Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-08-10
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

miners in the Taryau gulch, near
Como, Col, were burned by white min
ers early on the morning of the 1st
Eight Chinese who are missing are be-
lieved to have persisted in the flames.
About seventy-five Chinese are en-
ployed in the Taryall placers, working
for less wages than the whites. This
caused the trouble The Chinese were
greatly frightened, and took refuge
in buildings about town.
The United States cruiser New York,
which is receiving her finishing touches
at Cramps shipyard. Philadelphia,
went into commission, on the LIST, with
brief and simple ceremonies.
AN effort was made by the Indian
apolis Ind-) board of trade to have the
secretary of the treasury send currency
to that city to pay the Is, 600 600 in
pensions falling due on the 4th, but
it failed, and the payments will be
made by checks upon the New York
subtreasury. This is made necessary
by the failure of the Indianapolis ma
tional bank, the government deposit
tory in that city,
THE North German Lloyd steamer
Spree, which sailed on the I'd from
Southampton for New York. had on
board ESQ, 600, consigned to American
houses The White Star liner Majes-
tic, which left Liverpool On the same
day for New York, brought ESQ, 600.
a total of 81, 200, 900 shipped on the I'd
The return tide of the precious metal
seems to have set in in earnest
SECRETARY CARLISLE, who was in
New York city on the I'd, remained in
the Fifth Avenue hotel all day. receiv-
many visitors. To only two of these
did he give much time, and he denied
himself to many others. Newspaper
men he refused to see, giving as a rea-
son want of time.
SEVERAL warrants have been sworn
out and some arrests made of Column
bian Athletic club officials and partici-
pants in the late prize fights in Lake
county, Ind.
THE directors of the Bank of Com
merce of indianapolis, Ind, decided,
I'd, to reopen the bank.
LEVI p. MORTON's immense new barn
and outbuildings at Rhinebeck. n. Y,
together with 100 head of Guernsey
cattle and all the farm horses, were de-
stroyed by fire on the I'd: loss. over
800, 900.
THE gold reserve is again intact. On
the I'd the amount in the treasury was
s1OG, 191 $50, or s791 ,37O free gold. This
gold has come into the United States
from Europe. Mexico and the West In
dies, much of it being the gold sent out
from the United States during the late
spring and early summer months.
Col. CHARLES H. JONES, late man.
aging editor of the st. Louis Republic,
has assumed the position of editor and
personal representative of Mr.. Joseph
Pulitzer on the New York World. Col.
Jones will direct the editorial policy of
the World, the editorial '.junta.' COM
posed of heads of departments in the
office, being abolished.
THE circulation statement issued by
the treasury department on the I'd
showed that the amount of gold and
silver coin and certificates, United
States notes and national bank notes
in circulation August 1 was s1,611, O99.-
III, an increase during the month of
July of ST., 237 ,6O6. The increase dur
ing the last twelve months in round
figures is s9,OO0.OOO. The per capita
based on an estimated
population of $1,000, 900 August l, was
s24.O2
IT transpires that the active inter-
vention of President Carnot alone pre-
vented ministerial crisis in France
and probably a different issue out of
the Siamese trouble. NJ. Delcasse, sup
ported by a ajority of the ministers,
insisted that harsher terms
be exacted from Siam as a stepping
stone to a French protectorate, but
the president would not consent.
MGR. SATOLLI returned to Washing
ton, on the I'd, after an extended tour
the west and northwest. He
himself rs being much
pleased with his trip. Mgr. Satolli de-
clined to talk about the kilograms from
which imputed to him an
to recommend the appoint
ment of coadjutor to Archbishop Cor
rigan of New York.
THE works in Jersey City. n. J., of
the New York Standard Watch Co.,
have closed for an indefinite period,
throwing out of employment over $50
men and boys. The shutdown is at
tributed to stringency in the money
THE question as to whether DIR. 7.
Thatcher Graves will be tried a second
time for the alleged murder of Mrs.
Barnaby is to be decided by County
John Toombly, who
went east, on the Sd. to investigate the
evidence and ascertain the cost of trans
porting witnesses to Denver.
THE Carpenter Steel Co.. of Reading,
Pa, announced, on the Sd. that by
reason of new contracts they would
furnaces and give employment to many
new hands. They also announced that
the weeks wages, amounting to So, 900,
would be paid in gold.
MINISTER BLoUNT is reported as be-
ing highly indignant at the presump-
ton of a royalist clique in Honolulu
who sought to compromise him by in
Guiding his name, among others, in an
inscription on a cane presented to
Claus Spreckels by partisans of the de-
posed queen.
RUSSELL & Co.'S agricultural and
engine works, at Massillon, o., en-
500 men, will close for an in
definite period, about the 18th, on ac-
count of the uncertainty of the bust
ness future.
THE town of Bisk, in the government
of Orenburg. Russia, was visited by
most disastrous conflagration on the
I'd. One hundred and eighty houses
were burned. Seven persons were
killed and a large number injured.
THE treasury department restrictions
exhibitors and their goods