Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-09-08

An imperial decree has been issued
summoning the Austrian reichsrath to
meet on September 90.
The statement of the condition of
the treasury, issued on the I'd.
showed: Available cash balance, se96,.
| 54s. 912; gold reserve, S219. 800, 372.
Gen. Cassius NJ Clay, of Kentucky,
has sued for divorce from his girl
wife, Dora Richardson Clay. In his
petition he asks that the defendant be
restored to her maiden name and given
ali proper relief, which is supposed to
mean that he intends to provide a lib
eral alimony.
The Bertram ship yards at Toronto,
Ont, have been destroyed by fire. The
steamer City of Toronto, in the final
stages of construction by the Bertram
company, was saved with great diff
Guilty. The loss is placed at about S7O,-
600.
An agitation is growing in Yoko-
hama, out of the purchase by the gov
eminent of four trunk railroads, and
| reports are revived that the govern
| ment intends to raise foreign loan of
$50. OO0, 900 in order to complete public
works
1 1OE the Week cn0cO Oh ZIG
| Sd, as reported by r. G. Dun & Co. !,
were, for the United States, I'll, against
191 for the corresponding week last
year; for Canada the failures were %,
| against 25 for last year
The international conference at Que
| bee, adjourned, ON the I'd, until Sep
TENDER 20.
Private Alex. LaDuke, Co. i, Second
Wisconsin volunteers, has been placed
| in the federal prison at Leavenworth,
kas., to remain for life. for the muir
der of Private Thomas Stafford, OF the
| Thirteenth United States infantry, in
a saloon row at Ponce, Porto Rico.
Maj. Huer, of the United States en-
| gineer corps, has removed Sc of the 60
mines or torpedoes put in San Fran
cisco bay at the outbreak of the war
with Spain. He is experiencing some
| difficulty in locating the remaining
six mines, as they had dragged their
| anchors.
Frank, George and Mabel Ferguson,
| aged "a, 10 and IA, respectively, were
drowned at Stamford, Conn, on the
Sd, by the upsetting of a row boat in
pond, about mile off Norton islands.
On the recommendation of the Swed-
| ish-Norwegian council, King Oscar has
notified the czar of his acceptance OF
| the invitation to send delegates to
peace conference.
According to advices from Iloilo,
Gen. Rios, governor of the Vizcayas,
is arresting and shooting suspected
persons, including prominent natives
of Manila.
r %n1
sippi sailed from Ponce, Porto Rico, on
the Sd, for New York, having on boarC
the Pennsylvania cavalry and arti!-
lery.
Canadian Pacific railway earning:
for the week ended the 31st were S71S,.
| 900; for the same period last year the
earnings were 1854, 900; increase, S34.-
900.
The Memphis (Tenn.) board o.
health, on the 4th, instituted a gen
eral quarantine against the fever-in.
fected points in Mississippi, and ii
| applies to the country generally. Nc
persons, not citizens temporarily alb
sent, will be permitted to enter ths
city on any railroad, steamboat or dir,
road.
The story from Havana that Gen
Pando, the former commander of the
| Spanish troops at Manzanillo, had Sc
| cretly fed from Cuba on the French
steamship Notre Dame du Salut foI
Spain with 100000 francs, is PROVED
| to be unfounded, as the general ar
rived at New York, ON the steamer
Philadelphia, on the 4th.
Indians arriving at Dauphin, Mani
toba, from the far north, report meet
ing an Eskimo, who told of the appear
| ance among them of a strange mar
| who descended from the clouds on the
| shores of Hudson bay. The opinion
among the whites is that the man il
Andree, the arctic explorer
New York has been suffering from
intense heat as well as the rest of the
| country. On the 4th there were 4;
deaths from heat prostration in the
district embraced ina Greater New
York.