Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-08-13
NEWS AND NOTES,
a Summary of Important Events
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

| SOIoL
THE trea sury department is informed
that the consulate of the Argentine re-
public at Satille Bluff. Ga, has been
abolished by order OF The Argentine
| government.
ADRIAN BRAKER, dealer in CONNER
cial paper at 295 Broadway, New York,
| assigned, on the Sd, without prefer
| enccs.
Hon. BAYLEss HANNA died at Craw-
| louisville, Ind, on the 1st, aged 81.
THE foreign committee of the Chi
| cago Worlds fair arrived in Berlin, on
the Sd, from Paris to lay before the
| authorities and manufacturers the
| benefits to be derived from exhibiting
at the fair
| DESPERATE bourse spectators in Bar
| celona, Spain. attacked the garrison in
a foolhardy attempt to produce a panic
on the bourse under the impression tina t
a revolt had begun. Several were shot
on both sides.
THE Pan-American Transportation
Co. expects to build twenty steamers
under the mail subsidy act for the
| Spanish-American trade.
The British steamer Wallarah. from
London for Sydney, was wrecked near
Cape Town, on the Sd, and is a total
loss
The United States immigration com
| mission is meeting with very good sue
cess in Europe.
SEVERAL large loans have been made
in New York recently in which the lend
ers insisted upon a gold clause, accept
ing lower interest in consideration
| thereof.
On the Sd Mrs. Leslie Carter, the
actress, came into court in New York
and swOre that she had no money, and
had had none for SO long she had for
gotten what it was like
Nix. ATKINSON, NJ. P, who was sus-
pended from the house of commons for
one week, will have the resolution of
suspension eXpunged from the records
or resign his seat.
JACKSON II. DoNNELLY, a wealthy
septuagenarian, who lived near Arkan-
sas City, Kas., is believed to have killed
his wife and then himself.
THE liberals carried Salt Lake City,
on the Sd, by 900 majority, electing
full legislative and county tickets.
KANSAS CITY (Mo.) alderman has
introduced an ordinance providing for
IL license LOT drinkers OF intoxicating
liquors.
RI. REV. BISHOP KILIAN FLAsCH of
the La Crosse wis diocese died on the
Sd, aged 60 years.
IN 1887 jackson Marion was hanged
at Beatrice, Neb., for the alleged muir
der of John Cameron. Marion always
protested his innocence. Cameron has
turned up alive and well in Kansas,
after years of wandering in Mexico and
Alaska, and was greatly shocked to
learn that Marion had been hung for
his supposed murder
A RIOT occurred during the progress
of prize-tight at a railway camp near
Westlake, La, and rumor has it that
fourteen men We're killed and sixteen
wounded.
HYDE COLLINS, of Keokuk Ia, who
was bitten by dog about a month ago,
has gone insane worrying about hydro
phobia.
S. S. PIERCE e Co., of Boston, have
been convicted for selling French pease
which had been colored with prepare
ton of copper. The pease were canned
in France. The case will be appealed.
EX-SENATOR JOHN j. INGALLS, has
signed a contract to open the new
opera house at TarlIiO. Mo, on the 18th,
with lecture; subject: Eli and Den
MIS-
The fifth anniversary of the murder
of Rev. George c. Haddocll by Sioux
City Ua.) saloon cOnspirators, for his
zeal in prosecuting them, was observed
in that city, on the Sd, by a cold-water
banquet and a mass meeting addressed
by Congressman George ID. Perkins and
ex-senator Clark, author of the pro-
hibitory law. All the churches held
memorial meetings. Mr.. Perkins eX-
pressed himself i'll favor of fully sus-
tanning the prohibition law.
THE imperial yacht Hohenzollern,
with the German emperor on board,
arrived at Bergen, Norway, on the
4th, on her way to Germany from
North Cape and other points in Nor
way and Sweden.
FUNDS are being raised in Nashville,
Tenn, to relieve the distress of the
free laborers around the camp at Brice
vile, who have been reduced almost to
starvation by enforced competition with
cheap convict labor.
SOME mlscreant removed the spikes
and shifted rail on the Grand Rapids
& Indiana railroad near Cooper. the
first station north of Kalamazoo, Mich,
on the 5th, causing the through express
to leave the track and plunge down n
30-foot embanllment. a dozen persons
were seriously and great many others
slightly injured.
The Nebraska prohibitionists met in
state convention at Lincoln on the
5th.
WATER dripping from a waste pipe
molten metal at the Schoenberger mill
in Pittsburgh. Pa, on the 9Th. Frank
Kalish was fatally burned and two I'M
known Polish laborers were seriously
in iured.
AN engine on the West Virginia Cen
trail road carrying, besides the engineer
seventeen worllmen and two women,
struck piece of timber at a point
called Switch Back, on the 5th, and
turned completely over. One of the
women was fatally injured, the steam
cooking the flesh of her face. hands
and arms in a horrible manner. and all
the other occupants of the engine We're
more or less seriously injured.
Four persons were instantly killed
and Il great many seriously wounded
ia a collision near Champlain, y. Y.
on the 5th, between a Sunday-school
excursion train and regular passenger
train on the Central Vermont road.
THE third annual convention of the
National Association of Letter Car
riers of the United States met in the
n1l Eall,,,-,s .a,,,la Slotroit Mich on