Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-05-09


National Democratic committee, died at
Lime Rock, near New Haven, Conn.,, ON
the Goth.
AN examination of the pension rolls at
Washington discloses the fact that there
are $50 pensioners drawing pensions for
total blindness.
COUNT HERBERT BISMARCK gave a din
ner to the Samoan Commissioners and
the members of the American and British
legations on the Sd.
POSTMASTER E. s. JAMESON of Ash
bourne, Pa, shot and killed burglar
who was trying to break into the post
Office, on the 18th.
La FRANCE says that the French Gov.
eminent intends to postpone the general
election for members of the Chamber Of
Deputies until the spring Of 1890.
THE report that the North German
Lloyds steamer Weser had arrived at
Bremen with yellow fever on board,
proves to have been entirely without
foundation.
BENZ. LAW, a convict in the jefferson.
Vile (Ind.) penitent iary, has fallen heir
to $75, 600. He has almost ten years to
serve. He has three relatives in the same
43otAedsAoAs
CARL Rosa. the famous opera singer,
died in London, ON the 3oth, OF peritonitis.
Mr.. Augustus Harris, manager of Covent
Garden, was summoned and was present
when MIR. Rosa died.
KING MAL1EroA Of Samoa, who was
made q prisoner by the German author1-
ties, has apologized for the action which
led to his arrest, and the Emperor has de-
-cided that he be liberated.
LORD LoNsDALE left San Francisco, on
the 10Th, for the East to meet Lady Ions
dale on her arrival from London. He will
Stop at Victoria, British Columbia, one
day, and then go to Winnipeg.
DR.. HARKE, of Hamburg, Germany, a
Lieutenant of the reserves, has been sem
fenced by a military court to three days.
Imprisonment in fortress for challeng-
ing DR.. Natthold, lawyer, to fight duel.
CoMMANDER-IN-CHIEF WARNER of the
Grand Army of the Republic was ban
quoted by the Department of Rhode
Island, on the I'd, and several hundred of
the most prominent men in the State were
presented to him.
MRS. KINNEHER was expelled, recently,
from the Presbyterian church at Rock
ford, ILL.,, for worshipping false Christ.
Mrs. Kinneher believes that Rev. S. j.
Schweinforth, leader of the Beekmanites,
is Christ.
Mr.. BATES, Samoan Commissioner, and
Lieutenant Parker were not permitted to
enter the exhibition opened by the En-
peror of Germany, in Berlin, on the 30th,
because they wore frock coats instead Of
dress coats.
THE Swiss Government has issued an
order of expulsion from the country of
Herr Lutz, an accomplice of Herr
Wohlgemuth. the Mulhouse police in
spector who was recently expelled for
bribing Swiss.
DIR. CHARLTON, of Columbus, O., editor
of the Mason's Chronicle. the American
Odd-Fellow and the Knight of Pythias,
dropped dead, on the LIST, of heart dis
ease, from which he had been a constant |
sufferer for the past year.
News has been received that the brig |
antine Addie Benson, which sailed from |
Halifax, n. s., for Cuba in January, and |
had been given up as lost, was wrecked |
off Venezuela, and her crew rescued by a
passing vessel and carried to Norway.
McSwINY's s'four hundred" held their
centennial banquet at Delmonico's, New
York City, on the 30th. Toasts were re-
sponded to by Mayor Cleveland of Jersey
City, Mayor Gleason OF Long Island City, |
Bishop Farrell of Trenton and others.
CAPTAIN ALLAN, of Brooklyn, has re-
turned home from Canada, having failed |
to obtain from the Dominion Government
any settlement of his claim for the illegal |
seizure and detention of his ship by the
collector of customs at Shelburne in 1887.
Ex-PREsIDENr HAYES and the Ohio
commissioners and their ladies
were entertained at dinner, on the LIST, by |
Mr.. and Mrs. Caldwell, of New York City, |
and reception was held at which large
number of resident Ohioans were present.
THE Massachusetts House Of Repre-
sentatives, on the Sd. passed to be en-
crossed the Senate bill providing that
safe deposit, loan and trust companies of |
that State shall not invest in farm mort
cages on land outside of New England /
and New York.
THE fve-masted schooner Governor
Ames, the largest schooner afoat, sailed
from Portland, Me-, on the 30th, having
on board 1,S00, 700 feet of spruce and pine
lumber, valued at $4,000. This is the
largest cargo, with perhaps. one excep-
ton, ever taken by schooner.
THE contest over the So, 900, 600 estate
of the late B. B. Hotchkiss, inventor of |
the Hotchkiss gun, bega3 at New Haven,
Conn, on the Sd. On e-half the enormous
amount involved hangs upon the ques
ton of legal domicile, being claimed |
severaliy by French and American heirs. |
THE New York Bar Association ten
dered a reception, on the 1st, to the JUS
hces OF the United States Supreme Court,
q distlnguished array Of legal celebrities
being present including Chief Justice |
Fuller AID Justices Blatchford, Field and |
Strong (retired) and Ex- President CIeye-
land.
The jury in the Halves murder case at
Birmingham, Ala. on the Sd, returned q
verdict of guilty, and fixed the penalty at |
death. Halves was calm, and said he
was sure of conviction in that county |
The Supreme Court will probably. on an. |
peal, grant q change of venue and q new
trial.
Jos. SUTTON, aged fifty-five, and An.
drew Lawson, aged forty, while return
ing home to Vernon Center, Conn., from
Manchester, on the night of the Goth.
drove from the road down q steep bank
and over into mill pond. Both men and
the horse were drowned. Both men leave
families.
Mr.. R. T. REID, Q. c., is lecturing in
London on his plan for the better housing
OF the poor. He wants to give the County
Council the power to build dwellings for
100, 900 people in different parts of Lon
don, and to raise the money for the pur
pose by a tax of one penny to the pound