Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-02-14

Sr0u Wn11utg geg1ster
By ELL ID. AXE.
RONTON. MISSOURI.
NEWS AND NOTES,
A Summary Of Important Events.
The Senate military committee, it i
said, will favor giving the widow Of Gen
eral Sheridan $4,000 in lieu of a pension
1t is emi-oficialIy announced that,
Great Britain having recognized Legitime
as President of Hayti, France will do like
wise.
A LETTER has been received at Indian
apolis, Ind, from defaulter Sullivan
stating that he is in Canada and enjoy
ing himself.
NOTICE has been given in the Delaware
Senate of bill to revoke the liability Of
women to the pillory and whipping pos
for certain crimes.
Mr.. WANAMAKER has purchased the
Frelinghuysen house on l street, Wash
ington, now occupied by Secretary Whit.
ney. He paid $4,000 for it.
LORD SALISBURY has assured Rustem
Pasha, the Turkish Ambassador to Lon.
don, that Sir W. A. White will remain as
British Ambassador at Constantinople.
RUSSELL HARRISON has bought out the
Record, a mining paper at Helena. Mont,
and will consolidate it with the Journal
and make it the leading paper in Mon.
tana.
THE severity OF the winter in China is
Increasing the distress caused by famine
in Shan Tung and Manchuria. 1t is esti-
mated that 80, 900 persons are starving in
Chen Kiang.
A FIRE broke out in Cincinnati school
house on the 9th. The teachers marshaled
the 100 pupils in their fire drill'' and all
escaped without trouble or panic. The
loss was 5000.
On the night of the eth, while the Jail
at Downpatrick, Ireland, was guarded by
soldiers and police, the Jail armOry was
entered by unknown persons and all the
carbines stolen.
A. S. GooKIN, cashier of the Manhattan
Elevated Railway Company, Of New York
City, is reported to have absconded to
Canada with from $4,000 to $4,000 of the
company's money.
WILLIAM TRAVIS, a Detroit (dich.) milk
man, was arrested, on the 4th, charged
with swindling accident insurance COM
panies by shooting his own hand off, and
thus securing ebout $1,000.
A BILL was introduced in the Pennsyl-
vania House of Representatives, on the
9th, making it punishable by fine of
from $50 to 800 for any person to treat"
another to intoxicating liquors.
GOVERNOR FORAKER repeats his decla-
ration that he is not an applicant for any
position under the Harrison Administra-
ton, but declines to say whether he would
accept a snug berth if rendered.
THE steamer Carondelet was ibeled at
New York, on the 18th, and prevented from
sailing for Hayti with a cargo of ammu-
milton and other contraband articles,
supposed to be for the use of Hippolyte's
forces.
THE President, on the eth, asked the
resignation of Harold Sewall, Consul
General at Samoa, on the ground that his
views were not IN accord with those of
the State Department and the Admins
tration.
THE storm in Canada. on the Sth, IS pro-
nounced by railroad men as one of the
worst they have ever experienced. The
New York trains were all more or less de-
layed, and passengers suffered from cold
and hunger.
THE Dublin Express states that Mr.. Par
neil's health is very precarious, and that
the carriage of his physician is often seen
at the door of his villa at Streatham,
from whence the Irish leader seldom
smerges of late.
THE House judiciary committee has
directed favorable report on the bill to
prevent Federal judges appointing as
masters in chancery, receivers, ETC.,
their kinsfolk, deputy clerks, marshals or
deputy marshals.
Mr.. PATTERSON, of Essex, Ont, intro
duced bill in the Dominion Parliament
on the4th, to admit United States vessels to
wrecking towing and cOasting privileges
in Canadian waters. The measure was
read the first time.
THE German Minister was, on the 9th,
notified by Secretary Bayard that the
United States will accept the proposition
for a resumption, at Berlin, of the confer
ence regarding Samoan affairs, begun in
Washington in 1897.
The Chamber of Deputies, on the 4th,
confirmed the election of General Cluse-
ret as Member for Var. 1t was charged
that he was an American citizen, and
therefore ineligible to hold office under
the French Government.
THE North River Sugar Refining Com
pany of New York has appealed to the
general term of the Supreme Court of
New York City from the decision of
Judge Barrett dissolving the company for
joining the Sugar Trust.
THE st. Petersburg Novoe Vremya pub
fishes a statement from its Berlin corre-
spondent who says he has reason to be-
lieve that Germany and England have
formed an alliance for the protection of
Northern seas and ports.
THE London Daily News Rome dis
patch states that a conclave of Cardinals
has decided that Prince Rudolph must
have been insane when he agreed to fight
q duel, and was, therefore, entitled to re-
igious rites at his burial.
THE Opportunists of France are actively
plotting to overthrow the Floquet Minis
try. NJ. de FIeycinet has held an inter-
view with General Boulanger, and offered
him a seat in the Cabinet which the form
er expects to form in the future.
On the eth, Mr. Thomas J. Condor, Mem.
Der of Parliament for East Tipperary,
Ireland, was sentenced to two months
imprisonment on the charge of melting
to boycotting. An appeal was taken, and
Mr.. Condor was released on bail.
A LUTHERAN preacher, in Berlin, on the