Iron County register., 1895-05-09

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INoNTON. MISSOURI.
LxvI Il TAFT. one of Michigan's emi-
nent 5urists, died at his home in Pom
tsac, on the Goth, aged 73.
OK the Ist Gov. Morton of New York
granted DR.. Buchanan, the wife muir
derer, another weeks respite.
FLoRIDA's quarantine regulations
went into effect on the I'd and will
continue in force until Nov. Is next.
(. THE resignation Of Theodore Roose-
welt as a member of the civil-service
commission was received at the execu-
tive mansion ON the 3Oth.
The Afghan authorities have ordered
Umra Khan, who was captured in At
ghanistan, to be turned over to the au-
thorities of Great Britain.
THE public debt statement, issued
on the 1st, shows a net increase in the
public debt, less cash in the treasury,
during April, of 50. lO9, ,s57.52. Total
cash in the treasury, S7s7, ,442, ,335.
FoR using a profane epithet four
times, Mr.. John Hoffman, a contractor,
was, on the 30th, fined s2.6s-sixty-
seven cents for each time-by Alder
man Donovan, of Pittsburgh, Pa
GEORGE ROBERT CHARLES HERBERT,
thirteenth earl of Pembroke and Mont
gomery, died at Nauheim, Hesse, on
the Sd. He was born in 1850. and was
under secretary of the British war
Office in 1915.
FAILURES in the United States for
the week ended on the Sd, as reported
by r. G. Dun & Co., were 231, against
233 for the corresponding week last
year. In Canada the failures were 81,
against 80 last year.
THE supreme court of Ohio, on the
30th. held, in case from Lucas coun-
ty, that the owner of building is not
liable to sub-contractor, if, after pay
ing the contractor said contractor
fail to pay the sub-contractor.
The iron manufacturers of the Ma
honing valley in Ohio decided, on the
Sd, to increase wages fifteen cents a day
in all furnaces. This valley contains
more important blast furnaces than
any similar stretch of territory in the
world.
THE German marine department has
contracted with the North German
Lloyds and Hamburg-American steam
ship companies for the construction of
ten ocean liners which shall become
armed auxiliary cruisers in the event
of war.
For the nine months ending March
81 last 1850 immigrants arrived in
the United States. They are known
to have brought with them in cash
81, 397, ,s46. and it is believed that many
times this amount escaped the scrutiny
of the officials.
MRS. MARY BROWN, a monogamian
pensioner, died, on the 10th, at her
home miles from Knoxville, Tenn.
She was the widow of Joe Brown, a
soldier in the revolutionary war, and
was born in 1904. Her husband died
6fty-one years ago.
THE Paris Authorize says that seven
teen soldiers have died in the hospital
at Vitre from the effects of eating
tainted canned meat purchased from
IN American firm, and that thirty-four
others were. on the 1st, seriously i'll
from the same cause.
JAPAN has released the steamer Yik
Sang which was seized short time
ago, while carrying munitions of war
consigned to Tien-Tsin, it having been
proven that the captain and crew of
the ship were ignorant of the contents
of the cases comprising the vessels
cargo.
A FRIEND of President Cleveland is
authority for the statement that, in
case he is not nominated for a third
term, he will make an extended for
eign tour soon after he leaves the
White House, visiting England,
France, Germany, Austria. Italy and
Russia.
A DISPATCH from Shanghai, on the
3D., said that the Chinese, with a view
of preventing the Japanese from en-
tering Pekin, had cut the embankment
of the Pei-Ho river and flooded miles
of country. Hundreds of persons were
caught by the rushing waters and
drowned.
THE 500 students at the Ohio Wes-
leyan university, at Delaware, O.,
were notified by President Bashford,
at the annual chapel exercises, on the
evening of the I'd, that, beginning
with the opening next fall, no student
will be allowed to attend who persists
in the use of tobacco.
AN outbreak Of the plague at the
naval station at Moji, in southern Ja-
pan, was reported, on the 3Oth, but the
United States sanitary inspector at
Yokohama reports that such strict
measures for repression have been
adopted that there is very little dan
ger that the disease will spread.
THE Kings county On. W grand jury
finished it's work for the term, on the
3D.. by handing in an Indictment