Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-10-25
News Items.

News Items.
Mr.. Bonanza Mackay will open he
Washington City campaign in Janu
airy.
Mrs. Kate Chase leads, at Carlsbad
Germany, what Miss Grumpy calls "ar
isolated life."
The price of good-looking young Chi
ma girls i'm San Francisco ranges from
$500 to 81 900.
A Virginia papers appeal: "Will
your friend be kept on the police force:
Not If we lose the Legislature"
Mime. Loyson. the wife of Pere Hy.
acinthe, is the guest of her son, Mr..
Meriman, in Washington, d. c.
Julian Hawthorne has the quiet
taste his father had. He has settled
at Sag Harbor, out of everybody's
way.
Don Cameron will not be In his seat
this winter, but Senator Butler, of
South Carolina is paired with him, on
all party questions.
John w. Mackay, the millionaire,
is said by the San Francisco Post to be
giving his "whOle attention to the
postal telegraph scheme"
Ex-Speaker Kiefer, passing through
Chicago on his way to Denver, said to
a reporter: 1.-THE election? Oh, it's
too badi too bad! too bad!"
A New York actress wore a string of
cranberries around her neck, and the
papers the next morning all referred
to her "magnificent coral necklace"
Within ten years, writes Western
man, thirty California millionaire have
died, and not one of them was distin-
guished in life for anything but his
money.
Mr.. Blaine gets 81 copy for each of
his Twenty Years of Congress" sold,
and the publishers say their advance
orders make assured sale of at least
100000 copies.
Mayor King. of Philadelphia, declines
to close up the "bucket-shOps" in that
city because he considers their trade
quite as legitimate as the regular brok-
erage business.
Sullivan now estimates his wealth at
over $50, 900, but expects to double it
within the next year through his sa-
;,,n L.
always admires art.
Sergeant Jasper, the hero who fig
ures in Revolutionary annals, is to
have a monument at Savannah. Of
the $4,000 required for the work So, sS7
have been subscribed.
The Piute Indians of Nevada, who
rely upon pine nuts for their winter
food, find few this year and say, "Heap
catch 'em 10 pinut." They must live
on jack-rabbits and charity.
1t was in November. a hundred years
ago, that old John Jacob Astor set
sail from Germany for New York with
nothing but a five-pound note and sew
en- German flutes in his pocket.
Mrs. Senator Tabor No. has refused
to pay a bill of $1,000 rendered by her
lawyer in the divorce suit which she
brought against her husband, and is
fighting for a reduction in the courts.
Edward Scheiffiin, the prospector,
has returned to San Francisco from
Alaska, having failed to find gold dig
gings on the YokOn. Scheiffiin is the
man who founded Tombstone, In Ari.
IONA.
Joaquin Miller has bought lot at
the head of Sixteenth street, Washing
ton, OH the hill, and will erect in the
shade of some mighty oaks genuine
log cabin, with all modern improve
ments."
The Prince of Wales has lately order
ed lifesize portrait of Miss Chamber |
lain, the American beauty, and has |
also rendered to Mr., Mrs. and Miss |
the use of his yatch for |
an autumn cruise.
Mrs. Rebecca NJ. Bonsal, "the loyal
girl" who distinguished herself in the
battle of Winchester, will be at the re-
union of'the Ninety-third Pennsylvan-
la Veteran Volunteers, in Norristown,
on the 25th instant.
Mr.. Blaine, it is said, after finishing
his political book, will write a history
Of the war of 1872. AS Mr.. Blaine had
no substitute in the war of 1912, it is
difficult to understand how he is to ac-
curately write about it.
The decision of q Republican Su-
preme Court that the civil rights bill
is ar unconstitutional sham like the
promise of "forty acres and a mule"
will hardly check the exodus of colored !
voters from the Republican party.