Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-12-27

| The recent storm alone in Pacific
coast from Cape Mendicino to Cape Flat
| terry is reported by captains of coasters to
have been terrific.
| DURING the heavy squall, on the night of
the 18th, the oyster schooner Charles
Owens, of Portsmouth, Va, capsized in the
James river, off White Shoal Light house,
and Captain Henry Beaman and the
cook, colored boy, named Ridley, were
drowned.
HoN. JOHN s. MORGAN, county Judge Of
Monroe County, N. Y, died at his resi-
dence in Rochester, on the 18th, aged
forty one years, after an illness of two
weeks duration. His wife and two young
children survive him.
NINE workmen were carried down with
falling bridge spanning the Merrimac
river at Hookset, N. H, on the 10Th.
Three of them were drowned, and the re-
naming six were rescued in an injured
condition, but none were hTrt fatally.
Owing to fears that the Panama Canal
Company's difficulties may give rise to
disorders on the Isthmus, the French Gov
eminent has decided to send man-of-
war to Colon to protect French interests.
E. c. PERRIN, clerk of the New York
Court of Appeals, at Albany, died, on the
18th, in New York City, aged ffty-two
years. He had been suffering for about a
month from paralysis.
JOHN MYERS DoREMUs was hanged in
the Jail at Hackensack, N. J., on the 10Th,
for the murder of his nineteen-ye odd
son while the latter was defending his
mother from the abuse of the murderer.
SIX farmers, together with the wives Of
two and son each of the other four, COM
prising party en- route from Boucher
vile to Montreal, Can, with loaded teams
nf Christmas St1nr1iaS in Ia
breaking up of the ice in the river on the
18th.
In the hearing, on the 10Th, in the Court
of Queens Bench, London, of three suits
brought against Thomas Axworthy the
defaulting ex-city treasurer Of Cleveland,
o., the defendant agreed to pay over the
sum of 100000, and to surrender his
property in America to settle the actions.
The court sanctioned this arrangement.
THE Capital FIGURING Mills at Lansing,
Mich, were burned on the night of the
10Th. The loss will reach So, 900.
RUSSIA has protested against Persia
granting monopoly of commerce to any
foreign power.
THE Secretary of State sent to the SEN
ate, on the Doth, certificates of the result
of the vote for presidential electors in
Vermont, New Hampshire, Delaware,
Connecticut, Oregon and Kentucky.
THE tug H. F. Morse, with the disman-
tied steamer Governor Ames in tow, made
the port of Chatham, Mass, on the Doth.
In the British House of Commons, on
the Goth, Hon. Edward Stanhope, Secre-
tary of War, denied that the Honorable
Artillery Company's warrant had been
withdrawn.
A DECISIVE battle was fought at Sua-
kim, Egypt, on the Goth. After half an
hours brilliant fighting, in which the
black regiments distinguished themselves,
the enemy were driven from their redoubts
and trenches, completely routed. The
British forces encamped in the positions
deserted by the rebels. The loss of the
allied forces was insignificant, while the
loss of the enemy is stated at 400.
THE Government exhibits at the late |
Cincinnati Centennial Exposition are to |
be sent to the Paris Exposition.
BY her will, which was probated in New |
York City, on the Goth, Alice Tasting, the |
actress, provides that after the payment |
of all her just debts and expens the
residue of her estate shall be given to her |
dear friend, Rollin Reed.
THE Warren House at Warrensburgh,
N. Y, well-known summer resort, was
burned on the Goth. Loss, $1,000. 1t was
erected about century ago.
EDWARD MEREDITH, who planned the
''badger game" in which Phil Daily was
assaulted in a New York
City fiat recently, pleaded guilty, on the
both, and was sentenced to eight years
and ten months in State prison. Henry
Hermann, his accomplish, got six years
and eleven months.
REFERRING to the disarmament of the
Artillery Company, the Lon
don Standard says: "Somebody has blum
1ered. The country waits with feeling
Of surprise for an explanation of the rea-
sons for such extreme measures"
THE Cumberland mine, the most valua-
able mining property in Castle County,
Mont, was seized Tuesday by the sheriff
On writ of attachment for 500, 500. The
total liabilities of the company are about
sc, 5000, but the mine is of much greater
value.
LORD SALISBURY spoke at a meeting at
Scarborough, England, ON the Goth. He
1welt upon the progress that the Liberal
Unionists were making, and congratulated
hem. He also referred to the impossi-
oility of a reunion of Mr.. Gladstone's fol-
DIVERS.