Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-01-23

| E%-C;0yfRS0R CHARLES FOSTER OF
Ohio was unanimously nominated, on the
18th, by the Republican caucus for
| United States Senator.
WoRD was received by the Harrison
| family in Germantown, Pa, on the 10th,
that EuSler Harrison, who has been as
sisting his brother Alex Harrison. the
well-known artist, in his work, COM
mitted suicide recently near Dover, En-
| gland.
| FIRE in Willis f. Prices cotton ware
house at Macon, Ga, on the 18th, de-
| stroyed about $50 bales of cotton. Loss,
$4,000; fully insured
| Mr.. STEWART. of the House judiciary
committee, was instructed, on the 10th,
| to report favorably, with some slight
notifications, the bill for the construc-
ton OF two United States prisons east
of the Rocky mountains, the selection
of the sites being left to the Attorney
| General. The bill appropriates $780,
900 for each of the prisons and 500, 900
| additional for each for the purchase of
tools and other materials.
| HENRY NJ. STANLEY was entertained
at banquet by the Khedive on the
| evening of the 10th.
| THE exercises preliminary to the in
stallation of Rev. DIR. Lyman Abbott as
pastor of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn,
took place, on the 10th, in the Sunday
school hall of the church. The installa-
ton services proper were held in the
| church in the evening.
The waters in the Conemau ugh river and
| Stony creek, Pa, were, on the 18th, re-
| ported to be again at flood height, and
much damage was apprehended.
| CHARLES CRAMER, brakeman on the
Queen IS Crescent road, on the 10th, at
Millcr's, 105 miles southwest of Birming-
| ham, Ala, was struck by the timbers of
| a water tank as the train dashed by and
| hurled to death. His neck was broken
and he was otherwise horribly mangled.
WILL DICKINSON, a butcher at Mid
dlesborough, Ky, Il desperate character,
was shot and instantly killed by Deputy
Sheriff and Acting City Marshal Roger
II. Williams while resisting arrest.
INFORMATION was filed on the 10th,
with the Health Department of Mime
sofa to the effect that a farmer near Nc
Carron's Lake, outside the limits of St.
Paul, was Strengthening hogs suffering
from cholera and selling the diseased
meat for human food.
THE New York grand-jury, on the
10th, handed in an Indictment against
Major William ii. Clark, of the South
ern Society. who fired three pistol-shots
at Wilton Randolph, a fellow-mem ber
recently.
Miss LAURA DIXoE, who shot herself
in the head at Elizabeth, n. J., died
on the 10th. She was a pretty brunette
of twenty-three and was Respondent be-
cause George Weimer, who had kept
company with her for long time, mar
ried another girl
Mrs. JAMES Mcneil, an insane moth
er at Cannon Lake, Mimi, killed two
children and fatally injured two others
and herself on the 10th.
AUTHENTIC news has been received at
Cairo Egypt, of terrible mortality among
the natives in the Soudan due to famine
resulting from lack of rain during the
autumn.
UNIVERSAL exhibition will be held
at Liege, Belgium, in June next, on the
occasion of King Leopold's jubilee.
a GLASS-BoTTLE trust has been formed
in London by the uniting of twenty
three firms engaged in the manufacture
maintenance of uniform prices
IT has been discovered that the no.
ton guns carried by the 10, 6O0-ton British
man-of-war Benbow, of the Mediterra-
mean fleet,are entirely worthless for the
purpose for which they were designed
SIDNEY DILLON, q nephew of Hon.
Sidney Dillon, of New York, accidentally
shot and killed himself while hunting
on his farm, ten miles northwest of
Omaha, Neb., on the 18th.
TIE trial of Constable Potts, the Pro-
hibition searcher, at Des Moines, Ia,
who was charged with perjury in his
own trial for bribery, was concluded, on
the nth, with verdict of guilty.
BENNY WILSON, better known as the
kid" one of the most expert car burg
lars in the country, was arrested, on the
nth, by Chief Detective Grammar of
the Baltimore & Ohio railroad at Balti-
more. Md. THE Kid heads q gang
that has skinned the freight cars in that
section.