Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-12-04

the 25th.
SENATOR WADE HAMPTON, OF South
| Carolina, while out cunning on his
| favorito hunting grounds in Washing
ton County, Miss, on the Goth, WAS &C
cidentally shot by his son McDutiie
| Hampton. The son, it seems, fired
| toward his father and wounded him in
| the head, one of the shots striking him
! in his eve. His injuries, however, are
not believed to be serious, and it is not
| thought likely that he Will loose his
| eyesight. The accident happened in
the same locality where the Senator a
few years ago lost one OF his legs.
THH:TY-TWo coal miners were drowned
by the flooding Of tue Breux pit, near
Vienna. on the 24th.
IHEEE Is considerable distress among
the patients who have foched to Ber-
lin in the hope of being treated By DR..
koch>s new method.
COMMISSIONER RAUM says that the
pension deficiency will amount to S32,
/ 600, 600
Truth, Mr.. Henry Labouchere's Lon
| don paper, has abandoned Mr.. parnell
II is believed by eminent legal au-
thorities that the privy council will de-
| tluS FcIScLy 70 Jut Ai4IltStt liz Tue Il p
peal of the Colony of Victoria New
South Wales, against a judgment which
denied the right of the colony &c ex-
clude Chinese migrants.
VERDI is composing an opera, the lib
| retto being written by Boito, founded
| upon the adventures of Falstaf.
THE North Carolina State Board of
Pensions has apportioned $50, 600
among exConfcderate pensioners in
that State. That amount, under an act
of the last Legislature. was this year
raised by taxation. The pensioners are
soldiers who were disabled while in the
service of the State, and widows of sol
dierS killed in such service.
ADvICEs by the steamer Australia,
which arrived at San Francisco from
Honolulu on the 2Sth, state that King
Kalakua is coming to San Francisco on
the cruiser Charleston. and will arrive
about the 9th The journey will be
made solely in the interest of his
health, and will not extend beyond the
L limits of California.
JoHN WuALEN, Joseph &. Mulr2in,
David Gordon and Martin j. White,
convicted of ballot-box stutfing. were,
on thu ::Sth, sentenced by Judge Lippin-
colt III the Hudson n. j County Court
10 one wear and six months hard labor
III the state prison at Trenton,
TIE War Department, On the 2Sth,
received several dispatches from the
West, all reporting Improvement in the
Indian situa ton. General Brooke said
that every hour lessened the strength
of the d;safectcd
THE Catholic hierarchy of Ireland
has reached the unanimous conclusion
that the position Of affairs is such as to
render absolutely nece5 sary the retire
ment from leadership of Mr.. Parnell.
NES. Lucy PARSONS, the Anarchist,
charged with melting q riot in Newark,
\. J., a few weeks ago was, on the
2Sth, acquitted by jury.
MARTIN ID. LEPPY. who was convicted
in New York Of murder in the first de-
gree Tor killing his wife Esther on July
t last, was sentenced. on the 2Sth, to
the death penalty. The time set for
the execution is within the week begin
ming January 3. The execution will
take place at Sing Sing.
y VIOLENT shock OF earthquake was
felt throughout the valley Of the Dan
ube on the 26th. Panic seized upon the
inhabitants, who fed in terror from
their homes.
RAILWAY travel was seriously de-
laycd Throughout England, on the 2Sth,
by heavy snow storm.
GEORGE 5. DOE, a switchman en-
ploycd in the Fitchburg (Mass) rail
road yard. was run over by an engine,
on the 2sth, and both legs were cut off,
one above and the other below the
knee. lie died about one hour after
the accident, leaving widow and one
daugh ter.
EIGHT THOUSAND Cinnamon have been
engaged to work on the Tchauntepec
railroad. Five hundred of them have
already arrived and gone to work.
AT meeting in New York City OF
the sales agents of the coal-producing
companies, on the 37th, it was decided
to make no change in the price of coal
during the month of December.
LATE NEWS ITEMS.
THE investigation of the lenneSsy