Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-04-11
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

| the production and sale of marketable
commodities has spread to Ireland, an
enormous whisky trust having been
formed in Dublin. 1t is understood that
the capital involved in the pool is all
Irish.
| ROBERT GARRETT ridicules the story
that he gave up his proposed Mexican
trip for fear of being kidnapped.
| WHILE playing in the second act of
'Othello" at Rochester, n. Y, on the
| night of the Sd, Edwin Booth was stricken
with paralysis, and Lawrence Barrett an
nounced that the audience had probably
witnessed the last appearance of the
greatest English-speaking actor"
ALL of the Erie switchmen at Buffalo,
N. Y, went on strike, on the Sd, on ac-
count of the discharge of a couple of
union men and the placing of non-union
men in their positions.
| PRAIRIE fires continue to lay waste
large areas OF country in Dakota Terri
| tory.
On the Sd John L. West, the New Or
| leans embezzler, agreed to give up the
| money stolen from his employer, Charles
Teahney, and the charge of ''having
| brought stolen money into Canada" was
| withdrawn and West was released.
COLONEL GEORGE A. WILLIAMS, a re-
| tired United States army officer, died at
| his home in Newburgh, N. V, on the night
| of the ID. He was with Grant at Vicks
burg, and received wounds there that con-
| triDuted to his death.
REV. DR.. EDWARD BEECHER, aged
eighty-five, brother of the late Henry
Ward Beecher, fell beneath a train in
Brooklyn, on the evening of the Sd, his
| left leg being run over and crushed.
Owing to his advanced age the injury may
have serious consequences.
The recent hurricane in the South Pa
cific ocean swept over 1900 geographical
| miles, embracing in its track the Hervey
and Society groups of islands. The
American ship Red Cross, from New
South Wales for San Francisco, was
driven ashore at RaratOnga and wrecked.
The crew were saved.
| WRECKAGE from the British ship Sua-
kim, from New South Wales for San
Francisco, has been seen at Aitutaki. 1t
is supposed that the crew persisted.
NUMBER of the victims evicted from
the Des Moines River lands, in Iowa,
have returned and planted crops. War
rants for their arrest have been issued.
Miss IDA MURPHY, daughter of prom
inent physician of st. Paul, Mimi, is the
guest of Mrs. Harrison at the White
House.
G. w. GRIFFIN, Consul at Sydney, N. S.
W., and formerly United States Commits
sioner to Samoa, says whichever party
the United States supports will BE- SUI
preme i'll the Samoan Islands. The Sa-
means like the people of this country, be-
cause the United States has never OPP
pressed nor eXtorted money from them,
as other nations have done.
EDWARD DIETz, Pittsburgh (Pa.) la
borer, killed one of his children, a little
girl three years Of age, on the Sd, and
then cut his own throat. The deed was
the result of quarrel between Dietz and
his wife.
FIFTEEN towns in Canada voted for the
repeal of the Scott Temperance act on the
4th.
GEORGE WARD, assistant postmaster at
Elmira, N. Y, is missing, and so are the
contents of the office safe, supposed to
amount to $500. Ward left on q night
train, and is thought to be in Canada.
He leaves wife and six children.
Two THOUSAND bricklayers Of Berlin
struck work, on the 4th, on account of low
wages.
THE French ministry has asked the
Chamber of Deputies to sanction the
prosecution of Bouianger, and has sub
mitted statement reviewing the Gener
abs career since the Commune, and
charging him with attempting to destroy
the republic.
E. C. GREEN and NJ. L. Ely, brakemen
on the Decatur division of the Louisville
& Nashville railway, were killed, on the
4th, in collision at Browns crossroads,
near Nashville, Tenn. Albert Finch, fire.
man, was severely injured. A misunder
standing of orders caused the accident.
The two engines and sixteen cars were
demolished.
In the Dauphin County (Pa.) Court, on
the 4th, the Baltimore s. Ohio Telegraph
Company filed an answer to the claims of
the Attorney General of Pennsylvania in
the case brought to prevent a cOnsolida-
ton with the Western Union. They deny
that the latter company has acquired the
whole or any part of the capital stock,
nor do they hold the telegraph line in the
State of Pennsylvania.
The German cruiser Habicht, now at
the Cape of Good Hope, and the gun boat
Wolf, have been ordered to Samoa to re-
place the German vessels lost in the re-
cent hurricane.
A BAILIFF who had charge of farm
from which the tenants had been evicted
at Coleraine, County Londonderry, was
shot dead, on the 4th, by unknown parties.
AT Halifax, N. s., on the 4th, Judge
Richie granted extradition in the case of
Hardie, the New York forger, and the
prisoner has been remanded to await the
arrival of the necessary papers at Otta-
wa. Hardie's counsel will probably ap-
peal to the Supreme Court.
THE reports to Bradstreet's of stocks
of wheat in store, out of farmers hands,
east of the Rocky mountains, March 30,
give q total of 80, 636 900 bushels against
a, $50, 900 bushels on March 1, 1889, and
SO, SIS, 600 bushels April l. 1883. Stocks of
-four at principal points of accumulation,
not in retailers hands, aggregate 1,S14,-
900 barrels against 1,S23,OO0 barrels one
month ago, and 1, 69o, 900 barrels one year
ago.
SETTLERS on the Des Moines river
lands, fully equipped with Wincnesters,
drove off q United States marshaPs
posse on the 4th. Fully forty shots were
fired, but no one was injured.
THE British man of-war Calliope, which
ran out of the hurricane at Apia, and for
whose safety much anxiety was felt, has
arrived at Sydney, N. s. w. No lives were
lost.
WARD McALLIsTER, of New York, has
resigned as secretary of the entertain
inent committee of the Centennial cele-
bration.
THE sentence of Dennis Kilbride, NJ. P.
Tor south Kerry, to three months i'm
prlsonment for offenses under the Crimes
act, mas been confirmed on appeal
FOREIGN powers ara watching with
much concern the growing strength of the
United States navy
KEW. T.. b. BEECHER, brother of the late
Henry Ward Baecher, who met with a
painful accident few days while at
tempting to board a train, is doing well.
| His left foot has been amputatsd.