Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-12-06
NEWS AND NOTES
A Summary Of Important Events.

A Summary Of Important Events.
II. HERrENsrEIv, Vice-President o.
Switzerland, died on the 9th
HoN. B. FRANK NEALLY (Rep.) was
elected mayor of Dover, N. H., on the
9th.
THE G.. A. R. split in the West finds lit
tie countenance among the members OF
the order in the East.
Hon. JAMES G. BLAINE was in New
York, on the 10Th, to attend the funeral
services of Mrs. Sherman.
Mrs. ELLEN EWING SHERMAN, wife OF
General w. T. Sherman, died at her resi-
dence in New York City on the 2Sth.
REPRESENTATIVE w. C. OATES, of Ala.
bama, expresses himself as favoring the
entire disfrachisement of the negroes.
WILLIAM BEACH, of Australia, again
defeated Edward Hanlan, of Canada, or
the 9th, in a race which took place on the
Paramatta river.
IT is understood in Vienna that Coun'
Won Taffee, president of the Austrian
Council, will shortly be endowed with
the title of prince.
NJ. ErFFEL, the famous French engineer
claims that his tower has already reached
an altitude thirty-one meters higher thar
the Washington monument.
US. TREASURER HYATT, ON the Both, mail
ed 9,416 checks, aggregating $1S,025.17, to
cover quarterly interest on 4 1-2 per cent
registered bonds due October 1.
JAY EYE SEE, the gelding, will recover
from the severing of an artery in his leg
and Ed Bither, his driver, states that he
will live to lower his record.
THE police of New York City have
proof that a duel with pistols was fought
in Central Park, on the night of the 22d
and that one of the combatants was
wounded.
CONGRESSMAN MILLS says: "On the
tariff issue the Democrats carried every
thing. 1t was Doodle that beat US. 1t was
in every Congressional district. l felt ii
in mine"
THE village of Voubecourt, near Nancy,
France, was totally destroyed by fire on
the 9th. Thousands of persons were
rendered homeless and absolutely with
out shelter.
IT is stated that the original diary of the
late Emperor Frederick of Germany is in
possession of his widow, the dowager En-
press Victoria, who has obtained copy
right upon it.
THE King and Queen of Belgium gave a
farewell dinner at court in honor of Judge
Lambert Tree, the American Minister,
and his wife, prior to their departure for
st. Petersburg.
THr Commissioned of Apriculture has
appointed Commission to investigate the
subject of swine diseases in the United
States, and methods for their treatment
and prevention.
Mr.. GENT-DAvIs, NJ. P. for Kensington,
who had heretofore been only nominally
imprisoned under the warrant of arrest
for contempt of court, was actually put in
prison on the Goth.
IT is charged by the Republican man
ayers in New York City that there was
trading and selling out of several of the
Republican Congressional candidates at
the recent election.
THE North German Gazette and almost
all the other prominent German papers
concur in the opinion that the affairs of
France are drifting toward crisis of
which the sequences are incalculable.
GRANT MCPHERSON, junior clerk in the
New York Post-office, appointed three
months ago, was arrested, on the 9th, for
stealing letters. Nine letters were found
on his person when taken into custody.
FEARS were entertained, on the Goth,
that the New York pilot boats, twenty in
number, and the New Jersey pilot feet,
most of which were at sea, were having a
severe experience in the prevailing gales.
A SPECIAL dispatch from Toledo, O., on
the 9th, says Senator Sherman has been
given to understand that the Office of
Secretary of State will be formally ten
dered to him by President-eleet Harrison.
TIE sale of the household effects of Hon.
Perry Belmont, the newly appointed Min
lister to Spain, took place at Washington
on the 30th. The crowd was small but Sc
lect, and the goods sold readily at fair
fair prices.
A CONSCIENCE contribution of five dol
lars was received at the Treasury Depart
ment, ON the 25th, in letter dated Louis
vile, KY, in which the writer requested
an acknowledgment of its receipt in the
Louisville papers.
WHILE returning from the banquet of
the Patriotic League in Paris, on the 25th,
General Boulanger was continuously
cheered. Police lined the route and made
forty arrests, but most of the prisoners
were afterward discharged.
A MEETING of the directors of the Kelly
Motor Company was held in Philadelphia,
on the Goth, and it is said that all the diff
ferences between Kelly and the board
were compromised by the formulation of
plan for the entire reorganization of the
company.
SECRETARY WHITNEY, following his us
ual custom since he has been at the head
of the Navy Department, presented each
of the employees of the department with
fine, large turkey for their Thanksgiving
Day dinner. 1t took four hundred turkeys
to go around.
GOVERNOR BEAVER of Pennsylvania has
been selected by the inaugural committee
at Washington as marshal of the inaugural
parade. The appointment was first Of
fered to General Sherman, but was de-
clined on the ground of the serious illness
of Mrs. Sherman.
THE first yard of cotton cloth manufact-
nred in the State of Iowa was made at Des
Moines, on the Goth, at which time occurred
the formal opening Of the Des Moines cot
ton factory, new industry in the State.
The factory has 200 looms, 6,000 spindles,
and will employ 200 hands.
THE National Anti-Saloon Republican
committee met in New York on the 9th.
1t was decided to issue an address to the
people of the country, calling attention to
the Anti-Saloon Republican movement,
the work it has already accomplished, and
what it intends to do for the future.