Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-03-07

Won Moltke on the evening of the Goth,
and played whist with the aged General
until late hour.
SOME of the Republican members of the
Fifty-frst Congress are in favor of retain
ing the services of DR.. Milburn, the pres
emit chaplain of the House.
A BILL pending in the California Legis-
lature provides the death penalty for
train robbers who cause loss of life IN
the pursuit of their nefarious calling.
ELEVEN young women were killed and
their bodies burned beyond recognition
in an explosion followed by fire in squlb
factory, at Plymouth, Pa, on the 10Th.
In an interview in st. Petersburg, on
the 18th, Count Iswolski stated that an
agreement between the Vatican and Rus
STA in regard to Poland would be reached
shortly.
A NEW journal, devoted to the object of
combating the increasing milltarlsm In
Europe and advocating a general dis
armament of the Powers has been started
in London.
THE new army organization to be known
as the "Society of Vicksburg" is to be
composed of survivors of both the Blue
and the Gray who participated in the men,
orable siege.
GABRIEL DUMoNT, Lieutenant of Louis
Riel in the late rebellion in the Northwest
Territory, for which Riel was hanged, has
received a pardon from the Dominion
Government.
Mr.. PARNELL was reelected chairman,
and Mr. Justin Mccarthy vice chair man
at the Parnellite meeting in London on
the 18th. The whips and secretaries were
also re- elected.
THE statutes of the Catholic University
to be erected at Washington, D. c., were
printed in Rome, on the 9th, prefaced by
Papal brief in which a warm eulogy is
paid to America.
Mr.. BLAINE has formally resigned his
position as a delegate to represent Maine
at the centennial of the inauguration of
Washington, as President, to be held In
New York City in April.
THE eight-year-old son of w. L. Free
man. of Grand Rapids, Mich, while try
ing, on the 25th, to see how long he could
hold his breath, ruptured blood-Vessel
and died in a few minutes.
ACCORDING to the naval committees re-
port, the English navy is strong enough
to cope with any single maritime power.
but it is desired to make it equal to the
combined navies of any two nations.
GOVERNOR HILL of New York was pre-
scented, on the 18th, with a handsome set
of resolutions by the Albany Typograph-
ical Union for his assistance in securing
the State printing for Union printers.
PREsIDENT-ELECT HARRIsoN's farewell,
on the oath, to the pastor and people
- <1o N, in Tn of be
has been a member and officer for over
third of century, was very affecting.
LUKE EMERSON, the Missouri horse
dealer, who emptied his revolver into a
crowd in London short time ago, hit
ting two men, was arraigned for the Sec
ond time, on the Goth, and again re-
manded-
THE present House of Representatives
expires by limitation on the 18th of March.
The Senate, being a continuous body, can
remain in session at will, for the con-
firmation of appointments and other ex-
ecutive business.
NINE persons were killed and a large
number seriously injured by the plunging
of the ST. Louis express through bridge
near st. George, Ont, on the 9th. The
accident was caused by the breaking of a
locomotive tire.
THE widow of VIM. L. Marcy, member
of President Folks Cabinet and Secre-
tary of State under President Pierce in
both of which positions he greatly distin-
guished himself-died in Paris, on the
Path, aged eighty-six.
TWENTY persons in one neighborhood
in La Porte County, Ind, have been at
tackled with trichinosis, and most of them
will die. ALI are Germans, who, at a
christening recently, ate pork which had
been improperly cooked.
PROF. F. STANHoPE ORRIs has been
granted by the board of trustees of
Princeton IN. j. University leave of alb
sence for one year to enable him to accept
call to be resident director of the Amer
lean Classical School at Athens.
THERE was a meeting of prominent
Civil-Service reformers in Baltimore, Md.
on the 23d. A series of ringing resolutions
expressive of their views on the subjec
were passed, a copy of which was ordered
to be sent to President-elect Harrison
THE passage of the Nicaragua Cana
bill by the United States Congress ha.
let to considerable discussion in London
over the effect of the canal upon British
interests. An expression of his views OIL
the subject by Mr.. Blaine is awaited witt
some anxiety.
The great silver vault of the Treasury
Department at Washington is full. i
contains $50, 0OO,0 900. 1t was intended tc
hold 100000, 900, but the substitution O
wooden boxes for canvas bags, made nee
essary by the rotting of the latter, caused
by dampness, reduced its capacity b!
$4,000, 900.
THE big lumber mills at Port Gamble
Port Ludlow, Port Blakeley, Port Dis
covery, Port Madison, Utsaladdy and Ia
coma, on Puget Sound, were shut down
on the 22d. for eight days at the comman'
of the Lumber Trust, to which they al
belong. Over fifteen hundred men wer
thrown out of work.
THE marriage ceremony of the Emper
or Of China at Shanghai, on the 26th, wa
gorgeous, though exclusive affair. Tn
splendor surrounding the ceremony ant
the vast sum expended in carrying GU
the programme is in marked contrast t.
the fact that millions Of people are starry
ing in the provinces