Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-07-02

IHE report of the marriage OF Charles
| Stewart Parnell to Mrs. Kate O-Shea
| at Steyning. Sussex, England, on the
| 25th, is confirmed. The ceremony was
i performed by the registrar, the only
witnesses present being two of the
clerks employed in that functionarys
office.
| THE British ship New York, Capt.
| Thomas, from Swansea, England, Feb
ruary 6, for San Francisco, has been
wrecked on Slater island, Terre Del
Fuego, while attempting to round Cape
| Horn. With the utmost difficulty the
officers and crew escaped with their
| lives.
r. J. HINTON, the special agent in
charge of the irrigation inquiry, ar
rived in San Francisco on the 18th. He
| says that the great Colorado plateau
can possibly be made arabic by means
| of irrigation, thus adding $4,000, o0O
| acres to the arabic area. He says the
| Bear valley system in California is the
| finest irrigation system on the CONT
nent.
WALTER KEMPsTER, a well-known
| American specialist on insanity, will
| testify at the trial of the American.
Duncan, charged with attempting tc
murder his wife in Wales. DR.. Kemp
ster is now in Wales.
SEVERAL hundred men at the Pioneer
iron furnaces at Pottsville, Pa, struck,
on the 25th, because the owners of the
plant refused to pay them according tC
the Pittsburgh scale.
THE Vanderbilt roads have declared
the following dividends: Lake Shore.
~ per cent: Michigan Central, 2 per
cent, and Canada Southern, * per
cent.
THE clergy of the Evangelical church
in Germany are very generally op-
posed to the kaiser's proposed plan tC
raise 5000. 900 marks by lottery for the
work of suppressing the slave trade in
Africa, the ground of opposition being
that the lottery would do vast deal
of evil in Germany.
CHIEF SPECIAL AGENT OF THE CEN
sUs THOMPSON, charged with the collec-
ton of the statistics of manufactures
in Philadelphia, has been removed from
Office for disobedience of orders.
THE big stable of the Philadelphia
gas works was destroyed by fire shortly
after o'clock on the morning of the
25th. About half a dozen horses were
burned; loss, $4,000
THE great Yale-Harvard university
boat race was rowed at New London,
Conn, on the Goth, and for the six
teenth time in the history of the an
nual event Harvard won, leaving Yale
with a record of eleven out of twenty
seven contests which have taken place
between the two great rival institu-
tions of learning and sport.
j. A. BARHAM, attorney for State
Comptroller Colgan, has advised him not
to pay the $685. 900 appropriated by the
legislature for CALIFORNIA; exhibit at
the Worlds fair, on the ground that
the appropriation is unconstitutional.
LORD SALISBURY is bent on steadily
increasing the English garrisons in
America, and especially in the West In
dies, where the men are kept con-
venient for service anywhere.
AUSTRIAN newspapers are publishing
long comments, couched in friendly
language, on the significance of the
tacit adherence of the British govern
ment to the dreibund.
THE town of Neville, Ia, was nearly
wiped out by the late flood. Out of
fifty houses only one is left standing.
The people are camping out in the
fields.
THE resignation of Commissioner
Mitchell of the patent office has been
accepted to take effect on August l, at
the end of thirty days leave of absence.
THE president, on the Goth, appointed
Estes G. Rathbone, of Ohio, to be
fourth assistant postmaster general.
On the Goth the Pulaski county ARK
grand jury returned an indictment
against eX-State Treasurer Woodruff.
charging him with embezzlement.
Woodruff, who had been out on bail
pending investigation of his office, was
placed under arrest.
MEMBERS of the Ch1lian congressional
party, in letters written to friends in
Lisbon. accuse the police who serve
under Balmaceda of throwing imita
ton bombs at his ministers in order to
afford a pretext for the arrest of the
congressional negotiators.