Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-01-09

Az international II liners congress mas
been arranged by the British Miners
Union and the German miners organi-
cations. and will be held at Berlin dur
ing the present year.
THE increase in Germany'S armament
continues to excite comment The gun
factories al Spandau are still running
night and day.
THE Queen of Saxony, the Queen of
Roumania. Baron Mohrenheim and DR..
Dollinger are among the latest victims
of the influenza.
THE United States ship Richmond.
flagship Of the South Atlantic squadron,
sailed, on the I'd, from Bahia, Brazil,
for Montcvideo. All were we'll.
HENRY NJ. STANLEY departed from
Zanzibar for Cairo, on the I'd. on the
steamer Mansourah. The Sultan of
Zanzibar has decorated Stanley with the
order OF the Blazing Star
ONLY one vote was cast in the Liner
lex Urcland) corporation, on the I'd,
against the restoration of continued
confidence in Mr.. Parnen.
THE vessel with which the City of
Paris collided in the Marsey, on the 1st,
was the British steamer Birchfeld,
bound from Liverpool to Cardiff. The
bowsprit of the City of Paris was not
carried away, as at first reported, but
only slightly damaged. The Birchfield
lost her starboard forerigging and
sprung her foremost.
Hon. I. c. POWER was chosen as the
second Senator from Montana by the
Repu blican members of the Legislature
in Joint session on the I'd.
HIRAM HOWE. the famous horseman,
died at Gravesend, n. Y, on the I'd.
During his life he brought out many of
the most famous trotters.
THERE are 400 cases of ia grippe"
among the prisoners in Clinton On "
prison. The warden, clerk and assist
ant clerk are confined to their beds.
For the first time since the National
lists had a majority in the Drogheda
Ireland) corporation the Queens health
was drunk at the mayoralty New Years
banquet on the 1st.
THREE prisoners escaped from the
Ohio pcnitentiary on the night of the
Sd. They concealed themselves in the
kitchen at lOclling-up time, and then
crawled through Il ventilatOr, thus gain
ing the open courtyard inside the walls
whence they escaped by means of a
rope.
IT is said that the President has fin
ally decided to adopt Secretary Win
dOm's recommendation that the Govern
ment shall accept silver bullion and is
sue certificates therefor at the market
rate, the certificates to serve as cur
rency; and that the President will soon
send a N ConrrpSS Sl1b
ject.
HERR BAUMANN, the explorer, will
shortly proceed to Zanzibar and other
parts OF Southeast Africa in the interest
of German company.
THE postal authorities of Austria are
violently agitated over the theft of
letter containing 800, 600 in transit be-
tween PcSth and Vienna.
AN eminent Paris physician concurs
in the belief expressed by Lord Sails
bury that the latters influenza was
transmitted from Russia in dispatches
which came to the London Foreign Of
flee from st. Petersburg.
JOHN LILLE. at present register of the
land-otfice at Guthrie, is being pushe d
by Indiana friends for the position of
Governor of Oklahoma.
THERE is a movement on foot to or
ganize q National loan and savings as
ISOLATION with headquarters at Buffalo,
n. Y, and branch offices in several
Northern and Eastern cities, with
capital of $50, 900, 600.
CHOLERA is raging frightfully at Ham
MADAM. Persia. Many deaths have oc-
Cured and it is feared that the disease
will spread to Teheran in the spring.
JOHN RUSKIN is again i'll
TIE Russian Government has ordered
the manufacture of 1000, 900 magazine
rifles in France, the delivery of the
weapons to be made as speedily as pos
Sible.
THE steamship Brittanic, New York
for Liverpool, ran down and sunk the
brigantine CZarowitz, on the night of
the I'd, in the Irish sea off the Mersey.
The Captain of the CZarowitz was
drowned. All the others on board were
saved by the crew of the Brittanic,
though the work of rescue was rendered
difficult by the severe cold weather.