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

SPECIAL elections are to be held III Man
itoba, February JIG, in order to allow the
new Ministry to secure, if possible, the
Endorsement of their constituents.
UNITED STATES MARSHAL FRANKS, of
California, now in Denmark, has ldeD IL
fed A. j. Benson, in jail at Copenhagen,
as the party wanted in California for
fraudulent land surveys.
RECEPTION was given by the Presi-
dent and Mrs. Cleveland at the executive
mansion on the evening of the 26th, to
members of Congress and the justices of
the District and United States courts.
Mrs. Cleveland was assisted in receiving
by Mrs. Fairchild, Mrs. Whitney and
Mrs. Don n. Dickinson.
CHAS. c. B. WALKER died at Corning,
n. Y, on the Goth, and there is general
mourning over the loss of one who, for
quarter of century. was the foremost
man in business in Southern New York.
Colonel Walker had suffered from long
illness. He was sixty three years old and
was born in DrewsvilIe, N. H., January
q, 1924.
THE German War Minister officially an
nounces that O,000, 900 marks is the
amount of the new military loan needed.
THE Choctaw Indians are greatly exer-
cised over the delay in the payment of
their ci aims against the Government.
PICTURES valued at $3.50, 900, in transit
in a closed van, were destroyed by fire in
London on the 9th.
ANOTHER contingent of Irish leaders
was convicted under the Crimes act on
the 9th.
Miss ALDoRA J. HILL, of Clinton, ILL.,,
has sued Mr.. Walter Tilson, of Monti.
cello, for 5000 damages for breach of
promise.
A cABLE-CAR got away from the grip
man on a down. grade on Selby avenue,
st. Paul, Mimi, ON the 9th, ran off the
track and was smashed to pieces. Two or
three persons were fatally injured and
fourteen badly.
BARON DE WORMS, of England, is in
Belgium agitating the abolition of the
sugar tax.
CHAs. FOSTER, of Jimtown, I. T., COM
mitted suicide on the 9th by tying one
end of rope around his neck and the
other to a rafter extending from the end
of barn, and jumping off.
A FATAL boiler explosion occurred at
Downs mill, Marion County, Ga, on the
9th. Brit Down and Charles Brown
were instantly killed, and Andrew SHELL
ing had his thigh broken. All were ne
groes.
JUDGE Colt in the Federal Court at
Boston. on the 9th, decided that the
preparation of punched strip of paper
for use in the orguinette is not an in
frngement of musical copyright
Mr.. GLADSTONE has issued a circular
from Florence to his followers in Parlia-
ment, indicating that an exciting session
is approaching.
CHARLES WARD, confined at the work.
house in Kansas City, Mo-, on a heavy
fine, has been identified by j. II. Orloff as
nf two -l0 hLoI /, h.
street On the night of December 90.
Four HUNDRED miners employed at the
First National, Bonnie and Iron King
mines at Ironwood, Mich, struck on the
9th for three months back pay. All
merchants have refused to furnish the
men with groceries and provisions.
ENGLISH papers profess alarm at the
gigantic sums asked for the new German
Military bill, and say war or financial
disaster, or both, confront Germany.
FRIDAY, the 9th was the twenty ninth
anniversary of the birthday of Prince
William of Germany, oldest son of the
Crown Prince, and he was appointed a
ajor- General and commander of the
second brigade of the infantry guards.
THOMAS S. GARDNER, the proprietor of
the Chicago Farm Journal, who was ar
rested last April by the United States
postal authorities for fraudulent use of
the mails in conducting lot terry and gift
enterprise, was found guilty on the 9th
in the United States District Court at
Chicago and was fined $500.
The Swiss Bundesrath has decided to
expei Haupt and Schroeder, the alleged
German police spies, without further pro-
ceedrngs. 1t was proved at the trial
that Schroeder has been paid fifty dollars
a month by the German police.
REPORTS of the 9th from vari Gus
points in New England show that all
railroads are suffering much trouble in
the operation of the trains, owing to snow
drifts. The storm has been the severest
ever known. The highways are blocked,
and snow-plows and engines are stalled.
MRS. MECKIE l.. RAwsoN, who was ar
rested in Chicago, on the 9th, charged
with completely in the attempted assass-
ination of her banker husband by her son,
was released bonds of $4,000. She
the indictment, and claims it is
the outgrowth of an attempt to force her
to compromise the divorce proceedings
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