Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-07-14

BY ELI d. AXE.
IRONTON- MISSOURI
On the 5th President Harrison signet
the bill appropriating $1,000 for tn,
erection of a statue to the late Gen
Sherman in Washington city.
THE Peary relief expedition sailet
from st. Johns. n. F., on the 5th, OF
the steamship Kite. All the member.
of the expedition were in capital spirits
AT North Vernon, Ind, three chill
dren in the family of Jas. Corduroy
died of diphtheria within an hour and
were buried together in the same grave,
WILLIAM CAPNAN. aged -, a veteran
of the rebellion, residing at Brimfeld
Ind, was run over by Lake Shore
freight train, on the night of the 5th,
and instantly killed.
IN the Louisiana legislature. on the
9Th a liberal appropriation was made
for the sufferers from overflow and an
act passed making appropriations to
build and repair public levees-
A FRIGHTFUL increase of the ravages
of Asiatic cholera is reported from the
Trans-Caucasia- In the city of Baku
alone ninety-one deaths and sixty-three
new cases were reported on the I'd.
WIN. NELSON, employed as an elevator
man in the New York World building.
fell through the elevator shaft from
the tower of the fifteenth story, on the
5th, and was instantly killed. He was
25 years of age and unmarried
THE house Judiciary committee, on
the eth. ordered a favora BILE report on
the resolution introduced by Mr.. Will
1iams. of Massachusetts,. authorizing an
investigation of the trouble at the
Homestead pa mills and the causes
leading to it.
A DISPATCH to the secretary of state
from the United States minister in
Mexico announces the exemption from
duties of maize, in grain or in meal,
and beans imported through the Next
can maritime and frontier custom
houses, during July and August, 1892.
THE University of Dublin began. on
the 5th. the celebration of the three
hundredth anniversary of the founda-
ton of Trinity college by Queen Eliza
beth. Among the distinguished persons
present from abroad was DIR. Briggs, of
Union theological seminary, New York.
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THE business failures occurring
throughout the country. during the
seven days ended on the Sth. number,
for the United States. 15s, and for Can
ada Is. or a total of 176; as compared
with 1877 for the previous week and PAT
for the corresponding week of last
year.
THE German government organ, the
Reichsanzeiger. of the 9Th, refers for
the first time to the Bismarck contro-
yerSy. 1t declares that the utterances
attributed to Prince Bismarck are not
of such practical value as to induce
the government to concern itself with
them.
THE eleventh annual convention of
the Young Peoples Society of Chris
tian Endeavor was called to order in
Madison Square garden. in New York
city, on the 9TH. The immense gather
ing listened to an address of welcome
by Rev. DIR. Deems and a response by
President Gates of Amherst.
THE report of Representative Wheeler
on the testimony taken by the pension
office investigating committee was
adopted by the ma jority of the COM
mittee on the eth. 1t censures Com
missioner Raum and recommends his
removal from office; also that the pen
sion office be placed under the civil
service law.
A GENTLEMAN who boarded the barges
Immediately after the surrender of the
Pinkerton force at Homestead. Pa, on
the 9Th, found a number of letters and
postal cards written by the deputies
when they thought they could not pos
sibly escape Some of these missives
We're written by husbands to their
wives, and We're couched in most ten
der terms.
A WALL 800 feet long and thirty feet
high, running along the south side of
the Newport News railroad yard in
Memphis, Tenn, toppled and fell from
pressure of earth against it on the
9Th. The Pullman car Savannah, in
which Conductors Hunter and Hogan
were asleep, was crushed. and the two
men were killed. Several other cars
were also wrecked.
A SON and namesake of the great
Irish liberal. Daniel O'Connell. is sup
porting the conservative candidate in
the Isle of Thanet- To criticisms upon
his course, he replied: "As an Irish
Catholic, / vote for a conservative. I
have seen during the past six years that
the country is wisely governed. Mr..
Gladstone's home rule scheme would be
most dangerous to Ireland.
AT the mornings session of the
American institute of instruction at
Narragansett Pier, R. l., on the Sth,
the first address read was upon "The
Relative Educational Value of Exten-
sion and Intention by Charles Henry
Douglas. head master of the high
school at Keene, n. III. The Country
School, was the subject of an address
by Hon. Henry Sabin, of Iowa.
THE northern portion of the state of
Mississippi was deluged. on the right
of the 4th, with the heaviest and most
disastrous rain that has fallen there in
years Creeks We're transformed into