Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-04-27


Lamoreaux contemplates a sweeping
change of officials in the various land
offices throughout the country. At head
quarters it is given out that registers
and receivers will be allowed to serve
out their term of four years if they have
good records.
GEORGE T. MARTIN, a laborer, met
with a horrible death while engaged in
digging vault in the Jenny electric
light station at Evansville, Ind, on the
29th. He had gone down about Is feet
when the wall between the old vault
and the new one caved in and buried
him.
THE three-masted schooner L. Pr
Danforth was driven ashore at the foot
of Melrose street, Chicago. on the
morning of the goth. The wreck parted
in the center and was rapidly going to
pieces when the life-savers rescued
Capt. Hate, seventeen sailors and the
cook.
CHIHUAHUA (Mexico) advices say
that pack train of bullion from Jesus
Maria district, bound for Chihuahua,
was seized by the rebels few days
since and every dollar of property con-
estimated at $4,000.
Fort WAYNE, Ind, on the Goth, cele-
brated the completion of its new $50, 900
city building by grand reception by
the mayor and city council. in which
most of the people of the city par
ticipated. The affair wound up with a
ball in the public hall on the third floor
of the building.
SECRETARY GREsHAM's attention has
been called to the exorbitant fees
charged by a number of American con-
suls in Europe for certifying to the san
itary condition of vessels and the bag
gage of passengers bound for the
United States.
LINCOLN, Neb., is aroused over the
wholly inexplicable disappearance of
Rev. S. D. Roberts, one of the widest
known clergymen in the Nebraska con-
ference of the Methodist church.
DAN ADAMS, a vicious negro, was
lynched by mob at Salina, Kas., on
the night of the Goth, for having made
an unprovoked and murderous assault
with a razor on Troy Stout, the bag
gage agent at the Union Pacific depot.
THE Belgian senate, on the 21st, APP
proved the compromise granting uni
versa1 suffrage. accompanied by plural
voting based on education and prop
erty, as previously adopted by the
chamber of representatives. By the
Belgian constitution the power Of
making laws is vested in the chamber
of representatives and the senate.
THE three Columbus caravels arrived
at Fort Monroe, Va, at 1890 a. m. of
Il L
war ships. They were received with
great thunder of salutes and display of
the flags of countries represented by
the fleets, and dropped anchor at the
end of the American line of vessels.
PRESIDENT HIPPoLYTE of Hayti and
President Hereaux of San Domingo
met in Manzanilla bay, on the Goth. and
held conference which lasted five
hours, followed by a banquet, during
which the alliance for peace formed by
the two presidents was sealed in many
bumpers by their followers.
OWING to the ina bility of all men,
bers of the subcommittee of the senate
committee on commerce to get away by
May 5, the chairman of the committee
has postponed the trip to the Pacific
coast for the purpose of investigating
the subject of a deep-water harbor I'M
til the first week in July.
THE bodies of ten OF the fourteen
men who persisted in the air-shaft of
the wrecked crib at Milwaukee were
recovered from the air-sbaft, on the
21st, and two others were washed
ashore.
THE crew of seven men of the schoon-
er Henry COngdon, from Boston to
Norfolk, Va. which stranded off Asbury
Park, n. J., on the 21st, was saved by
the breeches buoy.
ORDERS have been issued at the treas
ury department for the revenue cutters
Rush, Corwin and Bear to prepare at
once for their summer cruise in the
Arctic ocean.
FIRE broke out, on the 21st, in the
shaft of the Silver Bow mine at Butte,
Mont, near the 5O0-foot level. Ten
men are known to have been entombed
on that level and are supposed to be
dead.