Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-01-05

IHE water in the river at Montreal rose
| two feet on the 2Sth. There is every indi.
cation that the dyke built to prevent a
recurrence of the damaging floods of pre-
| vious years will have severe test.
ADvICEs from Massowah say that great
| activity prevails among the italian troops
there. Every preparation is being made,
| to meet the advancing Abvssinian forces.
| 1t is reported that Rasaluloa overated the
| italian movement in order to induce King
| John to advance.
| COLONEL JOHN MCCAULL. the opera
manager, while walking on the street in
Chicago on the night of the 9th, slipped
and fell, breaking one of the small bones
of the right ankle. The surgeon who set
the fractured limb said it would require
most careful nursing, and it would prob
! ably lay the patient up for several weeks.
| MAJOR A. II. WAY. indicted for the EN-.
| bezElement of $4,000 from the Empire
| Building and Loan Company of New
Brunswick. n. j., was arraigned for trial
| on the 2Sth. He pleaded non vuit con-
tendre, and was remanded for sentence.
| The whole amount stolen by Way in
eleven years was $3S, 701 from the Empire
| Association and 500 from the Union
Building and Loan Company.
The issue of standard silver dollars
| from the mnts during the week ended
December "a, was $675, 100. The issue dur.
ing the corresponding period of last year
was $o09,9S7. The shipments OF fractional
silver coin since the 1st inst. to date,
500, o51.
CAPTAIN STEPHEN G. SLUYTER died at
Hartford, Conn, on the night of the 9th.
He was engaged for several years in pre-
lminary soundings for the Atlantic cabi g,
and, in command of the steamer Victoria,
laid the first main cable. During the war
he was in command of a gunboat.
a DISPATCH from Berlin of the 2Se
says it is stated that Austria, yielding to
the pressure of certain friendly powers,
has made advances to Russia by which
ontinued peace is assured.
DIPHTHERIA and typhoid fever prevail
to an alarming extend in Ottawa, Ont.
THE steamer Newcastle City, from New
castle, England. was wrecked on the Nan
tucket shoals, off the coast of Massachu-
sets, on the 29th.
JUDGE HOFFMAN rendered decision in
the United States District Court at San
Francisco, on the Goth. in which the right
of Chinese to import opium is sustained.
II. K. PORTER & Co., locomotive manu-
facturers at Pittsburgh, Pa, have sus-
pended one-third of their employees, on
account of lack of orders.
THE Northwestern elevator at Ada,
Mimi, caught fire on the afternoon of the
goth, and was destroyed, together with
30, GOO bushels of wheat. Loss about $685.
600.
THE H Ugh school building, at Fergus
Falls Mimi, with all its contents, was
burned on the morning of the Doth. Loss,
s 40 600; insurance, $4,000. The mercury
was 80 degrees below zero during the
fire.
nd I Toth 04
the four train robbers who went through
a Denver 6 Rip Grande passenger train
near Grand junction, Utah, last October.
were arrested at Vernal, U. T., on the
29;h.
Mrs. KATE WARMAN, wife of Henry
Warman, of Cincinnati, ignited her cloth
ing at the stove while about her work on
the Goth, and was burned to death.
JOHN NORTH, of Philadelphia, went
home drunk on the Goth, picked q quarrel
with his wife, who was nursing q three.
mon tbs old child, and, aiming a fearful
blow at her, struck the child on the head,
killing it instantly.
Mr.. SHEEHY, NJ. p, who was recently
imprisoned in Ireland under the Crimes
Act, was forcibly dress ed in the prison
garb by the Jail warriors on the 10Th, but
as soon as they left the cell he discarded
the clothes.
LORD LYTToN, England's new Minister
to France, presented his credentials tc
President Carnot on the 10Th.
Miss ELLA RUSSELL, of Cleveland, o..
scored triumph in the opera of LA Ira
viata" IN Warsaw. She was presented
with golden laurel crown, OH the leaves
of which We're engraved the names of
number of the generals and colonies of
the Imperial Guard.
The wool growers and wool dealers OF
Sonoma and Mendocino counties, Cal, at
a meeting at Cloverdale, on the Goth,
adopted resolutions appealing to Congress
to maintain the present tariff, indorsing
the views of the National Wool Growers
Association and favoring cooperate
with them.
AN unknown man entered the store of
the Eau Claire Meat Company at Wash.
burn, Wis, at an early hour on the
morning of the Goth, under pretense of
getting a five dollar bill changed. Just
as Mr.. Bonesvaid, the senior member of
the company, had opened the safe he was
felled to the floor by a blow on the head
by the stranger, who secured $500 in gold
and silver and made his escape.