Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-01-10

By ELI d. AXE.
RONTON. MISSOURI
NEWS AND NOTES.
a Summary Of Important Events.
GENERAL HARRISON had his life insured,
on the 10Th, taking out policy for S1O,-
900.
GOVERNOR HILL of New York was in
augurated at Albany for a third term, on
the LIST.
THE selectmen of Beverly, Mass, sent
$4,000, on the 1st, to be added to the Mar
blehead relief fund.
ADAM FoREPAUGH, on the 1st, presented
to New York City his elephant Tip"
second in size in America.
Hon, JAMES G. BLAINE arrived in Wash
ington on the Sd, accompanied by Repre-
sentative William Walter Phelps.
Mr.. FRYE was renOminated for United
States Senator from Maine by the Repub-
lican caucus at Augusta on the I'd.
MINISTER PHELPS will remain in London
for some time after the banquet to be
given to him by the Lord Mayor on JAN
uary "a.
Irwas reported in Suakim, on the 1st,
that Osman Digna intends to make an
other formidable attack against the Egyp-
tians and blacks.
THIRTEEN persons were arrested at Fall
carragh, Ireland, on the 4th, for interior
ing with and resisting the police and
bailifs in the discharge of their duty.
CAPTAIN WIN. S. ADAMS, a we'll known
ship-master, died at Kingston, Mass, on
the 1st, aged eighty. He had accumulated
wealth with which he did many. acts of
charity.
THE corn syndicate formed in Vienna
some time ago has failed, the price of
corn going down to about one-half what
the syndicate paid for its holding of that
product.
DR.. BOND, the medical director on
Blackwell's Island, denies the statement
that DR.. Alexander E. Mcdonald, the cele-
brated specialist and expert on insanity,
has become insane.
GOVERNOR AMEs was inaugurated be-
fore joint convention of the two houses
of the Massachusetts Legislature on the
Sd. He occupied about thirty minutes in
the delivery of his message.
THE annual report of Bank Superin-
tendent Pain of New York calls attention
to the growth of building associations,
and advises legislation to prevent posi-
BILE frauds upon investors therein.
THE warrant for the pardon of Hopkins,
of Fidelity Bank notoriety, was mailed to
the warden of the Ohio penitentiary at
Columbus on the I'd. Accompanying it
was an order for Hopkins immediate re-
lease.
THE extensive foundry of the Reading
Pa.) Foundry Company, where large iron
pipe for gas and water mains for many of
the larger cities is made, has closed down
indefinitely, throwing 100 men out of en-
ployment.
AN auditing of the accounts of j. c.
Leighton, who was for twenty years clerk
of the municipal court of Boston, develops
q shortage which will probably reach
100000 His term of service expired two
years ago.
A LETTER from the Oklahoma territory
states that five thousand ''boOmers" have
laid out the town of Springer and elected
town officers from their own ranks. They
have resolved to hold the town against all
opposition
SIR A. W. PIERCE, Conservative mem
Der of the British Parliament for the
Govan district of Lanark, Scotland, who
died recently, left property valued at
Sc 25O, 900 to be divided between his son
and widow.
Nov. nr
ment for Limerick, Ireland, was, on the
1st, sentenced to four months imprison-
ment for intimidation of intending occu-
pants of farms from which the tenants had
been evicted.
THE glass baudage which was placed on
the left leg of Chauncey N. Depew after
the strain of tendons at the heel, which he
suffered some weeks ago, was removed on
the 4th. 1t was sawed off. 1t was one
quarter of an inch thick.
THE Governor of Massachusetts, on the
1st, pardoned Daniel Frieland, sentenced,
in 1870, for life, for numbering Peter
Smith (colored). The murder occurred
during q quarrel while both men were
confined for drunkenness.
A BILL has been favorably reported by
Senator Cockrell from the committee on
military affairs authorizing the Secretary
of War to procure and present suitable
medals to the survivors of the forlorn
hope storming party at Port Hudson, La.
The Republican caucus at Denver, Col,
on the ID, nominated E. 0. Wolcott for
United States Senator on the first ballot,
the vote being Wolcott, 10; Bowen, Is;
Tabor, L. The nomination was then made
unanimous. The election occurs on the
18th.
MOST cordial New Years congratula-
tions were exchanged between En-
peror Francis Joseph and King Humbert
of Italy. The former also sent to Emperor
William an autograph letter expressing
absolute confidence in the maintenance of
peace
The Journal de st. Petersburg says that
every nation in Europe sincerely hopes
that the coming year will verify the favor
able auguries of King Humbert and Herr
Won Tisza, the Hungarian Prime Minister,
who in recent speeches predicted peace
for 1889.
IN the Idaho House of Representatives,
OF the ID, Mr.. kurtz introduced bill, re-
lating to the elective FRANCHISE, which is
supplemental to the Test-Oath bill, and
provides that q person must be out of the
Mormon church for three years in order
to become legal voter.
THE Omaha (Neb.) Jail officials say that
Liboie Biechler is becoming insane. Gen
eral GOWN, her lawyer. says she was in
sane when she killed Harry King, and
that she has been steadily getting worse