Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-02-07

| The Union Iron works OF San Francisco
! received orders from Secretary Whitney,
| on the 31st, to have the new cruiser
Charleston ready for sea within twenty
days if possible, no matter what the extra
cost.
| OLIVER W. VooRHIs, a wealthy farmer
! of Marion County, Ind, was arrested, on
| the 31st, on a Federal Indictment for
| swearing in an Illegal vote at the late
election.
WHILE Mr., Russell Harrison has said
that he will not accept any Office under
the incoming Administration it is believed
| that his wife will be installed and rem ain
| one of the White House family during his
| fathers's term of Office.
THE Germans have suppressed the Sa-
moan Times, a paper published in the
| English language at Apia-
IT is the general belief at Lincoln that
| Nebraska will soon become prohibition
State.
IT is officially decided that the Arch
duke Charles Louis, brother of the En-
peror, is the heir apparent to the Austrian
throne.
THE stables of the celebrated Mt. Hope
farm, at North Attleboro, Mass, We're
burned, on the 31st, with twenty head of
imported cattle; loss, 500
SECRETARY ALBEIT of the Connecticut
Mutual Life Insurance Company, on the
31st, began the first direct litigation
| against Joseph A. Moore, by making an
affidavit in attachment and punishment
against the embezzler for an alleged in
debtedness of $13, 454.
THE Cherokee Indians look with alarm
at the various meetings held along the
border with the intention Of devising
means of opening the Indian Territory to
settlement.
ADOLPH SAMBOLINA, the defaulting man
ager of David Spero's artificial flower
store at No. 603 Broadway, New
York City, who fed to Belgium
after defrauding his employer out
of $4,000, and who was brought back,
tried and convicted, was, on the LIST, sem
fenced to ten years. hard labor in State
prison.
ANOTHER Cabinet Office has been Great
ed by the final agreement on the bill
creating the Department of Agriculture.
THE Spanish steamer Ramon de Herrera
has been sold to the Haytien Government
for $4,000 in gold.
THE foreign diplomats in London are
jealous of Mr.. Phelps personal popular
ity, and especially of the gift to his wife
of a bracelet. The only parallel was
Nine. Persigny, whose bracelet was pre-
scented by the diplomatic ladies. Mrs.
Phelps is declared universally to be a
most charming woman.
THE reduction in the public debt during
January past amounted to S12,216,2s
The total debt now less cash in the Treas
ury amounts to 81, 121, Si5, 913.
Il DEVASTATING fire visited Clear Lake,
Ia, on the 31st, sweeping away an entire
block and badly damaging a number of
adjoining buildings, causing in all a total
loss of fully $4,000.
CHIEF OF POLICE HENNEssEY, of Grand
Falls, Oak, arrested Nellie Bunnell, ed
itor of the Duluth Herald, on the 31st, on
a telegram charging HIM with the embez-
element of 81 800 worth of diamonds. He
was on a train bound for Winnipeg.
JOHN T. BLUE, aged seventy, cashier of
Wilden's Bank, at Goshen, Ind, was
stricken with paralysis of the heart on the
31st.
GOVERNMENT receipts during January
were unusually heavy, and aggregated
$34, 617 $685. or s. 250,0 900 more than in jan
uary last year.
THE President has notified Congress
that Count Arco-Valley, the German
Minister, informed the State Department
on the 1st tina: German troops would be
withdrawn from Samoa, and the neutrali-
ty of Samoa preserved.
THE gold fund balance il the Treasury
uCCi CdSCu uuil lug Iuils TO,ooo,oOU,
and on the 1st amounted to $194,G55, 1854.
THE Union Academy, at 10 hnstown, N. |
Y, containing about 1000 pupils, was |
totally destroyed by fire on the 1st. |
George Thompson, chief of the fire de-
partment, was instantly killed, and Teddy |
Smith badly hurt by falling walls. The |
loss is estimated at 45, 900.
IT is announced that Queen Victoria |
will not be present at the reopening of
Parliament.
THE London Globe says it is authorize d |
to contradict the rumor of the death of |
the King of Holland.
GOVERNMENT expenditures during Jan
uary were $26, $685. or $500, 900 more
than in January, 1885,
RECEIPTS of the Government from all
sources for the first seven months of the
current fiscal year were 1924, 756, 724,
against $223, 214, 9S4 during the first seven
months of the preceding fiscal year; and
were 1SS,64S, JOY during the
past seven months, against S163, 54S, 461 for
the corresponding months of the preced-
ing fiscal year.