Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-01-31

VICE-PREsIDENr j. P. GRIER of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company made
argument before the House Committee on
Commerce on the oath, opposing bills to
regulate Interstate commerce, and espec-
tally such as would interfere with pooling
privileges.
The resignation of Hon. John C..
New from his position in the Treasury De-
partment is positively announced.
On the oath Fred Douglass was mar
ried in Washington to Miss Helen N. Pitts,
white woman, formerly of Avon, N. Y,
and who was employed as copyist in Doug
LASS office while he was Marshal of the
District of Columbia. The groom is seven
ty-three and the bride thirty-five years of
age.
THE body of Herr Lasker was landed
on the 18th at Bremerhaven.
REPRESENTATIVE HoLMAN's bill to
prevent duplication of pay accounts of ar
my and navy officers and others will be re-
ported favorably to Congress.
On the 25th the Marquis of Hartford
died from the effects of a TALL from his horse
while hunting.
COLONEL ISAAC r. HILL, of Ohio, has
been appointed assistant sergeant-at-arms
of the National House of Representatives.
Ex-SPEAKER KEIFER's nephew, Ben
jamin Gaines, testified on the 18th before
the House Committee on Accounts regard
ing the dismissal and appointment of Off
cial stenographers.
On the 9th Miss Emily Faithful and
her companion, Miss Charlotte Robinson,
dined with the Mormon President Taylor.
The veteran actor, Jas. E. Murdoch,
was rendered a reception the night of the
18th at the Academy of Fine Arts in Phil
adelphia.
On the night of the 25th j. Astheim,
a wealthy New York dealer in brewers
supplies, died in Russian bath.
Jos. KUHN, long a wealthy private
banker of Detroit, Mich, failed on the 18th.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
On the 21st Rev. Barton Lave, an
aged Methodist clergyman, fell into fire.
place at Winchester, O., and was fatally
burned.
DELL ASHCROFT, of Charlton, O., has
made a confession that he, with two 9TH
ers, robbed and fatally injured Mrs. Robin
son, an aged woman, thirteen years ago.
The crime has always been shrouded in
mystery.
On the night of the Goth highwaymen
robbed the Wickenberg "a. To- stage.
They cut the mail-bags and rifled the let
tiers.
AT Cornwall, Canada, on the 22d, the
Commercial Hotel with dozen stores We're
destroyed by fire.
On the 22d the st. Lawrence sugar
refinery at Montreal, Cam, burned; loss,
$4,000.
On the Esd two men were suffocated
by gasoline fumes at Saratoga, N. Y.
On the 23d Adam Busch, fireman,
was fatally injured while rescuing child
from burning building at Wood Haven,
L. 1.
On the night Of the 22d newly mar
ried couple named Bodicker were murder
ed in their home, log cabin, few miles
south of Fenton, Jefferson County, Mo-,
and their bodies hacked to pieces. 1t is
supposed to have been the work of tramp
and plumber the motive.
ON the night of the 22d burglars blew
open a safe in Ironton, Wis, and secured
81 800, but failed to discover 81, 100 more in
currency WHICH lay III Tue SaIe
On the morning of the 23d the Ham,
ilton (Can.) Spectator office burned. Loss,
1900; insured for $21 900.
On the oath two ruffians robbed a
Chinese laundryman of 500 at the point of
a revolver in Cleveland.
On the morning of the oath a large
number of miners were killed by an explo-
sion in the Colorado Coal and Iron Compa-
ny's mine at Crested Butte, Col.
A FALLING wall crushed in a wing of
the Hebrew Free School in New York in
which there were fifty pupils on the oath.
A wild panic resulted, but only half dozen
persons were injured.
On the 25th the twin babes of Isaac
Martin of Liberty Mills, Ind, were frozen
to death in their crib.
On the 25th mulatto made a muir
derous assault upon farmer Sprague of
East Meadow, L. l., and robbed his house.
The whole neighborhood went in pursuit
and caught the scoundrel, who was iden-
titled by Mrs. Sprague.
MISCELLANEOUS.
SINCE 1889 the Government has spent