Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-03-16

The feature Of the days proceedings was the
presentation In executive session of the presi
dents message Withdrawing the Hawaiian
treaty. Several nominations sent in by the
president were confirmed.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
E JOHN LOWELL, an aged hermit and
miser, living three miles south of Leb.
anon. Ore. who was known to have
considerable money in the house. was
found murdered in bed on the eth.
Everything in the house was torn to
pieces, the walls being broken and
floors torn up in search of the money.
DURING the past eight years sss, 00O..
600 has been saved to the government
by purchasing bonds prior to their ma,
turing.
The government of Brazil has seized
six cars of arms destined for the re-
VOTERS who are besieging Santa Ana.
The cargo of the schooner Carmelita
has also fallen into the hands of gov.
eminent troops.
ALL Long Island felt what is supposed
to have been an earthquake at 1880
o'clock on the morning of the Sth. At
Long Island City the shock was espe.
cially severe. in many instances shaking
pictures from the walls and creating
havoc among china ware and bric-a-
brac. At several points persons fed in
terror from their houses to the street in
their night robes, supposing that the
houses were settling or falling.
THE British tramp steamer Eglan-
tine, from Rio Marino, arrived at Phil
adelphia, on the 7th, with the crew OF
nine of the lost British barkentine
Chiselhurst.
The returns issued by the London
board of trade show that during the
month of February the imports in
creased 95, 100, 600, and that the exports
decreased e2, 240, 900, as compared with
those for the corresponding month last
year.
A SPECIAL messenger from Lapwai
brings the information that majority
walton have signed an agreement for
the opening of the reservation.
The steamship Pikhuben, from Ham
burg, arrived at baltimore, Nd. on the
18th, with the German government
exhibit for the Worlds fair.
HARVARD and Yale have combined
and sent a challenge to the winner of
the Oxford Cambridge race to come to
this country to participate in an inter-
national race.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND, on the 9th,
sent to the senate a message withdraw
ing the Hawaiian treaty which had
been pending in the senate.
On the eth Secretary Carlisle APP
pointed his son, Logan Carlisle, chief
clerk of the treasury department., vice
Stokes, resigned.
THE residence of A. d. Childress, pres
ident of the Los Angeles (Cal.) City
bank. was destroyed by fire on the 9th;
loss, CSC, 200.
= THE New Jersey house, on the 9th,
passed the bill appropriating 100000 to
the state commissioners of the Worlds
fair
PRINCESS KAIULANI and party arrived
in Washington on the 9th.
The empress of Austria will not come
to America to attend the Worlds fair.
AMONG other nominations sent to the
senate by the president, on the 9th,
were those of Josiah Quincy. of Massa-
chusetts, to be assistant secretary of
state; Isaac b. Gray; of Indiana, to be
envoy extraordinary and minister
plenipotentiary of the United States to
Mexico; Patrick A.. Collins, of Massa-
chusetts to be consul-general at Lon
don; and James II. Oakley. of Illinois.
to be an assistant surgeona in the mar
inc hospital service.
THE city of Boston was visited by a
most destructive confiagration on the
10th. Magnificent buildings recent
ly erected on the burnt district of
Thanksgiving day, 1889, together with
their contents, to the value of s., $780,
600, were burned. The most distress
ing feature of the fire, however, was
the awful loss of life, estimated at over
u score, and the serious injury of twice
as many more.
On the 10th Secretary Carlisle re-
ceived offers from Chicago bankers to
exchange $4,000, 900 of gold for a like
amount of small treasury notes of the
denominations of fives, tens and twen-
ties. Estimates were made that the
amount of small notes that will be
needed will reach $40, 600. 600, for which
gold will be paid.
PNEUMONIA is cutting a wide swath
in the ranks of the New Workers who
went to Washington to witness the in
auguration. Up to the 10th four Tam
many politicians had died as result of
exposure while on parade in Washing
ton, and at least 100 others were con-
fined to their beds with pulmonary
troubles
BUSINESS failures occurring through
out the country during the seven days
ended on the 10th numbered. for the
United States, 1913. and for Canada 80; a
total of 225, as compared with PSI for
the previous week, and ESQ for the cor
responding week of last year.
The ice in the Maumee river broke up
at $50 a. m. on the 10th, and in going
out gorged below the city of Toledo. o.
BY noon the water had risen four feet
and covered the docks along the river
front
CoNsUL-GENERAL New authorizes an
absolute denial of all the stories and
rumors of defalcation in the consular
office at London, and states that there
is no foundation whatever for the re-
port
THE British bark Alice NJ. Craig was
wrecked at Rosario. on the west bank
of the Parana, about $50 miles by wa
ter from Buenos Ayers. and Capt Ross,
master of the vessel, his wife and eight
of the crew were drowned.
The celebrated horse, Monitor, the
idol of thousands and the pride of his
owner, George Lorillard. of New York,
died ON the 10th. He was foaled in
1875.