Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-01-27
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

THE great strike of machiniSts in
Great Britain has ended in failure for
the worl1men, after struggle of six
months. Many millions in wages have
been lost and English trade has been
seriously injured. There is nothing
whatever to show on the credit side fol
this long and wasteful conflict.
J. J. HILL, of the Great Northern, has
notified President Brigeman of Ham.
line university, st. Paul, Mimi, that he
would give $50, 900 for the purpose OF
raising the $50, 900 debt against the col
lege, provided other friends of the in
stitution would collect the remaining
SIS, 600.
THE situation in Cuba has reached
that point now where the safety of the
Spanish government officials appears
to depend solely on the possibility OF
American interference. If it were not
for this possibility, it is said, the volun-
teers and regular army officers would
run Blanco out of Havana inside of q
week.
The United States supreme court has
handed down a decision declaring that
where a suicide is shown to be of sound
mind when committing the act of self
destruction no recovery could be made
upon u life insurance policy carried by
the deceased.
In the trial of Capt. Edward Muir
ply, at Wilmington, Del, on the 18th,
on the charge of tilibustering, Senator
Gray addressed the jury for the de-
PENDANT, making a strong plea for ac-
quittal. District Attorney Wander
grift made the closing argument for
the government.
FORTY persons were killed and IS IN
jured, on the 18th, by an explosion of
gas in one of the mines of the Donet-
zaer company, in the Tagenrog dis
trict of Russia, on the north side of
the sea of AzOv.
SCOTT LEIGHTON, the well-known
Boston artist, died at the Mclean as
sylum, Waverly, Mass, on the 18th.
Leighton's fame rested on his talent
in animal painting.
AMONG the arrivals in New York city
from Cuba, on the nth, was Augustin
Cassie, the father of Angelina Cossio Y
Cisneros. Cossio was released by Gen.
BIanco on January9.
THE great fight of the New England
cotton mill operatives against reduc-
ton of wages began on the 18th, and
where it will end no one can foresee.
Maine, Massachusetts,, Rhode Island
and Connecticut are involved.
SPEAKER MASON of the Ohio house of
representatives, on the 18th, appoint
ed a committee to investigate the al
legged attempt to bride Representative
Otis, of Hamilton county, to vote for
Marcus A. Hanna for senator.
BICYCLE POLICEMAN FREDERICK n.
LINCOLN, of New York, aged % years,
was instantly killed, on the 18th, in a
collision with a pedestrian, Julius
Hirschberg. Hirsch berg was SO badly
in jured that he was removed to his
home unconscious.
TIE steamship Normandie, from
Havre for New York. brought $3.50, OOO
in gold, on the 18th, consigned to
New York banking houses, in transit
to Cuba.
AT a conference of the Federation of
Engineers, called in London, on the
10th, in view of the withdrawal of the
eight-hour demand, it was resolved to
reopen the works on the Gath.
THE island of Jamaica was, on the
18th, declared free from yellow fever.
SENAIOh L lAIIO4uSCO d JUN
resolution in the senate, on the 10Th,
for the appointment of a commission
to make a survey for a ship canal from
the lower shore of Lake Michigan to
the Wabash river.
EXPORTS to America from north Ger
many showed a falling off during the
last quarter of So, 2S1, s13, principally
in sugar.
THE funeral of Logan Carlisle, son of
ex-Secretary John G. Carlisle, took
place from the South NJ. E. church IN
Covington, KY, on the 18th.
NOTICES were posted at the Center
vile, Or. L. cotton mills, on the 10Th,
announcing a reduction OF wages, to
take effect on the Gath.
Mr. GLADSTONE was reported, on the
18th, to be critically i'll at Cannes
JAMES MURPHY, George Woodruff
and George Gordon, post office burg
lars, made their escape from the fed
eral penitentiary at Leavenworth,
Kas., on the 10th. They dropped be-
hind the other prisoners in coming out
to breakfast, and, taking advantage OF
a heavy fog, scaled a 20-foot wall by
means of IA rope ladder, and were gone
some time before they were missed