Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-05-31
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grn,l County &egister
By ELI ID. AXE.
1RoNTON. MISSOURI
HE new United States cruiser Column
o1a, on her trial trip, on the 22d, made
q speed OF "a knots, with natural
draught.
ADMIRAL GERvAIs will be delegated
by the French government to attend
the marriage of the czarowitz to Prin-
cess Aiix of Hesse.
THE Salvation army is to erect an
eight-story headquarters in New York.
The building is to be erected in the
feudal style modernized.
QUEEN VICTORIA celebrated her sew
enty-ffth birthday anniversary on the
oath. She was born May "a, 1919, and
succeeded to the throne June 20, 1887.
AN investigation by the house naval
committee of the armor-plate frauds
began, on the 23d, by a subcommittee
of five members-three democrats and
two republicans
THE president, accompanied by Secre-
taries Carlisle and Gresham and Capt.
Robley Evans, of the lighthouse board,
arrived in Washington, on the oath, on
the lighthouse tender Violet
FROM inside sources it is learned that
Hawaiian Minister Thurston will not
return to Washington, but will accept
the portfolio of minister of foreign af-
fairs in President Dole's cabinet.
ELEVEN HUNDRED persons in North
Dakota have pledged themselves to pay
five dollars each per annum to insure a
fund of SIS 500, to be expended in prose
cutting offenders against the prohibit
troy law.
1T was reported, on the cath, that Mr..
Labouchere was to advance the capital
necessary to start an aggressive daily
newspaper in Dublin devoted to the
interests of the Healyite faction of the
Irish party.
TEE Presbyterian general assembly
at Nashville, Tenn, adopted a resolu-
ton, on the 22d, enjoining purity in
the lives of church members, and con-
demning those who violate the seventh
commandment.
COL FREDERICK G. SKINNER, one of
the editors of Turf. Field and Farm,
died, on the night of the 23d, at Char
louisville, Va. He was a protege of La
fayette, by whom he was taken to
France and educated.
SENATOR MORGAN, chairman of the
committee on foreign relations, has not
lost sight of his Nicaragua canal bill.
but frequently discusses the matter
with his colleagues He expects to see
the bill passed by this congress
REV. BARTON w. JOHNSON, associate
editor of the Christian Evangelist, of
St. Louis, died, early on the morning
of the gath, of consumption, the result
of an attack of la grippe. He was 60
years old and a native of Illinois.
THE Pan-American Bimetallic associ-
alton, composed of Representatives from
the United States, South and Central
America and old Mexico, met in con-
gress in Armory hall, Washington, on
the ed, under the presidency of Col. c.
Fisk, of Denver.
Apv1cEs from Samoa to the 18th are
that King Malietoa had given Aana
rebels until May 10 to lay down their
arms If they refused he would attack
them at Atua. The government troops
were ready for action, and the rebels
seemed inclined to fight.
THE number of commercial failures
in the United States for the week
ended on the 25th, as reported by X. u.
Dun & Co., was 1873, as compared with
ESQ for the corresponding week of last
year. For Canada the failures num-
bered IS, against IA last year.
Mrs u. S. GRANT, accompanied by
members of the st. Louis Loyal Legion,
visited Ironton, No., on the 21st. where
the party viewed a monument COM
memorating Gen. Grants first reception
on his receiving his commission as
brigadier general from President Lin
clon.
THE house committee on rules re-
ported back a substitute. on the 22d,
for the Dunphy resolution authorizing
the house committee on naval affairs
to investigate the so-called armor-plate
scandal with which the Carnegie
works, of Pittsburgh, Pa, are con-
cerned.
THE condition Of Representative
Jerry Simpson, of Kansas, had so far
improved, on the 25th, that he ex-
pected to be able to leave Washington,
on June 1, for Berkeley Springs, Va,
where he purposes remaining until he
has fully recovered. His physician has
no doubt of Mr.. Simpsons ultimate re-
covery.
1T was reported from Washington, on
the cath, that in all probability the bill
admitting Utah to statehood would be
passed by the senate in the course of a
few days The opposition that had come
from one of the eastern republicans had
been withdrawn, and he was said now
to admit the equity of the claims of the
territory to statehood.
STRIKING miners inaugurated a reign
of terror at Battle Mountain. near Grip
pie Creek, Col, on the 25th, by blowing
nm the shaft houSe at Sfronor rpipa and