Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-03-28

HERR rALlrscHAK has been appointed
Austrian Consul at New York to succeed
Hugo Fritsch.
The question of opening the Oklahoma
lands to settlers by the Presidents procla-
| nation is being urged by Secretary Noble
and discussed by the Cabinet. Meanwhile
the President hesitates, because of the
danger of the Indians getting liquor too
easily under existing conditions. A strin-
gent order against trespassers has been
issued to the troops.
A NEW YORK CITY street-car horse at
tackled with blind staggers, on the odd,
jumped through the plate-glass window
OF Broadway clothing store. He was
soon afterward shot by policeman.
THE spread of the native instruction in
East Africa has been checked, and the
German Company is collecting duties in
the harborS occu pied by the rebels.
HON. STANLEY MATTHEWS, Associate
justice of the Supreme Court of the
United States, died in Washington at
i've minutes past ten O'Clock on the
morning of the 22d.
LIEUTENANT-GENE CoRvETo, Italian
Under Secretary for War, has been chal-
lenged to fight a duel by Sicnor Cavilotti,
member of the Chamber of Deputies.
The affair grew out of personal dispute.
Mr.. REDMoND's motion in the British
Commons, on the 22d, to reduce Attorney
General Webster's salary was rejected by
a vote of 80 to 206.
The position of Supervising Architect
of the Treasury has been rendered to
James H. Windrim, of Philadelphia.
THE aged widow of the late Cyrus w.
Field received fracture of the shoulder
blade in fall at National City, Cal, on
the 2lst. A fatal result is feared.
THE Congregational Church of Dubuque,
Ia, will celebrate its semi in
May next.
TUNIs Liable, the Paterson IN. J.) la
borer, who barbarously cut up his young
wife and is now in Jail awaiting trial for
murder, has confessed the bloody deed.
He took her life while in fit of jealousy.
He says he is glad he killed her, and
wants to hang as soon as possible.
JAMES n. TYNER. on the 21st, assumed
his duties as Assistant Attorney General
for the PostOffic Department. relieving
Judge Bryant.
TIN AND PETE BARRETT, the murdererS Of
Street-car Driver Thomas Tollefson, in
Minneapolis, Mimi, July %, 1887, were
hanged on the 22d.
THE livery stable belonging to Gordon
6 Warner, at Newport, Neb., was burned
on the night of the 2ist. J. B. Gordon,
one of the proprietors, and eight horses
persisted in the flames. The fire is sup
posed to have been of incendiary origin.
THE famine which prevails in the prov
ince Of ShanToong, China, is reported to
be increasing daily. The number of deaths
from starvation is appalling, and many
persons have committed suicide to escape
certain death in a more painful form.
AN epidemic of scarlet fever is raging
among the Russian families near Park
stone, Oak. Although more than score
of deaths have occurred, the afflicted
families have refused to employ ply
sicians.
Sioux CITY, "a, will hold its annual
corn festival this year as usual.
DR.. WILLIAMS, of Mount Carmel, Pa,
was, on the 22d, reported in a critical con-
dition from blood poisoning caused by
the bite of child suffering from diph-
iberia, whose throat he was examining.
THE President. on the odd, COM
muted the death sentence pronounced
against Albert Green (colored), of the
District Of Columbia, to Imprisonment for
life.
A CHILD of Edward Dunbar, of South
Bend, Ind, has died, and two others are
at the point of death, from eating NOR
phlne pills, which they found on the
floor.
THE American pilgrims left Rome for
Alexandria, Egypt, via Naples, on the
18th. They will reach Palestine in Holy
week.
PROF. r. u. BISHOP and wife, of Oxford,
o., celebrated their golden wedding on
the 21st.
HENRY WIZARDS proposed electric
light trust is said to have fallen through.
A REDUCTION of five cents per ton in
coal-miners' wages in the Pitts burgh and
Hooking Valley districts has been ordered,
to take effect May2.
CHARLES NJ. HENDLEY. for many years
official stenographer at the White House,
has been appointed private secretary to
Secretary Window.
THE City Hall building at Dover, N. H,
containing the police station, city clerks
Office, county commissioners Office, regis
ter Of deeds, pOlice-cOurt rooms, alder
manic and council chambers, offices of
Board of Assessors, Board of Supervisors
and city messenger. High School Cadets
armory and the City Opera House-the
last with seating capacity of 1,000-was
destroyed by fire on the morning of the