Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-01-17

| THIS Princess Bismarck has nearly re.
| covered from her recent indisposition,
THE water in the Nile Is now lower than
! ever before recorded.
THE New Hampshire Constitutional con-
vention at Concord adopted, on the 10th,
| by a vote of 166 to 131, an amendment pro-
| hibiting the manufacture and sale of all
Intoxicating liquors, ''except cids~." A
special committee was appointed TO con-
| slider the woman outrage amendment.
THE National farmers Alliance con-
vened in Des MOines, Ia, on the 10th.
About two hundred delegates from West
ern States were in attendance.
CHAUNCEY NJ. DEPEw was elected presi-
dent of the Union League Club of New
York, on the 10th, and Levi P. Morton was
chosen as one of the vice presidents.
Hon. PERRY BELMONT, United States
Minister to Spain, arrived at Madrid on
the 10th.
THE old Argyle House, in East Du-
buque, Ia, known to all travellers in the
West, and for the past two years used as a
buggy-top factory, was burned on the
10th. Loss, $4,000; insurance, $1,000. The
fire is said to have been of incendiary
origin.
ALESsANDRo GAvAzzI. the famous ora
tor. revolutionist and evangelist, died in
Rome, on the 10th, at the age of eighty
years.
IT is reported on good authority that
Russia is preparing to establish tobacco
monopoly throughout Poland.
ROBERT DAILY, member of the DAILY
family, well known in theatrical circles
died at his home in CharleStOwn, Mass,
on the 10th, aged twenty -four years.
A SUMMARY of the results of the terrible
accident by the storm at Pittsburgh, Pa,
up to the afternoon of the 10th, shows the
following: Taken out dead, 8; dead still
in ruins, .; fatally injured, 8; seriously
injured, "a; slightly injured, Is: known
missing, 8; at hospitals, 81; at Central
station, 8; at mOrgue, B; taken home, 90.
Total number dead, IL; total number af-
fected, 81; unaccounted for, supposed to
be under ruins, 20.
Up to the evening of the 10th the re-
vised list of casualties by the terrible
disaster at Reading, Pa, the result of the
cyclone on the 9th, was: Killed, %; in
jured, 16, and number missing.
THE steamer Clara Belle, which arrived
in New York, on the 18th. brings news of
the outbreak of yellow fever on Admiral
Luce's flag ship, the Galena, and the ap-
pearance of that vessel at Port Royal,
whittier she had gone to more effectually
combat the injection.
AT sparring exhibition in Troy, N. Y.
on the 10th, between Jake Kilrain and
Charley Mitchell, spoiled eggs were thrown
at the principals from the gallery.
THE London Royal College of Surgeons
have passed a resolution, by a vote of 2
to 2, censuring DR.. Mackenzie for pub
fishing his book on the case of the late
Emperor Frederick.
WHILE making his rounds, on the 18th,
Police Sergeant Albert A. ThurstOn, of
Buffalo, n. Y, was struck and killed by
an engine of the Western New York &
Philadelphia railroad. Both legs were
severed from the body.
JAMES GORDON BENNETT, proprietor of
the New York Herald, has borrowed $131,-
500 from the estate of his father, of which
he is trustee. The loan was executed in
Paris, and is due in June, 1889.
THE railroad bridges across the Niagara
below the falls were not injured by the
late storm, and trains are crossing them
as usual.
NJ. H. DEYoUNG, proprietor of the Sar
Francisco Chronicle, has been appointed
by the Governor q commissioner to repre-.
sent California at the Paris Exposition.
A MILKMAN named Davis was shot and
instantly killed at Hartford, Conn.,, on the
18th, by John Shugrue, bartender.
THE district committee of the Twenty
third IN. " Assembly district County
Democracy organization has expelled As
semblyman August Strossburg for having.
after being elected on the County Demo.
cratic ticket, joined Tammany Hall.
THE cocOanut-laden brig Nile, from
San Bias, Mex, which was thought to
have been lost in the storm of November
%, arrived at New York, on the 18th, with
out the loss of sail or spar. The Nile
did not leave San Bias as early as was
thought, and Captain Coffin says he was
out only twenty-fOur days. Heavy north
west winds were experienced during the
entire voyage.
THE case of the State OF Louisiana
against the American CottonSe Trust
was called for trial at New Orleans, on
the 10th, before Judge Rightor. The de-
PENDANTS failed to produce certain books
and papers which they had been ordered
to bring into court.
PASSENGER train No. 1, on the Illinois
Central railroad, ran into an open switch
at Jackson, Tenn, on the 10th, and was
ditched. Engineer Sam Berry was seri-
ously injured, and the colored fireman
Caldwell, was killed.