Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-03-14
gro,1 County Register
By ELI D. AXE.
IRONTON,
MISSOURI

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Jersey. was presented to Queen Vic
toria at a drawingroom held by the
latter at buckingham palace on the
5th.
Mr.. PETHICK, American tutor to the
children of Ii Hung Chang, has been
appointed private adviser of the inter-
prefers who will accompany the Chi
nese peace commission.
On the Sth the Spanish chamber of
deputies adopted a bill granting the
government unlimited credit for the
purpose of conducting the campaign
against the insurgents in Cuba.
BANKERS of the City of Mexico are
becoming apprehensive of the currency
situation in the United States, and sew
eral important houses refuse to pur-
chase drafts on New York when not
made expressly payable in gold.
THE German reichstag, in commit
tee, on the sth, rejected the paragraphs
of the anti-revolution bill imposing a
penalty for public attacks upon re-
llglon, the monarchy, the marriage
system and the right to hold property.
THERE are only 100 Japanese soldiers
and three small war ships at Wei-Hai-
Wei, the main army having pressed
forward after the retreating Chinese,
and were reported, on the sth, to have
reached a point west of the Lao river.
THE water was several feet deep in
many of the houses at Port Deposit,
Md, on the Sd, owing to the continued
rise in the Susequehanna river. All
the churches had to be dismissed, and
in one the worshippers were obliged to
climb out of a back window.
ONE of the biggest gold discoveries
ever made in Montana. is reported by
Thomas Carmin, of Pony, Madison
county, who has struck 1O-inch vein
of gold ore running $500 to the ton in
the White Pines, an old location. This
is richer than any quartz before found
in Montana mines.
ONE HUNDRED employees of the Cleve-
land TO- Ship Building Co. went out
on strike on the 5th. The company
proposed to pay the old hands S2.37
and new men So. % per day. The strike
was for a $3.50 per day rate. The
strikers were employed in the boiler
making department.
THE Marquis and Marquise de Cas-
tellane, Count Jean de Castellane, Miss
Lloyd and servants arrived in Niagara
Falls, n. V, late on the night of the
5th. On the 9th the party went for a
long drive, taking in all the points of
special interest on both the American
and Canadian sides of the river.
THE Spanish government has given
assurances that American citizen. Jose
Maria Aguirse, captured with other
rebels in Cuba, as well as two Other
Americans among the prisoners, will
be tried by the civil tribunal. All
revolutionists who are Spanish sub
jects will be dealt with according to
martial law,
IT was positively affirmed in Toron-
to, Ont, on the sth, that writs for
general election in Canada would be
issued within a week and that the
election would be held in about
month. The liberals are confident of
carrying the country on their trade
policy. They promise to make sweep
ing tariff reductions.
Mrs. DARLINGTON Booth, of the SAL
walton Army, was, on the 9th, granted
a ministers license by Probate Judge
Ferris of Cincinnati. The document
gives Mrs. Booth right to officiate at
weddings, and is one of the four legal
constructions given in favor of the sal
vationists in their efforts to be recog-
nized as religious body.
In an attempt by two farmers to rob
the bank at Abel, Ia, on the 9th, the
cashier and customer of the bank
were dangerously shot by one of the
robbers, after which they retreated.
They were pursued by posse of prom
inent citizens, and one of the robbers
was killed and the other and four of
the posse were wounded.
THERE were seven cases of diphthe-
ria reported at the Indiana Institute
for Predetermined Youth, at Fort
Wayne, on the 9TH. The sufferers
had been isolated. and every effort
made to prevent a spread of the fatal
epidemic. 1t was not known how
many of the $50 inmates had been ex-
posed. and there was much alarm
at the institute
FREDERICK E. SICKELs, the actual
inventor of the COrlisS engine: of the
apparatus for steering steamships by
steam now in universal use, and of
the Sickels' automatic steam cutoff.
which revolutioniZed the steam en-
gines of the world. and which is now
an essential part of practically every
engine. died suddenly in his office in
Kansas City, Mo, on the sth.
THE Lawrence county (Pa.) grand
jury, on the 5th, returned two true
bills against ex-Mayor Alexander
Richardson, of New Castle. In one
bill there were five counts charging
bribery, and the other charged cor
rupt solicitations. Richardson, it will
be remembered, settled an illegal
liquor case brought before him as
mayor for $50. After the matter was
exposed by suit to recover the money
he resigned his office.
AT the opening of the wool sales in
London, on the 9Th. 1O.O7O bales were
offered There was a moderate as
sortment, mostly of merinos. The at
tendance was very large. and the COM
petition was remarkably good for an
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