Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-08-09
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


Nh. Coco TATENo, the Japanese min
lister, left Washington with his family,
on the 31st, for San Francisco, en- route
for Japan.
a VESSEL was chartered in Chicago,
on the 31st, to carry corn to Port HUI
ron, Mich, at three-quarters of cent
per bushel, making a new record for
lake grain rates. Vesselmen say this
is the lowest figure ever touched re-
gardless of distance.
JIM MURPHY, an Atlantic and Pa
cific striker, has been sentenced to
sixty days in jail at Prescott, Ariz., for
contempt of court in attempting to
prevent men working in the company's
shops at Winslow.
THE last spike in the Tehuantepec
national railroad was driven at noon
of the 3th. marking the completion of
track-laying on Mexico's first trans
continental railway.
On the 31st the city council of Hub
bard, o., suspended Mayor w. II. Davis
for drunkenness upon his refusal to re-
sign.
The chamber of commerce of Am
sterdam has recommended the esta b.
iISulueHt VI al liz" llhS VI SlSdIilCIS
direct from Amsterdam to New York.
DR.. WILLIAM GRINsTEAD, a pension
office employ, who acted as medical
purveyor to Gen. Grants army during
the battle of Shiloh and the seige of
Cornith, died in Washington on the
31st. He was born in England in 1916.
The last report of the interstate
commerce commission shows that the
number of railway corporations in the
United States is 1, 500, of which only
80 are independent operating roads,
although 939 maintain operating &C
counts. OF the LBS subsidiary com
panies. rs maintain financial accounts,
being leased or operated under traf
agreements. the remaining $50 appar-
emily having only a nominal existence.
On the 31st Vice-President Stevenson,
through his son Lewis, stated that
there was no truth in the statements
widely published that he had been cC:l:-
peeled to interfere to prevent the mar
rage of his daughter to one George f.
Curtis, a clerk in the library of the
senate.
THE wages of the men employed in
the ham department OF ArmOurs pack
ing house in Chicago were reduced fif-
teen cents per day on the 31st. They
asked for return to the old wages,
which was refused, and they were told
that they might strike if they wanted
to. 1t is not believed that they will
do so.
SHORT in his accounts, his defalcatiOn
discovered. requested to make good the
money he had taken and haraSsed by
demands for the payment of an old
debt in Evansville, Ind. George n.
Wells, bookkeeper for the Royal Cigar
Co. in St. Louis. ended his life, on the
31st, by taking morphine.
a NAVAL battle was fought. on the
30th, between the Chinese and Japan
csc fleets. The Japanese sunk the Chi
Eese warship Chen Yuen. and two large
cruisers, supposed to be the Chin-Yuan
and Foo-Ching, vessels built for China
by the Armstrong;. We're captured or
destroyed by the Japanese.
THE first hanging in Norfolk, Va.
for fifty years took place on the 3lst,
when Madison Brown. colored. was
hanged for the murder of John Dol
lard. about sixteen months ago.
y DISTRICT convention OF miners of
the Pittsburgh district met in Pitts.
burgh, Pa. on the 1st. sixty delegates.
representing about $4,000 miners. be-
ing in attendance. The object of tie
convention was to try and force all the
operators in the district to live up to
the Columbus agreement.
The official report of the German
health authorities, issued on the I'd.
shows one death from cholera in Dant-
zig, two in Sagorsz and two in Kurze-
hrack.
THE d. E. Stone furniture plant at
Indianapolis, Ind. which went into the
hands % a receiver some time ago, was
completely destroyed, on the I'd, by fire
caused by lightning. Loss, $50, 200,
with $1,000 insurance