Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-10-02

FIR. broke oI.t n the city or A>2ln-
wall. L. :. C., on the night ot tue
odd. and spreal with great rapidity I'M
til about two-thirds Of the city was de-
stroyed. Terrible scenes of disorder
marked the progress of the conaagra-
ton. Crowds of rioters and plunderers
roamed the streets. In dispensing these
gangs the aolice found it necessary to
fire upon them and several persons were
killed.
Two large lottery companies from the
United States have asked the Mexican
Government for concessions, but Presi-
dent D.az says he will refuse the re-
quests.
THInTY-FIvE members of the Pennsyl-
vania Prohibition State committee met
at Harrisburg, on the oath, and nomi-
mated John G.. Gill, "of Westmoreland,
for Governor, to take the place of
Charles Miller, who declined. Mr.. Gill
was present and accepted the nomina-
ton.
AT the school election at Bingham
ton, \. Y, on the 24th. over 500 women
cast their ballots. the largest vote of
women ever polled in that place. Active
electioneering was INDUCED in by many
of the ladies and several leading So
ciety women voted. The wife of one
candidate drove around in her carriage
all day bringing women TO the polls to
vote for her husband.
GEORGE Z. WHITNEY, of Albany, n.
V, pleaded guilty in the United States
Court at Buffalo, on the 25th. to the
charge OF classifying entries in the books
of the Albany City National Bank, and
acknowledged a Misrepresentation OF
funds to the extent of 1000 He was
sentenced to seven years in the Albany
penitcntiary.
THE Tenth Ohio district Republican
Congressional convention, on the 18th,
nominated Robert E. Doan on the three
hundred and thirty-fourth ballot.
AT the Virginia State Military Insti-
tute in Lexington, on the 25th,
Cadet Warren Taliaferro lad of fif-
teen years and member of one of the
foremost families of the State, residing
at Norfolk, lost his life as the re-
suit of = fsticuff encounter with Cadet
Frank McConnico, aged twenty, of
Bryan, Tex, first year of attendance.
TIE Corn Palace Exposition at Sioux
City, Ia, was opened to the public on
the evening Of the Goth. The music is
furnished by the Elgin (Ill.) Band. The
city Is caiIy decorated, and every thing
gives promise OF an entertaining and
prosperous festival.
STEPHEN ID. HOUGHT ALING, for TWEEN
ty-thrcc years an employe of the New
York post-oifice. has been arrested on
charge of having stolen overcoats, jack
no Nv
thefts covered q period of several
months. He admitted his guilt.
SUIT for SSIG, 3l5 has been begun in
Philadelphia against the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company by Lewis j. Levick
under the anti-discrimination law OF
1883. Mr.. Levick's suit is based upon
shipments of oil from the oil regions of
Pennsylvania to the Seaboard Oil Works
at Thurlow, Delaware County, between
March, 1884, and March, 1885.
HERR SoNNEBERY, Socialist, has
been sentenced at Berlin to three
months Imprisonment for lese ma jeste,
because he remarked that Emperor
William himself in time would become
a Socialist.
CAPTAIN A. r. EGBERT, of the Second
United States Infantry, died at + ort
Omaha, Neb., on the 25th.
TIE damage by the recent floods in
the Department of Ardeche, France,
alone amounts to 80, 600, 600 francs
GREAT excitement prevails in India
over the discovery of gold at Nagapore,
and there is rush for shares in mining
companies.
AN election to fill the vacancy in the
Twenty-seventh Pennsylvania Congress
sional district, caused by the death of
Lewis L. Watson, will be held ON No
vember +.
THE eleven-year-old son of Thomas
Benson, of Straitsville. o., was literal
" roasted to death before his fathers
eyes, on the Goth, in a wreck on the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad near Midway
Switch, O.
SECRETARY QUISN of the milwaukee,
Base Ball Club says that the milwaukee,
team, as it now stands, will be put into
the American Associa ton next year;
| that the deal has been completed, and
it IS q settled fact.