Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-12-11

handiwork of Jack the Ripper" has
been found in the vicinity of Borne,
Switzerland.
THE House committee on the eleventh
census gave hearing, on the 5th. to q
delegation from New York City, who
appeared to urge 4 new census enumer-
alton of that city
DELAMETER & Co., bankers, of Mead
vile, Pa, closed their doors, on the 5th,
and made an assignment for the benefit
of their creditors. The liabilities will
exceed q million dollars.
EDITOR SIDNEY CORBETT, of the De-
troit tMich.l Critic, a society journal,
was, on the Sd, severely caned by eX-
Mayor Thompson, of whose daughter,
Miss Lillian, he had written in a slight
ing manner.
Mr. r. T. REID. NJ. p, has declared
himself in favor of home rule for Scot
land. He says that the United King
dom stands unique in endeavoring to
1egislate through one Parliament for
four countries.
THE thermometer, on the morning of
at the Signal-Service station at Amper
sand, Saranac Lake, N. V, being the
lowest mercury ever recorded at that
station at this time of the year.
c. W. MACUNE. chairman of the Ma
tional Alliance executive committee, is
under charges of illegal dealing in
reference to the Georgia State Senator
ship, and of perverting the purity and
dignity of his Office in half dozen
ways.
Mrs. MARY TURPIE, mother of Sen
ator David Turpie, was burned to death,
at her home near Delphi, Ind, on the
Sd. She was arranging the fire in All
old-fashioned Fireplace when her cloth
ing ignited. She was nearly ninety
years of age.
THE condition of Admiral David d.
Porter, who has been seriously i'll for
several months has not improved. He
is suffering from fatty degeneration of
the heart, and this, in connection with
his extreme age, makes his condition
very precarious.
THE news of the formal repudia ton
of Parnell by the Catholic Episcopacy
of Ireland was received at the Vatican
with the greatest satisfaction, and His
Holiness for the first time in years eX-
pressed himself openly in approval OF
the course of the Irish Bishops.
THREE men were crushed to death
and two others were badly injured, on
the 5th, by a apidly passing coal train.
while standing in front of the office of
the Reading Railroad Company at Pier Z
in Philadelphia. waiting to be paid off.
Many others had narrow escapes.
QTHE international roundup OF cattle
in the Cherokee Strip is finished. and
the startling discovery made that over
1000 head of cattle have been stolen
and driven to the Southwest The
Arkansas company are the heaviest
losers. 700 head having been cut out OF
their herd by the thieves.
WOoD, the eolored wife-murderer sem
fenced to electrocutioH in New York,
and in whose behalf Governor Hill re-
fused to interfere. has been granted an
appeal to the United States Supreme
Court. which will operate as a stay I'M
til that court either dismisses the APP
peal or disposes of it upon its merits.
ALL the large mine operators of Ala
bama held q meeting at Birmingham.
on the 5th, and adopted resolution
setting forth that they positively de-
clined to advance the price of mining,
and that they would under no consider
alton confer with the executive COM
mittee of the United Workers of Amer
lea
FATHEE CRAFT. the well-known Cath
Ollie missionary who had been with the
Sioux Indians for years, but for the
past four months has been in New York
City, has returned to the Rosebud
Agency. He is we'll known throughout
the whole Sioux Nation. and will prob
ably exert a good influence among the
tribes.
WHEN the United States ship AL
lance arrived at Ponape, Caroline
Islands, it was found that war
had broken out between the
natives and the Spanish. The Ameri-
can missionaries wero accused of eaus-
ing the war; and the Alliance was forced
to remove the missionaries to the ISL
and of Oualan.
THE Indictment against Mrs. Eva
Hamilton. charging her with con-
spiracy, was recommended for dismissal
by the district attorney of New York
on the ID. He claims that the charge
could not be proven now that Mr.. Ham
ilton is dead. Judge MARITIME re-
fused to entertain the motion until he
had evidence to show this state of facts
AT the meeting of the National Col
ored Alliance at Ocala, Fla, on the 5th,
q resolution was offered condemning
the action of the white Alliance IN pass
ing a resolution in opposition to the
Federal Elections bill, because such ac-
ton has no reference whatever to the
aims and purposes of the organization,
and was calculated to check the growth
of the Alliance"
THE recent trials at Tipperary
brought out the fact that a considerable
number of the tenants had hesitated in
Joining in the Plan of Campaign and
giving up their property, in which many
of them had invested much money. one
tenant, for instance, paying ground
rent of eco year for an estate which
he and his father had improved at an
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