Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-04-18

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By ELL ID. AXE.
RoNTON. MISSOURI
NEWS AND NOTES.
a Summary Of Important Events.
EX-SENATOR PLATT's son has entered
General Tracy's law firm in New York
City.
THE Bank of France, on the 21st, de-
clared dividend of forty francs per
share.
REPRESENTATIVE RANDALL is confined
to his house by an attack OF govt, but Is
not seriously i'll.
THE report that an attempt had been
made to assassinate the Gar of Russia,
has been neither contradicted nor at.
frmed, but is widely credited.
GENERAL F. F. MILLEN, the Irish agita.
tor, died at his residence in New York
CITY on the 10th. He had latterly been an
attache of the New York Herald.
SIR CHARLES RUssELL's speech before
the Parnell Commission is to be printed
in phamphlet form for circulation through
Great Britain, America and the colonies
LAWRENCE BARRETT announced from
the stage of the Detroit Opera House, or
the night of the 18th, that Mr.. Booth would
rejoin the company at Cleveland on the
14th.
THE Board of Health of New Orleans
adopted a resolution, on the 18th, advis-
ing the Governor to issue his annual
Quarantine proclamation to take effect
May 1.
CLAUS SPRECKELs, when asked, on the
18th, if he had joined the Sugar Trust as
reported in New York, replied: 81 am
not in the trust and never will be at any
price"
A GRAND dinner was given on the night
of the 10th, at the Merchant TailOrs' Hall
in London, to Mr.. William Henry Smith
Commons.
A BRITISH Central African company is
being formed in London with the pur.
pose of developing the Zambesi country
by the building of railways, etc. The
subscriptions, on the 18th, amounted to
$5,000,000.
IT was rumored in Bucharest, on the
18th, that an attempt was made on the 9TH
to assassinate the Car. and that he was
IN fact, wounded by the explosion of a
bomb. The most strenuous efforts were
made at st. Petersburg to suppress the
facts.
MARY ANDERSON arrived in London on
the 18th. She declined to comment On
the criticisms of the newspapers in re-
gard to the state of her health, but laugh
ingly remarked: "Do look like giving
up YETI"
THE legislative memorial exercises for
General Sheridan were held at Albany, n.
Y, on the 9th. General Wager Swayne, of
Ohio, delivered the grafton, and General
Sherman and General Alger also made
appropriate remarks. There was q dis
tinguished audience.
1t has been discovered that, owing to a
faulty construction of the law recently
passed in regard to the city government,
Trenton, n. j., will be without mayor
for three weeks, and that the newly-au-
thorized fire and police commissioners
can not be appointed.
CARDINAL GIBBONS, ON the 10th, mailed
to the Catholic clergy of the Baltimore
diocese a letter calling attention to the
celebration OF the centenary of the inau-
guration of Washington as the first Pres
ident of the United States, and enjoining
an appropriate observance of the day.
THE funeral of Rear-Admiral Patterson
took place from his late residence in
Washington on the 18th. A large num-
Der of army and navy officers and friends
and acquaintances of the deceased at
tended tbs funeral. The remains were
inferred in the Congressional Cemetery.
A FIvE-YEAR-oLD boy named Tobias
Hyper died, on the evening of the 18th,
at his parents residence, in New York
City, from the effects of beating re-
ceived at the hands of three older boys,
one of whom lives in the same house with
the Hippers, and the other two next door.
HERBERT G.. STOUT, railway mail clerk
on the route between st. Paul, Mimi, and
Council Bluffs, Ia, has been arrested,
charged with stealing letters containing
money from the mails. His stealings had
been going on for nearly eight months.
and amounted to several thousand dol
lars.
IT was brought out in the proceedings
of the Stewart will case in New York, on
the 9th, that mourning goods for the Hill
ton family were charged to Mrs. Stewards
hotel account; also that her bills were
not rendered to Mrs. Stewart in time to
allow her to take advantage of the dis
count by paying within thirty days.
PROF. HOLDEN, of the Lick Obserya-
tory at San Francisco, states that accord
ing to computations of the orbit of the
comet discovered by Prof. Barnard, the
comet will become seven or eight thou
sand times as bright as at present, with
distance of about 4, 000, 900 miles from the
sun, and it should be carefully observed
on May 26.
DR.. TANNER, the most aggressive of .he
Irish members of Parliament, is employ
ing the remnant of his liberty before his
imprisonment under the Crimes act, in
vigorous campaign in various parts of
england. His appeal is fixed for April
~, at Clonmel, but he is determined that
ne shall be heard before he goes behind
prison walls.