Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-06-08

THE Spanish government has declared
five days quarantine against all yes
sells arriving from Cette and Hamburg.
Spanish consuls in France report that
cholera prevails in Cette, Mediter-
ranean port. Several cases have ended
fatally.
In the June number of the North
American Review appears long arti-
Gle by Mr.. Carnegie, predicting the
union of all parts of the Enghsh-speak-
ing world, setting forth the advan-
tages which would result from it, and
drawing glowing picture of the pow
er and influence which would be exert
ed upon the world at large by an An
glo-American combination.
GEORGE NJ. VAN LEUvE;J, JR., held to
the United States grand jury at Du-
buque, Ia, in $4,000 bonds on the
! charge of illegally receiving money
for securing pension, has begun suit
for $4,000 damages against Pension
Examiner f. F. Waite and Deputy
United States Marshal E. w. Goodner
for Selling his papers and the key to
his vault.
D. n. MORGAN. of Connecticut, the
oath of Office, on the 1st, and entered
upon the discharge of his duties, re-
lieving E. n. Nebeker, of Indiana.
The committee appointed to count the
money in the treasury assumed charge
at midnight and began the count,
which will take six weeks to complete.
THOMAS SULLIVAN, the New Zealand
oarsman, has arrived in London. He
is on his way to America, and will row
all corners.
THE Plankinston bank of Milwaukee
succulnbed to a continued run, on the
list, and closed its doors.
THE furnaces OF the Rock Hill Coal
and Iron Co., at Rock Hill, Pa, have
been closed down indefinitely, owing
to strike of the employees, who de-
| manded the reinstatement of several
discharged leaders of the local labor
union.
A VALUABLE exhibit of crude and re-
fined derivatives of turpentine orchard
ing. refined resins and furnishes, dis
played in the form of cubes, and oils
and other biproducts, in jars, was de-
stroyed, on the LIST, by the collapse of
portion of the flooring in the Govern
ment building at the Worlds fair. The
| collection was from Ala bama, and will
be hard to replace.
ARCHBISHOP IRELAND, of st. Paul,
presided at the opening session of the
Worlds congress of social purity in the
Hall of Columbus at the Art palace,
in Chicago, on the Cd. There
| was large attendance, among those
prominent being Mrs. Julia Ward
Howe, Baron Bernard D. Watterville,
of Switzerland: Mrs. Lydia A. Pres
colt, of California. and Mrs. Balling-
ton Booth, of the Salvation Army.
JOHN WILLIS, an employ of the Buff
falo On. " Furnace Co., entered fur
mace. on the LIST. to clean it out, and
the door, which fastens with snap,
closed behind him. When discovered,
several hours later. and taken out he
was almost asphyxiated by the fumes
of carbonic acid gas.
c. Il. JEWELL, superintendent of rain
making for the Chicago, Rock Island &
Pacific Railway Co., began his rain
making experiments, on the list, at
Meade. Kas., where no rain had fallen
for eight months. The result of the
| first few hours operations gave prom
Use of complete success.
IT is stated on good authority that a
general shutdown of the plate-glass
factories of the country will take place
soon, to last an indefinite period.
Cause, overproduction and slack trade.
THE wage committee of the Amalga-
mated Association of Iron and Steel
Workers met in Pittsburgh. Pa, on the
I'd, to formulate scale for the year be-
ginning July /.
ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY cadets from
the Michigan military academy at
Orchard Lake arrived on the Worlds
fair grounds on the I'd.
NELSON CRIrTENDEN, an e1nploye OF
the Detroit Electric Light Co., was in
stantly killed, on the I'd, by an electric
shock while at work without rubber
gloves.
THE residence of F. &. Swehla. one
and half miles east of Wilson. Kas.,
was burned on the night of the 1st,
and his two daughters persisted in the
flames, the elder, aged 30, sacrificing
her life in vain attempt to rescue her
2-yeaS-old Sister.