Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-01-29
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| NE Eul10E Ql Tue IauuI0 Oh CHe McOale
mont Oil Company, one of the largest oil
firms in Pennsylvania, is denounced as q
malicious falsehood.
THE Emperor of Germany is recovering
l from his illness.
/ THERE is a strike among the Myersdale
coke regions men in Pennsylvania
| VIGoRoUs efforts are being made at
| Cedar Rapids, Ia, to enforce the Prohibi-
| ton law.
| SISTER THERESA, niece of James G.
Blaine, died at St. Mary's Convent,
/ Wiikesbarre, Pa, on the 21st.
TIE British flag has been hoisted over
several islands lying of the eastern point
of New Guinea.
TIE Republican caucus at Madison.
| Wis, on the 21st nominated Colonel John
c. Spooner for United States Senator.
/ THE British Cabinet met and further
considered the French proposals regarding
! Egyptian finance. The idea seemed to
prevail that the Continental powers were
getting too previous.
| Mrs. ELIZABETH CADY STANTON was
elected President of the National Woman
| Suffrage Association
SEVERAL potteries at Trenton, N. j..
have weakened and have taken back their
men at the old rate of wages.
A NIECE of Thomas Carlyle is about to
publish a life of the great writer, contro-
verting James Anthony Froude's memoirs.
The Postmaster General has sent to Con-
gress the draft of the bill to reduce the
| rate of postage on newspapers.
GENERAL AUGUR has been instructed by
| the Adjutant-General to remove the
'.boomers" from Oklahoma.
THE Kansas Legislature favors the en-
actment of law by Congress opening the
Oklahoma lands to settlement
A SAVINGS bank at jamestown, Pa, was
| forced to suspend on the 2lss on account
| of deficit of 1900 by one of the officers.
A RESOLUTION was introduced in the
Michigan Legislature on the Dist asking
Congress to pass the Reagan inter Stats
commerce bill.
THE National Association of baggage
agents met at Baltimore, Md, on the 21st
j. d. Maistan, of the Rock Island Road,
was elected President.
THE Receiver of the Bankers 6 Mer-
chants Telegraph Company issued checks
for the December salaries of the New
York employees on the 21st, and thus avert
ed a threatened strike.
THE sale just made of unavailable articles
at the Dead Letter Office in Washington,
comprised $4,000 articles, offered in 3,276
lots.
The Garfield Memorial Hospital at
Washington is sadly in need of funds.
THE wife of Hon. Stanley Mathews, of
the United States Supreme Court, died in
Washington, D. c., on the 22d.
PARNELL is reported as seriously ill at
Cork.
THE Piute Indians are said to be starv-
ing on their barren reservation in Nevada.
THE Western Nail Association on the
22d advanced the card rate about five per
cent.
FAMINE is said to prevail in some of the
Russian provinces.
GENERAL HATCH is reported to have
surrounded the Oklahoma "boomers" with
the intention of starving them out.
S. D. ScoTT, ex-County Clerk of Council
Bluffs, Ia, was arrested on the 22d ON
charge of embezzling $4,000.
DIR. j. j. MooRMAN, President of Roam
oke Va.) College for forty-four years,
died ON the 22d, aged eighty -four years.
A UNITED STATES cavalry company ar
rived at Yuma, Ariz., on the 22d with
twelve Mexican bandit prisoners.
DANIEL DoDD, President of the Newark
IN. j. Savings Bank, has been indicted
for making illegal Investments.
The British Government on the odd tele-
graphed congratulations to Generals
Wolseley and Stewart over the recent vic
tory in Egypt
WHILE standing at the grave of his
daughter, who died three years ago, on
the I'D, Jno. T. O'Ksefe, of Clean, N. Y,
killed himself.
The annual meeting of the American
Timed Plate Association. was held at Pitts
burgh, Pa, ON the 22d. w. j. Lewis, of
that city, was elected President
FRESH earthquake shocks were felt in
many of the Spanish provinces on the 22d.
THE old Liberty Bell was shipped from
Philadelphia on the Esd to New Orleans.
EMPEROR WILLIAM of Germany has en-
tirely recovered from his illness.
CAPTAIN PHELAN declares he will prose-
cute all those concerned in the recent
murderous attack upon him.
HEAVY snow falls were reported
throughout the Northwest ON the 23d, and
trains were all several hours behind time.
AN avalanche buried a number of people
in the department of Hautes Alps, France.
AN epidemic of diphtheria at Hazel
Green, Wis, has necessitated the closing
of the public schools.
CAPTAIN N. j. FARRELL, one of the best
known detectives in the United States,
died on the 23d at New Orleans from ac-
onite poisoning caused by = druggists
mistake.
A RUN was commenced on the New
Haven Comm Savings Bank on the Odd,
but the concern promptly met all de-
mands.
NJ. B. LouREY, at one time most promi-
nent citizen and politician of Pennsyl- |
vania, died in an insane asylum near
Philadelphia ON the 23d.
OrTo FUNK was arrested at Chicago on
the 23d for taking books from the Public
Library. Among his effects were found |
a dozen boxes of dynamite, in one of
which was an Internal machine.
THE German Reichstag has appropriated |
So. 500 to be used in exploring Central |
Africa.
WOLVES recently caught and devoured |
an old hunter in the lumber region near
M.ch. Before being over
come he shot thirteen of the beasts with |
his repeating rifle, the bodies of which |
lay around his remains.
THE latest news from General Stewart |
is that he is intrenched in tn desert near |
and is surrounded by the rebels. |
The latter did not retreat in the disorderly |
manner at first reported
JOHN KELLY was again elected Chair |
man of the Tammany Hall Committee on |
A committee was appoint
ed to attend Mr.. Cleveland's Inaugural
ton.
THos. j. CHAPMAN, murderer of Nicholas |
Hubbard at Humboldt, ILL.,, was hanged at