Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-05-18

The foreign commissioners, repre-
senting France, Germany, Austria,
Spain, England and the minor coun-
tries, served notice on the Worlds fair
authorizes, on the 18th, that they would
withdraw their exhibits entirely from
competition unless awards We're made
by juries, and not by single Judge.
The tight money scare has had a dis
astrous effect on the Worlds fair at
tendance. The total attendance, mp to
the 18th, was 2s5.Oo0. and the money,
taken in at the gate will not so far pay
the running expenses Interest on s5,-
000, 00o bonds is about due and it looks
as if the directors must borrow $500, 900
to take up the coupons.
+ HALLErr & Co., navy agents and
bankers, of London, have suspended.
The suspension has caused a sensation
in military and naval circles at the
west end, as many officers are deposit
ors with the company, but CONNER
cially the failure is of slight impor-
tance.
WHEN the steamship Lain reached
quarantine in New York harbor, on the
18th, four cases of smallpox were re-
ported to the quarantine officials. The
victims were all Hungarian immigrants,
q man, two women and q child. They
were at once removed to North Broth
ers' island.
EVAN JONES, an employee in the White
Breast mine at Keb, Ia, while ascend
ing in the cage from the pit, on the
18th, was caught between the pit and
the shaft and killed. The blow gouged
out the eye and the right cheek bone,
tearing a great hole in the side of his
face. Jones was bachelor, 81 years of
age.
THE announcement of the failure of
Robinson & Co., bankers and brokers
of Wilmington, Del, on the 18th,
created a profound sensation. C. A.
MacAllister, attorney for the company,
said the liabilities, actual and con-
tingent, are about $3.50, 900 and the
nominal assets about 500, 1000.
THE clearinghouse returns for sew
enty-five principal cities of the United
States, as reported by Bradstreet's, for
the week ended on the 27th, aggregated
81, $40, 6B4, 100; of which amouat New
York city returned $3.50, sol ,459, Chicago
e11S, 764 900, Boston $1O6, 701, S43, Phila-
delphia e75. 227, 241, and st. Louis $685.
994, $50.
ASSIGNEE w. II. SroDDARr, of the de-
funct banking house of F. v. Rocka-
fellow, at Wilkesbarre, Pa, has filed
his first partial account with the court
Four per cent. of the $500 ooo reported
by the depositors will be paid. This is
about the limit of the assets.
WILLIAM H. FITZGERALD, manager of
l.
is charged with bribery in having paid
Alderman Protiva 5000, with the prom
Use of $500 more, to vote in favor of the
company he represents in the public
lighting contract.
BUSINESS failures during the seven
days ended on the 18th numbered, for
the United States, 257, Canada 90,
total of $50, as compared with 243 dur
ing the previous week. For the CORE
spending week of last year the figures
were ITS.
THE schooner Esperance, Capt. Rich
ards, which sailed from the Magdalen
islands six weeks ago with a crew of
ten besides the captain, on a sealing
voyage to the gulf of st. Lawrence, is
reported lost with all on board.
GEORGE VICTOR, sovereign prince of
Waldeck, died at Marienbad, Bohemia,
on the 18th, of pneumonia, aged SO.
HANS BoRCHsERoUs, of Wisconsin,
chief of division, fifth auditors Office,
treasury department, has resigned.
THE total debtof Nicaragua, internal
and external, is e4,741, 144.s0.
Rev. MAURICE F. BURKE, the Roman
bishop of Cheyenne, Wyo., has.
been transferred to the see of st. Joseph.
Mo-,
Mr.. EDWARD o. LEIGH, the director
of the mint, handed his resignation
to the president, on the 18th, to
take effect the end of the month.
This action of Mr.. Leech was purely
He resigns to accept the
position of cashier of the National
Union bank of New York.
The depositors in the exposition
branch of the Chemical national bank,
who live outside of Chicago received
notice, on the 18th, that they would be
paid the amounts due them before the
close of the exposition that night.