Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-06-06


church officials to refuse to marry per
sons who have been divorced passed its
second reading.
A DISPATCH from Hong Kong say.
the japanese landed at Kelong, For
mosa, on the 30th, and fighting begaT
next day. the japanese war ships bonn
harding Kelong.
The United States treasurer, on the
S1st, mailed 1,113 checks. aggregatinf
S126.s22. for the payment of interes'
on United States bonds of the funded
loan of 1891, continued at per cent.
FAILURES in the United States dur
ing the week ended the 31st, as re
ported by R. G. Dun & Co., were 215
against 1873 for the same week last year
In Canada the failures were "a, agains
- last year.
The North German Gazette, on the
Both. denied the report that the pro
testing powers have arranged for the
floating of a Chinese war loan, or that
the Rothschilds have been intrusteG
with the raising of such loan.
IT was said at the treasury, on the
S1st. that Secretary Carlisle would mo-
cancel his engagement to speak a
Louisville, KY, where he intended tt
make the last of the four speeches fol
which he was originally booked.
A VIOLENT shock of earthquake wa.
experienced in the village of Agikent
in the district of Baku. Russia, on the
26th. Ninety-fiye houses were wrecked
and many of the inhabitants of the
village were buried beneath the ruins
A TREMENDOUS avalanche of rocl
fell, on the 2sth, from the Schwarl
Moench mountain into the Lauerbrun.
men valley, in Switzerland, destroying
the entire forest on the slope of the
mountain. Fortunately no one was
injured.
THE cruiser Bennington left Mare
Island navy yard, on the j0th, fol-
Honolulu. to relieve the flagship Phil
adelphia, which is expected to return
home with Admiral Beardslee, who
will hoist his flag on the Olympia al
San Francisco.
Mrs. MARY BROWN, a monogamiar
pensioner, died, on the 10th, at hel
home miles from Knoxville, Tenn
She was the widow of Joe Brown, q
soldier in the revolutionary war, and
was born il 1904. Her husband dice
ffty-one years ago.
The Paris Figaro says the German
emperor recently sounced NJ. Pasteul
rs to his acceptance of a decoration
upon the occasion of the opening Of
the Baltic Sea canal, and that the
French chemist refused to accept the
honor, declaring that he would never
forget 1870.
In consequence of the death of Sec
rotary Gresham, the receptions which
were to have been given by Ambassa
dor to England Bayard and Secretary
Roosevelt were cancelled, and the flag.
over the United States embassy ant
Mr. Bayard's residence were lowered
TO half-mast.
On the 29th DR.. Luger. the anti
Semitic leader in the Austrian reichs
rath and vice-burgomaster of Vienna
refused to accept the Office of burgo
master, to which he was elected, be
cause the majority he received was thu
smallest that was permitted by thu
law to elect.
THE emperor of Japan, after S ia,
of many months at Hiroshima, made a
triumphal return to the capital on the
3Oth. The streets and houses were
gaily decorated aud the populace were
intensely enthusiastic Yokohama wa
also enthusiastically en- fete in homo
of the occasion.
THE supreme court of the Unite'
States. in an opinion read by Justic'
Brewer, on the eth. denied the mo
ton for a writ of habeas corpus file,
nv Eugene Debs and his associates o
the American Railway union, and the.
will have to serve the sentences i'm
posed upon them by the court
The mayor and the members of tn
corporation OF Southampton paid
visit to the United States training shil
Alliance. on the 9th, where they wer
entertained at luncheon. A salute @
thirteen guns was fired in honor of tn
visitors, and the ships band playe
British and American national airs
THREE British war ships were, o
the 3lst. ordered to Jiddah, the SEA
port of Mecca. with orders to invest
gate the circumstances of the KILN
of the British vice-consul at that plac
and the wounding of the British CO;
sui, and the French consular secretar.
Nv band of Beduoins. and also
protect the lives and property of TO
eigners-
ADvIcEs received in Washington fro
Havana by the surgeon-general. on tt
2f;th, were to the effect that the stu
ton in that city with reference to We
low fever were unchanged. A lett
from Santiago states that in that eli
all regular hospitals are crowded, al
that in the country thereabouts mar
t,ospitals have been improvised whis
are also full.
WrrH civic and martial honors al
in the presence of a vast multitude, j
Guiding notables, Grand Army al
confederate veterans and common pc
nile. the remains of the late secretal
IF state. Walter @ Gresham. were
posited in a egypt in the chapel
Oakwoods cemetery, in Chicago on g
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