Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-08-06

IRoNToN. MISSOURI
TIE treasury deficit for July, a
shown by the statement issued OF
the 1st, was, sl3,125. 7oO.6z.
THE national committee of the PEG
pies party, otherwise the populists
viii make Washington the headquar
ters of the organization.
THE president. on the 29th, appoint
ed John Sheridan. of West Virginia
a government director of the Unior
Pacific Railway Co., vice Fitzhugh
Lee, now consul-Reneral at Havana
The executive committee of the Ma
tional Irrigation congress met in Dem
yer, Col, on the 31st, and arranged the
programme of the annual meeting tc
be held in Phoenix, Ariz-, December
IS, 10 and IL.
AT Dayton, O., on the 29th, Henry
Dipple, q night Waterman, threw some
water on FIRE he had discovered in a
frame house, and electricity from a
crossed wire passed through the wa
ter and killed him.
FAILURES throughout the United
States for the week ended on the 31st,
as reported by R. G. Dun & Co., were
PSI, against Pol for the corresponding
week of last year. For Canada the
failures were 20, against % for last
year.
THEgE had been trouble brewing
Tor some time between the Swiss and
Italian workingmen in the city of
Zurich, and, on the night of the 9th,
1t eliminated in a riot, which it was
necessary to call on the military to
suppress.
THE president, on account of the
prisoners health, on the goth grant
ed a pardon to John Gallagher, con-
victed in Minnesota for assaulting an
officer. Also to a. 81. Mallory, con-
victed OF robbery on Arkansas in 1892,
whose petition asked that he be per-
United to die at home.
Nh. GLADSTONE was waited upon at
Hawarden, on the 30th, by 100 mem
bers of the Philadelphia Manufacture
ers' club. He personally escorted the
visitors about the grounds and mar
rated the history of the castle to them.
The Americans were greatly pleased
by the warmth of their reception.
A DISPATCH from Che-Foo, China, on
the Goth inst, said that the little Ger
man gun boat Iltis was lost in typhoon
on July % at point 40 miles southeast
of the Shang-Tung promontory. Only
ten of those belonging to the war ship
were saved. All the others, IS in num-
Der, including the officers, persisted.
Coz w. E. MACARTHUR, clerk of
Representative Herman, of Oregon,
was found lying unconscious on the
street in Washington, on the evening
of the goth, and died shortly after at
the hospitaL Cause, sunstroke. Nc
Arthur was from The Dalles, Ore,
where he formerly published a paper.
OK the, 2eth Consul-General Fitz-
hugh Lee autographed the state de-
partment, in response to inquiries
made at the instigation of Gen. Miles,
that there was no information in Ha-
vana regarding the reported killing of
Pierce Atkinson, who went to Cuba
from this country to assist the reb-
els
WILLIAM j. GILBERT, the well-known
law-book publisher, and for many
years a prominent resident of st.
Louis, died, on the 27th, at his resi-
dence in that city, aged 81 years. He
was at the head of one of the oldest
1aw-book concerns in st. Louis, and
was known to every lawyer in the
city.
TIE supreme court of California
having affirmed the judgment of the
superior court, s. D. Worden, the
railroad striker, charged with wreck
ing the railway bridge near Sac
ramento, two years ago, and thereby
causing the death of Engineer Clark
and three United States soldiers, must
hang.
AMONG the passengers who arrived
at the port of New York on the 2sth,
by the steamer Caracas, from LaGuay-
"a, was the son of Jose Maceo, who
was killed in battle in Cuba recently.
The young man is, together with ten
other Cubans, on his way to the island
to join the rebel army. He first
learned of his fathers death on land
ing at New York.
A DISPATCH to the Madrid impartial
from Havana says that Capt. Gen.
Weyler had issued decree in which
he promises to the captains of vessels
the SUN of 81, 600 for each filibustering
steamer, and So, 600 for each flibus-
tering sailing vessel they seize. The
captains making seizures will be freed
Of all responsibility
IT was announced in Madrid, on the
2sth. that the shipbnilders of Genoa
had repudiated the contract their rep
resentatives had made with the Span
ish government to furnish the latter
promptly with two cruisers of 1000
tons Great excitement prevailed in
Madrid, as it was added that the ves-
sells had been purchased by the United
States
THE International Socialist Trades
congress, in session in London, met
ON the 2Sth and the question of the adj