Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-08-16

UurR. Nd, on the 9th. NOTING all the
miners who stuck to their posts during
the late prOtracted strike that they
will each receive nine months rent anC
fuel free.
THE Moline Uil.) Plow Co., on the
10th. closed down its entire shop
throwing 275 men out of work. 4
sympathetic strike was feared by the
officers. and the shutdown was &c
avoid trouble.
THE Iowa battle flags We're trans
ferred from the arsenal to permanent
receptacle in the capitol at Des Moines
on the 10th. Thousands of old vet
Grams took part in the great parade in
honor of the event.
CHIEF-JUSTICE COswELL BENNETT OF
of the kentucky court of appeals died
at Hopkinsville on the 9th. He would
have completed his first term of eight
years in January and had recently re
ceived nomination for reelection
THE Yankee yacht Eigilant showed
her heels in fine style to her British
competitors. off the Isle of Wight. on
the 9Th. beating the Britannia and Sa-
tanita. the former by nearly eight
minutes and the latter nearly out of
sight.
PRESIDENT CLARK of the Indianapolis
Nnd.) American Railway union has dis
appeared from that city, and it devel-
oped. on the 9th. that he left to avoid
arrest for connection with an alleged
plot to blow up the Union station
there.
SIR EDWARD GREY. under secretary
of the British foreign Office. denied in
the house of commons. on the 9th, the
report that Jabez Spencer Balfour had
been extradited from the Argentine re-
public upon the order of the federal
court.
THE house democratic caucus, on the
18th. lasted an hour and half, and adj
journed after deciding that the house
conferees on the tariff bill should not
be embarrassed by instructions of any
character from their democratic asso-
ciates.
THE secretary of the navy has re-
ceived the annual report of the board
of visitors to the naval academy which
contains an unusual number of i'm
portant recommendations for raising
the standard of scholarship and per-
fecting the course.
No APPEAL has been made for Santo
CaesariO, the convicted murderer of
President Carnot. and the time for re-
vision of Judgment having passed, the
documents were, on the eth. sent to
Paris. The execution will take place
probably about the 27th.
DAVID HAHN, who drove coaches
across the Alleghenies before the adj
vent of the railroad, died at Ports
mouth, o., on the 9th, aged o.. In his
day he carried Gen. Jackson, Henry
Clay, President William Henry Harri-
son and other distinguished statesmen.
QUEEN VICTORIA gave a grand BAN
quet at Osborne. on the 9th, in honor
of the German emperor. Seventy COW
ers were laid. When the emperor re-
turned to his yacht. the Meteor, all
the yachts lying near were specially
illuminated out of compliment to him.
HE tltCIloH Oi 1ldttu
delegate from the Springfield (Mass-)
Central Labor union to the Federation
of Labor convention at Boston. has
been declared void. owing to his con-
nection with a company of naval re-
serves. Hadd will appeal to the feder-
alton convention.
1T was officially reported from Ten
TSiv bo haf hn off of
Great Britain and Russia to bring
about a peaceful settlement of the dis
putes between China and Japan have
failed. China is willing to pay an in
demnity, but she refuses to surrender
her suzerainty over Corea.
ABOUT 80 per cent. of the creditors of
the Mambourg, Crockery and Calcined
Glass companies met with Assignee
Fox and ex-GOv. Foster in Fostoria, o..
on the eth. and decided to pay a cash
dividend of 10 per cent. on the indebt-
edness of the Calcined and Is per cent.
on the other two companies.
THE awful wreck on the Rock Island
passenger train. near Lincoln. Neb.,
on the 9th, was the work of train
wreckers, and the company promptly
offered reward of $1,000 for the APP
preheHsiop of the perpetrators. Tween
ty-four lives are now said to have been
lost, and ten persons, injured.
Mrs. NJ DEMONSTRATIONS. the Afri-
can explores, arrived in New York
from Liverpool on the steamship Au-
rama on the 9th. She is to lecture at
Chautauaua. N Y, on African sub
jects, and to arouse interest in her
scheme for the colonization of large
tract of territory in East Africa.
Miss SUSIE SHERMAN, daughter OF
Rev. c. w. Sherman, left st. Louis, on
the sth, to become a missionary in
Africa. She will sail for the Dark con-
tinent from New York city, on the
18th, on the steamer Paris. Her elder
sister. Bessie Sherman, has been doing
missionary work for years in India.
THE loss of sealers in the Arctic
ocean is denied by the crew of the Bow
head which arrived at San Francisco
on the sth. They say that the sealer
Thomas is safe, and that the schooner
'Sayward, reported cspsized or lost,
with all hands, never lost a boat.
They report the Unga safe at Hako-
date.