Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-01-17
NEWS AND NOTES.

NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
IT is announced that Empress Frederick
will shortly go to Biarritz, where she will
spend the remainder of the winter.
E. J. WETHERELL, the usband of Emma
Abbott, the prima donna, died suddenly
at the Windsor Hotel in Denver, Col, on
the 9th.
1t is reported that Prince Bismarck will
touch upon the Morier and Gefficken Incl
dents during the East African debate in
the Reichstag.
SOME Guelph (Ont.) people are among
the victims of the Electric Sugar Refining
Compauy's collapse. Some stock sold
there at 5000 share.
OVER $4,000 of the Bedford Avenue
(Brooklyn) Dutch Reformed Church's
debt was lifted, on the 9th, by the aid of
Church Debt Raiser Kimball
THE Ponce de Leon and other principal
hotels at st. Augustine, Fla, opened for
the season on the lUCn. Inc engagements
are generally in excess of last year.
COLONEL AND Mrs. CALVIN S. BRICE are
the guests of the President and Mrs.
Cleveland at the Presidents mansion,
where they will remain several days.
Ex-Governor PRoCToR'S resignation of
the presidency of the Vermont Republican
League was accepted on the 10th, and
Colonel j. j. Estey was elected to the
position.
w. r. FOSTER has given the New York
Produce Exchange Gratuity fund $4,000
to partially atone for the loss of S19S, 900 it
suffered by the defalcations of his son,
W. R. Foster, Jr.
COMMODORE WALKER, chief of the
Bureau of Navigation, says there is no
truth in the published report that yellow
fever has broken out on the Galena, at
Kingston, Jamaica.
TWENTY armed moonlighters visited the
tenants of the estate of the Earl of Ven
mare, on the night of the Sth, and warned
them against departing from strict adher-
ence to the plan of campaign.
SEVEN men left Needles, Cal, recently,
for the new gold fields. While going
through the rapids in the river few miles
below that city, the boat capsized, and
four of the party were drowned.
THE Legislature of Ohio attacked the
telephone monopoly, on the 10th, the House
passing the Clark bill, fixing the rental at
s. per month and $3.50 per month where
more than one instrument is used.
THE natives at Linde, Zanzibar, fired on
boat, on the 10th, supposing that it was
from German war ship. On learning
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war, an apology was promptly made.
THE Legislative Council of the Choctaw
Nation met, on the 9th, at Tuskahoma, to
determine what disposition they will make
of the large sum of money the Choctaws
secured from the United States as an in
demnity fund.
RUTLAND, Mass, was visited by sleet-
storm of extreme severity on the eth.
Huge trees were broken down, and large
number of telegraph poles Frustrated. 1t
was found that the ice on some of the
poles weighed over four tons.
Mr.. ROBERT GENT-DAvIs, Member of
the British Parliament, who was commit
ted to prison for contempt of court in
failing to pay over the sum of f3,S1S, due
by him as administrator of his uncle's
estate, was released on the 18th.
THOMAS AXwoRTHY, the defaulting
treasurer of Cleveland, o., who fled to
England, and afterward. smitten by re-
morse, refunded 100000 to a representa-
tive of the Cleveland municipality, ar
rived at st. Johns, n. F., ON the 9th.
THE Senate, on the Sth, passed, without
amendment, the bill which had already
passed the House directing the imme-
date delivery of letters bearing special
delivery stamp, even though the regular
postage on them be lacking or underpaid.
The last of the regular appropriation
bills with which the House appropriations
committee is charged was reported to the
House on the Sth. The total amount of
appropriations recommended is $131, 229,-
$3.50, as against $131 500, 093.23 appro-
priated last year.
THE commissioners of Walsh County,
OAK, strongly condemn the sensational
accounts of restitution west of Park river
They desire the fullest publicity given to
the fact that no complaints have been
made to them, and they do not know of
any such suffering.
BIDS for a revenue cutter were
opened at the Treasury Department on
the 10th. NJ. A. Sweeney & Bro, of JEFF
fersonville, Ind, at $S4,S00; Pusey &
Jones, of Wilmington, Del, $500, and
John H. Dialogue, of Camden n. j., $107,-
600, were the only bidders.
AT kharkor, Russia, on the 18th, while
crossing a railway track, Princess Lie
ven's sledge was wrecked and the driver
instantly killed. The Princess was hurled
to the center of the track, and lay sense
less, while the entire train passed over
her, without in the least injuring her.
THE Sundry-Civil Appropriations bill
has been completed by the House COM
mittee on appropriations. 1t carries
aggregate appropriations of 50 $50 1896,
being So, ri AL less than the regular and
special estimates, and So ,00s less than
the appropriation for the last fiscal year.
JUDGE ANDREWS, in the Supreme Court
of New York City, on the eth, dismissed
the writ of habeas corpus obtained by
Ann Odella Diss Debar, the ''spook prin-
cess" to obtain possession of her chill
dren, who are in the care of Mr.. Gerry's
society, and decided not to allow her to
have possession of them.
CHARLES 81. .. TAYLOR, ex-Minister to
Liberia, has established himself at At
lanta, Ga, as q lawyer. He appeared in
court, on the Sth, for the first time, and
won his case through his brilliant cross
examination. He is the first negro lawyer
admitted to the bar of Georgia. The jury
was composed of white men.
To AN old friend who called upon him,
on the 10th, General Harrison stated en-