Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-09-07
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

MIGHT not the executive properly
enough issue proclamatio of warn
ing and counsel to the grand army of
intending immigrants, setting forth
chat in the present situation of the
country all persons not having ample
means or definite assurance of employ
ment here will consult their own inter
est by remaining where they are until
prosperity be re-established and our
overstocked labor market be relieved?
THE company which has been or
ganized to establish large colonies of
japanese in Mexico have completed
their preliminary arrangements. The
government of Japan is very anxious to
have the colonization scheme carried
out. The proposed colonists will locate
upon rich agricultural lands in the
southern states of Mexico.
GEORGE p. WIrHERBEE, of Port Henry,
N. Y, and six young companions who
were sailing on Witherbee's yacht, the
Alpha, were capsized in Lake Cham
plain, on the 2sth, and Witherbee and
Eve of the boys were drowned.
SENATOR GALLINGER, of New Hamp-
shire, on the 2Sth, introduced bill
providing for the dismissal from the
government service of all persons not
citizens of the United States, and pre-
venting their ofurther employment in
the service.
SECRETARY CARLISLE has ordered that
the United States mints at Philadel-
phia and San Francisco be fully
manned and the full capacity of both
mints utilized in the coming of gold
bullion. The treasury department pos
sesses from SIS, 000, 900 to 500, 600, 600
worth Of gold bullion, which is part
of the gold reserve of 800. OOo, 900.
AT an early hour on the morning of
the 2Sth the Baltimore & Ohio freight
depot at McKeesport, Pa, q large iron
was completely wrecked and
its contents destroyed by fire. Matches
in household goods stored in the build |
ing are supposed to be the cause. The
loss can not be fully estimated, but is
several thousand dollars.
HAYWARD A. HARVEY, the inventor
Of the Harveyized steel armor plate |
and roller screw, died on the morning |
Of the 2sth. at Orange, N. j., from kid
ney trouble. He had been sick for the |
past six months.
Il. F. BOOMER and his son Allen, 1
private bankers at Waukon, Ia, were !
arrested, on the 2Sth, and taken to |
Lansing. They were charged with re-
ceiving deposits knowing they were in |
solvent,
RIoTINa in San Sebastian, Spain, was |
on the night of the 2sth, the
orchestra again refusing to play the
Basque hymn. The troops fired.
many civilians. The streets
were patroled by the military all night.
Two ACRES of buildings in the bust
ness center of Delavan, Wis. were de-
stroyed by fire on the night of the
esth. Next morning the town was
without hotel, a livery stable or post
office.
FRIENDS of the cholera patients who
were being conveyed to the pest house
in Brahilov, Roumania, on the 2sth,
attacked the attendants. The police
fired into the mob, wounding many.
MORE than 100 persons at Sheles-
q summer resort in the eau
casus, were poisoned, on the Goth, by
impure kouniss. The rest of the sum-
ner visitors left in a panic.
The official vote on the passage of /
the Wilson repeal bill shows Boatner
(dem., Lay and Capehart (dem., w.
va.) not voting. This makes the total
vote: Yeas, $50; nays, 100.
CHAUTAUQUA, N. Y, suffered a loss
to several thousand dollars
from storm on the night of the goth.
THE epidemic in Grimsby, an En-
ylish seaport in Lincolnshire, has been
declared officially to be Asiatic cholera,
after having been called "choleraic
disease" for many days The last vic
Jim of the disease was woman, who
lied on the 2sth. Several other cases
before hers had ended fatally.
THE New York republican state COM
nittee. at their meeting. on the S1st,
lecided to hold their o0hvention at
syracuse on October 9th.
THE West Side bank of St. Paul,
dinn., which suspended August 4. re-
umed business on the 31st.
THE last stage of the home-rule de-
ate IN the British house Of commons
,egan on the S0th.
The steamship Aller. which arrived
t New York on the 31st, brought ], 1885,
60 francs and ESD. 900 gold. I,
The weekly statement of the Bank
{ France, published ON the Slst, shows
decrease of Il. 0oo. 900 francs gold and
.l2A 900 francs silver.