Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-09-17
NEWS AND NOTES.
a Summary of Important Events
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,

ing into Epley's brick yard, ruined g.
600, 900 unburned brick, causing a loss
of SO, 900.
| MAYOR BROWN of New Castle, Pa,
met j. E. Leslie, editor of the Sunday
| Graphic of that city, on the street and
knocked him down for scurrilous pub
| llcatlOn about the mayors pastor, con-
tinued through period of ten months.
On the Sth ne published a confession
and asked forgiveness of the people and
also of the victim of his wrath. (having
already asked Gods forgiveness) for
his sin against the laws of the
commonwealth and city ordinances. He
directed himself to be duly fined, and
conceded Mr.. Leslie's right to proceed
| against him under the law.
| THE correspondent of the London
Standard at Moscow, commenting on
the demands that come from all points
for measures to relieve distress, says it
is plain that the distress is greater and
| more widespread than was at first sup
posed, and that the worst is yet to
come.
THE prospect is good for an excellent
cotton crop in Egypt.
a STRIKE of the conductors on the
| Decatur division of the Louisville &
| Nashville railroad occurred, on the 9th.
| owing to the company's declining to re-
| instate a man who was discharged for
refusing to take out his train.
JOHN HENRY WEBSTER, a tough negro,
| was shot and killed at Columbus, O.,
| while resisting arrest on the sth. He
| was drunk and tried to kill the officer
| who was going to arrest him.
JAMES BOYD and j. C. Elsass, of
| Waynesburg, Stark county, O., were
asphy Xiated in a room in the hotel
jefferson in Toledo on the morning of
the 9th. Boyd was dead when found,
but Elsass will probably recover.
LOUIS LAUER, the German charged
| with the murder of the Bushenhagen
| couple at Bloomfield, Conn.,, committed
| suicide by hanging himself in his cell
at Hartford on the sth.
THE republican agitation in Corruna,
Spain, is becoming quite serious. The
| mob now deties the civil guard
THE Massachusetts state prohibition
convention met in Worcester, on the
| 9th, with a good attendance.
INFLUENZA is raging at Kharsof,
| Kief, Karson, Warsaw and elsewhere
in Russia.
THE railway postal clerks have de-
cided to hold their next convention in
Washington.
JAMES E. CUTTER has been arrested
charged with plotting to murder Mr..
Rowe, his brother-in-law. a wealthy
manufacturer of Haverhill, Mass. He
| was betrayed by his confederate. Rob-
| berry was to have followed the murder,
oil nf fn,,nI,.,- no oft Of
| Leeds, England, collapsed, on the 9th,
and two children We're instantly killed.
| Two others were removed from the
ruins in a dying condition.
THE republic of San Salvador was the
scene, on the 9th, of violent seismic dis
| turbances, resulting in the loss of many
| human lives and the destruction of mil
lions of dollars worth of property.
Some entire towns were destroyed.
This is the third time within less than
forty years that San Salvador has suf-
fered in this way.
AT the close of business, on the Sth.
the treasury department had extended
S24, 050, 35s four-and-a-half per cent.
bonds and redeemed 50, 943, $50.
OFFICIAL recognition of the Gillian
junta's government by the United
States has been made, both by Minister
Egan and Admiral Brown. The United
States flagship San Francisco. on the
sth, saluted the Gillian flag by dis
charge of twenty-one guns. This was
returned in similar manner by a shore
battery.
ALEXANDER PORTER, of Decatur
county, Ind, died, on the 9th, on the
farm that he entered from the govern
ment, near Columbus. He was the old
est white man in the state, and also the
oldest white man born within the pres
ent limits of Indiana.
A DISPATCH was received at the
Worlds fair headquarters from the head
quarters of the Texas State Fair asso-
citation, on the 9th, saying: ''One hun
dred thousand Texans protest against
the Sunday closing of the Worlds fair.
The day of fanaticism is passed"
THE American Tin Plate Co, with
capital of 1S30O, 900. has been incor-
porated at indianapolis, Ind, for the
manufacture of tin plate and sheet iron.
The plant will be located near Elwood,
Ind. The directors of the company in
clude several well-known Ohio and In
diana capitalists.
lHE So uaOrOn OF evolution Is 10 he
disbanded. The Petrol, one of the
smaller vessels, will be sent to the
China station, and the Yorktown will
go to the Pacific coast for general serv
ice there. No changes in commanders
is contemplated.
SECRETARY BLAINE's residence in
Washington is being put in order for his
return to the capital, and orders have
been given to have it ready for the re-
ception of the family not later than Oc
tober 1.
BISHOP LEONARD, of the Protestant
Episcopal church, has changed the sem
tence of Rev. Howard MacQueary, of
Canton, o., to perpetual suspension for
heresy unless he recants.
SENATOR ARELLANO, one of the most
prominent members of the Mexican
congress, who is in San Francisco, says
the report that Minister Romero is to
be recalled from Washington is ridicu-
culous. Mexico has no other man
who could fill the place as well" he
said He understands more thorough
ly than any one else the exact relations
between the two nations. President
Diaz likes him and likes him where he
is
A. WEBSTER, proprietor of the Acorn
house at Coquille, Ore, killed George
Fales, waiter, during a quarrel, on
the 9th, about seventy-five cents which
Fales claimed was due him.
ALEXANDER & SoN, corn brokers of
Threadneedle street, London, failed. on