Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-01-02
PERSONAL AND GENERAL


cases have resulted fatally.
ENGLISH capitalists have purchased
the Jung and Crescent breweries of Gin
cinnati The transfer has been made
and the two properties amalgamated-
The price paid by the syndicate is said
to have been S1,925.O
THE members of the Elizabeth On. J.
CITY Council were, on the 23d, remanded
to the county Jail in the custody of the
United States marshal for refusing to
obey writ of mandamus issued by the
Circuit Court ordering them to pay the
amount of judgment and costs in case
brought by Moran Brothers, of New
York, against the City of Elizabeth.
They paid up later, and were released.
TIE President has intimated his in
tantion to send to Congress. soon after
the holidays, a special message on sill
yer. He will take a position similar to
| that recommended by Secretary Window
in his report.
LORD SALISBURY is represented by those
who are in official contact with him, to
be determined to seize Dela@oa Bay I'M
less Portugal Immediately makes a sat
isfactory apology for her action in
Southeast Africa. restoring the status
quo as it existed before the recent raid
of Serpa Pinto. and makes suitable rep
aration for the injury inflicted upon
British interests.
Mr.. GLADSTONE. Mr.. Parne1 and
| the other chiefs of the GladStOnian
| party will meet in London before the
session of Parliament opens to settle
| upon the course to be taken by the party
| in Parliament.
THERE was slight panic in the Park
| Theater, New York City, on the even
ing of the 23d. caused by the noise of
| fire engines which had been summoned
| for small fire few doors from the
| theater. Some one in the gallery
started the trouble by crying Fire. =
BY the judicious efforts of the ushers
and policemen on duty order was re-
stored SO promptly that no one was in
jured.
THE Yorkt town. of the United States
| squadron of evolution. which was de-
| layed by heavy weather, arrived at Lis
bon. on the I'D. and joined the other
vessels of the fleet.
THE st. Petersburg Novoe Nremyea
states that bulgaria has purchased from
Austria 100, 600 rifles and 100, 900, 900
| cartridges.
SIXTEEN miners, nearly all of whom
had families, were killed, on the 22d,
| by a cavern in the Lane mine, at An
gelas Camp, Calaveras County, Cal.
| A ST. LOUIS firm of wealthy capital
lists have purchased large tract of
| land near Chesterton, Ind, where they
| will establish immense brick-yards for
I :
| trade. The clay is said to be very
superior and as hard and durable as
marble.
EMMA COLE. aged thirty of Windfall,
Pa, was arrested by United States Mar
shall McCrea, on the 23d, for making
and circulating counterfeit money. Miss
Cole says she was taught by a friend
how to make the counterfeit money with
plaster of paris mouldS, and that she
only made four dollars.
JOHN Il. MCLEAN. editor of the Gin
| cinnati Enquirer, distributed $4,000
among the charitable institutions of
that city on Christmas.
FULTON WRIGIIT, the Seventeen-year-
old son of Captain j. +. Wright, Il prom
nent citizen of Chattanooga, Tenn, was
accidentally shot and Instantly killed,
| on the 23d, at the hands of Tom Sell
man, a companion. Both of the boys
being of prominent families, the affair
| has caused great regret throughout the
city.
THE case of II. II. Childers. at San
Antonio. Tex. charged with the muir
der of James Draper, a hackman, on the
night of November 26. was given to the
! Il, A-sI IL, 10,
| PENDANT guilty of murder in the second
degree, and assessed his punishment at
twenty-five years in the penitentiary.
| a MAJORITY of the striking coal
miners in the Monongahela Valley re-
sumed operations. on the 23d, at half
| cent-per-buShel advance in the minin q
| rates.
By a caving of earth at the new New
| port News X Mississippi Valley railroad
depot at Memphis, Tenn, Walter Bod
! kins and an unknown man were killed,
and John Mclaughlin seriously injured.
| RECENTLY several mad dogs have been
killed in the neighborhood of Seymour.
Ind, but not until after they had bitten
one or two children and several valuable
cows and other livestock that have died
or are dying of hydrophobia.
THFfTY-SEvEN indicted saloon-keepers
were fined costs of prosecution in the
District Court at Keokuk. Ia. on the
Esd, and the cases against them DIS
missed, with the expressed understand
ing that they were to refrain from vio-
lating the Prohibitory law in the future.
| THOMAS EMERY : Sons extensive can
die works at Ivorydale. o.. six mi! es
north of the business part of Cincinnati.
were burned on the night of the 23d.
Loss and damage. $780, 900: no insurance.
| THE Russian influenza has arrived in
Duluth. Mimi. Physicians report thirty
cases slightly milder than in the Eas'.
]. III. MONTGOMERY. aged about fifty
| years. boss machenist in the Chicago.
burlington X Quincy shops in Burling-
ton Ia, was run over by a train on the
23d. and instantly killed.
ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY newSboys
were presented with tickets TO a Mother
Goose performance by the Pittsburgh
! pa Times. and told to be at the
Times office Christmas morning at ten
| o'clock. When they arrived they were
divided into squads of four. marched TO
clothing stores and each ore given q
warm suit of clothes.
j. l.. SMITH, a Johnstown pa mar
kle-cutter, departed for Philadelphia,
on the 9th. to purchase three carloads
of marble to make headstones for the
| unidentified dead and seven carloads for
the identified dead of the Conemaugh
disaster buried III Grandview Cemetery.