Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-03-22

| The striking engineers of this Chicago,
burlington & Qaincy railroad, on the
| 18th, requested the engineers of other
| roads to handle al! freight consigned to
the Burlington fast as offered. The
result was that more cars We're forwarded
than the company, with its limited force,
| could handle, and they were compelled to
refuse to receive them, and were mulcted
for trackage charges and required to
pay all freight bills, amounting to thou
sands of dollars, on tender of freight.
All this, in view of their suit to compel
compel ting lines to handle their freight
is in the nature of boomerang.
a GREAT snow storm ragged in Scotland
on the 18th. Nearly all the railways were
blocked with snow. and traffic was at a
standstill.
DANIEL BOWMAN, a veal thy farmer of
Allen County, O., was found dead in his
corn-feld, on the morning of the 10Th,
with deep cut in his forehead. He is
supposed to have been murdered.
AN immense natural-gas explosion oc-
CURED at Toledo, o., on the 18th, en- tall
ing a loss of several thousand dollars. A
travelling man named Fireman was fatal
ly burned.
FREDERICK CAROLYN, a carpenter, MUIR
dered his mistress in most brutal man.
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10Th. The woman's name is unknown,
but she was a widow with three children.
THE Ohio river was practically block
AIDED at Browns Island, five miles above
Steubenville. O., on the 10Th, by the sink
ing, in one Hanged mass, of eighteen coal
barges, entailing loss of 200 bushels
of coal.
On the 10Th Attorney General Garland
sent to the House of Representatives an
answer to resolution calling for informa-
ton as to the amount of money expended
for the apprehension of illicit distillers
and violators of the internal revenue
laws. He said that these expenditures
were in payment of local deputies en-
ployed guides to officers in making ar
rests, but failed to state the amount paid
out.
THE Chinese immigration treaty was
laid before the Senate on the 10th. 1t ex-
cludes all Chinese laborers from our
shores except those now here, and makes
exceptions of certain privileged classes.
A BILL was introduced in the Senate,
on the 10Th, to provide for the admission
of Utah into the Union.
A. D. RATHER and r. Mundy, of Temple,
Tex, were held up and robbed near the
Santa Fe railroad bridge on Red river,
nine miles from Gainesville, on the 10th.
Rather gave up 5000 and a gold watch,
and Mundy con tributed the modest sum
of fifteen dollars.
DISPATCHES from Malta, Madrid and
Melbourne, Australia, state that general
mourning was observed on the 10Th for
the late Emperor William of Germany.
THE municipality of San Reno, Italy,
on the 10Th, unanimously conferred hon.
orary citizenship upon DR.. Mackenzie.
SIXTEEN persons were drowned off
Bari, Naples, on the 18th, by the capsiz-
ing of a Trieste pleasure boat.
WHILE Jas. Scarlet was on trial at Bon.
ham, Tex, on the 18th, for the murder of
Andy Lacefield, in 1885, the latter came
into court and protested that he was not
corpse.
SENATOR CARNoT, father of the Pres-
dent of the French Republic. died on the
10Th.
IT was stated on the 10th that General
Boulanger had decided to enter the Cham
Der of Deputies.
A REQUIEM service for the dead EN-
peror was held in the English church in
Paris on the 10th.
THE funeral of the late Emperor of
Germany was solemnized on the 10Th, in
the presence of large concourse of titled
mourners and of the populace of Ber-
lin.
al loclioFlAe, o's oll Vic 1ctut JUN
Dean, farmer, aged seventy years, at
tackled his wife with a knife and then
went to an clubhouse, where he cut his
own throat. Mrs. Dean will probably not
recover. 1t is thought that Dean COM
mitted the crime while temporarily in
sane.
THE funeral of Henry Bergh, late presi-
dent of the Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals, took place in New
York on the 10Th, and was largely at
tended.
1T was reported on the streets of New
York on the 10th that Jay Gould had
reached Fernandina, Fla.
The passage of a bill to prevent food
aduteration was urged before the House
committee on commerce on the 10th by
Mr. Emory, of Philadelphia, president of
the Society for the Prevention of the
Adulteration of Food, and Mr.. c. B. Thur
Der.
THE Indian Appropriation bill, reported
to the House the 10th, reduces the
amount allowed last year 500, ga. 1t re-
duces the items of subs stence and in
creases those for industrial schools.