Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-01-12
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
THE great Reading railroad strike in
Pennsylvania is still on, and it is charac-
terized by the same determination OF both
sides to stand firm that has marked it
from the beginning. The company says
that it is overwhelmed with applications
from laborers in search of employment,
and that they have enough men in reserve
to fill any number of vacancies that can
possibly occur.
THE strike among the f1int-glass work
ers has extended from the Western manu-
facturers to the Eastern factories, and
the men who left work in the fifteen
factories in Brooklyn, Philadelphia, New
Bedford, Boston and Corning, N. Y,
failed to return to work on the Sd, with
two excep tons. In the East and West
about 1900 men are now out.
REV. DR.. TALMAGE has been chosen to
succeed Henry Ward Beecher as chaplain
of the Thirteenth regiment of Brooklyn.
A TERRIBLE marine disaster is reported
to have occurred near Waterford. on the
Irish coast, in which twenty-five persons
were drowned.
A CoNSTANTINoPLE story says President
Carnot has assured Germany that SO long
as he is at the head of affairs France
shall adopt no warlike policy.
THE newspapers of st. Petersburg
publish a Russian translation of the
forged documents sent to the Gar. The
tone of the press toward Germany has
completely changed.
A SECRET tribunal in Russia has con-
demned to death the Nihilist Tschernoff
and seven other prisoners charged with
an attempt on the Cars life during his
journey in the Don Cossack country.
a FIRE occurred on the 4th in the thea
ter Royal at Bolton, England. All the
properties were destroyed. There is evil
dence that the fire was the work of an
incendiary.
THE strike on the Reading system is al
ready producing a coal famine in Pennsyl-
vania.
THOUGH this season marks the third ice
palace built in st. Paul, Mimi, the first
serious accident occurred on the 4th.
Ernst Hoenspa, a workman, fell from the
top of the turret, distance of sixty five
feet, and landed at the bottom in bag
of chopped ice. He was taken to the
City Hos pital, where he will probably
die.
GOVERNOR LARRABEE of Iowa, on the
4th, prepared and signed the death war
rant of Henry Schmidt, of Fayette Coun-
ty, fixing the day of execution on jan
uary 13, and transmitted the document to
the sheriff of the county. The hanging
will take place at West Union.
SPEAKER CARLISLE expected to be able
to announce the House committees on the
4th, but owing to the necessity of seeing
certain members who he proposed to re-
assign to other committees, he was COM
peeled to abandon his intention. 1t was
thought that the list would be finished
and announced in the House ON the 9th.
Two express trains on the Dutch State
railroad collidsd near Meppel ON the 4th.
Twenty-six persons were killed and many
others injured.
SPEAKER CARLISLE presented the names
of the standing committees of the House
of Representatives on the 9Th.
THE Pope took farewell of the pilgrims
at Rome on the 9Th. There were shouts
for the "Pope- King"
THE treasurer of Logan County, Ia, is
to be between $4,000 and $25, 900
short in his accounts.
Ton BUTTSFIELD, a young farmer, living
near Palmyra, Neb., was arrested on the
9th, charged with numbering his father
and mother. The particulars received are
meagre.
SENATORIAL elections were held on the
9Th in France. The Republicans appear
to have lost ground.
SCARCITY of cars for the shipment of
surplus produce places many of the farm
ers of Northwestern Iowa in bad shape,
their mortgages and notes being due.
THE Italian Government has resolved to
censure Princes Massino, DiIdenago and
Malatesta, who, although belonging to
the army, attended the Pope's reception.
The United States Law and Order
League has issued call for it's sixth an
nual meeting, to be held in Philadelphia
on February 81 and % next.
AMMI BALDWIN, late cashier of the FL
deity Bank of Cincinnati, is dead.
A DISPATCH from Rome says advices
have been received from Massowah to the
effect that Ras Alula has offered to join
the Italians with 40, 900 followers on con-
dition that he be created King of Abys-
sinia in the event of the defeat of King
John.
SAM FIKE, the city dog catcher at Al
buquerQue, n. NJ, died on the night of the
4th in frightful agony from hydrophobia.
He was bitten a few weeks ago, and be-
came so bad on New Years day that it
was found necessary to incarcerate him
in a cell in the county Jail to prevent him
from doing bodily injury to those around
him.
A FIRE broke out on the morning of the
9th at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, in the
building. 1t was three-s tory
and attic brick structure, and was occu-
pied by the navigation construction and
equipment bureaus, and also for storage
purposes. The building was completely
Quilted, the walls alone being left stand
ing. The total loss will be about 500, 200.
TROUBLE has been caused at Kildysart,
County Glare, Ireland, over the refusal of
the turf dealers to furnish the police with
supplies. The police, on being refused,
seized what they needed.
A SPAN in the new central viaduct, now
being constructed at Cleveland, o.. and
which connects the South Side with the
city proper, fell on the 9th. TWAS ninety
feet long and eighty.fve feet above the
ground. A large car, on which there was
supplies, was pushed off the end of the
span by accident, and in failing it knocked
braces and beams out of place and the
span went also. There were eight work
men on the span when it fell, two of whom
we're killed and the rest injured.
THE first of the annual series OF the
Presidents state dinners was given at
he White House, on the night of the 9Th, |
% tie members OF the Cabinet. The pub |
ic parlors were handsomely decorated.