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

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decided that Jimmy Hope, the California
bank burglar. was illegally held in New
York, and pronounced him a free man.
C. E. SILcorT, cashier of the sergeant
alarms of the House of Representatives,
disappeared on the 5th. The committee
appointed to investigate his Office found
shortage of $4,000.
A LARGE sugar-mill at Swoleniowes,
Bohemia, collapsed, on the 5th, from the
weight of sugar, of which there were
fifteen hundred tons stored within.
Eight persons were killed and many in
jured.
FIVE persons persisted in the snow
during the storm which prevailed at
Waag. Western Hungary, ON the night
of the 5th.
The Emperor of Germany went to
Dessaux, on the 5th, this being his first
step in tour of the minor German
courts. The Empress being indisposed,
remained at Potsdam, Generals Wal
dersee and Won Witch accompany the
Emperor.
THE action brought by Mrs. John w.
Mackay against the Manchester en-
gland) Examiner has been amicably ad-
pay the costs incurred by Mrs. Mackay
to herself or donate the money to chari-
ty at the plaintiffs discretion.
CART PETERSON was killed and Ed
ward Kimball fatally injured, on the
9th, by the falling of chimney during
a fire in Carter's machine shops at Buffa-
10, n. Y, where the men were en-
ployed.
THE German steamer Duburg, which
left Singapore, Malay, October 25, for
Hong Kong, has not been heard from,
and it is feared she was lost in the re-
cent typhoon. She had four hundred
passengers on board.
THE London Star states that it has in
formation from a reliable source that
General Boulanger has been engaged to
lecture in the United States, and that
he will deliver the first lecture in the
New York Academy of Music.
The Silcott Investigating committee
have determined that the bondsmen of
the defaulting cashier are not response
BILE for the 81, 500 taken by him, the law
giving members no right to collect their
money from the treasury through the
sergeant-at-arms' office. The entire loss
falls on the individual members of Con-
gress.
DELEGATIONS of coal miners from Bo-
chum and Dortmund, Westphalia, as
sembled at Essen, on the 9th, and de-
cided to submit to meeting of miners
a resolution providing for fresh strike
with view to compelling the masters to
discontinue the lockout against the
men who were prominent in organizing
the last strike.
GENERAL FRANCIS w. PALFREY, the
well-known historian of Boston, died at
Cannes, France, on the 5th, aged fifty
eight years. He was Harvard graduate,
lawyer, and during the war volun-
teer infantry officer, being made Briga-
dier-General of Volunteers in 1865 for
gallant conduct.
AT the postponed election in Provi-
dence, r. l., on the 9th, Henry L. Barker
Rep.) was reelected mayor over Hiram
Howard Oem.) by majority of 762 in a
total vote of 1856, the heaviest ever
cast in city election. At the regular
election on November 20 Barker lacked
ia of a majority.
THE British Foreign Office received
telegram from Zanzibar. on the 9th, stat
ing that Emin's skull was not fractured
by his fall, and that his recovery is
possible.
No OFFICIAL notice was taken by the
War Department concerning the death
of Jefferson Davis, who was Secretary
of War under President Pierce from 1858
to 1857. Solitary and alone among the
fifty-eight secretaries of war who have
been gathered to their fathers, .Jeffer-
son Davis died unnoticed by the de-
partment over which he once presided.
THE Philadelphia Natural Gas Com
pany has struck an oil we'll in a new
field in Washington County that prom
Uses one hundred barrels an hody. The
gusher is two miles from Taylorstown,
Pa.
THE London Daily News correspond
ent at Berlin says that Major Wissmann
will return to Berlin in February in the
event of the pacification of the ma
tives of Zanzibar being at that time
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