Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-01-24

REPRESENTATIVE SYMEs, OF Colorado,
appeared before the House committee on
appropriations, on the 18th, and made an
argument III favor OF Prof. Powel's
scheme fol ;rrigating the arid lands OF
the West.
THE operating room of the main Office
of the Western Union Telegraph Company
in Washington is undergoing enlarge
ment and extensive repairs to meet the
demands which the inauguration will
bring upon the office.
THE Senate committee on commerce, al
its meeting on the 18th, ordered favor
able reports on the Presidents nomina-
tons to places in the Marine Hospital
service.
+. S. HIGGINS, station agent for the Rock
Island railroad, and agent for the United
States Express Company. at Bevington,
Ia, is missing. An investigation of his
accounts disclosed a shortage in express
company funds of $3.50, and in railroad
funds of $3.50. Higgins leaves an invalid
wife and two children in destitute circum-
stances.
IT is said Walter Evans, ex-commis-
sioner of internal revenue, may be re-
appointed to his old place by the incom-
ing President.
THE Bucharest Epoca says that mo-
ton will be introduced in the Roumanian
Chamber of Deputies for the impeachment
of the Bratiano Ministry.
A SHOCK of earthquake was felt in a
portion of the Leith valley and in Western
Edinburgh, Scotland, on the 18th, but no
damage was done.
DURING the attack on the German mis-
sionary station at Tugu, Zanzibar, the in
surgents massacred four German mission
aries, one of whom was a woman. Three
missionaries fell into the hands of the
Arabs and are held for ransom. One of
the prisoners IS a woman.
THE German steamer Lubbock, from Sa-
moa, which arrived at Sydney, n. S. W.,
on the 18th, reported that all was quiet in
Samoa on the Sth inst.
IN joint convention, on the 18th, the tw o
houses of the Michigan Legislature elect
ed James Mcmillan Senator, giving him
80 votes, against 35 for Melbourne H. Ford.
HARRY WILLIAMS, of Crawfo rdsvllle,
Ind, was shot twice in the right breast
and killed in a dispute over a game of
cards at Bedford, Ind, on the morning Of
the 18th.
CHARLES AUSTIN, for twenty years a
bookkeeper for Bussey & Mcleod, of
Troy, has n. Y, absconded with $4,000 of
the company's money.
On the 18th, State Senator Geyser, of
Toledo, o., permitted newspaper corre-
spondent to take the copy of a speech
which he intended to deliver next day.
The correspondent failed to return the
copy, and when the question came up, the
Senator could not deliver his speech.
The directors of the Pullman Palace Car
Company, on the 18th, declared the regu-
lar quarterly dividend of two per cent,
payable February Is.
IN the United States District Court at
Baltimore, Nd, Captain Robert Mills of
the oyster schooner Chickora was, on the
18th. found guilty of brutally beating his
drclgers, and sentenced to a fine of $500
and one year in Jail.
THE jury in the Ridenour murder case
at Winchester, Va, were out one hour, on
the 18th, and brought in verdict of not
guilty. Immediately loud cheers arose
from the great crowd assembled. Ride
nOur had previously been twice convicted
and sentenced to be hanged.
The Ohio State Board of PardOns. on
the 18th, unanimouly voted to ask Gov
ernor Foraker to commute the sentence of
Mrs. Mary L. Garrett, sentenced to be
hanged January 25, to Imprisonment for
life in the penitentiary.
NJ. De LESsEPS was, on the 18th, elected
anu SUI CudTItS VICE pres.
ident of the new Panama Canal Company.
THE body of the wife of half breed
named Rolade, which was buried twenty
miles from Winnipeg, Man., sixteen years
ago, was exhumed, recently, and found to
be perfectly petrified-
THE case of the Commonwealth VS.. En-
gincer Cook, charged with causing the
Mud Run (Pa-) disaster, has been post
poned until March, when all the railway
employees concerned will be tried at once.
THIRTY persons were killed in an ex-
plosion of fire damp in the Hyde Colliery,
near Manchester, England, on the 18th.
Mrs. G. A. RALPH arose from the dinner
table at Sioux City, Ia, on the 18th, picked
up a revolver and blew out her brains.
The woman was in ill-health and de-
spondent because of loss of property in
England, where until recently she and
her family resided.
THE appointment by Governor Hovey of
Indiana of Colonel n. r. Ruckle as Adju-
tant- General created vacancy upon the
indianapolis Board OF Police Commits
sioners, which was filled by the election
of Harry S. New, of the Indianapolis
Journal, son of Colonel John C. New.