Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-04-11
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

THE trouble between Mexico and
Guatemala has ended as was generally
expected However much the average
Central American may delight in war,
no one knows better than he what a
costly luxury it is. Guatemala will
have to recover her lost credit in the
financial world before she can engage
in war with any foreign country other
than Salvador and Honduras, her little
neighbors.
In her assaults ON British subjects
and outrages on British ships, Spain is
tempting fate. History shows in the
case of the Sepoys and Zulus that bar.
barians have no feelings which Great
Britain feels bound to respect.
The coinage executed at the United
States minis during the month OF
March aggregated 4.45s,O pieces, OF
the value of s3,5 90, s35.27, as follows:
Gold, So, 500, 1O2. so; silver. 1878, $50. so;
| minor coin, $40, 1867. In addition to
the coinage exected for the United
| States, S442, 900 in silver twenty-cent
pieces were coined for the government
of Ecuador.
THE drivers and conductors Of the
Anacostia street railway of Washing
ton city, struck, on the I'd, for an in
crease in wages. The drivers received
s1.24 day and the conductors ST.
for about sixteen hours work. Travel
on the line was completely stopped.
Two MEN were arrested in Jersey
City. n. j., on the I'd, who, it is al
legged, had for nearly two years
been robbing the United States Ex-
press Co. 1t is roughly estimated that
the amount stolen by them will reach
So, ZOO.
WIN. STEENsTRAND, the originator of
the great cotton corner of 1890, by the
collapse of which he failed for over
81, 900, 900, died in Liverpool on the I'd.
THE Illinois supreme court, in an
opinion filed on the Cd, decided the
democratic apportionment of 1892 to
be constitutional.
DAVID NJ. STONE, the venerable ex-
editor of the New York Journal of
Commerce. died at his home in Brook
lyn on the I'd.
LETTERS have been received at the
Spanish legation in Washington re-
the south offering their services to as
SASI spain III SuppEcSsluR IAc IcUcAiiOu
in Cuba.
THE New York Marine Journal has
compiled a record Of fires in American
cotton on shipboard during the season
just closed, which extends from Octo-
Der % last to March 20. This record
shows that forty-fve CONGREGATIONS
have taken place, as contrasted with
only eight of any note in the previous
seasons. 1t is probable that this sea-
sons losses through fire in cargoes of
American cotton will largely exceed a
million dollars.
THE hope of a speedy conclusion of
peace between China and Japan is
weakened somewhat by the japanese
demand for the cession of portion of
Manchuria, war indemnity of 7OO,-
600, 900 yen. and that. pending full pay
ment of this indemnity, Pekin be occu-
pied by the japanese troops.
ONE HUNDRED pounds of giant pow
der exploded in the Ohio mine of the
Mescal Mining and Milling Co., at
Prescott, Ariz., ON the I'd. Five men
were working in the drift where the
powder was stored. Three men were
seriously injured, James Newlin. the
seriously hurt
ON her way from Boston to Port An
tonic, Jamaica, by way of the wind
ward channel, and when off Cape
Maysi, Cuba, was fred upon by Span
ish gunboat. The Ethelred stopped
and was boarded and examined by off,
GERS of the gunboat, after which she
proceeded on her voyage.
Hon. WIN. L. WILSON, of West Vir-
ginia, assumed the office of postmaster
general on the Sd. The oath of office
was administered by Chief-Justice
Melville w. Fuller.
Rev. DR. PASTORFIELD, retired
Methodist minister of Philadelphia,
dropped dead in the post Office of that
city on the Sd. Cause, heart trouble.
WHILE Mrs. Thomas Jones, of New
Castle, Col, was preparing her ballot
at polling place. on the LIST, she
tainted and fell, striking her head
heavily against the floor. She died in
a short time. having ruptured blood
vessel.
THE removal of young Lieut.. Ybarra
from command of the Spanish gunboat
Condo de Venadito, which fred upon
the American steamer Alliance, is re-
garded in Santiago de Cuba as not be-
ing in any way due to the Alliance af-
fair. He was only in command during
the temporary absence of the captain.
IT was stated in Washington, on the
Sd, that no contest of the will of the
late Fred Douglass will occur. Mrs.
Douglass will accept the personal es-
tate given her and her dover right of
one-third of the profits accruing fro
all unincumbered real estate.
MAJ.-GEN. MCCooK has prohibited
gambling within the limits or in the
vicinity of any military reservation in
the military departments of Colorado.
The magnificent steamer Iron Queen
was burned to the waters edge, while
lying at the landing at Antiquity, IL
miles above Pomeroy. O.. on the Sd.
The only person who persisted was
Mrs. Matte Holey, the colored cham
bermaid, who time and again helped
lady passengers to shore, and finally
ventured back once too often in search
of property, and. her escape being shut
off by the flames, jumped overheard
and was drowned.
MAJ. ANDREW JACKSON HAMILTON,
aged 81, who was major of the Twelfth
Kentucky cavalry, and who planned
and superinrended the famous tunnel
escape from Libby prison, in which 100
Union soldiers effected their freedom,
was assassinated in Reedyville, KY.
on the I'd, by Sam Spencer.
FREDERICK w. GRIFFIN. assistant
cashier of the Northwestern national
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