Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-06-20
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
TUE funeral of Mrs. Marian White
law Reid at Cedarville, O., occurred,
On the 18th, from the old homestead.
The cath of Office was administered
10 Atoorney-General Harmon by Justice
Harlan, of the United States supreme
court. ON the 18th, and the new cab
met officer attended his first cabineE
session the same day.
TEE commercial treaty between Res
STA and Japan was signed at 81 Peters
burg on the 11th-
0N a report Of Police Captain Cay
ton that the Seaside Athletic club, of
Coney Island, n. Y, was n nuisance
and it's exhibitions uRdesira Bile. Mayor
Schieren, on tie 18th, refused to issue
e license to the club. The mayor took
the same ground last year, b<t was
compelled by mendamus proceedings
to issue a license.
T. II. BELTS, assistant cashier of a
Fort Worth lTeN) bank, was arrested
at Sierra Blanca on the 18th. He was
running away with the fun&s of the
bank. Fifteen hundred dollars and a
quantity Of jewelry were found in his
valise. Belts was en- route 80 Mexico.
The full extent of his populations had
not been ascertained.
EUGENE DEBs, president O. the Amer
lean Railway union, surrendered to the
United States marshal, insChicogo. on
the 18th, and was paroled until train
time. He failed to appear, however,
and the officer was compelled to go Oh
to Woodstock without him taking the
other prisoners. Having surrendered,
Debs' bondsmen are no longer liable.
OFFICIAL .adviees have been received
greatly increase her navy and that
proposals for bids for war vessels will
soon be thrown. open TO all the great
ship-building countries
ACCORDING to adviees received in
Washington Japan is anxious for the
construction of a telegraph cable be-
tween the United States and Japan.
The announcement is made that Japan
will grant a liberal subsidy to any
company which will construct and
maintain such a cable.
SECRETARY OF STATE OLNEY, on the
the 18th, sent formal communications
to the encouragement and the secre-
taries OF the treasury and navy, direct
ing them to take all necessary steps to
enforce the neu trality laws. in view of
the increased activity of the insurrec-
tionists in Cuba and of their sympa-
thizers in this country.
THE jury IN the cases Of Councilmen
P. Il. Caulfeld and Thomas Haley, of
New Orleans, charged with attempt
ing to extort bride for, certain track
privileges from Supt. Marshall of the
Louisville & Nashville railway, re-
turned a verdict of guilty on the 18th.
The Milford On. H. savings bank
suspended payment on the 12th. The
action was made necessary by the
large number of notices of withdrawal
OF de posits. The bank has deposits Of
about 5000. 200.
GEORGE HOsMHR, the oarsman, who
was thought to have been fatally in
jured, recently, by accidentally swal-
lowing pieces OF glass. has been dis
charged from a hospital in Boston con-
valescent.
THIRTY business houses and dwell
ings. comprising almost the entire
business portion of Geneva, Ind, were
burned on the night of the 18th. Loss,
nearly 500, 600; insurance, one-half.
THE Mariaberg monastery, the
monks of which were accused of ILL
treating lunatics who were confined in
the institution, has been closed by Or
der of the German government.
RICHARD OULAAAN. one of the lead
ing participants in the abortive Ste
vens Eenian movement for the liberia
ton of Ireland, died in Washington
city on the 18th.
EIGHT brick and five frame stores,
the Episcopal church and two resi-
dences were burned at Washington,
Ga. on the night of the 18th; loss,
about $4,000.
THE fire in the Antonienhuette miEe,
in Prussian Silesia, was extinguished
on the 18th. All of the imprisoned
miners except twenty-six were saved
THE Crane iron works at Allentown.
Pa, on the 12th. increased the wages
of its $500 employees 10 per, cent, dat
ing from the Sd.
FREDERICK PATE, eelored, residing in
Battle Creek. Mich, while attempting
to make a balloon ascension and para
chute drop at Mareellus, Mich, onrthe
10th, caught in the top of "a tree while,
hanging from a trapeze. Breaking;
loose from the balloon he fell to the
ground, 80 feet, breaking his hip and
many ribs. He died an hour later.
SUPT. CHAs. PETTsGREw of the Hi
nois Steel Co. says the company is GO
ing to erect a large construction mill
in Joliet on a twenty-aere tract, of land
owned by it just south of the present
works. This mill will be built at
cost of about 81. 600, 900. and will ,eui-
ploy over ], ZOO men.
GRAssHOPPERs appeared in clouds at
Elkhart, Ind, on the 18th, descending
upon fields of grain, corn and grass in
such numbers that everything seemed
to be alive with them. They ate
green and left the fields
bare and crops ruined.
A DISPATCH from Havana SAYS that,
on the 18th, two iusurgent bands aggre-
eating 500 men made an attempt to
capture the town of Maron. in the prov
ince of Puerto Principe, but were re-
pulsed by the Spanish troops.
THE duke of Aosto and his bride.
Princess Helene of Orleans. will go DIP
rectly to Rome Immediately after their
marriage, an the 25th, at Orleans
house. Twickenham, England, where
the bride WIS born.
The supreme court of Illinois. on
the 18th. haEded down decision sus-
tanning the dictcm of the court below
which holds the Whisky trust to be
illegal.
A DISPATCH from Hong Kong says
the japanese are administering the
customs on the island of FormOSa and