Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-01-19

ingalls,, at Atchison, Kas., was destroyed
by ire on the 18th. The loss is, in some
respects, irreparable-
COMPTROLLER TRENHOLM declares the
Fourth National Bank of New York City
to be perfectly sound, despite the retire.
ment of President Baldwin.
JOHN MANLY, young man of Bloom
ington, ILL.,, died on the night of the 18th
from the effects of a dose of aconite, taken
by mistake for cough medicine.
THE value of the exports of breadstuffs
for the twelve months ended December
81, 1887, was $15s, 301, 76S, as against $14S,-
$4,000 for the twelve months ended
December 81, 1886.
The recent blizzard throughout the
North has been the most severe of the
winter, greatly delaying trains and bust
ness, causing much suffering, in some
cases resulting in death.
THE Utah Legislature met on the 9th,
and or ganized both branches. There are
three Gentiles and twenty lone Mormons
in the lower house and two Gentiles and
ten Mormons in the upper.
THE salary of DR.. Abbott, as temporary
pastor of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn,
has been fixed at $500 per annum. This
late Henry Ward Beecher.
ADvICES from the Russian frontier say
the troops in the Lublin district are suf-
fering terribly from cold. Forty sentinels
have been frozen to death. Dysentery
and typhus fever are prevalent.
v AMONG the men arrested in connection
with the latest plot against the Car of
Russia, is employee of the Baltic rail-
way, who kept the Nihilists informed of
every journey of the Gear to and from
Gatschina.
THE business failures during the seven
days ended the 18th number, for the
United States, 25S, and for Canada, 80, or
total of 2SS, as against 279 the preceding
like period, and 1923 for the corresponding
week of 1887.
The first of a series of fortnightly re-
ceptions was given by the President and
Mrs. Cleveland at the Executive Mansion
in Washington, on the night of the 18th,
to the diplomatic corps and large num-
Der of invited guests.
THE Visions in Supreme Court, through
Justice Cassidy, in the case of Paul
Grottkau, of Milwaukee,, appealed on q
writ of error, affirmed the judgment of
the Milwaukee Municipal Court and di-
which is one years imprisonment.
E"GRANDMA' GARFIELD, as President
Garfield's mother is called by those who
knew her, is i'll at the old homestead at
Mentor. She wants to see Jimmy" as
she terms her dead son, and, although
not very sick, it is thought that her end
is drawing near, as she is very aged.
HON. JAMES G. BLAINE was made a
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Blaine, Jr., presenting her husband with
a bouncing blue-eyed boy of nine pounds.
The child will be named after its grand
father. Mrs. Blaine is the daughter of
Senator Nevins. The event has been tele-
graphed to Mr.. Blaine.
THE President has granted pardon in
the case of Levi c. Pratt, convicted in the
Southern district of Iowa of passing
counterfeit money, and sentenced Febru-
airy 1, 1886, to five years imprisonment.
In acting on the case, the President said
the convict has served two years and was
a good soldier in the war.
AFTER eluding detectives for year.
Charles Bourton, the man who, represent
ing himself as a brother of Marcus r.
Mayer, and who successfully swindled
the residents of the City of Mexico out of
$50, 600 by q spurious advance sale of
blCkebS LOT Il series OIL concerts Dy Mime.
Patti, has been arrested in New York.
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THE principal members of the Corean
Embassy called at the State Department
on the 10th and paid their respects to
Secretary Bayard. Arrangements were
made for their presentation to the Presi-
dent in few days. 1t is, therefore, prac-
tically settled that the embassy will be
officially recognized by this Government.
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AT the meeting of the Michigan State
Board of Health at Lansing, on the 10th,
Prof. Vaughn reported a successful ex-
pertinent of producing in a cat a disease
similar to typhoid fever in the human
family by the use of the germs found in
the water used by the three hundred vic
Tins of the scourge at Iron Mountain, Mich.
ANTHONY CoMsTocK, at the head of the
Society for the Prevention of Vice, ac-
companied by lot of city police made
a rade on the anatomical museums of New
York on the 9th. About half dozen of
them were visited and their proprietors
and the employees arrested. The officers
also seized several wagon loads of wax
figures.
THE Secretary of the Treasury, on the
11t<, transmitted to Congress asdeficiency
estimate of $4,000, submitted by the Sec
tanned by Colorow and other Ute Indians
last summer, by reason of being hastily
driven from Garfield County, Col, by the
civil authorities of that State, aided by
its militia.
In the United States Circuit Court at
Denver, Col, on the 9th, Judge Brewer
rendered decision in favor of the Govern
ment in the case of the United States VS..
the Cleveland Cattle Company, in which
suit was brought to enjoin the cattle COM
pany from fencing the st. Vrain grant, a
tract of nearly 1900, 900 acres, lying in the
southern part of the State.
GAS was struck at Seneca Falls, n. Y,
at depth of ], 450 feet, on the night of the
9th. When the gas was ignited it pro-
duced a flame eight feet high. Drilling
was recommended, and at noon of the
10th a ten foot flame was burning. Ex-
perienced gas men regard the indications
as excellent for a large and steady flow
of gas at not much greater depth.
THE annual meeting of the Western
National Bank was held in New York on
the 10th. Conrad N. Jordan, ex- Treasurer
of the United States, was chosen presi-
dent, to succeed the late Daniel Manning,
ex-Secretary of the Treasury, and Charles
j. Canda, ex- Assistant Treasurer of the
United States, in charge of the SUBJ
frea sI1rv in New York was chosen vice.