Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-03-01
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

PATCHES of the new bonds were sent
from the treasury at Washington, on
the Goth, to the sub-treasurers at all
points from which subscriptions had
been received. The batch sent to New
York was greater than all others COM
bined.
On the Goth Assistant Register of the
Treasury II. III. Smith, of Michigan,
conforming to the request of the pres
ident, rendered his resignation.
A DISPATCH from Montevideo, via
Lisbon, says that all the vessels of the
fleet of the Brazilian government, with
the exception of the dynamite cruiser
Nichtheroy. joined the squadron of the
insurgents. on the Goth. and sailed
away from the harbor of Rio.
The Keystone Rolling Mill Co. of
Pittsburgh, Pa, started its plant. on
the Goth, on strictly nonunion basis.
None of the old puddlers returned to
work.
outlaw, was taken to court in Fresno,
Cal, on the Goth, and sentenced by
Judge Harris to imprisonment for life
at Folsom penitentiary.
AN attempt was made to wreck the
Nickel Plate east-bound fast train No.
6, half mile west of McComb, O., on
the night of the Goth, by piling ties on
the track. The distractions were
found and removed by farmer named
Lynn.
THE dynamite factory of James S.
Miller, at Sumneytown, Pa, exploded,
on the 21st, with heavy, loss and a de-
donation heard for ten miles. A man
named Fritch was blown to atoms.
NJ. NICHOLAS DE GIERs, Russian min
lister of foreign affairs. was reported,
on the 21st, very seriously ill with
asthma.
REAR-ADMIRAL STANTON and nine
teen officers and 1872 men of the
wrecked corvette Kearsarge arrived at
Quarantine, S. l., on the 21st, on the
steamer City of Para, after a seven
days passage from Colon.
ERAsrUs WYMAN, the well-known
capitalist and railroad man, and ex-
manager for r. G. DUN s. Co., was COM
mitted to the Tombs prison. in New
York city, on the 21st, in default of
S25, 900 bonds, to answer two indict-
ments for forgery, found at the in
stance of r. G. Dun & Co., who claim
that he has embezzled from the con-
Germ, by forgery and otherwise, $780,
01S.90.
ACTING SECRETARY MCADoO, on the
21st, appointed court of inquiry to
examine into and report upon the facts
connected with the wreck of the Kear-
sarge, on Roncador reef. The court
will consist of Admiral Gherardi. Capt.
Miller and Capt. Kane. Lieut.. Com.
Joseph Kelly will act as recorder.
THE Otoe county (Neb.) grand jury
promptly and thoroughly investigated
the recent hanging in effigy of j. Ster-
ling Morton and son and found only
two persons implicated. Stack White
and Henry w. Hocrath, one constable
and the other a painter. They have
been indicted under the statute for
what all term a dastardly act.
FROM the views expressed by mem
bers of the house committee on agri-
culture, the prospect of favorable re-
port upon one of the bills for a govern
ment appropriation to exterminate the
Russian thistle from the wheat lands of
the northern middle states is not bright.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND offered Gen.
Fitzhugh Lee, through Secretary
Gresham, the place of minister to
Stockholm. Sweden. The offer has
been declined. The ex-governor is
busily engaged in his work on the life
of his uncle, Robert E. Lee.
The president has informed members
OF congress. who have approached him
on the subject, that he proposed, SO far
rs possible, to appoint the sons of army
and navy officers as cadets-at-large to
the military and naval academies. This
is in accordance with his policy of eight
years ago.
IT was ascertained, on the 21st, be-
yond all doubt that the Depauw uni
versity at Greencastle, Ind, was caught
for at least CSC. 900. and probably $780,
GOO, in the recent Depauw plate glass
failure at Alexander.
The japanese cook who was trans
ferred from the United States cruiser
Newark to the quarantine at Monte
video, with the idea that he was suf-
fering from yellow fever, was said, on
the 22d. by the hospital doctors not to
have yellow fever at all. They dag
nosed his ease as typhoid fever. not the
dreaded ssvellow lack"