Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-12-07

-.zz1N JIG StIu Ming dumDefE charged
zanardelli, president of the chamber
>pf deputies, with the formation of
cabipet.
1T was reported at Buffalo, N. Y, on
the 27th, that the strike on the Lehigh
Valley railroad would be extended to
the Nickel Plate, Erie, Lake Shore and
West Shore roads.
DEATH dissolved the firm of n. Ken
nedy & Son, architects and builders,
st. Louis, on the 2sth. Henry Ken
nedy, aged SO, the senior member,
died at noon, from old age. Herbert
F. Kennedy, aged IS. the junior mem
Der, passed away at Z p. M, victim of
pneumonia
Mrs. THOMAS WILKINS, whose stage
name is Dollie Emerson, was held up
in front of her residence in Denver,
Col, on returning from the theater, on
night of the 2Ith, by three masked
men, who took a diamond necklace
and other jewelry amounting in value
to s1.T0O. Her husband was with her
at the time.
AFTER a consultation between the
attorneys in the Coughlin case at Chi
cago, on the 2Sth, States Attorney
Kearn said that Jurors Gates and Will
son, who were charged with securing
their places on the jury by fraud,
would be dismissed by consent of the
lawyers for the defense.
AT Eau Claire, Wis, negro tramp
crawled into car of lumber bound
for Burlington, Ia, and lay down on
top Of the pile. He fell asleep, and the
lumber being wet swelled up, crushing
him against the roof of the car. When
the car arrived at it's destin alton, on
the eSth, the dead body was found.
MEMBERS of the New York cotton ex-
change had their annual guessing
match. on the 2Sth, on the cotton crop
for the year ending next September.
Estimates were submitted by 40 men,
bers. They ranged from 6, $50, 900 bales
to 1865, 900 bales. The average was
1884, 703 bales.
FIFTY millions of dollars, in round
mum bers, represent the capital en-
ployed in the lumber industry of the
Pacific coast, which, it is claimed, will
suffer serious loss if lumber is placed
upon the free list.
On the Goth Henry Disston's Sons,
saw, file and tool makers of Philadel-
phia, announced Il reduction of 10 per
cent. in the wages of their employees.
Their works are the largest in the
world.
UNITED STATES MINISTER BAKER has
requested the government of San Sal
vador to arrest Louis F. Menage, the
Minneapolis (Minn.) embezzler.
On an average there are fifty cases of
cholera and fifteen deaths daily in
Pera, Turkey. The disease is still
more severe in Constantinople.
The great ship canal connecting
Manchester, England, with the sea,
will be opened to traffic on the nth.
The quarantine at Constantinople
against western arrivals has been re-
duced to twentyfour hours.
TIE situation in Madagascar is re-
ported to be serious. France has sent
an inspector to Tamatave to watch
French interests.
JUDGE EDWARD COKE BILLINGS, of
the United States court for the East.
ern district of Louisiana, died, on the
1st, at his summer residence in New
Haven, Conn, aged "a.
THE Hotchkiss Ordnance Co. started
up it's two factories at Providence, R.
l., on the goth. on 24-hour time, the
orders for torpedoes having been
largely increased.
THE Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fee
Railroad Co. has contracted with the
Baldwin locomotive works of Phila-
delphia for the building of seventy-one
locomotives.
THE public debt statement issued on
the LIST shows net increase in the pub
lie debt, less cash in the treasury, dur
ing November of SO. TIC. 1851.
The Erie Railroad Co. defaulted on
its second consolidated mortgages, on
the LIST, but paid the interest on its
funded fives.
The duke of Leinster died at Carton,
county Kildare, Ireland, on the 1st, of
typhoid fever. He was born August
16, 1851.
Hon. BARTLETT TRIP, American
minister to Austria-Hungary, gave a
banquet in Vienna. on the evening of
the 30th, in celebration of the American
Thanksgiving day.