Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-07-18

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By ELI d. AXE.
IRoNToN. MISSOURI.
THERE were light frosts in low places
In South Dakota. on the night of the
9th. but no damage was done.
NINE Italian war ships paid a COM
ELEMENTARY visit'to the British feet at
Spithead on the 9th. Statutes were ex-
changed.
THE secretary of the interior, on the
11th. directed that the payment Of the
s600,0O to the Nez Perces tribe of In
dams in Idaho be resumed.
1T is thought that a re-survey of
Pixies Peak, now being made by gov
to be 15.6477a feet high, gain of 1, 100.
feet.
The German steamer Nordstrand
loaded 325 tons of Alabama coke at
Mobile. on the 10th, for Mexico. This
is the first considerable shipment of
coke from that port.
FAILURES in the United States dur
ing the week ended the 18th, as re-
ported by r. G. Dun & Co., were 253,
against PAT for the same week last year.
In Canada the failures were So, against
10 last year.
Ice formed on water tubs in the re-
Rion 40 miles north of Sioux City, Ia,
on the night of the sth. Corn looked
as if it had been injured, but it was
thought to be too far along to be Sc
riously damaged.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE Int
RIoR JOHN NJ. REYNOLDS has decided
that the father of a deceased soldier
has no pensionable status under the
act of June %. 1890, during the lifetime
of such soldiers mother.
THE venerable Rev. D. R. McAnnal-
", senior editor OF the st. Louis Chris
tan Advocate. and one of the most
prominent men in the Southern Meth
odist church, died, on the 18th. at his
residence, in st. Louis, aged SIS years
THE longshoremen in convention in
Milwaukee, on the 18th, decided to
make their body international. and
fund was set aside to organize on the
Pacific, Atlantic and gulf coasts. The
amendment to exclude saloonkeepers
was lost.
NOTICES were posted in the Atlantic
mills at Providence. r. l., on the 18th,
announcing that an advance in wages
will go into effect in the several de-
partments of that concern on the Goth.
The notices did not state the rate of
increase.
THE state department was informed
on the 10th, by Mr.. DENLY, United
States minister to China, that PAX
Yonk Hyo, minister of the interior
and the practical dictator of Corea,
had fed from that country under
charges of treason.
MRS MARY BROWN, a monogamian
pepsioner, died, on the 10th. at her
home miles from Knoxville, Tenn.
She was the widow of Joe Brown,
soldier in the revolutionary war, and
was DOTu III 1SUf. hCE AuoOohA oACo
fifty-one years ago.
ATroRNEY-GENERAL HARMON tele-
graphed Assistant District Attorney
McKissick at San Francisco. on the
9th, to use his discretion in taking an
appeal in the Stanford $4,000, 900 case
on amending the original bill, as he,
in his judgment. might deem proper.
THE coal operators of the Birming-
ham (Ala.) district, who control seven
eighths of the output south of Rich
mond, Va, have completed the for
nation of a combination for the reg
ulation of prices and the maintenance
of uniform system of securing con-
tracts.
JUDGE WOODS, of Chicago, on the
9th, modified the sentence of Eugene
v. Debs from one year in Jail to six
months, and those of the other direc-
tors of the American Railway union
from six months to three. The sem
fences are now concurrent as the court
originally imposed them.
MAYOR PINGREE's fve-year fight for
three-cent car fares in Detroit, Mich.
was crowned with success, on the
10th, when the mayor, as mOtorman,
took out the first car on Everett &
Packs new line in opposition to the
Tom johnson road. Mayor Pingree Is
now sure of a fourth term.
A NATIONAL Cuban presidential cleo
ton was held, on the 10th, all over the
United States. and also in Mexico.
Jamaica and South America There
were over 100 clubs controlling as
many election districts in the United
States. Early returns indicated the
choice of Palma for president.
THE question of the ownership of
land in Los Angeles county, CAL, re-
Gently decided as belonging to the
United States. will probab be carried
to the United States supreme court on
appeal by the Southern Pacific Rail-
road Co. for final adjudication.
FULLY SCOTT, John Armstrong and
Joseph Humphreys, directors of the
Hutchinson (Kas.) reformatory, have
rendered their designations to Gov.
Morrill, rather than submit to an in
vestigation of the charges of extrava-
gance and profligate expenditures Of
state money preferred against them
FRENCH Deputies Richard and De-
mold fought duel, on the 18th, with