Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-01-31

NEAR the ruins os Palenque, Mexico, a
long-buried ediice has been uncovered.
exceeding in grandeur anything previous
~ discovered il PROOF OF the existence OF
the ancient city.
SELMA DoLARo, singer who has been
popular in opera-bouffe for twenty wears
in England and America, died suddenly,
on the night of the PSI, at her home in
New York City, next door to Mrs. Lang
try's house.
The sheriff of winona County. Mimi.
forced open the safe of SeifTeld, the bank
rupt St Charles grain dealer. on the 22d,
and found seveaty-four cents IN its cash
drawer.
RICHARD CROKER, the great Tammany
chleftain, Is breaking down physically.
His physicians have ordered him to go
South and keep away from politicians.
tn death of NJ. Leroux, member of the
French Chamber Of Deputies, entails
bye-election in February in the Depart
ment o. the Nord, the largest constitu-
ency IN France, next to that of the Seine.
BAUMEIsTER, Schoene ard Hartman, OF
the Burg Theater, Vienna, have been dec
GRATED with the order OF Francis Joseph.
THE Cologne Gazette proposes the in
sertion Of a special Gefcken paragraph
in the penal code, which. it says, requires
thorough revision from beginning to end
SEVEN buildings at Athens. Tenn. in
Guiding the First National Bank, the post
Office and Masonic Hall, We're burned on
the night OF the oath. Loss about $50. 900.
THE farewell banquet OF Lord Mayor
Whitehead of London to Minister Phelps
at the Mansion House, on the night of the
oath. was a great affair. In his speech
Mayor Whitehead said England wanted TO
do her best to maintain friendly relations
with America.
GEORGE BREwINGToN. a crazy negro,
entered the house of Miss Charity Meal
lister, aged eighty years, at Wade Sta
ton, y. c., on the oath. and began to club
the aged occupant While he was strik-
ing her. Sandy McAllister, her nephew,
came in and shot Brewington in the head,
killing him instantly. The old woman
died OF the injuries she had sustained.
THE rioters arrested at Carrick- on Sur,
Ireland. on the 24th. were lodged in Clon-
mel jail the same night, after desperate
struggle with a party of would-be res
cuerS.
REV. BROOKS, an English missionary,
and sixteen of his assistants and follow
ers. have been massacred near Saadani
by some of the coast tribes Of Zanzibar,
as the result Of the hatred engendered
toward the whites by recent German out
RACES upon the natives.
ABOUT 1000 Brooklyn st-eet-car EN-
ployes went on strike. on the 18th. tying
up nine different companies. An at
tempted return to the old ''tripper" sys-
tenn was the cause of the tie-up.
CHARLES AUGUSTUS BILLINGS SHEPARD,
OF the firm OF Lee & Shepard, Boston,
died on the 18th. aged sixty For more
than forty years he had been conspicuously
identified with the k-publishing bust
ness, and was widely known throughout
the country.
OK the 18th, a crane working a ladle
containing seven tons of molten steel at
the Grew Railway Works, in England, col
lapsed and fell into a pit. The molten
steel was scattered in all directions like
flying bullets. Twenty persons were in
jured. The building was unroofed.
G. ALDER, Iowa State agent for the D.
S. Morgan Agricultural Company, retired
to rest. on the night OF the 23d. at Du-
buque, feeling slightly indisposed. Next
morning he was discovered in the throes
OF death and died almost Immediately.
a BILL to remove the capital of Arizona
from Prescott to Phoenix passed the House
by a vote of II to 10 on the 9th. The ap
proval of the Council and Governor is
necessary to make it a law.
EDWARD FRY, alias Williams, colored,
was hanged at Marietta, Ga, on the 18th,
for wife murder.
A MAN was arrested at Madrid, on the
oath. just as a he was about TO throw a
petard into the Minister of Justices office.
CITY officials and others from Toledo,
o.. were at Syracuse, y. Y, on the 18th,
inspecting the electric street-railway sys-
TEN. There were twenty-eight in the
party.
Mr.. DONALD P. EvERETTs. a we'll known
physician Of Brooklyn, was found dead in
his bed on the morning Of the 18th. Heart
disease is supposed to have been the
cause.
Mr.. ROBERT STEWART MENzIEs, N. p.
for the East division of Perthshire. Scot
land, died on the 18th. He was a Scotch
barrister, and only thirty one years Of
age.
JAMES BRADBURN, a brakeman on the
Michigan Central railroad, met a
terrible death at Auburndale. a suburb of
Toledo. o., on the 18th. He was engaged
in coupling cars loaded with lumber. As
the cars came together he was caught by
plauks, aud his head was COM
pletely severed from his body.