Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-06-07

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BY ELI d. AXE.
1RoNToN. MISSOURI
SMALLPOX has broken out in the SOL
diers' home at Milwaukee.
The prince of Wales made special
request that the officers of the United
States cruiser Chicago be presented to
hum on the occasion of the state levee
On the 4th.
THE town of Viggianello, Basilicata,
Italy. was shaken by an earthquake on
the goth. A number of houses were de-
destroyed, but at latest accounts no
body was reported killed
IT was reported, on the LIST, that over
half of the town of Boulder, Col, had
been inundated or washed away by an
unprecedented rise in Boulder creek.
No loss of life was reported.
NJ. MYLEFF, vice-president of the
Bulgarian sobranje, was attacked and
outrageously maltreated by mob of
students and others on the 31st. The
troops rescued him with difficulty.
AN enormous gathering of Bulgarian
students and others invaded Sofia park,
on the 31st, and destroyed the bust of
ex-Premier Stambuloff, which occupied
a prominent place in the restaurant
therein.
Ex-PREsIDENT HARRISON and ex-At-
torney-General Miller were admitted
to practice in the United States court
of appeals for the seventh circuit,
which convened in it's new quarters in
Chicago on the 31st.
MoRDECAI l.. HOPKINS, the veteran
journalist, who was Wilbur f. Storey's
right-hand man on the Chicago Times
for so many years, died, on the Goth. at
the home of his daughter, Mrs. F. w.
Ball, at Grand Rapids, Mich.
THE democrats in the Ohio delegation
in congress had a meeting, on the Goth,
to discuss some appointments, and while
in session took a vote on the sugar
question. Of the eleven democrats in
the delegation, all save one were for
free sugar.
THE Bank of Enterprise QKas.) was
closed, on the 31st, by Bank Examiner
Breidenthal. Its assets are nominal,
and liabilities are about $4,000. The
failure caused no surprise, as the bank S
shaky condition had been generally
known for several months.
GEN. JOHN LEWISTON, an American,
was arrested in London, on the 30th, for
fatally injuring a street musician
named George Burton, while defending
himself fromassault, by driving the fer
rule of an umbrella into his eye, the
man dying few minutes later.
FROM official sources it was learned,
on the 1st, that arrangements had
been made by the United States au-
thorities to arrest Gov. Waite of Col
orado for sedition if he sent the militia
to Cripple Creek to prevent the deputy
sheriffs from discharging their duty.
THE anthracite coal sales agents of
New York advanced the price, on the
29th, of broken and egg coal fifteen
cents a ton for the eastern trade. For
the western trade all sizes are advanced
twenty-five cents per ton. The pro-
duction for June was fixed at 2,700, 900
tons.
WHILE still suffering from the effects
of the cloud-burst of the Goth, Pueblo,
Col, was again visited, on the 31st,
with still more destructive expert
ence of the same kind which sent the
floods in the Arkansas and Fountain
rivers higher than ever and caused the
loss of many lives.
THIS knights of Pythias of Washing
ton are actively engaged in preparing
for the biennial meeting of the supreme
lodge and encampment of the uniform
rank, to be held in that city the latter
part of August. 1t is expected that
from 5000 to 10000 MEN will appear
in the grand parade.
REPORTS. on the 3Oth, from the west
ern third of Kansas We're very discour-
aging, and showed the wheat crop in
that section to be a total failure.
There will be very little wheat raised
west of the center of the state, and I'M
less the conditions Immediately change
there will be no corn raised.
Ex-JUsTICE OF THE PEACE KENNETT
F. SUTHERLAND. of Gravesend, n. Y,
was, on the 29th, sentenced to two
years and eiggt months in Sing Sing
prison, and to pay fine of $1,000 for
his part in the election frauds perpe-
trated in the interest of John Y. McKane
at Gravesend last November.
In telegram from President John
Mcbride of the United Mine Workers,
at Springfield, ILL.,, to Secretary P. A.
McBryde, at Columbus, o., on the 29th,
the former stated positively that there
was going to be settlement of the
strike there. This it was believed
would result in a settlement of the
whole strike.
The president gave orders, on the