Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-12-16
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

THE employers in the English cotton
trade have abandoned their demand
for five per cent. reduction in wages,
many firms being disinclined to en-
force it. The operatives are thus vic
torious in the struggle.
IT is deemed significant in Berlin
that 100 volunteers, including a num-
Der of members of the aristOcracy, like
Count Won Kessler and the prince of
Thurn and Taxis, are to accompany
the expedition to Kiao-Chau bay, with
Prince Henry of Prussia as its COM
mander.
WALTER CRooT, of Newcastle, En-
gland, who was defeated for the ban
tam-weight championship of the world
at the National Sporting club in Lon
don, on the 9th, by Jimmy Barry, of
Chicago, died, on the 18th, of injuries
received during the contest.
On the Sth the supreme court of Cal
ifornia dispelled the last hope of w. II.
L. Durrant, the murderer of Blanche
Lamont and Minnie Williams, by dis
posing in a summary manner of his
two appeals adversely to the con-
demned.
the sth, authorized the Franklin ma
tional bank of Franklin, o., to begin
business. Capital, $4,000.
The plate glass factory at Elwood,
Ind, employing 500 hands, closed
down, on the 18th, because of the re-
fusal of the polishers to accept the
change to payment by piece work in
stead of by the week.
On the 18th Emperor William ordered
the number of volunteers for the China
expedition to be increased to l, ZOO men.
Nor later than January 1, 1898, every
wire mill in the United States may be
controlled, if not owned, by one COM
pany. with a capitalization of $780,
900, 900. The mills for producing the
rods from which wire and wire nails
are made are also to be taken into the
trust.
PRESIDENT SIMON SAM of Hayti, in a
proclamation, says that Hayti's gov
eminent had determined to resist Ger
many to the end, but that expected
support was withheld, and for that
reason submission was the only course
left.
A PARIS dispatch says that the re-
opening of the Dreyfus case is rem
dered improbable, if not impossible,
by reason of the alleged connection of
the wife of Maj. Esterhazy with the
chief of the general staff of the French
army.
JOHN HARLoNG, the aged farmer who
was tortured and robbed of $500 by
three masked men at Greentown, o.,
died on the Sth. Harlong was 81 years
old. His principal wound was deep
cut on the head, made by an iron
wedge.
THERE will be attached to the pen
sion appropriation bill an amendment
hereafter marries an old soldier will,
in the event of the soldiers death, be
entitled to a widows pension.
THAT Germany anticipates trouble
at no distant date with Russia is mani
fest from the orders that have been is
sued by the war department at Berlin
for the immediate rearmament of all
the forts along the Russian from tier.
EDWIN G. NoURsE, engineer in charge
of the construction of the new railroad
bridge being built between Davenport,
Ia, and Rock Island, Ill, was instant
ly killed, on the sth, by the fall of a
derrick.
BEFORE sailing for Europe, on the
sth, and countering the perils of
plobe-trotter, George W. Vanderbilt
took out 81, O00, 900 insurance on his
life. The policy is the largest ever is
sued by any company in the world
JOHN ,SCHwINNEN, aged, out OF work
and respondent jumped from the high
bridge to the frozen surface OF the Lin
coin park (Chicago) lagoon, on the sth,
and broke his way through to death in
the cold waters.
THOMAS O'NEILL and John OBrien,
two longshoremen, were run down by
an Illinois Central train in Chicago,
on the 9th, and fatally injured.
REAR-ADMIRAL JOSEPH E. GREEN, u.
S. n. (retired), died at his home In
Brookline, Mass, on the 9Th. from
complication of diseases.