Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-03-10
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

THREE shocks of earthquake were
| felt at The Dalles, Ore, at $50 a. m. on
| the Goth. The vibrations We're north
and south and lasted about four sec
onds. No serious damage is reported
w w. HOLDEN, ex-governor of North
Carolina, died at Raleigh on the 1st
He was. prior to and during the war,
editor of the Standard; was provisional
governor and later governor, but was
impeaehed and deposed by the senate
in 1870.
The Ohio supreme court rendered a
decision, on the 1st, declaring the trust
agreement between the Standard Oil
Co. and other oil concerns to be illegal.
This is regarded as one of the most inn
portant decisions ever rendered by that
court
The Delyannis ministry of Greece
has resigned, and NJ. Tricoupis has
been summoned to form a new govern
ment. The trouble grows out of the
difficulty in floating a new loan.
ST. Louis detectives, on the 1st, ar
rested two men who are supposed to
have been implicated in the recent safe
blowings in that city, as they had in
their possession set of the most finely
finished and latest-improved burglars
tools and safe blowing appliances. The
men are known as William Walters and
j. f. Watson. with aliases.
The New York grand jury made a
presentment, on the LIST, generating
District Attorney Nicol from the
charges of unfaithfulness to duty made
in sermon by Rev. DIR. Parkhurst re-
Gently.
Rev. RICHARD PAGE, an English Con-
gregational clergyman, attempted to
hang himself in a railway carriage, on
the 1st, but was rescued. He was de-
spondent ut being invited to resign his
pulpit
THE Minnesota house, at La Crosse,
Wis, was burned early on the morning
of the 1st. Fred Heiden, the pro-
prietor, was burned to death, and the
guests had narrow escapes. Loss, &c.
500.
The monthly statement prepared by
the comptroller of the currency shows
that the total circulation of national
bank notes outstanding March 1 was
S172,.1O. O13, a decrease in circulation
since February 1 of $3.50, 6si, and since
March 1, 1891, of 81, O25, 1874.
J. NJ. BILLINGsBY, porter running on
the 500 line out of st. Paul, Mimi. is
heir to fortune in New Mexico. An
old bachelor uncle. E. j. Jarvis. of
Albuquerque, died recently and left an
estate valued at $50, 600 in bonds, of
which Billingsby gets one-third.
Hon. CHARLES FOSTER, secretary Of
the United States treasury. and party
arrived in London on the I'd.
ANN FRENCH. of Belfast, formerly of
Bangor, Me-. widow, aged 90. and
worth 500, OOO has created a sensation
by marrying Herbert C. Peavey, of Am
herst, Me-, aged Sc, an itinerant ped
dler.
AS SOON as the new Greek ministry
is completed the chamber, with which
it cannot co-eXist, will be dissolved
and an appeal made to the country.
The crisis is the most serious which
Greece has had for many years.
THE house committee on labor has
appointed a subcommittee to investi-
gate the question whether the eight
hour law regarding convict labor on
public works is being violated.
THE New York chamber of COM
merce adopted resolutions, on the Sd,
protesting against the free-eoinage bill
and the bills to prevent dealings in
options.
A STATEMENT prepared by the COM
missioner of internal revenue in regard
to sugar bounty shows that ?. 1928 claims
for bounty, amounting to S6,91I,654
have been received, and that 925 claims,
amounting to 81, 952, 020, have been
paid. The payments were as follows:
On cane sugar, S2,715,7is; on beet
sugar. S215.4 400, and on sorghum. $780,
S66 The bounty on cane sugar was
distributed as follows: Louisiana, S2,-
o,917; Texas, sl29, 62T: Florida, S.. 204.
The beet sugar DO unity was distributed:
Nebraska, SIS, 914; California, $3.50, 534;
Utah, Sa1,S9S. The entire sorghum
bounty was paid to Kansas