Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-11-19


FREDERICK MATHUsHEK, the invent
or. whose piano improvements are in
general use all over the world, died a,
his home in New York city on the 9th
In twenty-four hours run, ended
at a. IN. of the 18th, the Edgar Thor:
son steel works at Braddock, Pa, pro.
duced 1,7o7 gross tons of finished steel
rails, breaking all previous records.
IT is reported that the Russian min.
lister of finance, NJ. Vishnogradsky, is
suffering from nervous prostration, ow-
ing to the trouble about the Russian
loan and the famine, and that he will
resign.
AUTHENTIC advices by way OF Monte
video state that the Brazilian province
of Rio Grande do Sui has seeded en-.
tirely from the Brazilian republic, and
the military in that province support
the revolution.
ARCHBISHOP CRoKE of Dublin, who is
custodian of the fund for the relief of
the sufferers from crop failures in Ire
land, announces that he has received
the sum of e21, 440 for this object, and
that of this amount S21,aee came from
New York
THE latest from Chilli received at
Washington gives no occasion for
alarm, and all information which has
been received from Brazil indicates
that the affairs of that country are
assuming a settled state, and that our
interests there are In no danger.
THE census office issued a bulletin,
on the 18th. giving the population of
Ohio by minor civil divisions. The pop
ulation of the state in 1890 was 3.672,-
SIG, against 3,1sO,06 in 1880. OF the
Lightweight counties in the state TWEEN
ty-eight show decreases, most of them
very slight
THE financial situation in Berlin.
was less agitated, on the 9th, and no
further failures were reported. 1t is
learned that just after the doors of
Hirschfeld & VOLTS house were closed
a clerk intended to deposit 500 marks.
This sum would have tided the bank
over its difficulties.
MORMON missionaries from America
have invaded the famine-striclen prov
ince of Samara, Russia, where they
paint in glowing terms picture of
America as land flowing with milk
and honey, invariably selecting for
their victims families in which are a
large number of girls.
REV. SAM SMALL, the noted evangel-
list, was attacked in an Atlanta (Ga.)
barber-shop, on the 18th, by a saloon
keeper whom he had denounced from
the pulpit. He was knocked down,
kicked in the face and severely in
jured, losing several teeth and having
his lower lip split open.
GREAT BRITAIN will concentrate
feet at Bio Janeiro should the British
admiral judge that such course is
necessary. 1t is believed in London
that the revolution will be lasting and
that the national party, if it be true that
it has the support of all the provinces
mentioned, will triumph.
DIR. n. c. PALMER, charged with bur-
glary of Christiansons store at Ray
mond Center, Wis, last August, was
sentenced at Racine, on the 10th, to one
year in the state prison. After SEN
tence was pronounced the doctor wept
like child, and there was scarcely
dry eye in the court room.
MICHAEL KIRsCHER was arrested in
New York, on the 18th, for forgeries
amounting to so, 900 francs committed
in Bucharest, Roumania- He was dis
charged from custody next day, how
ever, there being no eXtradition treaty
with Roumania. He had S2O,O ZOO in his
possession when he landed.
EX-KING MILAN is to receive an adj
ditional 1000, 900 francs from Servia, as
part of the price for his living out of
the country. The ex-king has no de-
sire to return, having tasted the de-
lights of Paris, where he has been
leading a most extravagant life, hav-
ing run through a million francs within
q few months
HERR Mass, a prominent banker of
Charlottenb burg, Germany, is, upon his
own admission, completely ruined. He
says his liabilities are about 1,750, 900
marks. He admits embeZzling the
funds of his clients, also considera-
BILE amount of money subscribed for
the erection of church in honor of the
late Emperor William.
HEAVY gales and excessive rains are
again prevalent throughout Spain, and
are once more causing immense dam
age. Telegraphic communication is in
terrupted on all sides, and reports of
further death and destruction are an
ticipated. On the northern and west
ern coasts the storms have been eSpe-
cially severe, and several wrecks are
reported.
WHEN the Lima Center (Wis.) lodge,
]. o. G. T., was about to be called to
order, on the night of the 10th. a stick
of wood with an auger hole in it was
put in the stove and Immediately an
explosion occurred, breaking the stove
to pieces and seriously burning one of
the members The flames Were quickly
extinguished. No clew to the person or
persons who tried to blow up the build.
ing has been found.
THE sultan has ordered the strength
ening of the military forces in Tripoli,
the only important African province
still acknowledging the actual sover-
eighty of the porte. The Tripolitans,
it is said. have been considerably
shaken in their allegiance by stories of
the prosperity of Tunis under French,
and Egypt under English rule. and the
symptoms of discomfort have of late
become alarming to the tyrannical