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

By ELI ID. AXE.
IRONTON. MISSOURI
JAMES Il. HoUGETELLING, of Chicago,
has been appointed executor OF the will
of the late Senator Stockbridge, of
Michigan, and his bond fixed at ST.
OOO, 600.
TIE japanese government has sent
naval and military force to Corea to
protect the interests of Japan during
the revolt in that country. 1t is re-
ported that the king of Corea has fed
to Japan.
THE marriage of Miss Bessie Cleve-
land, cousin of President Cleveland, to
DIR. John A. Burke, of New York, took
place, on the 18th, at the residence of
the groom's father, James Burke, at
Tacony, Mass
THE presidents health was very much
improved, on the 18th, his physician
expressing confidence that the slight
malady was under entire control, and
that there was no remaining cause for
public concern.
LUCIAN ANTHONY GENERAL WAYNE, a
negro cook in an Ohio militia company,
was so scared during a riot near Nc
Gainesville, on the night of the 18th.
that next morning his once jet black
hair was white as snow.
THE house committee on public build
ings and grounds reported, on the 18th,
in favor of using the site of the present
Chicago public building. and authoriz-
ing an appropriation of 100000 for
the proposed new building.
THE failures in the United States for
the week ended on the 18th, as re-
ported by r. G. Dun & Co., were 232,
against 313 for the corresponding week
of last year. In Canada the failures
were 40, against "a last year.
THE marquis of Dufferin, British am
bassador to Paris, in an interview. on
the 18th, with NJ. Hanoteaux, the for
eign minister. informed him that En-
gland desired to act in complete accord
with France in regard to Morocco.
THE chief princes of Morocco, who |
We're likely to cause trouble to the new
regime, have been removed from their
commands in the army. Some of them |
have been sent to distant provinces, |
while others have been imprisoned.
THE Cork and Munster yacht clubs |
have offered first prize of ft00 and a |
second prize of e25 each day of their |
coming regatta at Queenstown, with a |
view of tempting the Vigilant, Val |
kyrie, Britannia, Samantha and Meteor |
to compete.
On the 18th the New York Society of |
the Sons of the American Revolution
laid the foundation stone of a monu-
ment at Dobbs Ferry, Westchester
county, designed to mark the spot |
where Washington had his headquar-
tiers in 1888.
SENATOR KYLE, of South Dakota,
chairman of the subcommittee on In
dian depredations, has succeeded in I'M
earthing a series of the most gigantic |
frauds ever attempted to be perpetra-
ted upon the government, involving, in
the aggregate, nearly 100000 of In
dian depreciation claims.
AN explosion OF fire damp in the
Johann and Francizka mines at Kear-
win, Austrian Silesia. occurred on the
18th, by which nearly 200 miners are
said to have been killed or to have per-
ished in the flames which followed. A
rescue party which descended into one
Of the pits also persisted.
On the 18th Rev. DIR. Arthur Brooks
officiated at the funeral services in New
York of the late Cyrus w. Field. at the
church of the Incarnation. A special
train afterward conveyed the body and
the members of the family to North
Adams, Mass, where the interment
took place the same afternoon.
THE report that the Brazilian gov
eminent troops had been defeated at
Polatos. in the state of Rio Grande do
Sui. was officially denied on the 14th.
1t was the insurgent army that was
defeated, Gen. Machado routing the
insurgent Gomericil and capturing his
artillery, ammunition and horses.
AT meeting of the undergraduates
of Yale university. held on the evening
of the 18th. it was decided to send 4
Yale team to compete with Oxford in
athletics. 7. ii. Sherrell, Jr.. SO, an
nOunced that the Oxford authorities had
already procured grounds, and that a
letter of invitation was en- route to this
country.
THE cost of maintain the large
force of state troops in the field, on
account of the coal miners strike. may
require an extraordinary session of the
Ohio legislature, as biennial sessions
Were determined upon at the last ses-
sion, and it will be two years before
these bills can be paid if no extra ses-
sion is called.
A TELEGRAM from Hong Kong. China,
to the British Medical Journal. saws:
1.-The plague has all the symptoms of
the true bubonic pest, which ravaged
Europe in the middle ages, and which
is described by DeFoe. The only Eu-
ropeans affected Were the soldiers en-
ployed in disinfecting the native quar-
ter. One of them has died.
In the Hungarian chamber of depu-
ties on the 18th, Premier Wekerle de-
clared that the ministry maintained
the programme heretofore announced.
bu. abandoned its contention for the
creation of new magnates. Emperor
Francis Joseph, he said. had author