Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-02-28

THE Russian General Nelilof has be-,.
ordered to attack Abdurrahman Khan of
Afghanistan if he approaches the Rus
sian frontier.
THE President has approved the Terrific.
rial bill admitting North and South
Dakota, Montana and Washington Terri
tories.
THE wife of the comedian Tooie died in
London on the 21St.
MAX BERNSTEIN, of Berlin, candidate
for rabbinical orders, was sentenced to
three months Imprisonment, on the Odd,
for drawing the blood of Christian boy.
IT is stated that Prince Alexander of
Battenberg will shortly be married to
Mile. Leisinger, an opera-singer of con-
tinental reputation, and will thereafter
reside in Italy.
THE Cologne Gazette says the report
that Morocco has coded territory to Ger
many for coaling station or for any
other purpose is unfoulded.
Six inches of snow fell in Georgia on
the 21st, the heaviest in many years.
ON the 21st Governor Leslie of Montana
signed the Hunt Gambling bill, which in
effect forbids the licensing of any gam
bling games other than faro and round
table poker.
The authorities of Kilkenny Jail, on the
I'D, forclbly removed the hair and beard
OF Mr.. j. l.. Carew, NJ. P, convicted on
the 2lst and sentenced for four months.
JACOB RosEMoRE, of Cincinnati, stabbed
himself to death with penknife on the
I'D.
dian Parliament will shortly introduce a
resolution authorizing the Dominion Gov
eminent to purchase the Eastern States
OF the American Union.
The fire and marine insurance compa-
MES of Pennsylvania report a very I'M
profitable years business for 1888.
A WARRANT, on information, has been
sworn out before a United States COM
missioner, at Indianapolis, Ind, against
Colonel w. W. Dudley. An officer start
ed for Washington on the 23d to serve it.
AT Wheeling, w. Va, on the 22d, Nell
son c. Hubbard held a giant fire. cracker
IN his hand until it exploded. His first
two fingers were subsequently amputat-
ed. He was also very badly injured about
the abdomen, but will probably recover.
A DUEL was fought, on the 22d, between
NJ. Polak and NJ. Bestegul secretary of
the Mexican Legation at Paris. The
former was wounded.
MORE than forty per cent. of the resi-
dents of the village of Huppaye, near
Verviers, Belgium, are Frustrated with
disease of the nature of typhus fever.
OIL producers and spectators are fight
ing the proposed Pennsylvania law taxing
oil and gas leases.
THERE seems to be little doubt that in
the Flathead Lake region, in Montana,
near the Canadian line, an Indian upris-
ing is imminent. The Koolenai, and not
the Flatheads, as at first reported, is the
warlike tribe.
Or -1,Ny
ured by bandits in the Remidos district,
Cuba, has been released on the payment
of ransom of $50, 600.
A SMALLPOX epidemic is reported as
raging in Richardson County, Neb.; also
at the Sac and Fox Indian Reservation.
Council Bluffs has quarantined with arme d
guards.
THE inaugural committee on public
comfort report ample resources for the
entertainment of all visitors to Washing
ton at reasonable charges.
WAsHINGToN's BIRTHDAY was very gen.
orally celebrated throughout the country.
THE French press generally gives the
new Cabinet a cool reception.
ALL Ireland is exasperated at the long
sentences imposed on Mr.. O'Brien, who
lacks now only two months of spending
year in prison.
THE investigation of penitentiary man
agement at Pittsburgh, Pa, eliminated
in the dismissal of Hospital Steward
Maharneke.
THE Ohio Inter- Denominational Sab
bath convention met in Columbus on the
ODD. The purpose is to secure better OBJ
servance of the Sabbath.
JUDGE DUDLEY KENNEDY committed
suicide in New York City on the 21st.
A DETROIT (Mich.) school teacher dis
covered case of smallpox among her
pupils, on the 21st, and promptly locking
the doors, sent for a physician and COM
peeled every one of her two hundred schol-
ars to submit to vaccination.
A BOILER of the Blue Jay mine at Butte,
Mont, burst, ON the 21st, and narrowly
missed killing five men, all of whom were
injured.
WILLIAM KRECK, of Lauras station. Pa,
in freak of insanity, on the Dist, while
being conveyed to an asylum handcuffed,
threw himself in front of railroad train
and was badly injured about the hands
and head.
FIRE destroyed the Methodist Church at
Cumminsville, o., on the DIST Loss, $10,-
000; no insurance.