Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-07-27

grou County gegister
BY ELL d. AXE.
RONTON. MISSOURI
FREDERICK A. JOHNSON, aged IS, an
ex-congressman, died at Glenn Falls,
N. Y, on the 18th, of heart failure.
THE First national bank at Grand
Junction, Col, and the First national
bank at Carson City, Col, failed to
open their doors for business on the
goth.
THE infanta Eulalie of Spain, who
had been visiting in Paris, left that
city, on the Goth, en- route to England,
to visit the duke of York and his bride,
Princess May
THE will of the late Anthony J..
Drexel, of Philadelphia, was admitted
to probate on the Goth. 1t disposes of
an estate valued at between s25, 600, 600
and $50. 900, 900.
IL
the United States in the first half of
1898 was 1902 ,91s gross tons, against
4,769, 6s3 for the first half of 1892. de-
crease of 266, 765 tons.
For the twelve months ended June
30, 1898. the total value of the exports
of merchandise from the United States
was ss47, 1913, 147; fo- the year 1892 the
figures were 81, OSO, 27s, las.
TWELVE men lost their lives at the
''iron gates of the Danube on the
18th. Their boat was dashed against a
dredger that was moored in the stream.
and the men were thrown out and
drowned.
ATAsHKEND letter to the Vienna
Press affirms that the military mission
which Russia dispatched from Turkes-
tan has for its object the final anneXa-
ton of the Pamirs without consult
ing Great Britain.
THE health inspector of New York
stumbled over a nest of smallpox, on
the 21st. in the big tenement No. ZIG
Pell street. In one filthy room on the
fourth floor he found whole family
sick with the disease.
Hon J. STERLING MORTON, secretary
of agriculture, said. on the 18th: II
think the chief remedy for the present
depressed condition of business is the
repeal of the Sherman bill. That
should be done at once
Mrs. ANNIE BRONSON ALCOTT PRATT.
widow of John Il. Pratt. and oldest
daughter of A. Bronson Alcott, died at
Concord. Mass. on the 18th. She was
the original of Meg" the oldest one
of THE Four Little Women"
SINCE their issue last year not one of
the Columbian half dollars had found
its way back into the treasury depart
ment until the 18th, when one was re-
ceived in a package of money sent for
redemption by an Atlanta Ca bank.
CHOLERA has reappeared in Moscow.
Eieff and northeast Hungary. In Mos
COW the outbreak is most serious.
There were thirty-two cases and eleven
deaths in the convict forwarding prison
at that city between the LIST and 18th
HONDURAS troops threatened to mu-
because they had not been
id. President Vasquez forced a loan
rom the merchants of Tegucigalpa and
planters in the suburbs. With this
money the soldiers were paid and an
uprising averted.
THE remains of Anthony ]. DreXel.
of Philadelphia. were consigned to the
tomb. on the 10th, with services as I'M
ostentatious as was the life of the great
banker and philanthropist. The inter
ment was made in the family mausoleum
IN Woodland cemetery.
THE British bark Pinmore, Capt.
Maxwell, which arrived at Queenstown
on the nth, was one of the four con-
testants in the long race from San
Francisco, and was the first of the
racers to arrive. All the vessels left
San Francisco March %.
The openly-eXpressed sympathy Of
the Kansas state administration for the
striking coal miners. and the fear that
it will incite the strikers to lawless
acts which will result in great damage
to the mines. has induced the mine
operators to appeal to the federal au-
thorities for protection.
SECRETARY HoKE SMITH has made
decision repeating former order con-
STRUNG ''disa bility not of service orr
GIN" so as to limit it to disa bilities pre-
venting the applicant from earning
support by manual labor. 1t is be-
lieved this will reduce pension pay
ments from SIS, OOO. 900 to SO, OOO, 900.
J. r. THOMAS, cashier of a bank in
Ovid, n. Y, hearing burglars in the
post office, next door to the bank. on
the night of the 10Th, went down to
the street and called upon them to
throw up their hands. He was fired
upon and slightly wounded twice, and,
returning the fire, killed one of the
burglars.
On the 10th the duchess of York, the
bride of Prince George of Wales. sent
to the lord mayor of London $500 for
the benefit of the families of those who
lost their lives in the Victoria disas-
ter This money was the balance of a
sum for a wedding gift collected by
the lord lieutenants of the several
counties.
CHINA has taken measures to assist
Siam. which for many years has paid
her tribute. against French agrees
s;on I'm the other hand it is said