Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-03-15
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

THE amount of gold paid out by the
treasury department during February
in the redemption of United States and
treasury notes was $40, 1872, 500, and the
amount paid during the first five days
of the present month was s629.016. The
total amount received at the treasury
department in payment of principal,
premium and interest in new 1904 bonds
is SIS, 265, 512.
WHILE shooting at sparrows in his
yard, on the 9Th, Frank Prinz, aged sc
years, one of the oldest and best
known citizens of McKeesport, Pa, &C
cidentally shot himself in the stomach.
He walked into the house and fell dead
without uttering word.
The plan to use aluminium boats in
the Wellman Arctic expedition has at
tracted considerable attention in Wash
ington. Supt. Kimball of the life-sav-
ing service is much interested in these
boats and the navy department is con-
sidering the possibility of boats of this
material becoming valued additions to
the equipment of the new men-of-war.
THE prince of Wales is said to be de-
lighted over the elevation of Lord
Rosebery to the premiership. 1t is
limited very broadly that his lordship
is to marry one of the princes daugh-
tiers.
The manufacturers of slot machines
in Indiana have decided to make a le-
gal test of the effort to eradicate the
devices on the ground that they come
within the restrictions of the gambling
laws
DELEGATION representing the Irish
societies of Brooklyn called on Mayor
Schieren, on the 5th, and asked him to
allow the Irish flag to be hoisted on
the city hall on st. Patrick's day. The
mayor replied that he was the mayor
of all nationalities and would give
special privileges to none. He was re-
minded of the fate of Abram S. Hewitt
By his callers.
In short address from the throne.
on the 5th, Queen Victoria prorogued
the British parliament. and after brief
sessions both houses adjourned.
Four men of gang of nine shaft
sinkers in the Richmond shaft in the
northern part of Scranton. Pa, were
killed, ON the 9th, by the fall of a shelf
of rock and the consequent explosion
of blower of gas
The lighthouse tender Violet, with
President Cleveland and party on
board, returned to Washington, on the
9Th, at 1:3o p. m.
Mrs. MARGARET GLEASON was suffo-
Gated by smoke from fire in a
New York city tenement in which she
lived, on the nth. Her babe was found
by her side unconscious, and sent to a
hospital. Two children in an adjoin-
ing room escaped injury.
THE barn on the farm of Charles
Pierce, located near Coldwater. Mich,
was destroyed by fire. on the nth, to-
gether with forty sheep and many
horses and cattle. Miles Nixon, the
tenant on the farm, was burned to
death while trying to save the stock.
ALDERMAN MARTIN Is. LoMAsNEY, of
Boston, was shot in the leg, on the 9TH,
just outside the aldermanic chamber in
the city hall, by a crank named James
Doonan, who fired five shots at the al
derman from a sS-caliber revolver. only
one of which, however, took effect.
FIRE ia Detroi. (Mich.) lodging
house, early on the morning of the sth,
compelled the occupants to jump for
their lives from the windows. One
man was probably fatally and another
seriously injured
SAMUEL MARGARUM. trustee of the
Gunkle Banking Co. of Middletown,
O., insolvent, on the sth petitioned for
the appointment of C receiver for the
United Paper Co., of MiddletOwn.
THE Patrons of Industry of North
America finished their work in fifth
annual convention at Toledo, O., on the
7th, and the delegates departed for
their homes
ALL of the cart drivers employed by
the STRENGTHENING department of New
York city went on strike on the sth-
Squads of police were sent to the dis
trict rs trouble was apprehended.
The prince of Wales started from
France, on the 9th, to pay a
visit to Emperor Francis Joseph. at
where the Austrian ruler
was soiourning.