Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-03-08

Srn,l Gnilnty Register
By ELL d. AXE.
COMPTROLLER ECKELs has called for
q statement of the condition of ma
tional banks at the close of business on
Wednesday, February %.
The house committee on labor de-
cided, on the LIST, to report favorably
the bill making Labor day-the first
Monday in September-a national hol-
iday.
THE Edinburgh Evening News, of
the 2Sth, emphasizes its assertion that
Mr.. Gladstone will retire, and says
positively that the earl OF Rosebery
will succeed him as premier.
OK the ssth Gen. Ortiz formally
turned over the city of Tegucigalpa,
Honduras, to Policarpo Bonilla, who
had already arranged an election for
members of the assembly and presi-
dent
By the bursting of the natural gas
main, on the 2sth, the city of Fort
Wayne, Ind, was left without fuel or
light, and terrible suffering followed,
especially in homes where sickness
prevailed.
THE eleventh annual convention of
the National Electric Light association
began in Washington, on the 27th, with
go delegates in attendance, including
most of the prominent electricians OF
the country.
FIRES were drawn in the Bessemer
department of the Otis steel works at
Cleveland, O., on the LIST at midnight,
and 125 men went out on strike against
a heavy increase of work at the old
rate of wages
SIR WILLIAM MEREDITH, ex-chief
Justice of the superior court OF the
province of Quebec, Can. died, on the
26th, aged 81 years. Sir William was
born in Dublin, Ireland, and went to
Canada in 1924.
HERR WERNER, director OF the Berlin
Agricultural high school. and Prof.
Mueller, basing their Judgment upon
personal studies made in Chicago. de-
nounce the manner in which American
meats are inspected.
GEN. JuBAL A. EARLY died at Lynch
burg, Va, on the night of the I'd, as
the result of the fall sustained by him
a few weeks previous, from the shock
of which he never rallied. He was in
his seventy-eighth year.
WILLIAM JAMESON, of Port Townsend,
Wash, is charged with being the prin-
cipal in a plot to cheat the government
out of $780, 900 by stealing the deeds to
five large tracts of land from the land
office in Washington, ID. C.
A TELEGRAM was received at the
state department, on the 1st, from Con-
sul-General Crittenden at the City OF
Mexico, stating that Hon. William
Wilson was out of all danger, and that
his convalescence was sure.
THE alleged encyclical of Pope Leo
KILL, that was the cause of so much
excitement among members OF the
American Protective association in
Toledo, O., last fall, is now said to have
had its birth in Detroit, Mich.
Rev. A. j. WARNER, the leading col
ored divine in Alabama, and other rep
resentative negroes, have called con-
vention of the colored race for March
81 in Birmingham, Ala, to discuss gen.
orally the amelioration of the colored
race in Africa.
THE new taxation programme OF the
italian prime minister meets with
strong opposition in the vatican ow-
ing to the fact that large investments
in Italian rentes were recently made
by the financial department of the
papal household.
THE largest opal in the world, said
to be as large as hens egg and with
out a flaw, and which, it is estimated,
will dress 325 karats, and prove of the
highest quality and immensely valua-
BILE, has been found in the opal mines
near Caldwell, Idaho.
O. c. GREGORY, assistant cashier of
Gregory & Sons private bank at Dex-
ter, Mich, was found unconscious in
the vault of the bank on the morning
of the 1st. He had been sandbagged
and the vault robbed. 1t is said the
thieves secured several thousand dol
lars
ONE of the worst fogs of the winter
settled down on North and East river at
New York on the morning of the list
Ferry boats ran only with the greatest
caution and much of the heavy traffic
was suspended entirely. A few slight
accidents and many narrow escapes
were reported.
In the Virginia house of delegates
on the 1st, the senate resolution pro-
viding for settlement with West Vir-
gina of the portion of the debt of the
commonwealth which that state should
bear. was defeated by vote of So to
Sc, and all the substitutes to the meas
ure were rejected.
MICHAEL S. FAY, inspector OF the
Ninteenth election district of the Sec
ond assembly district of New York.
who was convicted in the court of
over and terminer, on the 2Sth, of max
ing a false canvass of the votes cast at
the last election, was, on the Cd, sem
fenced to five years Imprisonment.
:; In the case of Mrs. John Biddulph