Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-02-09

IT is reported that the Austrian Coy
eminent has decided to ask the delega-
tions to vote 1000 900 forms for the first
expenses of mobilization.
HE telegraphed versions of a settle
naent between the main questions affect
ing the fisheries on a basis unfav orable
to Canada have aroused a storm of in
dignation in all parts of the Dominic
THE five Americans recently arrested
for attempting big forgery scheme on
the Bank of England, were examined at
London ON the 81 and were remanded
for trial.
ROBERT c. HOWELL, general superintend-
ent of the general delivery department of
the Philadelphia post office, was taken
into custody on the I'd on a warrant
charging him with embezzement in TAX
ing necktie from package before the
same was delivered to parties to whom
it was addressed"
RUSSIA contemplates the extinction of
certain provincial assemblies common
orative of the rule OF Gar Alexander II.
TEN prisoners escaped from Jail at
Uniontown, Pa, on the evening of the I'd,
by breaking through the rotten floor of an
unused cell into the cellar, and, making
hole in the wall. crawled through.
REV. w. FROST died at his residence in
year of his age. Rev. Mr.. Frost was
very promiennt preacher in the Methodist
church, He had occupied many promi-
nent positions in the New England Con-
ference, including Charleston, Watertown
and Boston.
THE President has approved the act
making appropriations to supply def
ciencies in the appropriations for the
fiscal year ended June 80, 1887, and the
act making appropriations to carry into
effect the provisions of the act of March
,, 1887, in reference to agricultural sta
tions.
UNITED STATES CONSUL ELFwING at
Stockholm has informed the State De-
partment that the Swedish Government
has declared against the Importation of
pork from the United States unless it is
we'll salted. the Consul says the order
is founded on report that a hog pesti-
lence is raging in the United States.
A POWDER-MILL near Cleveland, o., was
blown to atoms on the Sd, nothing being
left but big hole in the ground.
Tbs executive committee of the South
west Texas immigration convention has
formulated bylaws for the government
of the organization.
ACTING on information from the British
War Office in London, the Canadian Gov
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tenn of coast defense.
a FARMER near Dixon, ILL.,, died on the Sd
from drinking a liquid compounded from
fuS1 oil and alcohol, which was sold to
him whisky by a Chicago drummer.
THE tendency of events in Ireland and
the lack of assurance in Lord Salisbury's
remarks makes the outlook rather gloomy
for the landlord element
The Elm Street schoolhouse at Titus
vile, Pa, the largest in the city, built in
1873, was completely Quilted by fire on the
morning of the 81. The loss is about
$I5 600, mostly covered by insurance.
EIGHT persons We're found dead in a
house at Manchester, England, on the 3D.
1t is believed they We're poisoned.
CALLAN and Harkins, the Irish Ameri-
cans, were convicted at London, on the
Sd, as dynamiters and each was sem
fenced to fifteen years. Imprisonment
A FEMALE child, about one week old,
was found dead in an clubhouse of the Lou is
Fuelling bottling works, at st. Joseph,
Mo-, by some employees of the house.
Bruises on the child's head and body
show that it was murdered.
PROF. CHARLES LINDEN, the naturalist,
died on the Sd in the Buffalo IN. W State
Insane Asylum, aged fifty-six. He was
pros trated by brain trouble while on a
summer, and never regained his mental
faculties.
AN officer of the Philadelphia & Read
ing Railroad Company estimates that at
least five thousand miners returned to
work duringlast week, and said that there
are enough mines being worked to avoid
any Inconvenience to the company or t,
consumers.
HERMAN F. HARMON, an uncle of Mrs.
President Cleveland Cher mothers broth
err. died on the Sd at Chariestown. Mass.
Two saw-mills at Port Blakely, opposite
Seattle, W. T.. and the largest on Puget
Sound, were burned on the Sd. The fire
caught from q hot-box, and the wind
from the belts caught the flames and
famed the blaze the whole length of the
mill almost instantly, SO that the men
barely had time to escape. The loss is
$3.50, 600; no insurance.
THE arguments on the trial of Benjamin
E. Hopkins, of the Fidelity Bank of Gin
cinnati, were concluded the 81, and
Judge Sage delivered his charge to the
jury, who took the case under considera-
ton.