Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-12-02

THE sugar experiments conducted by
the Department of Agriculture at Fort
Scott, Khs>, have resulted in great dis
appointment to the advocates of the car
bonatatiou theory.
COLONEL HUSTON, cha rman o. the In
.iana Republican State central commit
Zee, in an interview at Dallas, claimed
tho Legislature of his State for his party,
and said that Harrison would be the Sena-
tor.
THERE were 1s9 failures in the United
States during the seven days ended the
o6.t.
JOHN CAvANAUaH, of Jersey CITY, N.
J.. has been held for trial for the murder
of Patrick Hayden.
A RUN on the German Savings Bank at
Davenport, Ia, on the Goth caused some
excitement in that city, but it was coun-
teractei by heavy deposits by its friends.
DUBLIN is agitated with the widest ru-
mors relating to the Governments inten-
lions.
LAWRENCE BETHUNE, of Amargo, n
NJ, has f,een sent 10 the penitentiary for
robbng the mails.
INVESTIGATION shows that the CONT
mental Hotel fire at Chicago, on the 25th,
| was the work of incendieries. The build
ing was fired in six places.
JOHN MALLORY, Missouri Pacific sec
ton foreman, was killed at Leavenworth ii,
Kas., on the 25th. by walking of q trestle-
work.
| AN agreement has been entered into be-
| tween German and English steamship
/ companies whereby emigrants' rates will
| be advanced.
| ST. LOUIS ranks seventh among the
1 cities of the country in special letter de-
| livery business for the past year.
i A WEALTHY citizen of Birmingham,
Mich, YVES lately the recipient of a letter
/ from the Cuban sharpers who swindled
the Philadelphians.
] THE inside his ory of the packers strike,
| as published at Chicago, places Master
| Workman Butler in the unenviable posi-
| ton of having worked the strike for po-
litical advancement.
| A NUMBER of German Socialists who
took part in public demonstration have
| been sentenced at Berlin to various terms
| of imprisonment at hard labor.
| A SYSTEM of weather service sim liar to
that of the Government is to be estab-
Ished by the Union Pacific Railroad Com
panv all along its lines.
EXTENSIVE preparations are being made
for the celebration of the sixty-fitth an
niversary of the independence Of the 18TH
n.'.s of Panama.
| HERMAN BLICKENDoRFER whose home
| was at Lebanon, NO., while out with a
surveying party in Oregon, on the 25th,
was killed by the accidental discharge of
a pistol
| PROCEEDINGS have been commenced
| against John Dillon, M. P, for his utter
ances on the rent question in a speech de-
| Iivered at Woodford, Ireland, on October
| IS.
THE Winn Parrish (La.) court house
| burned on the Goth with all the records.
ABOUT one-half of the damage claims
growing out of the Rio disaster have
Leen settlel by the Chicago, Milwaukee
and st. Paul Railroad Company.
| IT is reported that the Poe family, who
were thought to have been burned to
death in Knox County, KY, month ago,
and his wife. The crime was witnessed
by their young son, who has toll all
| about it.
IT is intimated that Secretary Manning,
in his report, will recommend a two per
cent refunding bond for the benefit OF
National banks wishing to continue their
| circulation.
ALICE GRIDLEY, aged four years, fell
upon stove during the absence Of her
mother at Akron, o., on the Goth, and was
so severely burned that death ensued
shortly.
| ROBERT HILL shot and killed his bro
| Their, Tony, at Atlanta, Ga, on the Goth,
and then, placing the pistol to his own
temple, killed himself. The trouble was
caused by whiskey.
Mrs. CHARLES SMITH met with horri-
BILE death at Charlotte, Mich, on the Goth.
| While working about the house her cloth
ing caught fire and she was burned to q
crisp.
A MOST remarkable haul of fish was
made at Peoria, ILL.,, on the 26th by Walters
6 Co. AT one haul of the sein they
brought in $1,000 pounds of fish. The
largest three were catfish, weighing to.
gether sixty-fve pounds, the largest
weighing forty pounds. The entire catch
was shipped to Kansas City.