Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-04-22
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
By a decree transmitted to the state
department by United States Consul
Wiesike at Managua, the Nicaraguan
government has reduced the duty on
bicycles to 2 2-1O0 cents per pound, or
about S2.13 for a machine. as packed,
for that country. The old duty was
about ten cents per pound.
Two MEN held up the cashier of the
Yonkers On. " savings bank, on the
18th, and secured 81, 400, mostly in bills,
and made good their escape.
ACCORDING to advices brought by the
Oriental steamer Gaelic, which arrived
at San Francisco on the 18th, natives
in the vicinity of Ichang, China, are
dying by thousands of starvation.
JOSE GONZALES CARLOS, charged with
being an inSurgent incendiary, was
shot at Cabanas fortress, Cuba, on the
18th.
A DISPATCH from Washington says:
The sweeping order of President Cleve-
land effecting a consolidation of PEN
sion agencies will be revoked by Presi-
dent Mckinley, if present plans are
carried out.
AT Wilson, ILL.,, a small town on the
Chicago & Eastern Illinois railroad, a
posse of twenty-five citizens fought a
pitched battle, on the night of the 18th,
with three robbers who had been
caught in the act of robbing bank.
SENATOR CHANDLER, on the 18th, in
troduced his bills empowering the sec
rotary of the navy to take possession
of the armor plants of the Bethlehem
and the Carnegie companies, and hold
and operate them at will, provision for
ample compensation being made.
On the advice of her physician that
it was the devil in her, and it would
have to be whipped out" Mrs. Logan,
of Indianapolis, Ind, beat her 19-year-
old daughter Nellie, who had been
subject to hysteria for four years, SO
badly that she had to be sent to the
hospital.
SEVERAL thousand razor-back hogs,
into Iowa from Texas during
the past year, have died from what
was supposed to be hog cholera. A
post-mortem examination of some of
them disclosed the fact that, instead
of cholera, a kidney worm killed the
hogs.
A DEED has been placed on file in
Kansas City, Kas., conveying to Will
lam j. Isaac, of Kansas City, Mo-,
nearly one-half of the city of Argen-
tine, a manufacturing suburb. Over
one million dollars worth of property
is involved.
A MYSTERIOUS Jail delivery occurred
in Memphis, Tenn, on the night of the
18th. J. H. Morris, alias J. a. Thur
man. alias J. NJ. Thomas, under indict-
ment for forgery in Chicago, Louis
vile and Memphis, passed to liberty
four doors, all of which were
found to be securely locked after the
escape was discovered
In view of the very satisfactory tests
of American armor plate heretofore
sent to Russia, the Russian govern
nent has asked the Carnegie and Beth
lehem companies to submit proposals
for furnishing armor plate for two
large battleships.
THE London Globe, st. James Ga
zette and Pail Mall Gazette all ridicule
the idea of the United States bimetal-
lie commission, appointed by the preSi-
dent, having any practical result.
IT is reported that T. v. Powderly,
former general master workman of the
knights of Labor, will be appointed
of immigration to sue
eeed Herman Stump, of Maryland.
The president has sent message to
congress urging suitable provision for
adequate representation of the United
States at the Paris exposition
T.Yx, Narx- Vor-l- Canfro1 Poilroa6 "a
has arranged for the sale of 500, 000, 900
of So per cent. 10O-year gold bonds, and
the New York & Harlem for S12, 600, 600
of the same class of bonds.
WHILE tapping a blast at the Repub-
lican iron works in Pittsburgh, Pa,
about three o'clock on the morning of
the 18th, the molten metal boiled over
into . pit of water, causing an explo-
sion Five men were badly burned,
two of whom will probably die.
FATHER PHILIP BEREsFoRD, rector of
St Joseph's Catholic parish, in Read
ing. Pa, was found dead in bed in the
adjoining the church on the
18th. Death was due to suffocation
from Illuminating gas. Bis age was
about SO years
A DISPATCH from Essen-on-the-Ruhr
that ten persons were killed,
on the 18th, by an explosion of fire
damp in the Oberhausen pit
SECRETARY Bliss of the interior de-
partment has held up an order issued
by the authority of his predecessor
4s, ZOO acres of land upon the
state university of Missouri as an addi-
ton to its endowment fund.
N
triet of Columbia, who for q long time
confidential position in the
pension bureau, has been retained as
clerk to Commissioners
Evans
DISPATCH from Constantinoples says
that in the last encounter between the |
Greek irregulars and the Turkish regu-
lar troops on the Macedonion frontier |
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