Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-08-08

GRIM Gonutg gegister
By ELI d. AXE.
1RONTON. MISSOURI
The duke of Argyle was married at
Ripon. England, on the 3oth. to his
cousin, Ina Irskine McNeill, who is
one of the queens extra bed-chamber
women.
j. d. CATION, one of Chicagos oldest
residents, died at his home in that
city, on the 30th, aged "a years. He
was an ex-judge Of the supreme court
Of Illinois
DISPATCHES from Market Lake, Ida
no, on the I'd, stated that there was lit
tie danger. as most of the Indians seen
by alarmed settlers were on their way
back to the reservation.
The debt statement, issued on the
list, showed a net increase in the pub
lie debt. less cash in the treasury, dur
ing July, of S3s, 435. 737. Total cash in
the treasury, ssO7. 397, $50.
EvERARD r. TODD, for many years
document clerk at the Smithsonian in
stitution, died in Washington city, on
the I'd, as the result of injuries re-
reived by being thrown from an cleo
trio car.
THE Merchants Bar Iron association,
composed of representatives of twenty
two firms west of Pittsburgh, Pa, met
In Detroit, Mich, on the 3Oth., and adj
Vanced the price of bar iron two dol
lars per ton.
FAILURES in the United States dur
Ing the week ended the I'd, as re-
ported by R. G. Dun & Co., were 261,
against 23O for the same week last year.
In Canada the failures were %, against
"A last year.
THE Spanish courts have declared
void the will of Don Alexandra Soler,
who bequeathed several million pesetas
to Queen Regent Christina The deci-
sion is based upon a technical flaw in
the document
NOTICE was posted at the York pa
rolling mill, on the 31st, announcing
that on and after the 1st the price of
pudding would be IS per ton instead of
e2.75 as formerly, with a proportion
ate advance in other mill work.
CHOLERA continues its ravages in Ja-
pan. Out of total of 1905 cases Off
rially reported. 4.376 proved fatal.
showing death rate of 60 per cent.
Highly creditable efforts to check the
spread of the loathsome disease are re-
ported.
On the LIST the Edinburgh university
conferred the degree of LII. D. upon
DIR. s. Weir Mitchell, of Philadel-
phia. who is described in the uni
versity grafton as the chief orna-
ment of medical science in the new
world"
THE schooner w. C. Watson, which
It was rumored was to carry a filibus-
sering expedition, arrived at Honolulu,
on July 81, with 5s5, 900 feet of lumber
from Seattle, Wash. All of the re-
ported pira te expeditions have SO far
failed to materialize.
A MAGNIFICENT new vessel will be
added to the already growing list of
the new navy, on the 18th, when the
second class battleship Texas will go
into commission. She was built at the
Norfolk navy yard under the direct SUI
Dervision of Naval Constructor Bowles.
Mrs. E. T. GARDINER, of Arcadia,
Neb., who went to Boston as dele
gate to the Christian Endeavor con-
vention, had not yet returned to her
home up to the SOth, and a report of
her death in Boston, which was sent
out, lis not supported by the city records.
THE Maryland Steel Co. of Baltimore
decided, on the 30th, to increase the
wages Of their 700 employees 10 pei
cent, to take immediate effect. Presi-
dent Wood said: 1.-THE great business
revival warrants the employment of a
wages"
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THE International Geographical con.
gress, in session in London on the 1st,
resolved that the greatest geographical
exploration yet to be undertaken was
to be pursued in Antarctic fields. in
view of the great additions to geo
graphic knowledge which must result
from such exploration.
On the ed a daughter of Gen. Flagler
chief of ordnance, U. S. A., shot ant
killed a boy. who, she claimed. wa
stealing fruit from her fathers gar
den in Washington city. The young
woman was arrested, but later was
discharged by the coroner, who found
the killing to be unintentionaL
In a magistrates court in East Nor
folk, England, on the 3Oth, Lord Johl
Wodehouse, eldest son and heir OF TIT
earl of Kimberly, was fined f5 for dis
orderly conduct. His offense consisted
in having disturbed and PRACTICAL,
broken up a political meeting il
Walsham during the late general cleo
lions.
The Maryland state democratic con
~ention for the nomination of q stat
ticket met in Baltimore, on the S1st
less than fifty delegates being present
John E. Hurst was nominated for gov
ernor on the first ballot. Marion De
Kalb Smith was unanimously re-nou
mated for comptroller, and Charlie
G.. Crothers for attorney general.
W. S. SrRArroS, the millionaire min
H. T.