Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-03-20
On the 18th Bismarck made speech

On the 18th Bismarck made speech
to the Reichstag explaining his position re.
garding the Lasker resolutions.
THE st. Louis (Mo.) Express robber,
Prentice Tiller, was returned to that city
on the 14th.
On the 18th F. J. Dieterichs, the miss
ing teller of the Laclede Bank of st. Louis,
Mo-. was arrested and lodged in Jail.
Hon. JOHN TAFFEE died on the 4th
at North Platte. Neb. He was Nebraska's
first member of Congress, and at the time
of his death was Register of the North
Platte Land Office:
WHILE Mr.. Bradlaugh was deliver
ing lecture at Bridgewater, Eng, the
night of the 14th, against perpetual pen
sons, he was attacked by roughs and driv.
en- from the platform by showers of rotten
eggs. fruit and fireworks. Roughs after.
wards wrecked the Chairman's house.
The Secretary of the Interior has re-
stored Sam Mckee, of Louisville, KY, to
practice as pension attorney.
On the 14th Representative Richard
Warner, of the Fifth Tennessee District,
received dispatch announcing that his
SS, 900 home and contents at Louisburg, in
that State, had been completely destroyed
by fire. He left Washington for Tennes-
see Immediately.
The Committee on Foreign Affairs,
to whom were referred the Lasker-Bis.
marck resolutions, will report commend
ing the action Of the State Department,
and recommending substantially that the
bon laff To xryi$I y,
the Reichstag.
In a recent interview at New York re-
garding the recent explosion at Fuihan,
England, O'Donovan Rosa declared that
he knew some days before its occurrence
that the explosion was to take place. The
news now comes that the supposed outrage
was merely the accidental explosion of a
child's toy, and O'Donovan Rosa is left in
a ridiculous attitude.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
On the 18th sleeping car, with fif-
teen passengers, was upset by a broken
rail on the Michigan Central Railroad, but
nobody was seriously injured.
In East St. Louis, ILL.,, the Advance
elevator burned the evening of the 18th
with 100000 bushels of grain, about one
hundred freight cars and dozen frame
buildings.
NEAR Alpine Pass, Col, a snow-slide
occurred on the 18th, which swept away all
the buildings at Woodstock together with
seventeen people, all but two of whom were
killed.
On the 18th fire destroyed twenty
three buildings at Allegan, Mich.
On the 18th freight collision, near
Newberg, N. Y, resulted in the burning of
ten cars of refined oil.
On the 18th five laborers were injured
and one killed by fall of coal in the Avon
dale shaft at Wilkesbarre, Pa.
On the 18th $4,000 worth of naphtha
exploded at Hunters Point. L. I.
By coal mine explosion at Poca-
hontas, Va, on the 18th one hundred and
sixty lives were lost. 1t was one of the
most appalling disasters on record.
By the fire in Grand Rapids, Mich,
on the 18th, two lives were lost and fire.
man was made blind.
THE leading inventors of the country
have issued call for mass Convention
to take action TO prevent pernicious legisla-
ton by Congress. The Convention will be
held in Music Hall, in Cincinnati, March
%. Responses from all parts of the United
States and Territories, it is reported,
already show that an attendance of 5000
may be expected.
A FEW days ago four miners were
killed by snow-silde at Aspen Mountain,
Colorado.
A DANISH mechanic. convicted of ar
son at Copenhagen, confesses that he is the
man who set fire to the Victoria dock, Lon
don, Eng, in 1881.