Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-03-13


in Paris very shortly. The institution
has the sanction of the Pope and will
have capital of 1000, 900 francs.
SEVEN employees of shoe factory in
Weissenfels, Saxony, lost their lives, on
the 9Th, in fire that destroyed the
building.
A MONTHLY line of steamers between
Portland, Ore, and Asiatic ports will be
started in June by the Union Pacific
Railroad Company.
ABOUT a dozen leading natural-gas
companies operating in the northern
part of Indiana have combined their in
terests and formed an immense trust,
with an aggregate capital of So, 500, 900.
CHARLES JOHNSON, the principal in
the Olson lynching, appeared in court
at White Hall, Wis, on the 5th, and
pleaded guilty to the charge of murder
| in the first degree, The prisoner was
| remanded back to jail to await sem
| tence.
ATToRNEY-GENERAL MILLEB, on the
| 9th, appointed w. +. Gurley Assistant
United States district attorney for Ne
| braska.
THE net earnings of the Burlington &
| Northern railway for January show
| decrease of S2O,674.
| SIGMUND LoEwENHURZ, who swlndled
| people in New York City by forged
checks and fed to Germany. can not be
| extradited, because he never ceased to
| be a Prussian subject; but the German
| Government will prosecute him in Ger
many for the alleged offense, upon evil
dence to be furnished by the American
| authorities
| If the report of the geologist who ex-
| amined the field can be relied upon,
gold and silver in paying quantities have
| been discovered on the farm of Jere-
miah Stauffer, near the Mount Vernon
ore mines in Pennsylvania. 1t is said
that the rock assays about $3.50 in silver
and from 5000 to 81, 900 in gold to the
ton.
| Ex-PREsIDENT CLEVELAND was one OF
| the orators at a meeting in Chichering
Hall, on the 9th, in the interest of the
New York City Free Circulating Lii
brary.
BLACK diphtheria is raging to an
alarming extent in the town of Stock
dale, Ind.
THE strike at the rubber works at
Stoughton, Mass, has been compro-
missed.
FREIGHT train on the Cumberland
| Valley railroad was wrecked near Car
Isle, Pa, on the 9th, and eight loaded
cars were demolished. a brakeman was
slightly injured
THE thermometer registered so de-
grees minus at st. Johnsbury, VT, on
the 18th.
On the 18th the Pope was again re-
ported indisposed.
THE suburb of Plymouth. Pa. known
as Curry's Hill, sunk ten feet at three
o'clock on the morning of the eth, ow-
ing to the settling of the ground above
an abandoned mine.
THE returns issued by the London
Board of Trade show that during the
month of February exports decreased
s12O, 800 and the imports increased g.
100000, as compared with the CORES
bonding month of last year.
BISHOP BOWMAN, of the Methodist
Episcopal church, has been found guilty
of falsehood and the use of unchristian
| language, and deposed from the bishop
ric and suspended from the ministry
until the meeting of next general con-
| ference.
| THREE families were rescued, on the
18th, some of them in an unconscious
condition, from a burning tenement
house at Reading, Pa.
THE wife of Alexander Stokes, living
near Ridgely, Md, persisted in the flames
of their burning home on the 9th.
FIFTY secret agents of the Russian
Government have been sent to this coun-
try to lecture and procure the publica-
ton of newspaper articles laudatory of
the Gar and his government with a
view to overcoming the evil impression
made by the late outrages against polit-
zeal prisoners in Siberia.
TIE funeral services over the remains
of Abraham Lincoln, son of Minister
Lincoln, were held at the London resi-
dence of Mr.. Lincoln on the 9TH Among
those present were all the members of
the American Legation and Consulate
except Mr.. Post, the military attache.
They were all accompanied by their
wives