Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-12-20

JOE IvT was Killed in su:ufe- Col1lty,
5. g, on tie Iith, by Budd Cato. who obs
jected to Iyy's attentions to his sister.
CoLosEL FITzGIB8oE, TRANT, q deputy
lieutenant OF County Tpperary, at
Thurlss, ireland, gave notice, a the 18th,
of the proposed eviction of nineteen fam
lilies, and warned the work house authori-
ties to make provision for them,
DURING target practice on board a
French iron-clad in the Gulf of Juan, re-
Gently, a gun exploded and killed an Off
Ger and five men.
The Supreme Court of Rhode Island has
decided that bicycle is a vehicle.
THE South Carolina House of Repre-
sentatives has passed bill imposing a
tax Of twenty-five cents ton on all cot
ton-seed meal taken into that State.
1T is proposed to reduce the pension to
South Carolina ex-Confederate soldiers
from i've dollars month to thirty dollars
a year.
4 SEARCH of the cells and persons Of
the prisoners in the Tennessee State
prison at Nashville, on the 18th, revealed
a whole arsenal of small arms and other
appliances, which it is believed, would
soon have been used against the guards in
a general break for liberty.
PERSIA has waived her objections to the
appointment of a Russian Consul at
Meshed, and the Car will send Consul
there at once.
The American Protestant Episcopal
Church of the Holy Ghost at Nice, Sar
dina, was consecrated, on the 18th, by
Bishop Lyman. Two hundred and fifty
Americans and Englishmen attended the
services.
A NEW Extraordinary Congress has
been convoked at Lima, Peru, for January
1, 1889, to consider and arrange the exter-
nal debt of the country and to consider
also modification which will be proposed
by the Minister of Hacienda respecting
the internal debt.
NINE. BoULANGER has withdrawn her
suit for divorce from her husband.
REPRESENTATIVE MARTIN, of Texas, was
fined five dollars and costs, ON the 18th,
for an assault committed upon a newspa-
per reporter.
The Vermillion & Grand Marais Iron
Company, with capital of s., 900 900, has
been organized at Duluth, Mimi. 1t is a
consolidation of the interests of large
number of owners of iron lands on the
Vermillion & Mesaba range, and will con-
troll from l., 600 to 10 900 acres.
THE foundry and engine house of the
Moorehead Manufacturing Company, on
Second avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa, was de-
stroyed by fire on the morning of the 18th.
Loss, $4,000; fully insured. The fire is
supposed to have been caused by a
natural-gas leak.
A LATE dispatch from Sydney, N. S. w.,
reports that copious and much-needed
rains have fallen in the colonies of Vic
toria and New South Wales.
d. A. STEWART, one of the most promi-
nent business men of Pittsburgh, Pa,
died suddenly at his residence, on the
18th.
MRS. HALL, of Rockport, N. Y, was
suffocated by smoke ON the night of the
14th, from fire which originated in a sa-
loon in the building in which she was a
tenant.
AN overland train was wrecked near
thirty miles north of San Diego,
Cal, ON the night of the 18th, by the
spreading Of the rails. Every car but the
sleeper left the track and rolled down a
steep embankment. All hands escaped
injury except Express Messenger White
head, who had one of his ribs broken.
Mr.. EDWARD STANHoPE, British Secre-
tary of State for the War Department, re-
plying to question by Mr.. John Dillon,
on the 18th, said that the cost of the army
year would be f11O,OOO. This expense
would be borne by Egypt.
GEORGE RoUTLEDGE, founder Of the
well-known London publishing firm of
George Routledge & Sons, died in that
city, on the 18th, at the age of seventy
six. He retired as an active me mber of
the firm last year.
w. HI. H. (ADIRoNDAcKs) MURRAY says
that Canada is ripe for annexation to the
United States.
THE trestle work on the inside Of the
stand-pipe being erected in connection
with the water works at Stevens Point,
Wis.,, fell, on the 14th, killing four men
and severely wounding two others.
IT was stated in Berlin, on the 18th, that
General Van Hahnke, chief of the German
military cabinet, has been appointed Min
ster of War.
The jury in the case of James Stone, the
negro jockey, on trial in Brooklyn, on the
I4th, for the murder of Coney Island
BAR -tender, named Henry Miller, in a
oar-room fight last summer, failed to
agree upon verdict.
EMPEROR WILLIAM visited the new
building in Berlin, on the 18th.
md expressed satisfaction with the prog
-ess of the work.