Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-12-10
NEWS AND NOTES.
!. A summary Of Important Events.

NEWS. AND NOTES.
"A Summary q Important Events.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. a.
JAMES r. D. CRANE, County Clerk of
Westchester County, n. Y, has become
financially involved and has fed. Every.
thing is straight at his office. His inde6t-
edness is over $5o,000.
On the LIST Anthony Constock caused
the arrest of Richard Rowe, in New York,
. on charge of using the mails for sending
out circulars offering to sell counterfeit
money. Rowe is said to be an extremely
clever confidence man with about seventy
aliases and as many addresses scattered
over the city from the Battery to Harlem
River.
KING ALFONSO died heavily in debt, his
expenses for several years having exceed
ed his allowance.
On the I'd the tide in the English cleo
tions turned in favor of the Liberals and
they gained a number of seats.
HENRY J. TERRY succeeds Mr.. Phelps,
now Minister to England, as Professor of
Municipal and International Law at Yale.
On the ID the General Assembly of Vir-
ginia met in regular biennial session. Both
Houses were organized by the reelection
of the old officers.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has appointed
Albert A. Wilson, of Washington, to be
United States Marshal for the District of
Columbia. Mr.. Wilson is President of the
Firemen's Insurance Company, Vice.
President of the. Metropolitan Railway
Company of Washington and director Of
the National Bank of the Republic.
NEWS has been received at San Fran
cisco announcing the death of Clarence
Whistler, the champion Greco Roman
wrestler, known as the ''Kansas Cyclone"
at Melbourne, Australia.
GENERAL HERvATovITcH has been ap-
pointed commander of the Servian army.
KING THEEBAw of Burmah claims that
ibis ministers deceived him. He now says
he is willing to abdicate.
WILLIAM ALDRIcH, of Milwaukee, Wis,
'ex-member of Congress, died of apoplexy
at Fon du Lac on the Sd.
ON the Sd, in a,speech at Glasgow, Earl
aRoseberry predicted that the coming Par
lament would be a short-lived one.
TIE late Vice-President Hendricks will
has been probated. He leaves all his real
and personal property to his wife.
On the Sd Joseph Pulitzer, editor of the
New York World, was arrested at the suit
of Mayor Grace of New York, charging
him with ibelin accusing him (Grace) of
swindling the city in connection with the
firm of Grant & Ward. He claims $4,000
damages.
PROF. WOODWARD, of st. Louis, will lee
ture at Philadelphia on December 18th on
manual training before the Social Science
Association.
On surrendering, King Theebaw felt very
much Inundated and expressed the hope
that the British would spare his life.
Mr.. GAME, junior Lord of the Admiral
ty in Gladstone's administration, makes
the tenth of that government defeated in
: the present elections.
In speech at Leicester on the Sd Mr..
Chamberlain, said the Liberal defeat was
. due to five p's: Priests, publicans, parsons,
Parnellites and protectionists.
GENERAL STURGIs, late Governor of the
Soldiers Home in Washington, d. c., now
stationed at the Black Hills, Dakota, will
be retired under the law on June 18th
next, when it is expected he will take up
his residence with his family in Washing
ton.
DoMINIcK MAuNcY, ex-Bishop of Mobile,
died on the 4th.
Mr.. HENDRICKS paid taxes on an ap-
praisement of $50 600; his estate is valued
at about 800 900.
PROF. BARNARD, of Vanderbilt Univer-
sity, Nashville, Tenn, has discovered q
comet in the constellation Taurus. This
makes Prof. Barnard's fifth winning of the
500 Warner prize.
GENERAL LOGAN was rendered the NOM
ination for President pro tenn. of the
United States Senate by the Senatorial
caucus of the Republicans on the 4th, and
declined it.
CHICAGO parties have brought suit
against Township Trustee Kitz, of Indiana,
and his bondsmen for $10, 600, the value of
bonds which Kitz pronounced forgeries.
On the 4th Lady Randolph Churchill was
invested personally by Queen Victoria with
the insignia of the Imperial Order of the
Star. of India.
ON the 4th Mayor Grace of New York
went before the Federal Grand Jury and
made statement as to his alleged rela-
tions with the firm of Gr2s.1lI...sc Ward.
INTERNAL REVENUE COLLECTOR FARLEY
at Cleveland, o., has appointed Neal
Cleveland, a nephew Of President Cleve-
lond, as gauger in the Revenue Office in
that city. The position pays about 500
per month.
In view of possible political complica-
tions, even before the meeting of Parlia-
,ment, Mr.. Parnen will probably not visit
America for the present.
On the 9th the wife of Governor Porter
of Indiana was reported seriously i'll, with
but slight hopes of her recovery.
On the 5th John A. Carey, a lawyer of
Elmira, N. z, was arrested and held for
the United States Grand Jury, on the
charge of retaining pension money col
lected for Mrs. Sarah Babeock.
THE remaiRs of Schneckenberger, the
writer of sWAcht Am Rhein;nare to be re-
moved from their present resting place at
Burgdorf and inferred in Ahe village of
Thalheim, in Wiurtemburg, his birthplace.
On the 9th une French editors of the
Province of Queaec held a secret meeting
at Montreal for the purpose OF planning
their policy of opposition to Sir John Mac
Donald.
ON the 9Th the House Democratic caucus |
met and nnminatedsdr. Carlisle for Speaker.
The Senate Republican caucus selected |
Hon. John Sherma3 for President pro tenn |
Of the Senate.
Ex-FBNLAK HEAD-CENTER SGxPHENs |
has requested ODoncvan Rosa net to in
tiate or sanction any further dynamite |
,utrages in London or elsewhere,
POPE LEO has written a letter to the |
Catholic bishops of England approving
heir opposition to the Radical scheme Of
Tree education.
STURGEON, the great English preacher, is
'eportcd to be completely broken down In
lie 40 he Y