Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-01-26

| GENERAL BRAGG is in daily consultation
with the principal officials of the State
Department in reference to his duties as
| Minister to Mexico. There are now pend
| ing large number OF diplomatic ques-
| lions between the United States and Mex
| leo, which req uire careful treatment.
Among these is the demand recently re-
newed by Secretary Bayard that Mexico
must renounce the claim to extra terrific
rial jurisdiction which Is made in the
Cutting and other cases
The National Pure Food convention met
| in Washington on the 18th. About one
hundred and twenty-five delegates were
! present, representing nearly all of the
leading organizations in the country.
i Mrs. CRooKE, a cousin of DR.. Cross,
who was executed recently in Ireland,
| has been arrested on the charge of starry
| ing her husband. a gentleman of property,
aged fifty-seven who died a short time
| ago.
| 'GRANDMA" GARFIELD is gradually
| sinking and it is thought that she will not
| live more than few days longer. Mrs.
! J. A. Garfield, Miss Mollie Garfield and
| one of the boys are in Europe. Grand
! ma" Garfield is at Mentor at the old home
! stead and is attended by her daughter,
Mrs. Trobrdge.
! JAMES E. NOwLIE was hanged at Cam
! bridge, Mass, on the Goth, for the murder
of Geo. A. Goldman, his employer Jam
| uary 4, 1887.
| LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL is being
| iionized in Russia by the royalty, the
| nobility and the aristocracy.
| LIEUTENANT THIEs, Quartermaster
| Third infantry, died at Fort Shaw, Mont,
| on the Goth, of erysipel as, after illness
| of but few days. he entered the service
as private in 1864.
| JOHN p. REA, commander in chief of the
| G. 4. r.. Adjutant- General Fish, of Min
! neapolis, and Quartermast General John
| Taylor, of Phil adelphia, were rendered
reception on the night of the 20th by La
| feyette Post, G. A. R in New York.
The day express on the Pennsylvania
railroad struck two men in Carnes' tun-
! mel near Meensboro, Pa, on the goth, and
| killed them instantly. Their remains
were mangled beyond recognition, but it
is supposed they were tramps.
| REAR-ADMIRAL LOUIS HUTTON VERSE
| TERME, of the British navy, committed sui
| eide at Falmouth, ON the Goth, in a hit of
insanity. He entered the service in 1850
| and became Rear-Admiral in 1885. He
was on the retired list
DoN CARLOS wants Spain to become
great nation, and say he is willing to light
TO make her such.
JUDGE J. F. KINNEY, agent of the San
tee Indians in Dakota, arrived at Ne
braske, City, Neb., on the goth, after be-
ing nine days on the road. He reports
that loss OF life by the late storm has
been greatly underestimate, and he
lieves Dakota's death record will reach
1000.
JAMES G. BROOKS, who has held the
Office OF chief of the secret service di-
vision of the Treasury Department for so
fpndarod hje rncjpOa fiOn
when the present Admins tration came
into power, and it was accepted on the
Goth, to take effect February IS. John S.
Bell, formerly chief of police of Newark,
N. j., will succeed him.
JOHN PALMER, assistant mllwright at
Oliver Bros. & Phillips iron mill, at Pitts
| burgh, Fa., was dragged into the rolls on
the morning of the Goth, and crushed to
death. Palmer was oiling the pinion
bearings when his feet slipped, and be-
fore he could recover himself he was
caught in the rolls and drawn through
feet foremost.
THE virtual, if not actual, expulsion of
ex-Queen Isabella from Spain is due, it is
ascertained, to the discovery of plot to
place her upon the Spanish throne
gent pending the arrival at the age of
majority of her grandson, the baby King
Alfonso KILL
IHR W hlte Caps, an organization OF
roughs who have long been the
terror of Crawford County, Ind,
have committed another outrage. They
went to the house of Wesley Meeks,
Baptist minister, dragged him from his
bed and whipped him most numerically.
They told him he was not providing for
his family we'll enough.
TELEGRAMS from Toulon, France, re-
port that the government arsenal there
has suddenly become the scene Of great
activity. Every thing Is being fastened
to place squadron of iron -clads and all
the available cruisers in readiness to sail.
The men at the dcck-yards are working
extra time.
HATTIE OLNEY, of Vanderbilt. Mich,
threw her six-year-old child from a
Michigan Central train, near Lapere, on
the night of the 10Th. The child was found
cut in two. The woman, who Ia a cripple
and uses a crutch, was arrested shortly
after the arrival of the train at Bay City.
She claims that the child was dropped
accident ally.