Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-06-04
NEWS AND NOTES.
a Summary of Important Eventa
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

IN an e0ltOf1a1 way with all the leading
papers of New Orleans, died, after
brief illness, on the Goth. Col. Bartlett
was a brother of the late Gov. Bartlett
of California.
PORTUGUESE government advices from
Mozambique state that an agreement
has been made with the British consul
at ReireI which will prevent further
conflicts between the British and Por-
tuguese.
THE barracks of the second regiment
of Uhlans, IN Berlin, were DESTROYED by
fire on the Goth. 1t was only by the
most strenuous efforts of the fire bri-
gade that the flames were prevented
from communicating to the building OPP
posite the barracks in which the ex-
hibition of fine arts is being held and
in which are placed paintings by many
of the greatest of European artists.
PRIVATE advices from the City of
Mexico received in New York indicate
that the Mexican government is in
sympathy with the Gillian insurgents,
and that the Esmerald has been quiet
ly permitted to obtain what coal she
needed at Acapulco. War material has
also been transferred to Gillian insur-
gent vessels at Mazattan from vessels
loaded at San Francisco.
REAR-ADMIRAL S p. CARTER, u. s.
N, retired died in Washington on the
Goth. During the civil war he served in
the army with the rank of brigadier-
general of volunteers. He served in all
forty-one years in the navy, and was
retired, on account of age, in 1882, the
rank of rear-admiral being conferred
by act of congress
Gov. WINANs of Michigan vetoed the
bill appropriating $50, 600 for the enter
tanning of the national encampment G.
A. R., at its session in Detroit in Au-
gust. 1t is thought the bill will be
passed over the veto.
MAYOR SHAKESPEARE of New Orleans
is quoted as saying that Consul Corte
would never again represent Italy in
New Orleans, for if he is sent back"
said the mayor, I'VE viii drive him from
the city
A. S. SOLOMON, general agent of the
Baron de Hirsch fund in the United
States, says the trustees of the fund
have decided upon purchasing large
tract of land at Harrison, \. j., where
on it is contemplated to build from 200
to 500 cottages for the use of the re-
cently-arrived Jewish immigrants.
THE Los Angeles county Cali grand
jury has indicted Supercargo Burt and
Capt. O'Farrell of the schooner Robert
and Minnie. O'Farrell is in jail. but
Burt is out on $4,000 bail. The five
sailors arrested were not indicted, but
are held as witnesses. as are also the
deserters from the Itata.
IT is thought that four men who were
supposed to have been drowned in the
Hackensack river at Newark, Nj, May
Is. We're killed in a fight with fishermen
on whose ground their boat had floated-
The four men leave as many widows
and seventeen orphans without means
of support.
THE steamer Lake Huron, from Can
ada, was allowed to land her cattle at
London, on the eth, only one case of
suspected disease being found on board.
The lungs of this one animal viii be
submitted to an analysis.
DIR. GARRISON, who shot and killed
DIR. Baird in Wheeling, w. Va, last
March, was convicted of murder in the
second degree on the 27th. The PEN
atty is from five to eighteen years ID the
penitentiary.
PROF. CHARLES WILLIAM NAEGELI,
the distinguished German botanist. died
in Berlin on the 27th. His writings are
among the most valuable contributions
to the science of botany.
DIR. JAMES w. WHITE, late president
of the Philadelphia board of charities,
and who was removed from office by
ex-Mayor Filter, dropped dead at his
residence on the 27th.
The peoples party of Ohio will hold
their state convention at Springfield on
August ).
AT the late meeting of the Evangel
zeal Lutheran synod at Lebanon, Pa.
an offer was made to the general synod
through the board of education of SS150.-
900 to found Lutheran sem mary in
Omaha, Neb., provided the church
would raise S15O,0OO in one year from
July 1, 1891. The proposal was az
copied amid great enthusiasm and 500
900 was subscribed by the delegates
present. Mr.. August Kounts, of New
York, who made the generous offer
was present, and gave $4,000 addi-
tiona1 lin memory of his sainted par
entS-
HAFsFsY TRACEY. of Cam bridge, Mass.
charged with causing the death of John
Burns in a glove fight recently, was, on
the 27th, held in 81, 900. for the superior
court in October.
SURROGATE ABBOTT of Brooklyn
handed down his decision. on the 2sth,
in the celebrated Myra Clark Gaines
will contest. in which over 81 900, 900 is
involved. 1t declared that the will of
January S. 1885, made in New Orleans
the day before Mrs. Gaines died, and
which made Marie +. Exams sole execu-
trix is a forgery. He declared the will
which names VIM. A. Wilder and James
T. Christmas as executors legal and
admissible to probate.
LIEUT--CoMMA&DER GEORGE \. BICK-
NELL. charged with negligence in suf-
fering two vessels of the United States
navy, the Galena and Nina, to be
stranded near Gay Head light, Martha's
Vineyard island. Mass, on March Is,
has been found guilty of the charge,
and sentenced to be suspended from
rank and duty for the term of one year,
retaining his present number in his
grade
THE st. Petersburg correspondent Of
the London Times telegraphs that pa
per that the departure of the ear for
Moscow will be made secretly. The
railway line is. he says. guarded on all
sides by strong detachments of troops,
as are the approaches to the stations
along the route. All arrangements are
complete to assure the ear safe and