Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-12-26
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

OLE LARSEN. lllc WHO was
arrested in Brooklyn for violating the
health law by refusing to allow medi-
cine or medical treatment to be given to
his wife and child when they were sick
with diphtheria, was convicted on the
10th. The penalty is one years impris
onment or $500 fine, or both.
1T is stated that the municipal de-
ficiency incurred by the late syndic of
Rome, the Duke of Torlonia, is upward
of 1000, 600 lire.
REPORTS have reached Lisbon of great
discomfort in the Rio Grande provinces
of Brazil, whose inhabitants have de-
clared that they would rather unite with
Uruguay than consent to a federation
of the Brazilian States.
NAIL advices received in Germany
from Rio de Janeiro are to the effect
that the republic was greeted with great
enthusiasm in all the German districts
of Brazil.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY BATCHELLER
left Washington, on the 18th, for New
York, to be absent several days.
TWENTY Catholic churches in the
Russian province of Kieff have been
closed by order of the Governor of the
province. No reason was given for the
act.
WILHELM Won GEIsBRECHT, the Ger
man historian, died on the 18th.
DESPITE the compromise under which
many of the striking miners of West
phalia, Germany, have returned to work,
eight collieries at Dartmund are still
idle and wholly deserted. This state of
affairs indicates that many of the old
miners have sought work elsewhere.
THE British bark Tenby Castle was
wrecked in the Irish sea off Holyhead,
on the 18th, and eleven of her crew
were drowned.
GOVERNOR NULLETT of South Dakota
has returned from the suffering districts
and reports the restitution not SO great
as he expected.
DETECTIVES will investigate the mat
ter of Franklin b. Governs alleged sui
eide at Philadelphia. 1t is learned that
he had insurance on his life to the
amount of 5000, 200.
A. F. MACK, late secretary of the Ar
canum Building Loan and Homestead
Association at Chicago, is missing with
about 81, 500 of the associations money.
He is supposed to be in Canada.
of resolutions to Mrs. Jefferson Davis
urging the selection of that place as a
burial site for her husband.
THE United States Supreme Court has
interfered in the cases of James NJ.
Medley and James H. Savage, two Col
orado murderers, pending decision as
to conflicting State laws.
THE police of Baltimore, Nd, have
ordered William L. Crosley, dealer in
green goods" to leave the city.
AN unlawful state of affairs has been
discovered in Oklahoma and Indian
Territory, criminals having been unlaw-
fully punished and court expenses un-
lawfully incurred.
Mrs. DEHART. of Templeton, Ind.
has secured a new lord and master in
such way as to make an early and
lively visit of the White Caps very
probable event.
IT is reported from Tangiers that ow-
ing to the action of Consul Lewis in the
seizure of firearms, the government has
cabled to Washington demanding that
he be recalled.
THE small village of ELLINGTON, Tenn,
is considerably stirred up over the pres
ence there of two strangers. who, 1t is
said, are searching for large treasure
buried near there during the war by
party of soldiers, all of whom except one
subsequently lost their lives.
THE trial of the negro, John Williams,
for the murder OF Dan Cronin at Colo
RADIO, Tex, October so, came up in the
District Court on the 18th. Insanity was
the plea put up by the defense, and the
jury gave him thirty years in the peni-
Tertiary.
Miss GRACE PEDLEY, an English act
ress, claims that Edward j. Henley, who
recently married Miss Mary Hampton,
and is now in California, is her husband,
and she applied to New York police
court, on the 18th, for warrant Cor his
arrest.