Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-03-15

the 7th by the non-appearance of Allen
o. Meyer, a witness. His disappearance
created excitement bordering on a sensa.
tion.
AN unknown German, about thirty
years old, jumped from the platform OF
the Hanover Square Elevated railroad
station. New York City, to the track, on
the 7th, and was crushed to death by a
train.
PLEURo-PNEUMoNIA has again broken
out among the ca tile in Middiesex Coun =
ty, n. J. Thirty-rwo infected animals be-
longing to George Sach, near South Am
boy were slaughtered by State authority
on the 9Th.
CONGRESSMAN THOMAS, of Illinois, in
troduced bill on the 9Th pres cribing
penalties ranging from $500 to s., 900, for
the unauthorized use of portraits of fe
male relatives of public men, in adver
tisements.
1t was stated on the eth that the new
Chinese treaty would be signed in few
days by Secretary Bayard and the Chi
nese Minister. 1t is an absolute inhibi-
tion against the importation of Chinese
contract labor.
THE bill for subm lifting the fifth (pro-
hibitory) amendment to the people with a
view to its possible repeal was defeated
on the Sth in the Rhode Island House of
Representatives, where it origin ated, by
vote of SO to 80.
DURING the hour on the evening of the
Sth when the old Kaiser was thought to
be dying, divine services were being held
in the palace, attended by the royal fam
lily and court dignitaries. The crowd out
side joined in the prayers.
THE disappearance of Allen o. Myers
from Columbus, o., caused the postpone
ment of the tally sheet trial again on the
Sth 1t is thought he has been frightened
away by rumor that he was to be arrest
ed for contempt of court.
The bill granting woman suffrage at
municipal and school elections was de-
feated in the Iowa House of Representa-
tives on the 7th. A motion to reconsider
the vote was laid on the table. This vir-
tually kills the bill for this session.
THE Republicans of Oswego, n. Y. on
the 9th elected Henry D. McCaffery
mayor on a highlicenss platform, over
Alanson s. Page, by about 300 majority.
The Democrats selected five aldermen and
the Republicans three.
AN all-day conference with closed
uOOTS was uoIu DY Iuo Cualrmen OF the
grievance committees of a dozen more
important railroads in Chicago, on the
9th, to devise ways and means of defeat
ing the Chicago, Burlington 6 Quincy
Railroad Company in the present strug-
gle.
A COMMITTEE of six Spiritualists of
Evansville, Ind, have asked permiss ion
of the City Council of that place to ex-
hume the remains of Robert Barnes, who
died in 1871, because it had been revealed to
them through spiritualistic channels that
his will, which had never been found, was
in his coffin.
THE passenger brake men on the Pitts
burgh, Fort Wayne 6 Chicago railway
and the Pittsburgh G. Erie railway were
granted an advance in wages on the 7th
of from thirty-two to thirty-fve cents a
trip, equivalent to about six dollars per
month. The advance was entirely unex-
pected.
THE American Base. Ball Association
has decided to offer three money prizes to
be contested for the present year. To the
club winning the championship 81, 900 will
be added. and badges to the individual
players; and to the clubs holding second
and third place respectively $3.50 and
$500 will be added
AMERICUs Assembly No. $40. Knights
of Labor (railroaders), at their meeting
on the evening of the Sth, adopted reso-
buttons indorsing the action of the Broth
erhood of Locomotive Engineers on the
Chicago, Burlington Sc Quincy road, and
pledging them support, and also urging
upon all true knights to remain away
from that road.
The Democratic State committee as
sembled at Indianapolis, Ind, on the
Sth. Chairman James FL. Rice resigned
his position and E. P. Richardson was
chosen to fill the vacancy for the unex-
pired term. The State convention will be
held in indianapolis April 26, at which
time State ticket will be nominated and
delegates to the National convention Sc
lected.
HENRY c. PARKER, aged thirty five,
provision broker, and an unknown man,
aged about twenty-five years, were found
dead in Parker's room at No. 3oS State
street, Brooklyn, n. Y, on the Cd. Par
ker had come home with his companion
late at night, both being intoxicated, and
on going to bed the men had left the
gas turned on and unlit. They were
suffocated.
r THE New York German Society, in ad-
dition to adopting resolutions of sorrow
for the late Emperer's death, sent a
cablegram to the Empress Augusta ex-
pressing coincidence, in which they say:
although oceans separate us from Ger
many, yet the feeling of reverence and
the sympathy with every thing concern |
ing the memories of the imperial house |
are, and remain with US, lively, heartfelt |
and deeply. seated"