Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-01-16


By ELL d. AXE.
RONTON. MISSOURI
ME. STANLEY will return to America
next fall and has contracted with Ma or
Pond for lecture tour.
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Dr.. CHARLES MCMILLAN, medical
referee of the pension office, died in
Washington, on the eth, OF pneumonia.
THE Democratic caucus at Annapolis,
Md. on the 9th, re-nominated United
States Senator Z. X. Wilson to succeed
himself.
PORTUGAL will disavow Serpa Pinte's
conduct in Africa, thus satisfying En-
gland regarding the hauling down of
British flags.
THE engagement of George Wander
bilt to Miss Mary Johnston. daughter of
Colonel William Johnston, of AMMAN
dale, S. c., is announced.
THE French Government is about to
negotiate a loan of 100, 900, 600 francs
for the purpose of constructing railways
in Tonquin and other French colonies.
DR.. JOSEPH EGNATz DoELLINGER, the
eminent German divine and leader of
the Catholic movement, died at Munich,
on the 10th, in the ninety-first year of
his age.
A BODY of masked men took Henry
Ward, the boy murderer. from the jail at
bayou Sara, La, on the night of the 9TH,
and hanged him to a tree in the court
house square.
TIE statement is reaffirmed that
Russia has addressed a circular note to
the Powers calling attention to Bulgar-
las fragrant violation of Article "a of
the Treaty Of Berlin
JACKSON DAY was very generally OBJ
served by the various Democratic organ
izations throughout the country, by
banquets with toasts and speech-mak-
ing, street pagcants, etc.
THE contributions of Peters pence to
the Pope for the year 1889 were 10000
lire less than during the preceding year.
The legacies to the church during 1889
amounted to 1000, 600 lire.
EMPEROR WILLIAM, on the Sth, Or
dered period of six weeks mourning
for the late Empress Dowager Augusta.
and that all theaters and other places of
amusement be closed for one week.
TIE Senate committee on the quadrl-
centennial, of which Senator Hiscock is
chairman. began its hearings on the
claims of Washington, New York, St
Louis and Chicago to the Worlds Fair
of 1892 on the 9th.
THE hearings in the several contested
election cases in the House of Repre-
sentatiyes began before the House COM
mittee on elections on the 18th. The
West Virginia case of Smith VS.. Jack
son was the first taken up.
THE steamship Stag. which arrived at
New York, on the 10th, from Bremen
and Shields, brought all the crew OF the
wrecked ship Shakespeare with the ex-
ton of the captain. who died before be-
ing rescued, and was buried at sea.
TIE Franklin (Nass.) Rubber Works
shut down, on the Sth, ostenSibly for 4
few days and to make necessary re-
pairs. but it is generally believed they
will be closed until business revives
There is large stock of goods on hand.
THE two houses of the Ohio Legislat-
ure, in joint session, on the Sth, can
vassed the vote for State officers and the
acting president of the Senate, and de-
clared Hon. Z. l.. Lampson, Republican,
elected Lieutenant-Governor by 243 plu-
rality.
JOHN DoLAN and Mary Casey. who
eloped to this country from Ireland
three months ago and were married,
having 81, 900 with which to start life
together, have applied to the Castle
Garden authorities for work, their money
being all gone.
THE Senate committee on rules has
come to no definite conclusion in regard
to the allotment of new committee
rooms in the Senate wing of the Capitol,
and it is altogether likely the new COM
mittees will have to use the vacant
rooms in the Terrace.
THE returns to the New York Bureau
of Vital Statistics show that $50 deaths
occurred in that city for the twenty
four hours ending at noon on the Sth.
The like of this had never been known
in the history of the department since
the time of tho cholera.
THE Holland Society dinner at the
Cafe Savarin in New York City, on the
evening of the 10th, was attended by
Theodore Roosevelt, w. w. Aston, j.
Pierrepont Morgan, C. NJ. Depew,
Thomas A. Edison. John Jay and many
well-known descendants of early set
tiers.
PHYSICIANS sent by Monongalla
County w. Va, into the mountain dis
trict along the Cheat river. in which
diphtheria was reported to be epidemic,
tell horrible stories of suffering. y
temporary hospital has been erected.
Thirty deaths had occurred in two
weeks.
EX-GovERNoR GEORGE Z. WOODS died
at Portland. Ore, on the Sth, after
long and painful illness. He was elect
ed Governor of Oregon in 1866, and in
1871 was appointed Governor of Utah by
President Grant. Since 1915 he has
been living on the Pacific coast, practlc-