Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-05-04
On the 2sth Luther E. Mckinney, Of
New Hampshire, was nominated by the
ce0dent to be minister to Colombia.
lRONTON.

TIE Ohio legislature, on the 25th,
passed the bill taxing telegraph, tele-
phone and express companies. After q
oatter fight the street railways were
omitted.
DIVINE to the Illness of Lord James
Hammer, one of the British members OF
the Behring sea tribunal of arbitration,
the tribunal, ON the 25th, adjourned for
one week.
THE National Editorial association,
comprising delegates from every state
editorial association in the Union, will
hold its annual convention in Chicago
May 16 to 20.
TIE Daniel Barnes, from Philadel-
phia, out 156 days on q voyage to San
Francisco, and which should have ar
rived months ago, had not been heard
Of up to the 27th.
A WORLDS congress of bankers and
dnanciers is to be held in Chicago dur
ing the week of June 10 to Is, 1893. Mr..
Lyman J. Gage, president of the Ma
tional Bank of Chicago, will preside.
the fftieth anniversary Of the intro
duction Of the order Of Odd Fellows
into the United States was celebrated
in New York, on the 2eth, by parade
and an GRAFTON by William G. Forester.
Ok the 25th an extensive ticket swim
die, in which scalpers in Chicago, st.
Paul, Minneapolis, Omaha, Kansas
City, st. Louis, Denver and New Or
leans are implicated, was unearthed at
Chicago.
The Pacific Coast council and Trades
and Labor federation, which represent
. membership of 40, ZOO, sent a protest
TO President Cleveland, on the Gath,
against the appointment of o. w. Ed
wards as public printer.
A HIGHLY interesting and important
international exhibition will be held in
Brussels during the coming summer,
the object being to display the COM
mercial, industrial and scientific devel-
opment of the public press from early
to modern times
The president, on the 26th, appointed
Henry T. Dimmock. of New York; Don
NJ. Dickinson, 'of Michigan; ]. w. Doan,
of Illinois; Fitzhugh Lee, of Virginia,
and Joseph w. Paddock, of Nebraska,
TO be governments directors of the Union
Pacific Railway Co.
The suspension of the London char
tered bank of Australia, with a paid-up
capital of 81, OO0, 900 and reserve fund
of ESQ, 600, was announced on the 25th.
In addition to the London Office it has
many branches in Victoria, New South
Wales, and Queensland.
An order of court has been made in
London for the winding up of the En-
glish, Scottish and Australian chartered
bank, the failure of which, with liabili-
ties amounting to Es, 0O0, 900, was an
nounced on April 10. The order was
issued on the petition of the company.
THE Danish steamer CORN, bringing
the Russian exhibit for the Worlds
fair in 2,33s cases, arrived at Balti-
more, Md, ON the Gath, from Libau, by
way of Shields, England. She left
Libau March 81. The captain of the
steamer stated that the value of his
cargo was 81 ,0OO,0OO
The very latest and best authenti-
Gated information obtainable from the
tornado-devastateds section of Oklahoma
territory, up to the 27th, was to the eff
lives had been lost, twenty-five persons
fatally injured. and 100 others hurt
more of less seriously.
THE clearinghouse returns for sew
enty-five principal cities of the United
States, as reported by Bradstreet's, for
the week ended on the 9Th, aggregated
81 ,077, 422, O64; of which amount New
York city returned 1854, s44, 100, Chicago
e101, s4s, O32, Boston $97 ,53s, 166, Phila-
delphia 81, 765, 2s4, and st. Louis &25,-
497,2s4.
AMONG the passengers on the Fuerst
Bismarck. which arrived at New York
from Hamburg on the 2sth, were: James
Gordon, of the London Morning Post;
j. r. Cowen, of the Yorkshire Herald;
Norman Smith, of the National Press
agency, and w. Hitler, of the Marine
Engineer. They were en- route to the
Worlds fair.
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The various exercises attending the
arrival of the American and foreign
naval fleets at the port of New York,
was ushered in, on the 25th, by the UNI
yelling in Battery park of the statue of
John Ericsson, the American inventor
of Swedish birth whose genius revolu-
tionized marine architecture and mod
ern naval warfare.
ACTING SECRETARY HAMLIN of the
treasury department said, on the 27th:
ssThe financial situation continues sat-
isfactory. The treasury has received
and accepted several offers of gold.
The offers were not large, but came
from several different points, showing
. general disposition to help build up
the treasury gold"
The subcommittee of the German
reichstag, appointed to examine the
documents submitted by the jew
batter, Ahlwardt, in support of the
charge of corruption made against
present and ex-members of the govern
ment, submitted its report on the 2sth.
The committee finds that there is moth
ing in the documents to prove the grave
charges made by Ahlwardt
OK the 26th Sunday opening of the
Worlds fair came up in the meeting of
che national commission. A resolution
looking TO that end was introduced by