Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-11-14

A REPORT has been received in Zanzi-
bar that the second division Of Dr..
Peters force is retreating toward the
coast It failed to effect junction with
the first division.
NINE. ARNoLDsoN RossINaor, the
prima donna, contracted at Montreaux,
on the eth, to give fifty representations
in America under the management of
Mr.. Strakosch, for which she is to re-
ceive 100000 francs, Mr.. Strakosch also
paying the travelling expenses of the
lady and her suite of eight persons
NEAR Delhi, N. Y, on the It'll, .
young son of Amasa Smith, while at
tempting to kill cat, shot and instantly
killed Louis P. Ogilvie, aged six years.
FATHER McFADDEN, the priest of
Gweedore, Ireland, will visit America at
an early date.
THE American ship Cheseborough,
Captain Ericsson, from Hiogo for New
York, has been lost off the Northern
coast of Japan. Nineteen OF her crew
were drowned.
In the German Reichstag, on the 7th,
the Anti-Socialist bill was, after heat
ed debate, referred to a committee.
CHARLES E. SMITH, night telegraph
operator at Wharton, Okla, was shot
and killed by bandits, at one O'Clock on
the morning of the 7th. Before expir-
ing he crawled to his instrument and
notified the train dispatcher at Kansas
City of his inability TO act further.
A BOY, supposed to be Willie Dickin-
son, of Bessemer, Mich, who so mystic
riously disappeared about eight years
ago, and for whose recovery a standing
reward of "a, 900 is offered has been found
in the Boys and Girls Home in Los
Angeles, Cal.
JUDGE MERwIN, of Utica, n. ", on
the Sth, granted motion to vacate the
order of arrest of Contractor Sullivan
for connection with the Assembly cell
ing fraud, but denied similar motions in
the cases of Smith and Andrews.
STATE TREASURER HART of Pennsyl-
vania died at Harrisburg at fifteen min
utes past twelve o'clock on the morning
of the 9th.
LoRD BRAssEY, on the Sth, wrote a
letter to the master lightermen of Lon
don, concurring in the contention of
Cardinal Manning and the Lord Mayor
of London that the masters are bound
by the Brassey agreement to concede the
demands OF the men,
FRANK SOUTH, the granger financier
of Fargo, N. D., has gone to Canada
with $4,000 in cash, leaving debts
amounting to from $1,000 to $4,000, Sc
cured by property worth less than S.
coo.
THE President, at 10:40 a. m. on the
sth, issued his proclamation admitting
Montana to Statehood. The document
is similar in form to those admitting the
DakOtaS.
CAROLINE DONOVAN, of Baltimore,
Md, aged forty-six years, has given
500, 900 to Johns Hopkins University to
found a chair of English literature.
THE steamship Queensmore, from
Baltimore for Liverpool, caught fire off
the Irish coast on the Sth, and burning
low, sank off Mizen Head.
PETITIONS were presented to the city
clerk of Boston, on the Sth, for an entire
recount of the vote of the city for State
officers.
THIRTEEN loaded coal barges sank in
the Ohio river, twelve miles from Park
ersburg, w. Va, on the Sth, involving
a loss of $4,000.
A COLLISION between a freight and
gravel train occurred five miles west of
Altoona, Pa, on the Sth. Nine men
were killed and about fifteen injured, a
of them fatally.
The Standard Oil Company. on the
sth, purchased the Globe refinery of
Pittsburgh, Pa, the Freedom pa re-
finery and the Craig pipe line to the
Pa.) oil field. The Globe
refinery is one of the largest in the
country, and being Independent has al
ways been big thorn in the side of
the Standard.