Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-07-25

Srpu Conutg gegister
By ELI D. AXE.
IRoNToN. MISSOURI.
. A SPECIAL cable from Panama says:
All the hands on the Colon docks sus-
pended work on the 18th. They de-
manded 50 in silver per day, instead of
s1.5O.
{ A SPECIAL from Valparaiso, Chilli,
ON the 18th, said: The crisis in the
choice of new ministry remains with
out solution. Congress has been
forced to take recess.
FAILURES in the United States dur
ing the week ended the 10Th, as re-
ported by r. G. Dun & Co., were ESQ,
against $50 for the same week last year.
In Canada the failures were 80, against
a last year.
A correspondent in Rio Janeiro tele-
graphed. on the 10th, that the Brazil
ian cabinet had refused to accept the
terms of peace offered in behalf of the
revolving bands in the state of Rio
Grande do Sui.
THE imprisoned miners in the Pc
wabic mine, at Iron Mountain, Mich.
were released at midnight on the 18th,
not one of them being injured. The es-
cape is the most remarkable one in the
history of mining.
A SILVER SERVICE was, on the nth,
presented to the officers of the cruiser
Cincinnati by a committee of citizens
of Cincinnati. headed by the mayor.
The service. which cost SIS, 600, is gift
from the city to the cruiser.
IT was reported. on the 18th, that
the Belgian government is about to
authorize the importation of some trial
shipments of Canadian cattle, and if
they prove satisfactory the embargo
upon Canadian cattle may be removed
altogether.
JOHN TENSEY, of Yachting and So
ciety News. fell on the steps of the
Hotel Thorndyke in Boston, on the
10th, and fractured his skull He had
been doing special work at Newport.
R. l.. this summer. His home was at
Oberlin. o.
THE ruins of old churches in the
town of Wisely, Sweden, were illumi-
mated, on the evening of the 10th,
and procession paraded the aisles of
the old buildings, greatly to the de-
light of Emperor William of Germany,
in whose honor the unusual thing was
done.
HARRY PRUDAN, an employee of the
Westinghouse Air Brake Co. at Pitts
burgh, Pa, threw his wife, aged 10,
from a train on the Pennsylvania rail-
way at East Liberty, at midnight of
the 18th. The train was running very
slowly, and the woman escaped with
slight injury.
J UNDER orders from Gov. Richards,
Adjt-Gen. Sitter left Cheyenne. Wyo.,
on the 18th, for the scene of the In
dian trouble in the Jackson Hole
country. He will investigate the situ-
alton, and if he deems the presence of
troops necessary he will take steps to
have them on the scene.
THE acknowledgement issued an or
der, on the 18th, denying the use of the
United States mails to the Mecklen-
burg-Schwerin state lottery of Schwe-
rim, Germany. All postmasters have
been directed to exclude the adver-
tisements of this concern from the
mails as being fraudulent.
THE brig Pearl. owned by L. w. and
p. Armstrong, shipping merchants of
New York, was seized by United States
Marshal Hayden. of Brooklyn, on the
10th. on complaint of agents of the
Spanish government that she was
about to sail for Cuba with arms and
other supplies for the insurgents.
A MANzAN1LLo {Cuba) cable. on the
10th. said: 1.-THE provisional govern
ment of the republic of Cuba, in the
valley of Yara, Sunday issued a new
proclamation declaring the independ-
ence of the island and calling upon
foreign powers to recognize the belli-
gerent rights of the army of liberty"
REPORTS of serious fighting between
the japanese and Black Flags in For
mosa were received on the 18th. The
Black Flags were in almost over
whelming numbers, and fought with
the utmost bravery and stubbornness,
and only the shells from the heavy
guns of the japanese saved the latter
from disaster.
WHEN the general land Office at Du-
iuth, Mimi, was opened, on the 18th,
there was a rush of settlers to make
entries for land in four new towns just
opened on the Mesaba range. Men
were knocked down and trampled on,
and more than one tainted. Police
were required on the ground all night
70 prevent fighting.
STEFEN NJ. STAMBULoFF, ex-prlme
minister of Bulgaria, died at $3.50
o'clock on the morning of the 18th,
from the effects of wounds inflicted
upon him, on the 18th, when returning
to his home in Sofa from the Union
club. Only 40 years OF age, he had
earned for himself the title of the
-.Bismark of Bulgaria." and his last
words were God protect Bulgaria
SUPREME COURT JUSTICE LIPPINCoTT.
at Jersey City, n. j., decided. on the |
10Th, not to grant the order asked by |
leila Nickolaus Ruhmann for a pre-
l;minary examination of George j.
Gould. The justice said the plaintiffs |
affidavit did not give sufficient evil |