Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-02-28
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| A DELEGATION of railway officials held
| conference with the Iowa railroad COM
missioners at Des Moines on the 10th.
| The commissioners, as had been the re-
suit of other conferences, seemed dis
posed to adhere to their former views of
keeping rates in force until their effect
| on the revenues of the roads can be dem
Onstrated.
A NUMBER of workmen were carried
down and seriously injured on the Goth,
by the fall of bridge at Cowansville,
| Can, upon which they were making re-
pairs.
S. F. HIGGINS, an absconder from Bev-
ington, Ia, was arrested in San Fran
cisco, on the 10Th, and locked up, awaiting
| extradition. Higgins was agent for the
United States Express Company, and on
January 10 disappeared, $1,000 short in
| his accounts.
SARAH E. HEUSTIS recovered damages
in the sum of $4,000, on the Goth, against
| the Michigan Central Railroad Company
for severe injuries caused by the derail-
ment of car in which she was passen-
ger.
THE annual meeting of the Iowa State
Temperance Alliance began at Des Moines
on the night of the 10Th.
THE Pennsylvania State Prohibition
convention at Harrisburg, on the 10Th in
dorsed Mr.. Powderly's stand on the pro-
hibitiOn question.
CALKIN SCRAPER, a prominent young
Cherokee, was assassinated at his door,
in Going Snake district, /. T., on the night
of the 10Th.
THE President and Mrs. Cleveland were
entertained at dinner, on the evening of
the 10Th, by Secretary of the Interior and
Mrs. Villas. The occasion marked the
last of the handsome series of Cabinet
dinners for the present season. The
guests cards were large Photographic
ones, containing pictures of each member
of the Cabinet and his wife in groups of
two, forming circle, with the President
and Mrs. Cleveland in the center.
JUSTIN JONES, Harry Hazel" an old
time editor and story writer, died at Bos-
ton, on the Goth, aged seventyfour.
MEAGER news of Flathead Indian out
break at DemerSville, Mont, was received
from Helena on the Goth.
GEORGETOWN College, at Washin gton,
D. c., commenced the celebration, on the
Goth, OF its centennial anniversary.
THE trial of Jacob Schoop, the self-con-
fessed murderer of Antoine Schilling,
was commenced in Philadelphia on the
goth.
THE earnings of the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad for January were $1,566, 207, an
increase over the corresponding month of
1888 of $4O1.43S. The net earnings for
January were S137,319.
On the Goth, So, 400 fire, with insurance
at 81, 500, visited Riegelsville, Pa
IT is asserted that Count Won Valdez
see is about to visit Pesth, and Count Bis
marck to go to Rome on business con-
nected with the triple alliance.
JAMES CAREw, NJ. P, was arraigned in
the Kilkenny Ureland) Court, on the 21st,
for offenses committed under the Crimes
act and sentenced to four months i'm
prisonment
THE Duke of Newcastle, England, was
married, on the 21st, to daughter Of Cap
tain Candy. formerly of the Ninth Lam
GERS.
THE trial of Governor Larrabee of Iowa.
charged with libel, began in the District
Court at Des Moines on the 21st. The
forenoon session was consumed in getting
jury.
INDICATIONS in Indianapolis point to
revision of the Cabinet slate, as hereto
fore announced, and to the admission OF
Californian.
THERE has of late been a steady i'm
provement in the condition of Mr.. Robert
Garrett.
THE British Parliament re-opened on
the 21st.
THE eighty eighth anniversary of the
birthday of Cardinal Newman was cele-
brated in London on the 21st.
CAPTAIN BEN RICHARDSON, an eccentric
miser of large property. died in New York
City ON the Goth. He was the owner of
Washington's chariot.
THE New York City grand jury found
indictments for grand larceny in the first
degree against Ives and Staynor, late of
the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton rail-
road, on the 21st.
SUMMARY of the Hartford (Conn.) hotel
disaster: Total number in building, ~;
killed, %; injured. 10; escaped. 10.
Four German ironclads which arrived
at Genoa on the 22d, were ordered to uro-
ceed to Samoa Immediately.