Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-05-07
NEWS AND NOTES.
a Summary Of Important Events
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

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fered to resume work. The employers,
however, declined to take them back
until the striking weavers also sur
| rendered.
GEN. GRAHAM's column surprised
about 1000 Manipuris, on the 25th. in
an intrenched position, and, after Sc
we're hand-to-hand engagement, drove
them from their earthworks and put
| them to flight with loss of 200 men.
| The British loss was one officer killed
and four or five men wounded.
THE sculling match over the Para
malta river course, on the 2Sth, be-
tween John Mclean and James Stan
bury, both of Australia. for the world s
championship and e4OO, was won by
Stanbury. Mclean had previously
claimed the worlds championship, hav-
ing defeated Kemp.
The thirty-ninth annual convention
of the American Pharmaceutical asso-
citation met in New Orleans on the 2Sth.
1t was recommended that the associa-
ton invite the Worlds Pharmaceutical
congress to meet in Chicago in 1898.
| A REPORT is current IN London that
| the unknown man who three weeks age
| committed suicide at Vim bledon has
been identified as Jack the Ripper"
| Not much credence is, however, given
| to the story in well-informed circles.
| THE general strike which was or
dered at meeting of the GAINESVILLE
| TO-. J carpenters union was inaugurated.
on the 2sth, when the bricklayers ana
all hands in the building trades quit
| work Business is paralyzed.
oI,n ,,l e
burne of Chicago on entering upon his
duties, on the 2Sth, was to Issue an or
der to the police department to close
up every gambling house in the city.
THE convention of the association of
medical superintendent of insane asy-
lums met in Washington on the 2sth.
SECRETARY PROCTOR has taken no
further action in the lvnching of Hunt
at Walla Walla, Wash, and if court
of inquiry in the matter is ordered, as
indicated by President Harrison's tele-
gram, the order for the court must
come from the president himself, as the
secretary of war has nc power to order
courts of inquiry.
j. CoNOvER, James Huntley and
James Hall were arrested in New York,
on the Goth. charged with swindling
the Chase national bank of New York
city and banks at Detroit. st. Paul and
other western cities by bogus drafts,
and by representing themselves as
agents of prominent horse dealers.
IRWIN G. STUMP, of San Francisco,
manager of the estate of the late Sena-
tor Hearst, who owned large interest
in the Anaconda mines reported sold to
the Rothschilds, says that he knows
nothing of any such sale having been
effected.
THE Russian government has issued
decree ordering the enforcement in
ST. Petersburg of the same measures
against the Jews as formerly decreed
against them in Moscow. Certain
places in the city are specified where
they may live.
THE Chicago, Burlington e Quincy
railroad statement for March shows a
decrease of S3S7.S6 in net earnings
compared with March last year.
On the 29th Chattanooga, Tenn, suf
fered from a $3.50, 900 fire covering a
space of twenty acres; insurance, $780,
OOO
QUEEN NATALIE has announced that
owing to circumstances beyond her con-
troll she will leave Servia.
OF the 127 deaths in New York city,
on the Goth, only two We're from grip.
ENGINEER JAMES CUMMINGS was
killed and Fireman Smith terribly III
jured by the explosion of a freight loco
motive in the Ogdensburg On. " rail-
road yards on the Goth.
PRESIDENT STICKNEY of the Chicago,
Milwaukee e St Paul Railroad Co.
HAS written remarkable book under
the title of 1.-The Railway Problem" in
which he advocates state ownership of
all railways.
THE New York senate adjourned sine
die. on the goth, without having acted
on the assernbly's amendments to the
Worlds fair appropriation bill, which
was thus killed.
AT the state department it was
stated, on the 3Oth, that nothing was
known of the visit to Rome of the
journalist Engleman, who claims to
have been sent by this government to
indemnify the families of the Italians
lynched in New Orleans. No one has
been sent to Italy for that purpose.
THE late Thomas C. Barring, who died
recently in Rome. left most of his for
tune to his cousin, Baron Revelstock,
to enable him to maintain the dignity
of the peerage conferred upon him.
Lord RevelstoclS was obliged by the
Barings' failure to greatly reduce his
expenses.
ALL the new collateral trust bonds
of the Union Pacific railway necessary
to wipe out the floating debt of the
road will be taken by the Equitable
Life Insurance Co. and Jay Gould.
The bonds will bear interest at the
rate of 5 per cent.
A CRISIS in the Austrian cabinet is
imminent. The German liberals and
the conservatives have split on the
school question and neither has ma
jority. No reply to the speech from
the throne can be voted.
THE Portuguese have occupied Massi
Kessa in Manicaland. The British set
tiers have evacuated the posts This is
understood to be in accordance with
the modus vivendi between Portugal
and England.
On the 30th the Massachusetts house
refused to reconsider the vote by which
the bill prohibiting the employment of
Pinkerton detectives was passed.
ALBERT SNooKs, bridegroom at the
Louisville (Ky.) wedding, die1 on the
3Oth He is the sixth victirl of the
poisoned wedding feast. TIE bride is
still very sick.
THE celebrated French painter,
Adrien Marie, died in Senegal from an