Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-06-28
By ELI ID. AXE

Srou Goilntg @egister
By ELI d. AXE.
IRONTON. MISSOURI
Increased 81. O34, 064 during the week
ended on the 21st-
The Hungarian house of magnates.
on the 21st, passed the civil marriage
bill by majority of three.
IT is announced by private letters
from Japan that the sealing schooner
Unga was lost by capsizing in a ty-
phoon together with all on board.
THE Williams Palace Car Co., cap
italized at $4,000. 600, will soon begin
the construction of cars in st. Joseph,
Mo-, to compete with the Pullman and
Wagner companies.
IT said is that glacial action in the
moving of mountains on the right-of-
way of the Union Pacific along the Co
lumbia river may result in damages it
will take 81, SOC, 900 to repair.
THE honorary degree of d. c. L. was
conferred on Capt. Alfred T. Mahan
OF the United States cruiser Chicago.
by the university of Oxford, England,
at its commemoration festival.
OMAHA and Lincoln, in Nebraska,
and Council Bluffs, in Iowa, together
with many smaller towns in both
states, suffered from a cyclone ON the
afternoon and night of the 10th.
THE military governor of Antwerp
apologized to Admiral Erben, on the
10th, for oversight in not replying to
the salute of the Chicago when she ar
rived at that port few days before.
THE senate of the Dublin university
decided, on the 21st, to confer the de-
gree of LII. D. upon Lord Charles Rus
sell, of England; Bishop Stevens, of
Ohio, and Bishop Walker, of Dakota.
On the 10th the budget committee of
the French chamber of deputies rejected
the supplementary credit of rs, 900 francs
asked for by the government in con-
nection with the Chicago Worlds fair.
A RESOLUTION demanding the resig-
nations of the national officers of the
United Mine Workers for compromis-
ing the strike was tabled in the con-
vention of Ohio miners at Columbus
on the 21st.
A DECISION of the supreme court of
Ohio in the case of the State VS. The
Lake Erie Iron Co. of Cleveland, holds
the law requiring semi-monthly pay
ment of wages to employees to be I'M
constitutional.
REV. r. II. RIVERS, D. D., one of the
most distinguished ministers of the
Southern Methodist Episcopal church,
died, on the 21st, at the residence of
his son, B. NJ. Rivers, in Louisville,
Ky, aged so years.
On the 22d Emperor William caused
the arrest of his own chamberlain,
Won Kotze, whom he detected in writ
ing anonymous letters, containing in
famous accusations and dire threats, to
Berliners in high life.
On the Goth the grand jury at Ottawa,
ILL.,, returned indictments against thir-
ty of the striking miners engaged in
the riots at La Sale few weeks ago.
Twenty saloon-keepers and gamblers of
that city were also indicted.
DEMOCRATS in Washington, who had
been sanguine of the speedy passage of
the tariff bill, reached the conclusion,
on the 10Th, that the bill can not pass
before the end of the fiscal year, and
are now looking forward to the final
vote about July 2.
THE five national banks of Columbus,
O., in communication to Gov. McKin-
ley, on the 18th, offered to advance the
money to pay the officers and men of
the local troops called out to quel the
riotous strikers, upon such vouchers as
the governor may issue.
ACCORDING to late advices from Hayti,
President Hippolyte's government is on
the eve of dissolution. Five of his minis
tiers had threatened to resign, and the
most influential governor in the north
had refused to carry out instructions
given him by the president.
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News was received, on the 18th, from
Rio Janeiro, Brazil, that efforts We're
being made to induce President-elect
Moraz to resign in favor of Peixoto,
whom it is proposed to establish as
dictator. The army, it is said, was
favorable to this programme.
THE engagement, for export on the
Goth. of 81, 500, 900 in gold from the New
York subtreasury reduced the treas
ury gold balance to SEE, 9s4, 446, the
lowest point reached since the gold re-
serve was strengthened. February
last, by the $50, 600, 600 bond issue.
Mrs. HALLIDAY was, on the 22d, sem
fenced to death in the electric chair
during the week beginning August 6
for the murder of Mrs. McQuillan, of
which she was convicted in Monticello,
n. Y, on the 2Ist- She is the first wom-
an ever sentenced to electrocution.
An official declaration was made. on
the 18th, by the authorities of Ham,
burg, that there had not been a single
case of cholera in that city this year,
nor had there been even a suspicious
case of sickness. All reports to the
contrary are declared to be maliciously
false