Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-02-07
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| ENGINEER WILLIAM r. ROGERS and
Fireman H. G. McNally, of Columbus
| Pa, were arrested on a charge of man
| slaughter, on the Doth. They ran the train
on the Pennsylvania railroad which col
! lided with another at that point recently,
| in the wreck of which Conductor John c..
Ryan was killed.
HERR Won SEIDEL was, on the 30th, APP
pointed permanent keeper of the royal art
collection at Berlin.
In the German Reichstag, on the 30th,
the East Africa bill passed its third read
ing without debate.
THE trial of ''Red-Nose" Mike, charged
with the murder of Paymaster Mcclure
and Hugh Flanagan, near Wilkes barre,
Pa, which was to have commenced on the
Goth, was postponed for eight days. Tie
prisoners friends have raised $1,000 and
employed General Mccartney to take
charge of the case.
On the morning of the 30th, Crown Prince
Rudolph of Austria was found dead in his
bed at Mierling. His sudden death is sup
posed to have been caused by stroke OF
apoplexy.
MOORE, the Indianapolis embezzler, has
fed to a place of safety, probably Canada.
The unaccountable delay in his arrest
made this easy to do.
EMPEROR WILLIAM on the Both, conferred
decorations upon Drs. Landgraff and
Schrader, who attended Emperor Fred
erick in his last illness.
THE Manchester (England) Guardian
says that Lord Salisbury, yielding to great
pressure, will withdraw the English YES
sells from the blockade on the East Afri-
can coast as soon as Germany commences
to operate on the shore.
PRESIDENT w. Fl. CoTTERILL and Secre-
tary F. '. Robertson, of the Electric Sugar
swindle, on the 30th issued their long
expected circular letter TO the stockhold-
ers of the exploded bubble. 1t contained
nothing in addition to what had already
been made public.
A BILL has been introduced in the In
diana Senate forbidding the importation
of armed men into the State for police
duty. 1t is intended to apply especially
to the Pinkertons.
COLONEL ANDREW J. SMITH has been
placed on the retired list of the army, to
date from January %.
LATE advices from Samoa state that the
Germans have declared war against Ma
taafa, and that all the Samoan factions
will probably unite against the Germans.
On the Goth, Captain John B. Rife, of
Middletown. Pa, brother of Congress
man-elect Rife, was thrown from his car
riage in South Harrisburg, and almost in
stantly killed. He was a Captain in the
regular army for a number of years, and
was proment citizen.
Mr.. MoRIER the British Ambassador 20
st. Petersburg, recently asked leave to go
to London to explain the charges made
against him. His request has not yet
been granted.
NJ. CATARGI, on the 30th, consented to
resume the presidency of the Roumanian
Chamber of Deputies with two additional
Conservatives in the Cabinet.
EMPEROR WILLIAM, on the 30th, sent
letter OF thanks, with the assurance of his
future protection and sympathy, to the
Berlin Grand Lodge of Masons for their
New Year congratulations.
THE report that Lord Sackville would
succeed Sir William White as British Am
bassadOr at COnstantinople is officially
contradicted.
CONGRESSMAN JOHNSTON, of Indiana,
and Corporal Tanner, of New York, are
the two principal candidates for Commits
sioner of Pensions.
ADvICES from Rome say the recent ru-
mors that the Pope has been having faint
ing fits are denied. His Holiness continues
to hold his receptions. His health is
good.
DELEGATE SMITH, the Republican men,
Der of the West Virginia House of Dele
the opening of the session, arrived at
Charleston on the 31St.
JUDGE BARRETT, of the Supreme Court
of New York City, on the 31st appointed
George Wentworth Gray receiver of the
North River Sugar Refining Company.
THE vote taken at Charleston, W. Va,
on the 31st, for United States Senator, re-
suited: Kenna, Al; Golf, 40; scattering, 5.
ALMOST without exception the Vienna
papers extol the merits of Prince Ru-
dolph, to whom they pay high tributes of
praise, while they extend sympathy to the
bereaved Emperor and Empress and to |
the widow of the Prince.
On the 31st Mr.. William O'Brien was |
taken to Clonmel ureland) Jail to serve |
the sentence imposed upon him for |
offeuses under the Crimes act. The pris- |
oner refused to undress and don the |
prison costume, consequently the war
lens stripped him and shaved off his |
beard by force.