Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-03-07

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Cornelius Vanderbilt, died in New York
City, on the Goth, aged seventy-two.
On his Journey from Indianapolis to
Washington the President elect met with
enthusiastic receptions by the people at
| all points along the route.
THE President, on the 26th, vetoed PEN
sion bills for the relief of Miranda w.
Reed, Stephen Williams, Mary A. Sell
bach and George Colwen.
A Mr.. McCUNE persisted in the flames
of burning building in Portland, Ind,
on the 25th.
On the 18th, William j. Mcfarland, who
shot his wife and little daughter, was adj
| judged in sane and acquitted by Cleve-
land (O.) jury.
EMPEROR WILLIAM will visit England in
June.
THE maple-sugar camps of California
are in operation, and the product is said
| to be nearly equal to that OF the Eastern
| States.
JAMES D. MCELRoY, the base ball pitch
er, died at Needles, Cal, on the 18th,
from an overdose of morphine.
RAILWAY travel is interrupted at
| Adrianople, Turkey, by floods in the Ma
| rita.
Mrs. JOHN ALDRICH, of Hastings, Neb.,
is in jail on charge of poisoning her
husband.
THE Earl of HOpetown has been ap-
pointed Lord High Commissioner of the
General Assembly o the Church of Scot
land.
THE snow storms throughout Germany
are increasing in sew Gritty, and railway
traffic is seriously inter rupted.
THE River Seine continues to rise, and
is flooding Paris and adjacent territory.
MICHAEL CLEARY, a wres tier, from
Do. ID T oh III n1 1Nxy
Terence Mckiernan in dispute in the
latter's saloon in Waterbury, Conn.,, on
the 25th.
Mrs. PAGAN, of Milwaukee, Wis, left
her year-old baby alone in the house
for a moment. When she returned and
extinguished the flames with a blanket,
the infant was so badly burned that 1t
died soon after.
THE noted German medical expert, DR..
Frankel, will shortly publish in Leipsic a
paper giving a diagnosis of the treat
ment of several different phases of can
GER, and claiming that cases similar to
that of the late Emperor Frederick are
durable.
The rumOr of an engagement between
Prince Charles of Sweden and Princess
Victoria of Prussia is denied.
THE German Government will not allow
the Bulgarian loan to be issued in Ger
many, because Bulgaria has no recognized
government.
THE victims of the cholera epidemic last
fall in Pressure Isle County, Mich, are
said to have lost complete control of the ir
legs, and but few can hobble around on
crutches.
On the 9th, Count Herbert Bismarck
and his brother William were made,
respectively, Lieutenant Colonel and Ma
jor in the German army.
C. d. HUSTON, the Burlington engineer
who shot and killed Ed Hall, a striking
switchman, in Creston, Ia, last fall, dur
ing the great 80" strike, was acquitted on
the Doth.
As Mr.. w. H. WHITE, secretary of the
American Legation at London, APP
preached the Queen during Her Majesty's
drawing-room on the 26th a portion of
her head dress, including the diminutive
crown which she wore, fell to the floor.
The incident is considered as a bad omen
by the superstitiOus.
IT is predicted in Berlin that the open
ing of the spring will witness the most
gigantic combination of workingmen's
strikes that Germany has seen in many
years.
TIE collections of internal revenue for
| the first seven months of the fiscal year
ending ia nuary so, 1889. aggregated $74,-
1852, 596, an increase of 1861, 264 COM
| pared with the collections for the corre-
| sponding period of last year.
GREAT excitement was caused at Pots
| dam, Prussia, on the 9th, by the suicide
| of Lieutenant Won Breckenheim, an aris-
| tocratic young officer of the German army.
| THE German missionaries held captive
| in Zanzibar were liberated on the 9th.
THE Berlin Post congratulates Russia
| upon having found a market for her Sc
| surities in France. 1t says that the gov
eminent desires German investors to get
good prices for their Russian stocks and
| then invest in German securities.
On the 9th, Surgeon General Hamilton
of the Marine Hospital Service returned
to Washington, after spending several
| months in Chicago.
BEVERLY F. COLE, of Salem, N. Y.
| chief of the Miners division, General
Land Office, was attacked with epilepsy
while going down a stairway in the In
| terror Department building at Washing
| ton, the Goth, and fell forward frac-
turing his skull. He died on the 9th.