor in the East, inquiring about hel
husband.