Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-06-15

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BY ELI ID. AXE.
AN4ON. MISSOURI,
H war department has decided I.
- the entire corps of cadets from
vest Point to the Worlds fair at Chi
ABOUT the middle of August.
MRS. GRESHAM, mother of the secre
Ssry OF state, was reported very i'll, .,
me eth. at her home at GAINESVILLE
Ana She is past 80 years of age
TIE opinion of the majority of tn.
supreme court ON the Chinese exclu
aon and restriction act, announced b,
ustace Gray, had not, up to the 5th
oeen HE'D with the clerk of the court
JAMES GORDON BENNETT, proprietor
on the New York Herald, fell from 8
coach In Paris, on the 7th, sustaining
injuries which, on the eth, his physi
caans said rendered his condition crit
3eal.
FLOODS continue to cause great de
Structlon in the Austrian duchy O.
6ukowina- Large numbers of the per
sons have been drowned, while thou
sands are homeless, and the loss of prop
erty is very great
DURING q storm at Mizquinaula, q
small town in the state of Hidalgo
Mexico, man named Miraureo an6
MS wife and child sought refuge in 9
cave. A cloudburst filed the cave
with water in few seconds, drowning
all three.
ISAAC MORTON, ex-president of the
Cleveland & Marietta railroad, died al
Columbus, O., ON the 7th. He was s.
years old, and for many years was
prominent in Ohio politics, He was
best known by his sobriquet of ''Gov.
Norton
The marriage Of Jeanette, daugh.
ter OF Maj. e. w. Halford, formerly
private secretary to President Harri-
SON, to Edmund A. Benedict, of New
York, took place, on the 18th, in the ca
fhedral church of St Mary's, Noting
ham, England.
ATTACHMENTS were served, on the
eth, upon fifty elevators and all other
property of the Northern Pacific Ele-
vator Co. in North Dakota IN suit on
claims aggregating 800, 600, brought at
the instance of banks in Montreal, Min
neapolis and Duluth.
OK the sth less than 81 1000, 900 re-
manned to be subscribed to the SIS .OO0.-
600 syndicate organized to underwrite
an equal amount of trust notes which
are to be sold by the Northern Pacific
Railroad Co, to pay the debt and pro-
vide the company with working capt.
tai
The courtesies of the Worlds fair
were extended to the Infanta Eulalie.
on the sth. and the celebration of
princess Day in her honor was
complete success. Thousands of flags
were displayed on the different build
ings, the Spanish colors predomina-
ting.
The $4,000 souvenir half-dollar,
owned by an eastern firm of type
writer manufacturers, was installed in
Manufactures hall at the Worlds fair
on the 5th. A special guard was placed
in charge of the precious piece, and
watch will be kept over it until the end
of the fair.
EDWIN THOMAS BOOTH. the great ira
gedian, who had been lying very ill at
the Players club, in New York, for
several weeks, died at los a. m, on the
9TH, surrounded by his daughter. Mrs.
Grossman, and her husband and many
intimate and loving friends. He was
90 years old.
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AT the request of Secretary of War
Lamont, Adjt.-Gen. Williams. on the
Sth, selected a number of regular army
officers for duty at the Worlds fair.
where they will assist in increasing the
efficiency of the Columbian guards
without adding further to the expense
of that organization.
SECRETARY HOKE SMITH mas made
decision repeating a former order con-
STRUNG disability not of service ORR
gin" so as to limit it to disabilities pre-
venting the applicant from earning
support by manual labor. 1t is be-
1ieved this viii reduce pension pay
ments from SIS, 0OO. 900 to $40, OcO. 600.
CLEARINGHOUSE returns for seventy
Eve principal cities of the United States,
as reported by Bradstreets, for the
week ended on the 9Th, aggregated ST.
156, 3S4 ,353, of which amount New York
city returned s645. SS4, 03a. Chicago $780,
Isl, 200. Boston 80. 979,511. Philadel-
ptia SO. 10s. 9s7 and St Louis SIS. 6S5, 662.
The Central Traffic association has
taken the initiative in the matter of
lowering the rates to Chicago to a
single fare for the round trip: and it is
expected in official circles that this
will prove the entering wedge which
win lead to uniform and general &C
ton on the part of all the trunk lines.
IT is mentioned as a significant coin
eidence that Secretary Lamont. the
head of the war department. should be
right on the spot at a time when there
n . possibility that his department
may be called upon to back up the ju-