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

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the recent additions to the naval fleet, &C
companied by number of illustrations
and sectional plans.
| THE semi annual examination at the
West Point Military Academy will begin
| on January next, and will last about
| two weeks. The fourth class is very large,
numbering 127 cadets. The examination
/ in this grade is rather severe on the stu
| dents who entered the academy in June
+; last. and the indications are that about
| thirty will fail to pass and be dropped
| from the service.
| THE subscriptions to the 'tNationa |
purse" for Edward Burgess, the designer
of the Puritan, Mayfower and Volunteer,
| each of which in turn successfully de-
| Tended the Americas cup, reached S10,-
| 1928, and a check for that amount was
sent to Mr.. Burgess at Boston for Christ
mas present.
JOHN S. SWIFT, of Hartford, Conn.,, who
| was recently found guilty of the murder
| of his wife, was sentenced on the 9th by
Judge Sanford to be hanged on April 3,
1889.
A DOZEN persons were injured and two
passenger cars were wrecked by a col
| iision between two passenger trains on
the Long Island railroad in Brooklyn on
the NOR ming of the 9th.
! Mr.. w. w. CoRCoRAN observed his
| eighty ninth birthday very quietly at
| Washington on the 9th. The aged philan-
| thropist was feeling we'll and very happy
over the pleasant incidents of the day,
which he enjoyed with the same interest
| as ever.
WHILE nearly everybody else is enjoy
| ing a season of rest, Speaker Carlisle re-
mains hard at work at his quarters in the
| Riggs House at Washington, but the
| Ill hn rcyfl
arranging the standing committees by
| the time the House reassembles.
RAND & Co.'s powder mill at Pitt sford,
n. ", was blown up on the morning of
| the 9th with a terrific noise. The work
men were at breakfast at the time and no
| body was injured. The loss of property
| is considerable.
Rev. JAMES POWELL, DID,, correspond
! ing secretary of the American Missionary
Association, died suddenly of apopleXy
| on the morning of the 9th, the day after
his forty fifth birthday, at his residence
| in Brooklyn.
THE strike is reported raised on t he
Reading system. There are conflicting
statements as to the exact status of af-
fairs, but trains are moving again.
SARA BERNHARDT is just now mourning
the loss of her tame tiger which died in
her arms the other day in Paris of
gastritis, after suffering eight hours of
excruciating pain.
VIM. WEBER, of Dover, n. H., claims to
have established his right to share in
sixty-six acres of land in New York City,
below Canal street, valued at $40, 100000.
The gang of burglars and garroters
that has settled down in Boston are grow
ing holder every day. Not a day passes
that burglaries are not reported, and daily
become n
renee
A FURIOUS hurricane from the west, ac-
companied by a severe snow-storm, pre-
vailed over the whole of Greece on the
night of the Goth. Twenty five vessels
were driven ashore and wrecked in the
Gulf of Patmos.
JAMES WATSON, mine boss, in the en-
ploy of the Pennsylvania Coal Company
at Pittston, Pa, was shot and fatally
wounded on the 9th by Samuel Nc
Dougall, a weighmaster at the same mine.
Both men are over sixty years of age, and
have been in the employ of the Pennsyl-
vanfa company for over forty years.
THE Prussian and German departments
of justice have commissioned Judge Ash
colt to study and report on the American
penal system with the view of making it
the basis of new system in Germany.
IT is reported that Secretary Lamar will
shortly make public an opinion affirming
the decision of acting Commits sioner
Stockslager against the claim of the
State o. Kansas to large tracts of land in
that State, alleged to have been illegally
certified to the Union Pacific and Kansas
Pacific Railroad companies.
LORD LANsDOwNE, while skating at
Ottawa, Ont, on the 9th, fell on the ice
and received painful injuries to his head.
JACOB I. WAINWRIGHT, a we'll known
metallurgical engineer of Pitts burgh, Pa,
has for years had great faith in the idea
that natural gas could be utilized in fur
mace cupolas for ordinary casting, which
requires great heat in the smelling proc
ess. With the cooperation of David
Carlin, manager of the iron and lead
works of that city. Mr.. Wainwright has
succeeded in demonstrating the success
of his principle.
GOVERNOR JOHN S. MARMADUKE of Mis-
souri, died at the Executive Mansion at
Jeffer son City on the night of the 2Sth, of
acute pneumonia, within forty Height hours
of the time he took his bed. He was fifty
two years of age.
REPORTS were received on the 2Sth an
nouncing the death of Emperor William
of Germany, but they proved to be with
out foundation.
THE post office safe in Charleston, W.
ing of the 2Sth by burglars. They OBJ
tanned $500 in money and 81, 100 in stamps.
IT is announced that the Duluth and
Union National banks at Duluth, Mimi,
are to consolidate January 1. The new
bank will have paid up stock of 81 coz, 900.
THE Moscow Gazette, commenting upon
Lord Randolph ChurchilPs visit to Rus
STA, says: His visit will dispel his preju-
dices. He will find no traces of aggres-
sive plans against India"
WHILE engaged in scraping snow off the
ice on Eau Claire river on the 2Sth, eight
valuable horses belonging to Musser,
Sauntry & Tozer, of Saltwater, Mimi,
broke through and seven of them were
drowned.
Mr.. GLADSTONE embarked upon the
Channel steamer at Folkestone on the 2Sth
on his way to France. He was cheered by
the crowd which had gathered to see him
off.
THE post-offfce at Massilon, O., was
burgl arized on the night of the 9th. Four
bags of mail from Cleveland and Pitts
burgh We're cut open and rihed. A small
amount of stamps and money were taken.
AT a meeting of the Western Window
Glass Manufacturers Association at Pitts
burgh, Pa, on the 2Sth, trade was report
ed unus ually good for this season, with
prospects for spring fiattering. No
cham es We're made in prices.
Mr.. CoRCoRAN, printer of the Cork Gre
land) Examiner, has been arrested on the
cherge of publishing in that paper reports
of meetings of proclaimed branches of
the National League.
FRANK FULLER, who killed Archbis hop
Seghers the Yukon river in Alaska
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