Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-02-06
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

HUNDREDS of people sitting in farm
houses on the snow-covered plains O
South Dakota are going mad from wan
and starvation.
HERMAN kEMPENSKI, naturalizeC
American citizen of Russian birth, who
visited his native country over veal
ago. and was arrested under military
law for evading duty, and sentenced to
Punishment to Siberia, has been re-
leased on the demand of Secretary OF
State Blaine.
WILLIAM BATCHELLER, thirty-five
years of age, at one time a well-known
telegraph operator, but of late years en-
gagged in the brokerage business in New
York City and Chicago, fell down a
flight of stairs at his home in New York,
on the 3Oth, and fractured his skull. He
died before medical assistance could
reach him.
Mr.. VANDEvEE introduced in the
House of Representatives on the 2Sth,
a bill to provide for the establishment
and maintenance of an Industrial school
in California. The bill appropriates
$40. 900 for the erection of a building for
this purpose.
a RESOLUTION expressing confidence
in Mr.. Parnell was adopted by the mu-
nicipal council of Dublin on the Goth.
\ RESOLUTION was introduced in the
New Jersey Senate, on the 2sth, for a
joint committee, consisting of four Sen
ators and six Assemblymen, equally di-
vided politically, to draft a ballot re-
form bill, and to hold meetings with q
view to obtaining from citizens sug-
gestions therefor.
THE Congregational Church at Dam
vers Center, Mass. was burned on the
2Sth. Loss, S35, 900; insurance, S15, 000.
The church was historic one, being
the successor of the ancient Salem Viii
lage Parish Church in which the witch
craft troubles began.
LORD CARYs-PORT and Mr.. Parnell
will each donate $4,000 towards i'm
proving the harbor of Arklow, Ireland.
PROF. CHESTER LYMoS, of the Yale
Scientific School, died at New Haven,
Conn, on the Doth, aged seventy-siX
years.
THE British African Lakes Company
is negotiating satisfactory peace ar
rangementS with the Arabs of karon-
gas.
IT was reported, on the 2Sth, that the
ship Buteshire had foundered in the At
lantic. She was bound from Norfolk,
Va, to Mediterranean ports, and had a
crew of sixteen, all of whom are sup
posed to have persisted.
THIEVES entered the office of the
Vienna Navigation Company, on the
Goth, and dashing pepper in the eyes of
no 90 n nj
ing on the counter and made their es-
cape.
DR.. HETTINGER, professor of theology
in the University of Wurzburg, died on
the 30th.
The Marquis of Harrington, leader of
the English Union Liberals, has issued
a circular to his followers in reference
to the approaching opening of Parlia-
ment.
a KANSAS CITY (Mo.) newspaper man
named Il. \. Corrigan is making ar
engagements to revive the New York
Graphic as an afternoon paper without
illustrations.
\ FEIGHTFUL accident occurred at the
stone-quarries at Chickies, Pa. on the
10Th. \ charge of dynamite failed to
explode, and when William Mestenfet-
ter, the foreman, went to investigate the
charge it exploded as he was looking at
1T, tearing off his head and mangling his
body in frightful manner.
HE Senate committee on military
and militia gave hearing, on the 30th,
to Governor Beaver of Pennsylvania,
and General Bachelor, the historian OF
the Gettysburg Association, on the bill
to mark the battle-line OF the Virginia
troops at the battle of Gettysburg The
bill will be reported favorably,
Bishop GRUsCHA, Chaplain-Generalo of
the Austrian army, will, it is officially
announced, succeed the late Cardinal
Gauglgauer as Archbishop of Vienna.