Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-02-21

Srn,l Cnnutg geglster
By ELI %. AXE.
RoNTON. MISSOURI
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
SIDNEY T. FAIRCHILD, the venerable
father of the Secretary of the Treasury,
died at Cazenovia, N. Y, on the 18th.
LIEUTENANT WARD will succeed Lieu
tenant Buckingham as naval attache OF
the American Legation at Berlin.
ANDREW CARNEGIE says that what Pitts
burgh has most to fear is not Southern
competition but a failure of natural gas.
ALBERT P. CHARLES, past grand master
of Masons, and a very prominent citizen
of Indiana, died at Seymour, on the llth.
TIE steamer Carondelet sailed from
New York for Hayti. on the 18th, with 133
cases of rifles, shells and ammunition on
board.
COMMODORE GEORGE BELKNAP has been
ordered to duty in command of the As1atlc
SQUADRON, vice Rear Admiral Chandler,
deceased.
THE strikes in the northern part Of
France are extending rapidly owing to
the active agitation and Indictment of the
Socialists.
RUSSIAN papers state that the Russian
branch of the English family of Leslie
have inherited legacy in England Of
EiG010, 000.
MORE heavy snow-falls are reported
throughout Central Germany. The rail-
roads converging at Frankfort are badly
blocked by drifts.
Irwas determined by the Senate, in Sc
cret session, on the 18th, to make public
the vote by which the British Extradition
treaty was rejected
THE President, on the 18th, returned to
the Senate without his approval bills
granting pensions to Frank d. Worcester
and Michael Strong.
THE mild winter in Northern Montana
causing a lack of water, more detrimental
than scarcity OF food.
PRINCE LEOPOLD, son of the late Prince
Frederick c. aries, the Red Prince" is
betrothed to Princess Sophie, sister of the
Empress of Germany.
An interesting White Cap trial is in
progress at Bloomington, Ind, in the form
of a damage suit for $1,000 against the as
sailant, VIM. Norman.
IN 1893 the lumber exported from the
United States to Havana, Cuba, amounted
to $3.50, I'D cubic feet-S, 453, 9i3 feet white
pine and 1886, IA feet yellow pine.
COLONEL LAMONT says that the position
he will occupy after the 4th of March will
be that of president of the Avenue c
Street Railroad Company of New York
City.
THE Berlin correspondent of the Lon
don Chronicle says that Mr.. Pendleton,
the American Minister to Germany, will
preside at the coming Samoan confer
ence.
THE Pennsylvania brewers met at Phlla-
delphia, on the 18th, and adopted protest
against the submission of a prohibitory
amendment to the Constitution to popu-
lar vote.
BILL before the Minnesota Leglsla-
ture proposes to prohibit aliens or for
eign corporations from owning land in
that State fit for agricultural or grazing
purposes.
INSTRUCTIONS were issued to have all the
stores on board the United States steam
ship Monongahela. at San Francisco,
by the 10Th, preparatory to her departure
for Samoa.
ONE of the worst business crashes of
the year was the assignment of the
Ohio 6 Western Coal and Iron Company.
A bad feature is that 600 men are thrown
out of employment.
EXTENSIVE and disastrous land-slides
occurred at Fleurier, village in the Can
ton of Neufchatel, Italy, on the 18th. Many
houses were demolished, and the people
of the village fled for safety.
1T is rumored that the College of
Physicians and Surgeons has decided to
erase the name of Doctor Sir Morrell
Mackenzie from its rolls, and that its ac-
ton will shortly be publicly announced.
Miss EMMA ALrHAUs, who awoke on
February from a thirty-five days.
trance, at Attica, n. Y, is in precarious
condition, and can live but a short time,
according to the opinion of local physi-
clans.
THE first vestibule train from New Or
leans arrived in the City of Mexico on the
10th. 1t made the run in seventy-three
hours. An immense crowd gathered at
the depot to witness the arrival of the
train.
THE President, approved on the 18th,
among others, the bill to enlarge the
powers and duties of the Bureau of Agri-
culture, and to create an exclusive de-
partment to be known as the Department
of Agriculture.
WILLIAM E. JONES, the cashier of the
Continental Oil Company of Denver, Col,
,,-I,o Fob - OOO Of the company,S money