Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-09-02


troit (Mich.) board of trade operator
who disappeared several days ago, wns
found. on the 22d, on Belle isle.
Around his neck a handkerchief had
been knotted and then twisted with a
lead pencil until the victim strangled
to death.
PREMIER MELINE, addressing the dele
gates to the council general of the de-
partment of the Seine and the munich
pality of Paris, on the 25th, on the rise
in the price of wheat, declared that he
would submit the question to the cabi-
net, adding that he would not hesitate
to reduce the tariff if the rise was
genuine and not speculative.
THE London Echo asserts that the
duke and duchess of York have &C
cepted the invitation of the premier of
Canada, Sir Wilfred Laurier, to visit
Canada during the spring of 1895 while
on their way to Australia.
EIGHT persons broke Jail at Welsh,
W. Va, on the 25th, and made their
escape. Seymour Grey, who was to be
hanged September 2, was among the
fugitives, as were two negroes who
murdered policeman at Keystone.
THE large boiler in the Adams
County Lumber Co.'s mill at Decatur,
Ind. exploded, on the 25th, killing
Vern Reynolds, the seven-year-old son
of Clarence Reynolds and fatally in
juring William Lewis.
The North German Gazette an
nounced, on the Goth, that DIR. Won
Holleban, the Prussian minister at
Stuttgart, Wurtemburg, had been Sc
lected for the post of German ambassa-
dor to the United States.
THE achievements the Spanish gov
eminent intends to send to Cuba will
start from Spain in October. 1t is said
that they will number from $4,000 to
20, 900 men.
THE PIeasanton stock farm at Oak
land, Cal, the famous training and
breeding establishment of some of the
worlds greatest race horses, has been
declared insolvent by Judge Hall.
A SPECIAL dispatch from Bombay, on
the Goth, said that cholera had broken
out in the Northamptonshire (British)
regiment.
SHIPMENTS of grain from the port of
Chicago this season are the heaviest
in the history of the lake trade.
THE French cabinet has decided that
there is no ground at present for modl-
flying the duties on cereals.
r. G. Dun & Co. in their weekly re-
view of trade, on the 2Sth, say: "Spec-
ulative markets have their turns of re-
action, but business has none this sea-
son, gaining at a steadiness which is
most gratifying. The starting of
works, increase of hands employed,
advance in wages and in prices of pro-
ducts and the heavy movement of
crops are facts before which all specu-
lative influences have to bow"
SIGMUND MORRIS. who is wanted in
Brooklyn, n. Y, for having violated
the postal laws in connection with an
alleged directory swindle, was arrested
in San Francisco on the Goth. He was
arraigned before Commissioner Pea
cock, on the 27th, and date fixed for
his examination, bail being required
meanwhile in the sum of So, 500.
JERE BAXTER. president of the Ten
nessee Central railway, and w. j. Tot
ten, representative of the Carnegie
Steel Company, Pittsburgh, Pa, closed
| a contract, on the 2Tth, for $500, 600
| worth of steel rails and fittings to be
used in the construction of the road.
The delivery of the material will begin
in about six weeks.
The London Financial News, of the
9th, said: The French cabinet is
considering the floating of a loan of
EGO, 900, 900 in az per cent. bonds, part
| ly for the redemption of the floating
| debt and partly for the reconstruction
of the French navy"
In Russia a workman with q horse Is
paid rouble and so copecks per day.
The rouble is valued at STA cents and
the copeclk is the one-hundredth part
of a rouble. A great deal of the ma
chinery still in use in Russia is very
| crude.
THE king of Siam, who arrived in
Potsdam, on the Goth. and was received
with every mark of honor by Emperor
| William. placed a wreath of flowers
upon the tomb of the late Emperor
Frederick of Germany.