Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-03-20
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Four of the entombed men in the
Morsa mine, in Wales, succeeded in MAX
ing their escape, on the 18th, by crawl
ing through a crevice between the roof
and the debris. They passed over heaps
of dead miners and express the belief
that no more of the entombed miners are
alive.
AMONG the 927 immigrants who ar
rived in New York, on the 18th, on the
steamship Elder, over eighty per cent.
come to work in the mines. The ma jOr-
ity of them are Hungarians and Sile-
slams. The Immi grafton Commission
will take action in the matter.
IT is semi-otficially announced that
the new German Reichstag will be con-
vened on April Is.
THE children of the Cayuga On. W
Orphan Asylum are suffering from an
epidemic of measles and whooping-
cough. Out of total of 112 inmates,
on the 18th, sixty were down with
measles and fortynine with whooping-
cough.
MINISTER PHELPS gave Il dinner in
Berlin, on the 18th, to Herr Eisendecll-
err, formerly German Minister to Wash
ington.
JOHN DILLON. VI. p, the Irish agita-
tor. passed through Denver, Col, on his
way from Australia to England on the
18th.
JOHNSON BROAD, aged seventy. died
at his home in Morgan County, Ind, on
the 10th, of dropsy. lie was the largest
man in Central Indiana, and few days
before his death weighed over four hun
dred pounds, measuring nine feet around
the girth The coffin was too large to
be taken into the house, and the body
had to be taken out in the yard and
placed in it.
On the 18th Andrew Houk, gambler
and worthless character, shot and Sc
riously wounded Mrs. kittie Bowers and
then committed suicide at Council Bluffs,
Ia. Houll was in love with Mrs. Bowers,
but she did not reciprocate.
A NORWEGIAN named Loga, one of the
mob who hung Hans Jacob Olsen six
months ago, committed suicide at White
hall, Wis. on the night of the 18th.
Although Loga was only charged with
riot, it is said he feared a long sentence
to prison.
JOHN T. LESTER, the wealthy Chicago
stock-broker, died on the night of the
18th. He had been an invalid for two
or three years, having become broken
down physically by close attention to
business.
QUITE a sensation has been created at
Fort Dodge, Ia, by the discovery that
the much-lauded speech of Congressman
bolivar. delivered on Lincoln's ami
yersary recently in brooklyn, is an al
most verbatim copy of an grafton de-
livered by his brother, Victor, on Lin
coin at the commencement of Cornell
College last June.
MAJOR HANCOCK CLARK, the man
who shot Milton Randolph as result
of quarrel at the Southern Society in
| New York City short time ago, has
| been expelled from the society after an
investigation of the charges against
| him. Randolph, on the other hand, was
acquitted and exonerated.
| w. ID. CoMSToCK, Democrat, was elect
ed mayer of Sacramento, Cal, on the
18th, defeating Gregory, Republican, by
Al votes. The Republicans elected the
remainder of their ticket by large ma
jorities.
| EN-CoNGREssMAN JOHN Is. WEBER, of
Buffalo, \. y, was, on the 18th, APP
pointed Commissioner of Immigra ton
at New York City, and Colonel James
K. OByrne was appointed assistant
commissioner.
By vote of s3 to 81 the Roumanian
Chamber of Deputies, on the 18th, re-
jected motion expressive of lack of
confidence in the government as con-
sequence of its appointment of state
officers.
A vIRULANT type of influenza is rag
ing in Persia.