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

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By ELL d. AXE.
IRONTON. MISSOURI
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
OK the 2fst Editor William O'Brien was
removed from Clonme1 to Galway Gre
land) Jail.
THE business houses and most of the
residences in the village of Guerneville,
Cal, were burned on the Doth.
IT is reported that James NJ. Lane,
treasurer of Pickaway County, o., mas
defaulted in the sum of $4,000 and ao'
seconded.
THE charity ball in Baltimore, Md, on
the night of the Goth, in aid of the Confed-
crate Home and the Home for Incuraoles,
was brilliant success.
A PRINCE ALBERT or any coat that a
gentleman would wear at an evening en-
tertainment will be considered full dress
by the inaugural-ball committee.
Joseph W. MOORE. the defauIting agent
of the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance
Company at Indianapolis, Ind, has been
sued by the company for S3Oooo.
THE first American pilgrimage to Pal
estine," numbering 100, in charge OF
Father Vissani, sailed from New York
CITY ON the steamer Wieland on the 21st.
SENATOR JOHN E. KENNA, of West Vir-
ginia, was, ON the 21st, elected to succeed
himself by vote of, Kenna, 46; Goff, 40,
thus ending the 1ong-continued dead
lock.
THREE stores with their contents, valued
at $4,000 and fully insured, were burned
at Minneapolis, Mimi, on the Goth. They
are supposed to have been fired by an in
cendiary.
In the election, on the 10th, to fill the
vacant Parliamentary seat for East Perth
shire, Scotland, Mr.. KinlOck, Gladstonian,
received 1905 votes, and Mr.. Boas, Union
list, 2.2S9.
THE new army organization to be known
as the ''Society of Vicksburg" is to be
composed of survivors of both the Blue
and the Gray who participated in the MEM
orable siege
GABRIEL DUMoNT, Lieutenant of Louis
Riel in the late rebellion in the Northwest
Territory, for which Riel was hanged, has
received pardon from the Dominion
Government.
THE Upper House of the Prussian Diet,
on the 18th, unanimously voted the addi-
ton to the Emperor's civil list. Prince
Bismarck was present, but took to part in
the discussion.
GERMANY has promised to support Mo-
rocco in freeing herself from the tutelage
of other powers in consideration of the
exclusive concession of a naval station on
the latter's coast.
PRESIDENT and Mrs. Cleveland held
their last official reception on the night of
the 21st. 1t was open to the public, and
vast throngs sought entrance to the Ex-
ecutive Mansion
Two thousand Prussian Poles met at
Posen, on the 21st, and resolved that the
exclusion of the Polish language from
elementary schools is a violation Of in
ternational treaties
THE most important point in Queen
Victoria's speech to Parliament is the
recommendation that measures for an
improved system of national defense be
submitted after Easter.
THE Denmark North and East Seas
Canal Company of London is pushing the
project of connecting the North sea and
the Kattegat in spite of the refusal of the
English Government to assist
ACCORDING to the naval committees re-
port, the English navy is strong enough
to cope with any single maritime power,
but it is desired to make it equal to the
combined navies of any two nations.
FURTHER particulars of the cyclone in
Shelby County, Ala, on the night of the
18th, show that several persons were hurt,
but no one killed. Two residences and
several negro cabins were blown down.
THE Marquis of Aylesbury and his wife,
between whom a suit for divorce was
pending, met in London hotel, on the
10th, and, becoming reconciled, returned
home together. The suit has been aban-
doned.
A SPECIAL telegram from Heidelberg,
Germany, announces the death, on the
21st of James C. Flood, the Bonanza
Millionaire" of San Francisco, who had
been for some time abroad in search of
health.
THE New York Legislature, on the Goth,
unanimously passed joint resolution
calling for the suspension of State Super
intendent of Public Buildings Andrews,
pending an investigation of alleged crook
edneSS.
THE Frankfort Germany Gazette sug-
gests that the three governments inter-
ested should recall their present Samoan
agents on the ground that they have in
terfered evermuch In the quarrels of the
natives.
JIG. ENGLER, one of the victims Of the
Hartford (Conn.) hotel explosion, was
buried with Masonic and military honors
on the 10Th deceased having been a men,
Der of st. Johns Lodge and of the First
Regiment.
HENRY H. MARKHAM. of Los Angeles,
Cal, was, on the 10Th, appointed superin-
tendent of the Soldiers Home of the Pa
cific coast. Mr.. Markham represented
the Los Angeles district in the Forty
ninth Congress.
EARL RosEBERRY, in a speech at Edin-
burgh, on the 10Th, promised his col
leagues that he would publish the records
of the Round Table conference, in reply
to a challenge made by Mr. Chamberlain
IN his speech in Glasgow.
THE Bethlehem CPa-) Iron Company,
which has just completed its large works
for furnishing armor-plates and ordnance
to the United States Government, on the
10Th decided to increase its capital stock
from s., 0OO, 600 to $3,0OO,00o.
A LETTER from the late Commander in
Chief of Malietoa's army, dated at Mar