Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-03-29

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BY ELI %. AXE.
RONToN. MISSOURI.
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
THE funeral of Senator Carnot, faith err
of the French President, occurred on the
Goth.
IT was stated on the 22d that the short.
age of State Treasurer Tate of Kentucky
would amount to $3.50, 200.
INVESTIGATION into the affairs of Treas
urer Tate of Kentucky indicates that the
States loss will not reach 5000, 900,
THE list of deaths caused by the burn.
ing of the Banquet Theater in Oporto,
Portugal, will reach over one hundred.
THE constables who arrested the whole
sale liquor dealers at Des Moines, Ia, and
then released them, have been indicted
for receiving brides.
THOMAS B. MCGUIRE, of Assembly No. 40,
Knights of Labor. gives it as his opinion
that the Knights favor Judge Gresham
for President
A PATENT has been granted for a new
clock which will run for years after bein Q
once wound up. 1t has neither pendulum
nor balance wheel.
h. D. BADGLY and F. W. Irving, of Bos.
ton, are in Canada advertising for engi-
neers and firemen to take the places of
brotherhood men in the States.
Mr.. MCKINLEY, of the House committee
on ways and means, has been authorized
by the minority to prepare a tariff bill
in opposition to the Mills bill.
EBENEzER STANYARp, twice convicted
of the murder of Alice Hancox, was on
the 22d sen fenced by Judge Johnston, at
Youngstown, O., to be hanged on July 10.
NJ. NETIEv1TcH, Bulgarian Minister of
Finance, says the government has no in
tention to proclaim the independence of
Bulgaria. The country will remain loyal
to Europe.
'HoNEsr DICK TATE" for twenty years
State Treasurer of Kentucky, is an abb
sconding defaulter. A partial examina-
ton of his accounts up to the Goth showed
deficit of S150,000.
THE city of eipsic has bought Lei
bach's celebrated portraits of Kaiser
Wilhelm and Bismarck for $4,000. The
former picture was painted in 1886 and
the latter in 1887.
THE switchmen in the Erie railroad
yard at Hornellsville, N. Y, went on a
strike on the 23d. 1t is reported that
the grievances are low wages and an OBJ
jectionable yardmaster.
EAGLE HEAD, a wellknown Indian
scout, and John Warden, white hunter,
were drowned under the ice while cross
ing the Missouri river few miles below
Bismarck, OAK, on the 21st.
ALL the countries represented at the re-
cent Sugar Bounties Conference, with
the exception of France, have sent replies
to the British Government favorable to
the abolition of sugar boupties.
A PATENT was gran ted on the 21st to
Elias E. Ries and Albert H. Henders on,
of Baltimore, Md, on an apparatus for
increasing the tractive power of locomo-
tives and other vehicles propelled by cleo
tricity.
THE water in the Willow and Pine
creeks at Mason City, Ia, on the 10Th, was
the highest reached in twenty-five years.
The piers of the Iowa Central bridge
there, the largest bridge on the line, have
been washed away.
COLONEL L. B. Faulkner and Leonard
Kuhn, director and cashier respectively |
of the defunct First National Bank of |
Evansville, KY, were arrested on the 21st, |
upon requisition of the United States |
Court, and taken to Buffalo.
THE Ohio State Senate ad opted a reso- |
luton, on the 22d, to investigate reports |
to the effect that three members had So
1icited brides to oppose the passage of a |
bill to prevent the importation into the
State of foreign beef. i
THE water in the Mohawk river rose
seven feet in three hours at Amsterdam,
N. Y, on the odd, owing to- an ice gorge.
The tracks of the New York Central were
covered with water, and the town of Port
Jackson was completely inundated.
In the Supreme Court of New York, on
the 10Th, Abraham Levitt obtained a YER
dict against Morris 7. Hart for electric
lights furnished the New Orleans EXPOSE
tion at the request of Major Burk. OF the
agreed price, $4,000 had previously been
paid.
GOVERNOR BEAVER of Pennsylvania, on
the 23d, issued proclamation containing /
stringent regulations designed to prevent
the spread of pleuro-pneumonia, which
was known to exist within a radius of |
eight miles of Philadelphia
JOHN T. HOWARD, one of the founders
OF Plymouth Church, father of several
well-known journalists, father-in-law of
General Horatio King, and one of the
leading citizens of Brooklyn, n. Y, lied
of apoplexy on the 22d. He was eighty
years old.
A NEW recruiting bill has been prepared
In France which subjects all citizens to
service for twenty-five years. with partial
exemptions III the case of students and
others, with equivalent in taxes, which it
is estimated will result in a revenue of
%, o00, 0o0f. yearly.
THE second and last reading given in
Washing ton in aid of the American Copy
right League took place on the evening of
the 10Th. At the close of the entertain.
meut the President and Mrs. Cleveland
received the authors present and their
friends at the Executive Mansion.
The draft of the address of the Prus-
sian Inter Hans replying to the royal
message, delivered on the 10Th, thanks