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

SOME of the Republican members of the
next House of Representatives are OPP
posed TO making the position of chaplain
part of the political patronage. They
are kindly disposed towards DIR. Milburn
the present chaplain, and are in favor OF
retaining him.
THE cowardly White Caps of Southern
Indiana are attempting the publication
of the community by tarring and feather
ing helpless women.
THE report that large band of Sioux
have left the Standing Rock (Dak.) Agen-
cy in war-paint for the Big Missouri river
is denied.
CHARLES MANNING and II. w. Hanlon
were arrested by the sheriff of MendocinO
County, Cal. on the oath, suspected of
being the robbers of the Mendocino stage
on January 3.
THE report of the defeat and death of
General Hippolyte is denied by late arri-
walls from Hayti.
"RED-NosE MIKE" the murderer of
Paymaster Mcclure, near Wilkesbarre,
Pa, in June last, was, on the 18th, sem
fenced to be hanged.
THE river Seine continues to rise, and
is spreading destruction all along its
course.
ASSISTANT ENGINEER W. 7. DARRAH
died at Mare Island Navy Yard, San
Francisco, on the 18th, of pneumonia.
DEPUTY CONSTABLE BENTLEY, of Delano,
Cal, who was shot by train robbers on the
odd, died on the oath.
OLAF and Mel Hansen, cousins, were
found dead in their bed in Chicago, on the
morning of the oath.
PHILIP H. WELSH, a humorous writer of
New York, died in Brooklyn, on the 25th,
of cancer of the tongue.
RICH gold-bearing quartz has been dis
covered near Grayling, Mich.
PATRICK SWEENEY and Sarah Ford, do
mestics, persisted in the flames which de-
stroyed the clearinghouse of Frank
Craig, at Monkey Run, near Carbonate,
Pa, on the night of the oath.
LOUIS SCHLIE, a Milwaukee policeman,
temporarily insane, shot and killed HIM
self on the 9th.
REV. Mr.. STURGEON, the great London
preacher, is said to be looking remark
| ably we'll.
THE village of Mivollet, Savoy, was re-
Gently destroyed by an avalanche.
WEST VIRGINIA is coming to the front
as silver-mining State.
INDICATIONS point to a large yield OF
grain in California the coming season.
| THE London Daily News calls the Tories
"Figotists," and is enthusiastic over Mr..
| Morley's speech in Parliament on the
| 25th.
| FRAMES LIBERATI, the Italian states
man died in Rome on the 18th.
| ALEX. PAULSEN won the ten mile cham
pionship skating race at st. Paul, Mimi,
on the oath.
1T will take the four German war vessels
ordered from Port Said, Egypt, to Samoa,
three months to reach their destination.
| 1T is rumored in Paris that Premier
| Tirard proposes to recall the Due d'Au-
| male to France.
On the eve of his departure for Wash
| ington Vice-President-elect Morton was
rendered a farewell banquet by the well.
known New York merchant, John NJ
| Plummer.
A SLIGHT shock of earthquake was fel
past nine O'Clock on the morning of the
2Sth.
THE President, on the 26th, commutet
to life Imprisonment the death sentence
of Kis-Ke-Da, alias Locate, of New Mex.
leo.
Two CHILDREN of Ernest Young, at Ran
som, Mich, were burned to death, on the
25th. in the flames which consumed their
home.
SEVENTEEN of the twenty weaving mill.
of Fall River, Mass, have given favor
| able consideration to a demand for al
increase in wages.
| ON the 18th, Deputy Warden Townsend
of the Iowa penitentiary, shot and kille,
a mulatto convict named VIM. Emerson
in sef-de