Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-01-09
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

was a daughter of the tragedian Thomas
| Cooper. and Mary Fairlee. a celebrated
| belle of New York. In 1910 she married
! Bobert Tyler son of President Tyler,
and upon the special request of the
| President and of his wife. who was an
invalid, she presided as Lady OF the
| White House" during the first three
wears of President Tyler's administra-
ton.
IN an Oakland (Cal.) clearinghouse,
| on the 10Th. Mrs. Jane Erwin and her
two daughters, Mary and Bessie, aged
sixteen and twelve respectively, were
found dead in bed, having been asphyx-
lated by gas. They had just arrived
from Cole Camp, Mo, en- route to Ven
| tura County, Cal. where the husband of
| Mrs. Erwin has ranch.
| AFTER thorough investigation of the
plans and resources of the Monte Piedad
| banking scheme cOncesSionaireS, in the
| City of Mexico, it is learned that they
can count on sufficient funds to carry
| out their project. 1t is stated that the
recent rumors that the concessionaires'
efforts had ended in a fiasco were start
ed by enemies of the enterprise.
MANY deaths from pneumonia result
| ing from influenza are reported from all
| parts of the country.
ADvICES from the Republic of San
| Salvador state that the revolutionists in
| the Department or CuScatian are re-
! treating before the government troops
| sent against them. and that the revolu-
| ton is of no Importance.
Mrs. ROBERT STEWART. the wife of
the superintendent of telegraph of the
| New Jersey Central Railroad Company,
committed suicide by jumping over
| board from a ferry-boat between Jersey
| City and Brooklyn. Her body has not
| been recovered.
HERR REINDORF, who some time ago
! was forced to flee from Germany owing
| to his advanced AnarchiStic teachings
| and proclivities, returned to Leipsic
| from America recently. Though great
| secrecy was observed with regard to his
| presence, the authorities became aware
of his return and with equal secrecy ar
rested him.
MES. MARIA ROBBINS. of New York,
will in the spring erect a library build
ing to cost $3.50, 600, at Arlington, Mass,
which. together with 10, 900 volumes, in
tended as the nucleus of great library,
she will present to the city.
THE protracted silence of Consul John
son with regard to recent events in
Mozambique and the acts of Serpa Pinto
encourages the belief that he is organic
ing force to drive the Portuguese from
the position they have assumed.
THE trial of ninety-one Socialists,
which had been progressing at Elber-
field, Germany, for several days, was
"a h. Dn+I, pn1,n
Griltenberger and forty-four others were
acquitted; Deputy Harm was sentenced
| to six months Imprisonment and the
other prisoners were imprisoned for
terms varying from eighteen months to
fourteen days.
II is stated that the illness of the
Gar was caused by excitement conse-
quent upon the sudden extinguishment
of the electric lights in the Gatschina
Palace, which caused an immediate
rush of blood to the lungs, with result
ant congestion.
HENRY Nj. STANLEY, accompanied by
Evan Smith, British Consul-General at
Zanzibar, sailed from Zanzibar for Nom
bassa on the 3Oth. The remainder of
the Stanley expedition left for Nom
bassa on the 31st.
LORD SALISBURY was reported seri-
ously i'll on the Both.
TIE Republican members of the
Massachusetts State Senate met in eau
Gus, on the 1st, and nominated Henry
w. Sprague. of Boston, for president.
The Democrats of the Senate held no
caucus. The House Democrats held Il
caucus. but made no nominations. Both
| branches of the Legislature met at
eleven o'clock for organization.
CHAS. RITTER. New York City baker,
became crazy, on the 1st as a result of
too much liquid Refreshments, and while
calling on two young women drew a
knife and badly cut them both and then
ran amuck through the tenement house
creating a small panic. He was finally
| captured, and the two girls We're taken
to the hospital. One of them is likely
| to die from her in juries.
JAMES \. BYRNS, an inveterate cigar
| cite smoker, aged twenty years, COM
mitted suicide at Terre Haute, Ind, on
the evening of the Doth, by putting a
| bullet throug h his head.
THE International Marine Conference
| at Washington adjourned sine die at
noon of the S1st.
AMONG the deaths in New York City,
on the 1st, were: From pneumonia, 56;
phthisis. ~, and bronchitis, 20.
| THE negro citizens of Atlanta, Ga,
| celebrated Emancipation Day, on the
| 1st, with military parade and exer-
cises at the Lloyd Street Church.
| THE Berlin Tageblatt claims to have
information from an undeniable source
that DR.. Peters and party are certainly
| alive.
| THE funeral services over the remains
| of Robert Browning. the poet, were
! held in Westminster Abbey on the 31st.
IN an alteration, on the 31St, between
! the Republican incumbent and the
| Democratic shcriff-elect of Silver Bow
County, Mont. both drew pistols but
were prevented by bystanders from US
| ing them.
THE paupers' school at Forest Gate,
| London. connection of the White
| chapel Unions, was burned. on the morn
| ing of the LIST. and twenty-SiX boys who
were asleep in the upper stories were
suffocated before they could be rescued.
Fifty-eight others were rescued by the
attaches of the institution and members
of the fire brigade amidst the most in
tense excitement and at great risk.
| CHARLES King. of Middleton, Mass.
| probably the oldest man in New En-
gland. who will be one hundred and
eight years of age on January 10. cele-
brated the New Year by family gath
ering, forty of his descendants being
| present Mr.. KING was horn in Middle