Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-01-03
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.

A Summary Of Important Events.
SENATOR BECK is improving in health
and enjoying the hospitality of friends In
Savannah. Ga.
Mrs. SARAH Fl. POWELL, who was APP
pointed a commissioner of education in
New York, took the oath of Office on the
2Gth.
THE Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce
has postponed the dedication of its new
building from January n to January 80,
1889.
THE President has approved the bill
placing General Andrew j. Smith on the
retired list of the army with the rank of
Colonel.
The Red Cloud (Neb.) National Bank
passed into the hands of the Comptroller
OF the Currency on the 9th. Assets and
liabilities unknown.
THE secretary of the English East AZ
rican Company denies that any agree
ment has been entered into by the COM
pany with the Arabs regarding traffic in
slaves
THE Legislature of Idaho Territory, now
in session, is considering more stringent
measures for the overthrow of the infu-
ence of the Mormon church in Territorial
politics.
DEsERTERs from the Arab camp near
Suakim say that there is a strong Arab
force at Handoub, where large number
of the dead from the field of the late bat
tie were taken.
prcr &c, fo1 inc
that the coming Protestant Cathedral of
New York will have such q commanding
site as can not be matched by any other
city in the world
ANNIE JONES, who eloped from Utica,
N. V, recently, with Walter Smith, dry
goods clerk. was arrested at hotel in
Montreal, Can, on the 18th, and sent
home. Her lover was left behind.
THE business portion of Marblehead,
Mass, is in ashes, more than twenty-five
buildings, including eight or ten large
shoe factories, having been burned. The
loss will reach half million dollars.
BOMB was exploded in front of the
Madrid residence of Senior Silvela, a Con-
servative member of the Spanish Cham
Der of Deputies, on the Goth. The per-
petrators of the outrage are unknown.
REPRESENTATIVE JEHU BAKER has
served notice on W. S. Forman, Demo-
cratic Congressman-e elect in the Seven
teenth Illinois district, that he will con-
test his election on the ground of fraud.
BEFORE withdrawing entirely from Sua-
kim the British will build strong perma-
nent forts on which guns will be mounted
so as to sweep the plains. Black regi-
ments will be left to garrison the place.
CAPTAIN J. S. HOLMES, who commanded
the steamer John Fl. Hanna, and who was
burned to death at the destruction of his
boat at Plaquemine, La, on the night of
the oath, was native of Plymouth, Mass.
The County Democracy of the Sixth
New York; Senatorial district resolved,
on the night of the oath, not to make a
nomination in opposition to the candidacy
of Thomas F. Grady, the Tammany nOmi-
nee for Senator in that district.
DARWIN VAUGHAN, aged eighteen, and
his sister, aged fifteen, children of Earl
Vaughan, a Boston draughtsman en-
ployed by the Whittier Machine Works,
were drowned in Jamaica pond, on the
nightief the oath, while skating.
CONSIDERABLE uneaSineSs was caused
at Upton, Ind, on the oath, by the report
$40 900 worth of stock of the Columbia
Building and Loan Association, of which
he was secretary, is held in that county.
Mrs. ANNIE Boss, aged seventy years, of
Allegheny, City, Pa, while rummaging
over old papers in trunk, recently, came
across three deeds which call for 600 acres
of land in the heart of Philadelphia. The
case has been placed in the hands of law
yers.
The Emperor and Empress of Germany
attended service, Christmas Day, in the
Berlin Cathedral. DIR. Stoecker, the !
court preacher, delivered the sermon.
The Emperor sent hearty greetings to
Prince Bismarck by his son, Count Her. |
bert Bismarck.
The London 7clegrapK's Zanzibar cor
informs his paper that all |
reports essaying to give details of |
meeting between Stanley and Emin Bey |
are Enthusiastically. At Zanzibar it is not |
believed that Stanley has succeeded in |
Emin.
THE Russian Consul at Malta, NJ. |
veila, has been arrested on suspicion of |
placing a bomb in the theater at that |
place while the Duchess of Edinburgh |
princess Marie of Russia) was present. |
nihiistic tendencies.
HON JAMES T. MAFFErr, member of |
Congress from the Twenty eighth district |
of Pennsylvania, has been admitted to an |
asylum as a private patient. The difficult |
ty seems to be excessive nervousness, |
which was brought on by the arduous la |
bors of the recent campaign.
A MAN known as Franz Schneider died |
at the Metropolitan Hotel, in
W Washington, on the 23d. He is said to |
have been Count Arth, a member of the |
nobility. He had been at the |
hotel for two months, spending large |
sums of money and living luxurieusly.
The remains of the late General John
a. Logan WERE on the Goth, removed from
their temporary resting place, where they
have been for the past two years guarded
by United States soldiers, and placed in
the mortuary chapel built by Mrs Logan
at the National Soldiers Home at Wash
ton.
SIR H A. BLAKE, formerly Governor
General of Newfoundland, and whose
appointment as Governor of Queensland,
to succeed the late Sir Anthony Musgrave
was objected TO by the Irish residents of
that colony, has been appointed Governor
Of Jamaica, to succeed General Sir H. w
Norman.
LITTLE JOHN BRYAN, son of q farmer |
living near Nebraska City, Neb., lost his
lite, on the 10Th, while attempting to pro-
cure clothing from his burning home for
his mother and her small children who |
we're standing in the snow almost naked.
He had Drepiously rescued his sister from