Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-07-02
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

about 1000 bales of cotton and a guam
tity of fancy cloth, owned principally
by commission houses and stored await
ing shipment. The loss is covered by
insurance.
AT Batoyna, town of Hungary, a
crowd of field laborers, inclted by So
cialist agitatOrs, made an attack upon
the town hall. Had it not been for the
determined resistance offered by a
small force of policemen the moi
would have wrecked the building. The
officers killed four and wounded seven
of the mob.
HENRY SCHULTZ, of Buffalo, n. Y, a
German boss carpenter, attempted sui
eide, on the night of the 22d, with an
ak, pick and a poker, and finally
cut his throat with razor. He may
possibly recover. He has a family.
Business reverses had unbalanced his
mind
TsUDOLQTsUDo SANGO, the Japanese
police officer who attempted the life of
the czarowitZ, was tried in the district
court at Otsu. on the nth, found guilty
of an attempt to commit wilful murder
and sentenced to imprisonment for life
at hard labor.
A BAND of armed Kurds are holding
an English girl named Katy Greenfield,
aged II years, who was abducted at the
Turkish consulate in Soul bolaka, Per-
STA, in defiance of the English consul.
A SANTIAGO DE CHILL dispatch from
Balmaceda's government says that the
rebels have lost all their moral force
and that resistance on their part in the
south has come to an end.
Mrs. JOHN LARSON, wife of farmer
living near Hudson, Wis, drowned her
three little children in Lake st. Croix,
during a fit of insanity, on the evening
of the 22d. Mrs. Larson has been taken
to an insane retreat
A PLOT to rob the express car on the
Cedar Rapids & Northern near Column
bus Junction, Ia, was foiled by one of
the conspirators putting note to pal
in the wrong envelope, thus giving the
snap away.
Col. S. n. WOoD, the most noted man
in western Kansas. was murdered, on
the Esd, by James Brennan at Hugoton.
The tragedy is the latest of the long list
growing out of the notorious Stevens
county-seat war.
FRANCIS II. BROWN, the well-known
composer and author, died at Stamford,
Conn.,, on the 23d, aged 73.
THE sentencing of ex-Treasurer Bar6s-
ley, of Philadelphia, was indefinitely
postponed, on the 23d, at the suggestion
of District-Attorney Graham, in order to
allow the expert accountants to pursue
their investigation further, and Bards-
ley was remanded to prison.
CATHERINE n. SINCLAIR, the widow
of Edwin Forrest, the tragedian. died
recently in New York city, aged "a
years. Broken in health and fortune.
she lived her last days beneath the roof
of an old friend, and went to her grave
almost forgotten.
THE Chicago Posts Washington CORE
spondent says that rumors are again
rife that Mrs John A. Logan is soon to
marry George E. Lemon, the million
aire pension agent
ACCORDING to statement issued by
the commissioner of pensions, on the
Esd, there have been paid to the sur
vivors of the war of the rebellion. the
war of 1912, the Mexican war, and the
war of the revolution, since July 1, 1861,
ali aggregate of 81, ,716. 900. Pension
certificate No. 100000, for disabilities
incurred in the late war, was issued on
the 23d.
A STATEMENT prepared by the treas
ury department shows that the receipts
from customs at the port of New York
for the first twenty days of June,
1891, were S., 493, 1879; for the first twenty
days of June, 1890, they We're 50, 34S,-
O47, falling off of about 40 per cent.
This is attributed to the working of the
new tariff law.
On the oath 800 Cleveland, (O.) cloak
makers walked out of the factory of
Hirscheimer & Co., one of
the largest concerns in the country, be-
cause of a reduction in their wages
A bout IFS of the strikers are women.
Mr.. ARTHUR SYDNEY, head of the firm
of Mckay & Co., London corn mer-
chants, died on the gath. Mr.. Sydney,
some years ago, was interested in not
able corner in wheat in conjunction
with California syndicate.
PROF. WILLIAM EDWARD WEBER, the
electro-scientist of the
of Goettingen, Germany, is
dead. He was born in 1904.
THE unwilling of the statue of Henry
Ward Beecher on the Brooklyn city
hall square, on the oath, was an event
Of great public interest.
ACTING SECRETARY SPALDING has di-
rected that certain carved stones from
the ruins of the city of Isabelle, Santo
Domingo, for exhibition at the Worlds
fair, be admitted free of duty as "a col
lection of antiquities
a MAN named Myer, said to have been
a resident of Chicago, a passenger on
the steamer Majestic, of the White Star
line, which arrived at Queenstown on
the cath, became insane during the voy-
age and died at sea.
MR.. HENRY CAMPBELI., private secre-
tary to Mr.. Parnell, got verdict, with
damages amounting to $1,000, in his Ii
bel suit against the Cork Daily Herald.
A SYNDICATE organized in London,
md having Paris interests allied with
t, has sent a representative to the
United States with authority to invest
s2S. 600, 600 in grain.
THE Bordeaux France) omnibus
strike resulted in a victory for the
lrivers and conductors, who have all
to work.
THE duke of Marlborough is to visit
America again, bringing a large amount
If capital to invest in the southern
states
THE Iowa democratic state conven-
ion met at Ottumwa. on the oath. and
Gov. Boies by acclama-
ion.
THE vintages of the Rhine, Moselle
md the Palatinate are reported to be
.OmDlete failures owing to severe and