Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-12-05

GRIM Gnnutg gegistel
BY ELL ID. AXE.
RONTON. MISSOURI
TWENTY houses were burned in tn,
town of Leechburg, Pa, on the Goth
causing an aggregate loss of 100000.
On the 2Sth United States Minister t.
England Lincoln was suddenly called t.
Versailles, where his son is fatally i'll.
A BAKER named Jacob Pyser wa:
burned to death in the destruction o.
the bakery of Alonzo Yonkes, at Key
port, n. j.. on the goth.
THE Banco Macdonald at Rio de Jan.
GIRO telegraphed its correspondents
throughout the world, on the Goth, OF
the financial stability of the new gov
eminent.
GOVERNOR TooLE of Montana is said
to laugh at the talk of the Republicans
of their intention to impeach him. He
says there were not enough of them
elected to do it.
A TREMENDOUS landslide is reported
as having occurred in Seuftenburg
Brandenburg, on the 2Sth, choking uI
two shafts and imprisoning a number OF
miners, who, it was feared, could not be
rescued alive.
TIE Austrian Government has decided
upon the immediate formation of two
new regiments of cavalry in Galicia,
and is also making changes in the direc.
ton of augmenting its military strength
at other points.
Mr.. PARKE, editor of the North Lon
don Press, was arraigned in the Bow.
street police court, on the Goth, on the
charge of criminal libel preferred
against him by the Earl of Euston, and
committed for trial.
THE German Reichstag, in committee,
on the Goth, adopted the Socialist bill,
and the measure was reported. 1t was
decided to postpone the question of ex.
pulsion in order to allow time for a com
promise on that clause.
THE United States Minister to France
held the usual Thanksgiving reception
ut the American Legation in Paris, on
2Sth, entertaining a number of guests
far in excess of the attendance on
similar occasions in former years.
NINE. LOUISE, a well-known milliner
of New York City, was fined $1,000, on
the Goth, for violation of the Alien Con-
tract Labor law, by the importation of
Miss Alice Dupont, French demoiselle,
to work in her millinery establishment.
WILLIAM MCCoMB, a farm hand in
Rehoboth, Del, was accidently shot
while cunning on the 2sth. He was
crossing ditch on a fence holding his
gun by the muzzle, when it went off, the
whole load entering his head, causing
instant death.
On the 25th King Humbert opened the
italian Parliament in person. He said
that the governments wise policy had
maintained domestic tranquility and
guaranteed peace, which, thanks to the
concert of the great Powers, now ap-
pears to be assured.
THE two-story brick dwelling of Sc<tt
Hawthorne, at Dayton, o., was blown to
atoms by an explosion of natural gas at
one o'clock on the morning of the Goth.
Two children were killed, and Haw-
thorne, his wife and father were terri
bly, and probably fatally burned.
BUSINESS failures for the seven days
ended on the Goth were: For the United
States, 210; Canada, 80; total, 249: as
compared with 277 the previous week.
Fer the corresponding week last year
the figures were 201 in the United States
and 81 in the Dominion of Canada.
PROF. II. F. SARTELLE, of Worcester,
Mass, who for several days had been
giving dime shows at Lynn, loaded a
trick gun, on the Goth, and persuaded
VIM. Ii. Flanagan, one of the spectators,
to discharge it at him, when the show
man fell dead, with bullet in his neck.
IT is stated on authority. than which
there is none higher in this country,
that there was absolutely no action
taken by the hierarchy of the Catholic
church on the question of secret socie-
ties, as was reported to have been done
by the Bishops during the Centennial
celebration.
AT the Republican municipal conven-
ton held at Lynn, Mass, on the Goth,
the incumbent Democratic mayor was
Endorsed. Party lines are Withdrawn
for once in order that Mayor Newhali
can have an opportunity to carry on the
work so successfully inaugurated since
the great conflagration.
HANS JACOB OLSON was hanged to a
tree near the town of Preston, Wis. on the
night of the 18th, by mob, and his wife
and seventeen-year-old son were among
those who pulled on the rope. Olson
was a morose and quarrelsome fellow,
always at variance with his neighbors,
and frequently beat his wife and chill
dren.
THE will of the late Mrs. Charles
Croker was filed for probate in San
Francisco, on the 25th. 1t is dated Oc-
tober IL, 1889, ten days before her death,
and bequeaths the entire estate, valued
at about 81, ZOO, 900. to her four children
Charles F., William II. and George
Croker, of San Francisco, and Mrs. AL
exander, of New York.
THE Mineral Land convention met at
Helana, Mont, on the 29th and was