Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-08-27
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERA.


business honor that every community
in the country should take note Of A
millionaire exporter endeavored to ig
:ore verbal contract entered int
with the representative of steamship
line. and he was promptly suspended
from the privileges of membership in
the produce exchange. Business honol
requires that a mans word shall be al
good as his bond, and it is refreshing
to see the principle so publicly recog
nized
w. b. PRESCOTT, president, and w
s. McClevey, secretary of the Interna-
tional Typographical union, finished
the count of the vote on the PROPOSE.
ton to limit the working day to nine
hours ON the 18th. The union has a
meabership of 29,s13 and le,s96 votes
were cast-9, $40 for and 3, $50 against
the proposition. This lacks sS2 OF the
required two-thirds majority.
THE farmers of Vigo county, Ind,
backed by the Farmers Alliance, are
protesting against the assessment OF
Axtell, the sos, 600 stallion, at SIS, 600
by the county board of review, and
have appointed a committee to go to
indianapolis to ask the state board of
tax commissioners to raise the assess
ment.
ONE of the worst fires that has ever
visited the mines of Colorado is now in
progress at the Louisville mine on Iron
Hill, near Leadville. The fire broke
out in the 5OO-foot lead as the result of
the upsetting of lamp, ON the 18th,
and at last accounts was still raging.
ANDREW o. Orphan, president of the
Oppman Brewing Co. at Cleveland, o. :,
had an alteration with one of his hos
tiers, Fred Seigel, on the night of the
10TH After knocking Seigel down, the
latter said when taken to the hospital,
Oppman beat him severely. Seigel died
on the 18th and Oppman was held un-
der the charge of murder.
THE members of the travelling foreign
of the Chicago Columbian
fair commission, who are at present in
Austria with the object of bringing to
the attention of the Austrians the ad-
vantages of exhibiting at the fair, have
met with fattering success.
On the morning of the 18th John
Fits, aged Sc years, well-known Da-
viess county (Ky.) farmer, was shot and
instantly killed by neighbor, Norton
Trouble had existed for a
long time between the two families.
ROBERT GLASS, of jefferson county,
Ind, is losing his entire family with
the dreadful milk disease. Four chill
dren are dead and his wife and last
child were reported dying on the night
of the 18th.
ADvICEs from British Columbia state
that the proposed Peace River & Hud
sons Bay railway is to be built. The
road is planned to extend from Port
Symptom on the Pacific to Hudson's Bay
there with line of steam
ers. This route, it is claimed. will make
the distance between Europe and Asia
shorter by 1854 miles than the Cana
dian Pacific. and 2,676 miles shorter
than the Central Pacific and San Fran
cisco route.
WIN. BRICKILL. of New York, has
brought suit against the city of Balti-
more, Md, for 500, 900 damages for the
alleged infringement of a patent for
feed-water heaters for steam fre-en-
gines invented by him.
A BOAT containing n party of four
artists, sketching on the Ohio river OPP
posite Cincinnati, on the 18th, cap
sized near the Kentucky shore and
three of the party were drowned.
THE Damon iron works at Boston were
burned on the 18th. Loss, 5000, 900;
partially insured. Kendall's machine
works. on the next corner, were also
burned; loss, $50, 600.
ALFRED SIMoNIs, a Belgian senator.
who is a large cloth manufacturer at
Verviers, will be named by the Belgian
government commissioner to the Chi
cago exhibition.
BY the sudden collapse of stone
bridge over the st. Mark river, in
Hayti. eighty of the throng of persons
the raging torrent below,
were drowned.
A FARMER named Avon Tyler, living
near San Mateo, Cal, in a fit of mad
drunkenness, beat his wife over the head
with picl-handle, and then seriously
injured his S-year-old son with the same
weapon. The woman's skull Is frac-
tured rand she cannot recover. The
boy may survive.
POLICEMAN THURsToN, of Exeter. n.
H., while protecting the foreman of a
from an attack of four Ital-
ians, on the 10th, received a blow
which fractured his skull. The Ital-
ians fled to the woods pursued by citi-
zens and police.
CHARLES LAWRENCE, eX-assistant
cashier of the keystone bank of Phila-
delphia, was, on the 10th, sentenced to
seven years imprisonment for making
false entries and for conspiracy.
ACTING SECRETARY OF STATE WHAR-
TON says that the United States gov
eminent is keeping pace with England,
France and Germany in demanding re-
dress for injuries and protection for
American citizens in China
The Cologne Gazette is leading a
of Catholic communities in
Germany who protest against the
''holy coat exhibition at Treves as a
fraud.
THE Dublin Freeman's Journal of
the 10Th publishes voluminous con-
tributior from Mr.. Parnell, in which he
resumes his attack on Mr.. John Dillon
and the mass of his opponents.
JOHN CONWAY. the steamship fire.
man, was hanged in Liverpool, on the
Goth. for the murder of the boy Nicholas
whose body was found on May
10 last floating in a sailors bag in Har-
don dock. Conway's head was prac-
tically torn from the body by the drop.
THE review of the French feet in Os-
borne bay by the queen and the dukes
Of Edinburgh and Connaught, on the
Goth, is said to have been the most mag
nificent spectacle ever seen in English