Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-10-23

PAlMA>TER GEORGE a. DEEKING, u
S. N, was found dead in bed at his resi-
dence in Washington on the morning
of the 10th. He had died during the
night OF heart disease. He was in his
forty-scventh year.
THE Compromise bill--the one giving
the Governor power to remove the Board
of Public Improvements of Cincinnati,
their successors to be elected at the
next April election-passed the Ohio
Senate on the 10th.
BIDS were opened, on the 10th, for
the erection of the post-office building
at kalamazoo, Mich. Nelson NJ. Bas-
sett, of Austin, H., was the lowest
bidder, at $4,000.
THE loss of life by the Leland Hotel
lire at Syracuse, \. Y, proves not to
have been so great as first reports in
dictated. The total number of fatalities
will not, it is thought, exceed seven,
and about twenty will cover the list of
injured. The loss by the fire will foot
up nearly $40. 200.
FIVE men were fatally, four danger
ously and three or four slightly burn ed
by the breaking loose OF an immense
mass of livid coke in Moorehead, Nc
| Lean & Co.'S rolling mill at Pittsburgh,
Pa, on the 10th. Every rag of clothing
was burned from some of the victims.
GENERAL BELKNAPs funeral took
| place from st. Johns Church, Washing
ton, on the 10th, the remains being es-
corted thence to Arlington Cemetery.
followed by alarge procession of friends,
| among whom were many prominent pub
| lie mon, both civil and military,
A BOLD robbery took place at Ran
dolph, north of Canton, O., on tle 10th.
| Three masked men went to the resi-
dence of merchant named Merriman,
| dragged him from bed and took him to
his store, where they compelled him,
under threat of death, to open his safe
and give over it's contents, amounting
| to several hundred dollars. They then
| bound and gagged their victim and,
taking his gold watch, left.
BERLIN is excited over horrible
| tragedy. \ builder named Schaef, re-
siding in the suburb of Reincke ndorf,
horribly mutilated and killed his wife
and three of his children with Ratchet
and terribly and possibly fatally, in
| jured the remaining two of his five
| children.
TIE newly issued Papal encyclical to
| the Austrian bishops strongly protests
| against the governments violating til e
liberty and rights of the papacy and of
| Catholicism. 1t accuses the Freema
sons Of reversing modern society, and
closes with an appeal to the faithful for
their prayers.
NoN-UNIoN labor is rapidly removing
the Inconvenience Occasioned in New
South Wales by strikes, and the en-
ployers now absolutely refuse to deal
with the unions as such. The military
are still kept on call ready for any vio-
lent outbreak on the part of the unions.
IN q fight between gang of burglars,
VINO were caught at work on safe in
Ohio City, o., on the night of the 10th,
and citizens who attempted to capture
| them, three men were killed-two citi-
zens and a rohbcr. The other robbers
made their escape.
STEPHEN 4. CALDWELL, president of
the Fidelity Trust and Safe Deposit
| Company of Philadelphia, and at one
time one of the receivers of the Phila-
| delphia Il Reading railroad. died sud-
denly at his residence in Philadelphia
on the 18th.
SEVEN prisoners escaped from the
Athens co. Jail. on the 18th, by saw
ing their way through the roof.
TIE new Russian tariff has given a
great impetus to smuggling along the
German and Austrian frontiers, and the
present customs force is inadequate to
prevent the practice.
Hos. AUSTIN ADAMS eX-justice of the
Supreme Court of Iowa, died in Du
| buque, on the 18th, after an illness of
several months.
INTELLIGENCE from The various prov
inces of the Dominion of Canada in
dictate that there is strong feeling
among business men in favor of adopt
ing high tariff in order to practically
exclude American products both raw
| and manufactured.
THE little boat LA Libertad," in
| which Captain Joshua Slocum and his
| family made voyage from Brazil to
| the United States, has been presented
! to the National Museum at Washington.