Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-10-11


THE municipal elections Throughout
Connecticut, the 1st showed Sigh
gains for the Republicans. The Prohibi
ton vote did not increase.
THE examination of Prof. Goffiecken a
Hamburg, Germany, was concluded OF
the I'd, and the prisoner turned over t.
the High Court of Justice.
SIR CHARLES WARREN, Chief Commits
sioner Of the London police, has decided
to employ bloodhounds in the search fol
the Whiteehapel murderer.
In view of the influx of Chinese into
Siberia, the st. Petersburg Scet urges
that measures be taken to regulate theil
immigration to that country.
Or the 1,1oO.OO foreigners in France
only 100000 are naturalized. and only
one-fourth of the citizens Of foreign
extraction were born in France.
On the night of the 1st one of the Wild
est storms ever experienced on Lake
Michigan play ed havoc among shipping
and resulted in the loss of many lives.
w. T. SHERIDAN, Territorial statis-
tician OF Dakota, estimates the wheat
crop at 80, 600, 900 bushels against 1000,
900 produced in the Territory last year.
Mr. sH1Ro AKABANE. of the japanese
Legation at Washington, was quietly
married to Miss Ellen Barry, daughter OF
the late DIR. Barry, of Baltimore, on the
3D..
THE.damage by the late frost to the
tobacco crop in the South Side section of
Virginia is very great, and more than
one-fourth OF the crop has been COM
pletely ruined.
THE One Hundred and Twenty fifth and
One Hundred and Twenty sixth New
York Regiment monuments were dedi-
Gated at Gettysburg, on the 81, with inn
posing services.
CONTRIBUTIONS received at Jackson
Vile, Fla, for the benefit Of the fever SUI
ferers, up to the 1st, amounted to S238, s61 i,
and disbursements to ST., AIS, leaving a
balance Of $780, $3.50.
A RuxoR was afloat in Chicago, on the
4th, that a large quantity of dynamite had
been found secreted in North Side base
ment Search by Captain Setback failed
to discover the explosive.
OSCAR FkELEUR, the alleged Belgian
convict glass-blower, who had been de-
tanned by the custom house officers In
Castle Garden, New York. for three
WcOkS, was ICiOaSO0 oh ehO 1shs
THE North German Gazette. of the 9th,
positively asserts that the statement that
Prince Bismarck threatened to resign
unless Prof. Geffieken was prosecuted, is
an impudent, lying invention.
SOUTH GERMAN papers, of the Sd, report
that the police received warning OF an
Anarchist plot to kill Emperor William
during his journey from Munich to Wen
ma, the route to which was changed.
SENATOR VOORHEES,, from the lib rary
committee, has reported favorably a bill
for the purchase Of the life size oil paint
ing of Abraham Lincoln, by g. w. F.
Travis, at a price not to exceed $4,000.
FRAN n. DODGE was acquitted at Bel
lows Falls, VT, ontthe Sd, of the murder
of Postmistress Knapp at Dummerston.
1t appeared that Miss Knapp died Of con-
sumption, complicated with heart disease.
On the Sd His Excellency Hady
Hossien Koulin Kahn, accompanied by
Secretary Bay ard and his secretary, and
interpreter Mr.. Tonnence, paid his re-
.spects to the President and presented his
credentials.
HON. A. 8. Hewlett, mayor Of New
York City, was nominated for reelection
by mass meeting in Cooper Union on
the :4th. The NEE ting was remarkable
for the high Representative character Of
those participating.
PURSUANT to order issued by 'Presiden.
.Havemeyer of the Sugar Trust the two
large sugar refineries of the firm of De
Castro & Bonner, Of Brooklyn, N. p,
were closed down, ON the I'D, and 1000
men were thrown out of work.
THE simultaneous absence of both the
French and s3ussian Ambassadors from
a reception given by Emperor William to
the leading diplomats accredited to Aus,
tria at Vienna on the 4th, is seonsider&d
significant in Political circles.
1osRpH n. PAxE, a director of f2ae
National Bank Of Angelica. n. Y, VIZ
dieted, ON the 4th, on q charge OF
ing funds OF the bank to his own a
making false entries in the boot
bank, aud with ml&appropriatin
5000.
RExAf0Rs VANCE ant Harris
the I'd, by special messep
ress Monroe the contribut
Beck to tho Democratic
Senate Tariff bill
NJ commits