Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-06-21


ing down of the United States flag
from the United States consulate at st.
Thomas, Ont, has peen satisfactorily
closed by an explanation to the state
department that. the perpetrators of
the outrage were drunk and irrespon-
sible, and would be properly dealt
with.
In the senior class of mathematics at
Cambridge university, England, a
young woman named johnson has won
the honor of sixth wrangler for 1898,
distancing all her male competitors.
SECRETARY GRESHAM left Washing
ton, on the 18th, for brief visit to Chi
cago.
MAJ. ROBERT HALL, of Baltimore.
Md, died of old age on the 18th. He
was born in that city in 1907, and was
a prominent figure for years in the his
tory of Maryland's militia.
BARON GIOVANNI NICoTERA, ex-min-
lister of the interior and Italy's fore
most statesman, died at his home at
Vico Equense, near Naples, on the 18th.
THE North German Gazette advo-
Gates the passage of n bill by the
reichstag to punish boycotting by fin.
and imprisonment.
THE khedive of Egypt has abandoned
his proposed tour of Europe owing to
the pressure brought to bear upon him
by the sultan of Turkey. He will, in
stead. pay visit.to Constantinople.
THE president, on the 18th, sent tc
the senate the nomination of John III.
Miller, of Kentucky, to be United
States consul at Port Stanley, Falk-
land islands.
IT wasannounced in the Italian cham
Der, on the 18th, that the former min
istry will remain in office with the ex
ception that Signor BaraZZuoli, mem
Der of the right. will assume the port
folio of agriculture in the place OF
Signor Boselli, who had been appointed
minister of finance.
THE platform of the Wisconsin pro-
hibitionists calls for woman suffrage.
be issued direct by the government and
that immigration be restricted.
THE due de Orleans. eldest son of
the comte de Paris, is betrothed to
Princess Henrietta, daughter of the
count of Flanders, brother of King
Leopold of Belgium.
BOAT containing 40 harvesters
crossing from Achili to Westport. Coun-
ty Mayo. Ireland. on the 14th, was cap
sized. and thirty-five of it's occupants
were drowned.
IN the absence from the state of the
United States marshal for Nebraska
the authorities at Washington refused,
on the 18th. to order troops out to pro-
tect the Union Pacific from the indus
trials near .julesburg, the marshals re-
quest being necessary.
INTERESTING ceremonies were held,
on the 14th. in the Philadelphia council
chamber, in historic old independence
hall, in commemorate ton of the adoption
by congress. on June II. 17771, of the flag
made by Betsy Ross. from the design
submitted to her by Gen. Washington
as the national emblem. Flag day:
will hereafter be annually observed in
Philadelphia.
JOHN DUKE COLERIDGE. lord chief JUS
tice CT England. died at $50 o'clock on
the evening of the 18th, aged - years.
THE university of Cambridge will. on
June IS. confer the degree of IL ID. on
Capt. Alfred T. Nathan, commander OF
the United States cruiser Chicago.
WHILE on their way home from
Dunkard love feast at Wooster. O.. on
the night of the 18th, Grant Baum,
aged Is, shot Mile Zimmerman, Il,
only daughter of a widowed mother,
through the heart. Baum claims the
weapon was accidentally discharged.
\ CoMMITTEE of the college of cardi-
naIs has approved the pope's encyclical
letter, stamping it as his political tes-
lament. The encyclical will shortly
be promulgated.
By the upsetting of a fatboat in the
Kentucky river near Waco, Ky, on the
14th, a fishing party of fourteen boys
and girls were thrown out in eight
feet of water. All but one were res
cued by Jack Sewell, who was work
ing in field near by. Miss Carrie
Bush. a handsome young lady, sank be
fore she could be reached.
FIRE destroyed a portion of the
wagon works at South
Bend, Ind. at an early hour on tho
morning of the 18th. Loss not stated