Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-01-30

found dead in his bath-tub at Cam
bridge, Mass, on the 22d. He was
seventy-two years of age.
JAMES FITZGERALD WOLFF. of Mon
treal, Can, general inspector of out
ports and agent of the customs secret
service died, on the 21st, of pneumonia
resulting from influenza.
On the oath Herr Most was sentenced
to one years imprisonment and $500 line
for his fiery utterances in a speech in
New York City about the time of the
hanging of the Chicago Anarchists
By a vote of al to IL the Spanish
Chamber of Deputies has passed a bill
granting the right of suffrage to all
male persons of Spanish birth of and
above the age of twenty-five years.
MIR. GLADSTONE in a speech at Ches-
ter on the 22d, said he would decline to
criticize the British Governments dis
pute with Portugal until he should be-
come better informed in the matter.
AT a banquet given in his honor, on
the 21st, Mayor White of Windsor, Ont,
said he was not afraid to stand by a
platform the chief plank of which was
political union with the United States
On the oath the Syracuse On. " Iron
Works property, which has been in liti-
CATION since 1884, was sold on a judg-
ment in favor of the holders of $50, 600
worth of the bonds of the assigned COM
pany.
THE locomotive engineers of the Van
derbilt lines who had been in session at
the Tiff House in Buffalo, \. V, for
several days. left for their homes on the
oath, without making public any of their
proceedings
GENERAL. SHERMAN will be given a
dinner by the Union League Club of
New York City on February 5, his sew
entieth birthday. President Harrison
and the members of the Cabinet are eX-
pected to attend.
THE great bridge across the Firth of
Forth, which will be formally opened
by the Prince of Wales in March, was
tested, on the 21st. by the passage of a
train weighing 1000 tons. The testwas
pronounced in every respect a success.
On the oath the schooner J. c. Craig
arrived at Portland. Me-, with the crew
of the schooner Fairfield which sank.
on the night of the , Sd, nine miles off
Small Point. The crew took to the
boats and were picked up by the Craig.
THE Comte de Paris, at the termina-
ton of his visit to Lisbon. will, instead
of returning to London, make a visit to
America, lasting about two months, or
until the existing feeling in Portugal
against Great Britain shall have been
appeased.
TAE London Times correspondent at
Lisbon says strong protests have been
made against the Interpretation of hos
tility to England placed upon the pres
ence of the American Minister at the
anti-English meeting of the Geographic
cal Society.
IN executive session of the Senate, on
the 22d, the seal of secresy was removed
from the Samoan treaty signed at Ber-
lin, June Il, 1889, by the plenipotenta-
ries of the United States, Germany and
Great Britain. The treaty had been
published before.
DIRECTOR OF THE MINT LEECH denies
the published statement that 5000. 900
illegal United States silver dollars
made in Mexico and sent to the United
States are now in circulation. He says
he is unaware that any such coin is in
circulation anywhere in the United
States.
WM. f. Villas, ex-Secretary of the In
terror, was in Washington on the 21st.
In the evening he attended dinner in
Baltimore, Md, but returned the next
day to the capital, to remain for several
days. This was Mr.. Villas first visit to
the capital since his retirement from
public life.
THE condition of abnormally low tenn
perature prevailing over the country, on
the morning of the 22d, was the most eX-
tensive of the season. With the excep-
ton of East Florida, Texas, New Mexico
and the Indian Territory the tempera-
ture over the entire country was below
the average.
POSTMASTER GENERAL RAIKEs, of
England, has assumed the parentage CT
a Colonial Penny Post bill which he in
tends to introduce in Parliament.
Meanwhile he is earnestly advocating
the measure on every available occasion
with the result of having already gained
saveral converts to his views.