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

| The IL. ~ Z: erca np-ne.is - we Ter
| sey at Treutpl, uL ti2 1874, elected ". 3.
E. Miller. OF GAIA len, de Jart.neaG COM
| nander.
| DnULEEP SINGH has sent TO India a
| proc,a III. :o1 inviting the people TO sub
+, scribe the sum of f4,010.000, with the ob-
ject of throwing OFF the English yoke.
THE famine in Aniul aul Kienqsu.
China, is spreading. In one province
100000 families are starving, and alto
| gethec several millions are suffering from
famine caused by two years. drought.
On January Chief Engineer Edwin
| Wells of the United States steamer
Omaha committe suicide at Shanghai
by shooting himself through the head,
during a fit of temporary insanity.
| THE Chicago, Burlington & Quincy di-
| rectors declared a dividend of one per
| cent, on the 18th.
| E. S. PHILBRICK, a well-known citizen of
| Broo!-ilne, Mass, and civil engineer of
National reputation, died suddenly. on the
| night of the 18th, on train for Broo kline.
| PATRICK MoLLoY was arraigned in the
Bow Street police court, London, on the
18th. on the ch arge of swearing falsely
| before the Parnell Commission. Molloy
pleaded not guilty and was committed for
| trial.
| EhrEROR w LILLIAN gave auuleuCe, Oh
| the 18th, to Lieutenant B. H. Buckingha
| and Lieutenant Aaron Ward, the military
| and naval attaches of the American Lega
| ton ct Berlin.
| PARTIES at Pitts burgh, Pa, are pro-
| ce eding to prosecute the oleomargarine
dealers. The State law prohibiting its
| sale has, heretofore, proved a dead let
| ter.
CAPTAIN WIssMAN left Berlin, on the
18th, for East Africa.
| On the 18th, Mr.. and Mrs. Gladstone ar
| rived at San Reno, Italy, and proceeded
| to Cannes.
A NUMBER of horses belonging to the
| farmers in the vicinity of Columbus, Ind,
| have been killed on account of hydro
phobia. The disease is alarmingly preva
| lent there.
In the Pennsylvania Senate the Satur-
| day Half Holiday bill was defeated, on
the 18th, by a vote of 120 to -.
THE boiler makers at the Risdon Iron
Works, Philadelphia, are on strike. The
use OF foreign made plate is the cause.
JERAULD COUNTY, Oak, is in trouble over
the courthouse site. Instead of the land
belon cing to the county it is found to be
owned by private parties.
CHIPPEWA FALLS, WIS, was visited by
a 100000 fire on the night of the 18th.
JOHN GRAY, a Scotchman, was shot
through the heart and killed at PittstOn,
Pa, on the night of the 18th, while trying
to fire a shanty occupied by three Italians
to which he had been refused admittance.
LATEST advices from Samoa represent
all parties as maintaining a truce with
arms in hands.
THE President, on the 18th, signed the
commission of Norman j. Colman to be
Secretary of Agriculture.
from Boston for New York City on the
18th, but did not have the money to pay
his fare and could not raise any.
NICHOLAS MERLAND, a wealthy New
Orleans cigar manufacturer, shot himself
on board a ferry-boat, on the 1ith, and
then jumped into the river and was
drowned.
ROBERT MONTGOMERY, one of the six
teen counterfeiters arrested recently in
Butler County, Pa, by secret-service
agents, was given preliminary hearing,
on the 18th, by United States Commits
sioner McCandless, at pittsburgh, and
was held for trial in default of 81 ,00) bail.
THE boiler of locomotive on the North
Pennsylvania railroad exploded near
Bening Station, Pa, on the 18th, killing
the engineer and fireman.
OK the 18th a street-car was run into
by train on the Baltimore & Ohio rail-
road at Chester, Pa. 1t was thrown from
the track, and four lady passengers and
the driver of the car were badly hurt.
A SHORT time since the Government
sent an inspector named Mallett to in
vestigate the affairs of the Indian school
located at Genoa, Neb. The investigation
has res ulted in the discovery of short
age on the part of Superintendent Chase
of over $4,000.
OK the 18th a five-year- old child of G.
w. Jackson, of Beatrice, Neb., fell through
the ice on Indian creek. The mother saw
the ice give way under the little one, and
ran out to save her. The ice broke with
her, also, but she managed to save the
child.
IT is announced that the Chicago, Bur-
lington & Quincy has signed the railroad
presidents agreement.
HENRY kUNHARDT, Haytien Consul at
Boston, has been removed by President
Legitime.
THE fire-fighters in the Calumet & Hecla
mine at Calumet, Mich, have been driven
out by gas and smoke and all the shafts
sealed but one.