Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-08-24

IRONTON. MISSOURI
DURING the military maneuvers in
the vicinity of Berlin, ON the nth,
Count Klinkowstro suffered sun
stroke and died in veryfew minutes.
JOHN LOGAN CHIPMAN, member Of
congress from the First district of
Michigan, died of pneumonia, at Har-
per hospital in Detroit, on the 18th,
aged So years
SENATOR BRICE, of Ohio, who has
been ill for some time, had so far re-
covered, on the 18th, as to be able to
leave Washington for a seaside resort
near New York.
One of the best-known and oldest of
American landscape painters, John w.
Caslear, n. A, died suddenly, on the
18th. of apoplexy at Saratoga Springs,
N. Y, aged 50 years.
CHARLES G. YELM. Lafayette Qnd.)
travelling man, received an 1904 silver
dollar in change made by an Iowa
hotel keeper, and sold the coin at La
fayette, ON the 10th, for $s55.
NEARLY $4,000 people were added to
the regular influx Of visitors to Chicago
by fifteen special Worlds fair trains
which arrived in that city, on the night
Of the 10th, from eastern cities
A CABLE from Naples, ON the 14th,
said: Cholera in Barra, Protici, Tore,
Annunziatir, Castelamere, Pegano,
Nocera, Cava, Meta, Masa, Sorrento,
Amalf, Capri and Pozzuei. These
towns are south of Naples
THERE is popular clamor in Ecuador
for q declaration of war against Peru,
TO take revenge for atrocities said to
have been committed by Peruvians
during the dispute over the boundary
and in violation of the status quo.
CHOLERA has reappeared in Moscow,
Kieff and northeast Hungary. In Mos
COW the outbreak is most serious.
There were thirty-two cases and eleven
deaths in the convict forwarding prison
ut that city between the LIST and 18th
ArroRNEY-GENERAL OLNEY has de-
cided that there is no power lodged in
the secretary of the treasury or any 9TH
er officer of the government to extend
the time for the withdrawal of domes-
tic whisky from bonded warehouses.
The corps of go cadets left their
barracks at West Point, N. Y, on the
18th, with Col. Mills commandant, the
technical officers, the post band of
forty pieces and the field music corps
of fifteen pieces. for the Worlds fair.
AN invasion of graSshOppers as
marked as that of 1S75-76 occurred at
Fort Scott, Kas., during the night of
the 18th, and by morning they had laid
waste all lawns and stripped the trees
of their foliage. They approached from
the south.
Ir.is said that the big diamond which
is the star of the Tiffany exhibit at the
Worlds fair has been bought by Mrs.
Charles T. Yerkes. wife of the Chicago
street railway king, who will soon take
mp his abode in New York city. The
price paid for this diamond is quoted at
tlOO,OOO
EIGHT THOUSAND machinists, pat
fern-makers, molders, roll turner's and
laborers in the Pittsburgh Pa.) dis
trict have been notified of a reduction
of 10 per cent in their wages, dating
from the 25th. The cut is vigorously
objected to, and a strike is openly
talked of.
VICroRIA (B. CT sealers. while re-
Carding the decision of the Behring
sea arbitrators as favorable to securing
compensation for past losses caused by
the Americans, say The regulations
will be disastrous, as stopping sealing
on the coast, where the catch is prin-
cipally taken.
On the 18th the senate committee on
finance. by a practically unanimous
vote, decided to report favorably the
bill introduced by Mr.. Voorhees, pro-
viding for the issuing of circulating
notes by national banks to the par
value of government bonds on deposit
to secure circulation.
A MEETING was held, on the nth, in
the office of the director-general of the
Worlds fair to adopt measures for the
establishment of a permanent museum
IOr the TcccpClOu Oh pTcScntcu OS
foreign nations, South and Central
American countries and by the United
States and territories
The fund in the hands of the Cana
dian. government for the payment of
dividends upon the stock of the Cana
dian Pacific Railway Co. was exhaust
ed, on the 18th, and thereafter that
corporation must pay dividends out of
its earnings, subsidies and the pro-
ceeds of its land sales.
TREASURY officials regard as the
most practicable yet offered the bill to
authorize the secretary of the treasury
to issue currency against the seignior-
age or profit upon the coinage OF silver
bullion by the treasury, which would
almost Immediately add nearly $780,
OOO, 900 to the circulating medium
THE Dominion government has
granted permission to the United
States authorities to proceed with the
work of improving the Detroit river