Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-09-01
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

escape
from burning apartment house in
Brooklyn, on the 21st, which had been
fired by an incendiary.
THE dispute between the Journey
men tailors in England and the masters
regarding the matter of piecework has
resulted in the employers locking out
their men, and as a result $1,000 tailors
and their assistants are made idle.
ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY buildings
were destroyed ~ fire in the town of
Sontra, Germany, on the ed, among
them many of the principal business
houses.
Ex-Gov. MYRoN H. CLARKE, of New
York, died at his home in Canandaigua
on the esd. Deceased was born in Ma
piles, Ontario. county, n. Y, in 1900.
He was elected on the prohibition
ticket as governor of his state in 1855.
SENIOR Don ANTONIO NJ. FLORES, re-
Gently president of Ecuador, has been
appointed and confirmed by congress
as the minister plenipotentiary of that
country to the United States, and will
also be appointed honorary commits
to the Worlds Column
bian exposition.
PROF. CHARLES ALLEN PERKINS died
suddenly at his home in Syracuse, n
Y, at 1 o'clock on the morning of the
odd, aged 81.
IN taking charge of the files in the
telegraph Office at Clinton, Tenn, on
the 23d, Gen. Carnes and Attorney Cen
eral Pickle struck rich find. They re-
fuse to disclose the information secured,
but it is known they have proof against
number of prominent people not
heretofore suspected or implicated IN
the mining riots.
ATTORNEY GENERAL MILLER returned
to Washington from a vacation at his
home in Indiana on the ED.
THE striking miners at Pocahontas,
Va, are becoming troublesome, and the
governor was asked, on the 23d, to hold
troops in readiness for service. A great
many of the miners in that region are
ALL distractions to civil prosecutions
in Coal Creek, Tenn, were removed, on
the Esd, by the appointment of Gen.
Carnes, who is absolute dictator there,
as deputy sheriff.
LIEUT.-COM. TURNER of the Albatross.
reports his arrival at Sitka. Alaska, on
the 18th, with the British schooner
Winifred in tow on the charge of illegal
sealing.
order for the world convened in Kansas
City. Mo-. on the ed. It's sessions were
secret. and it's enactments are without
appeal.
THE richest mine in the vicinity of
Crede, Col, was struck on the ed, be-
ing a lead of quartz rich in sulphurets
which ASSAYS from S65 to 1,13O ounces
in silver.
A BOGUS banking scheme was I'M
earthed by the New York police, on
the 24th, at 10 Wall street, and as re-
suit w. III. Roberts, the president:
Neill McCallum, the secretary. and
Fred Stirtz were arrested and locked
up at police headquarters. 1t seems
that the scheme was to buy goods
the country and give the
bogus bank as a reference.
The Portuguese government has
the importation of 10000
kilos of wheat monthly for ten months.
THERE were four deaths from chol-
era in Antwerp, on the oath. Officials
deny that it is Asiatic cholera.
The treasury department has issued
a circular requiring all rags imported
from abroad to be disinfectcd.
One HUNDRED AND FIFTY glass blow
ers employed by Demuth Brothers,
\. Y, struck, on the
24th, because of the refusal of the firm
to re-employ three discharged men.
The men resolved to stay on strike
pending the decision of the national
council at Pittsburgh.
THE Northwestern, the largest hotel
N Liverpool, has been deprived of its
liquor license for having violated the
excise regulations. The violation was
A DISPATCH from Porto Novo says
hat 1,2OO French troops entered Daho-
Man territory on August Is. The
French bombarded the town of Vakon.
THERE were $40 new cases of cholera
N Hamburg, on the oath, and $50
Deaths.
ELIZABETH HUGHES, of Hyde Park.
Pa, was found dead by her husband
1pon his returning home from work on
the Esd. Disgrace over repeated ar
to commit suicide.
WHILE inspecting storm-damaged
bridges on the Pittsburgh, Shenango &
Lake Erie railroad, on the 25th. Bridge
Foreman Fisher was instantly killed
and Conductor Deifelifer was fatally
crushed by the locomotive upon which
hey were riding going through a weak
,ned bridge into the torrent which
still ragged in the deep ravine below.
A BUDA-PEsrH correspondent gives
IN account of the military maneuvers
It Fuenfkirchen, Hungary. on the oath.
in the terrible heat He says that out
Of the forces engaged in the evolutions.
four officers, eight corporals and ten
privates have since died of sunstroke.
AN official dispatch from Porto Novo,
IF the 25th, states that when Col.
Dobbs advanced against Sakele, the
Ill the neighboring country. evacuated
the French in pursuit.
A DISPATCH from Calcutta, of the
18th. says that the Anchor line steamer
Anglia, bound from Calcutta to Lon
Ion, capsized in the Hoogly river on
the way to the sea, and of forty-seven
persons on board fifteen were drowned.
MICHAEL FREDERICK, of Buffalo, \.
Y. was shot in the pit of the stomach,
IN the 25th. by militia sentry at whom
ne. with others, was throwing stones.
He may die.
THERE were 2,743 deaths from cholera
N St. Petersburg, on the oath, and 5,679
new cases reported-an increase over