Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-06-21
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

THE presiding elder of a district of
the Methodist church in Georgia as
sumes to suspend a preacher because
he persists in elling out the miserab bic
pittance called salary by performing
editorial duties. The conference will
be called upon to decide whether man
of ability is 10 be condemned by the
church to enforced beggary-for that S
what it practically amounts to.
DURING the bituminous miners
strike the holders of big pile of coal
at the head of Lake Superior are said
to have cleaned up a profit of $500 600.
and numerous opera .OrS of mines have
been enabled to realize handsomely on
piles of slack that in ordinary times
they couldn't have given away. The
question is being asked if any one con-
nected with the miners end of the bust
ness got ''ralse-off."
A. SIELsKI, of Buffalo, n. Y, has re-
ceived letter, dated May %, from Mr..
Jankowsy. Russian Poland, stating
that his brother-in-law, a citizen of
Buffalo, S. a. Kismanski, who had lived
twenty-five years in America, was, the
moment he arrived in Russia. arrested
W SlDeTld lie O1lSl
people of Buffalo have reported the
matter to Secretary Gresham.
THE first quadrennial convention of
the American Railway union met in
Ulrich's hall, Chicago, on the 18th.
THE English combination of coal
owners has decided to make a general
of 10 per cent. in the wages
of miners. The latter are organized to
resist the cut.
LORD RosEBERY, the British premier,
has presented to Hon. Thomas f.
Bayard, United States ambassador, one
of the plates which Ladas wore while
running the Derby.
NJ. l.. ANDREWS, auditor of the Cud
ahy Packing Co at Omaha, Neb., while
bathing in the Platte, on the 10th, was
AS result of the flood his
companions were unable to recover his
body.
THE body of Patrick O'Day. who dis
appeared from his home in Indian
apolis several days previous. was found
in the canal, on the night of the 18th.
with evidence of having been muir
dered and robbed. His head was fright
fully mutilated.
RI. REV BISHOP T. NJ. ID. WARD. of
the African Methodist Episcopal
church, died suddenly, at Jacksonville,
Fla. on the night of the 10th, of he;i: <
failure.
DELEGATE MARK SMITH. of Arizona,
Will make an effort to- have the appro-
priation for the Carlisle Indian school
stricken from the Indian bill. Mr..
Smith says the education of Indians at
Carlisle, Hampton and other eastern
institutions has done more harm than
good.
THE extensive mill-plant of w. L.
Matthews, at Marlette, Mich. consist
ing of flour mill, split-pea and oatmeal
mill and elevator, was destroyed by fire
on the night of the 18th. Loss, $40, 600:
no insurance.
THE bankrupt court of London, on
the 18th, granted receiving order
against Robert Buchanan, the play
wright and author.
THE thirty-ninth annual convention
of the Pennsylvania state organization
of the Ancient Order of Hibernians con-
vened in Pittsburgh, on the 18th, 800
delegates being in attendance.
IT is given out in New York that
Richard Cookers determination to go
abroad was taken within thirty-six
hours of the sailing of the steamer upon
which he was passenger, bound for
Germany. That he preferred to depart
unknown to the general public is IN
derstood to be shown by the fact that
he was booked as John Miles.
IN the Rhode Island legislature, on
the 18th. George Peabody Wetmore was
unanimously elected United States
senator to succeed n. F. Dixon.
n. Il. PARSONS was convicted at Sag
NAV, Mich, on the 12th. of stealing
railroad bonds valued at S463, 900 from
the MILESTONE Mercantile Co., his for
mer employer. Parsons had been a
trusted clerk of the company. and stood
high socially. He is also charged with
destroying certain books and papers of
the company.
A REPORT in favor of giving to Col.
H. l.. Moore, the democratic contest
ant, the seat in congress of the Second
Kansas district, held by Funston (rep.),
was made, on the 18th. by the subcom-
mittee to the house committee on cleo
tons