Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-02-19

gr0t1 county 3f9lSIer.
BY ELI D. AXE.
tRoNToN. MISSOURI
NJ. De LESsEPS announces the issue
of sixty thousand three per cent. de-
benture bonds for SueZ canal improve
ments at 42O per 50O-franc share.
RAoUL, better known as Dick
Mandelbaum, of San Francisco, has
fed to Australia, leaving the liquor
firm of Mandelbaum & Sons, 100000
short.
CHARLES PRATT, an Englishman who
recently committed suicide at Annecy.
France. proves to have been possessed
of fortune of e2OS, 900, to which he re-
Gently fell heir.
ADMIRAL DAVID ID. PORTER, who had
been in failing health for some years,
died suddenly, on the 18th, at his resi-
dence in Washington, of fatty degener-
alton of the heart
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ton. Va. Secretary of the Interior I'M
der President Fillmore. was, on the 18th,
reported to be critically i'll and liable
to die at any moment.
THE French police have traced the
individual who sent a false telegram
about affairs in Rio de Janeiro, for
the purpose of creating panic in Bra
hone
his arrest.
FORGED certificates of stock in the
American Sugar Trust have recently
been sold on the floor of the New York
Stock Exchange. The price realized
was SS5 per share. and it is believed the
sales made were extensive.
NEARLY $50 of the men who were en-
ployed at the Lorillard Brick Works, at
Newport. N J.. which recently assigned,
are out of work and in destitute cir
cumstances Money is due to the men
from the works, but they can not get 1t.
COLONEL H. NJ. BLACK. commander
of the Twenty-third Infantry and of
Fort Sam Houston, Tex, was retired
from active service at noon on the 18TH
The period of his active service was
the longest of any officer serving IN the
line.
BY direction of the President, Colonel
]. w. Forsythe, who was suspended by
General Miles for his conduct of the
fight at Wounded Knee, has been re-
stored to his command. This action
was taken as result of the investiga-
Of Il
THE official statistics of loss of life
and limb in the Third Pennsylvania an
thracite coal-mining district for the
wear 1890 show that it was the most
disastrous year in the history of the re-
gion. One hundred men We're killed,
fifty-five of whom left widows.
Mrs. SILAs COvALT. of Muncie, Ind.
has been notified that she is one of the
heirs to the Annel,e Jams estate, in the
heart of New York City. valued at $780,
600. 900. and she and other heirs will
meet at Indianapolis next month. where
definite arrangements will be made to
settle the vast inheritance.
AN important feature of the pro-
gramme for the treatment of the In
dian question is the scheme now being
prepared by the War Department for
the enlistment of Il number of young
bucks for service in the ranks of the
army. 1t is proposed to enlist about
1000, including 500 or 700 scouts.
BERLIN advices say that the kaiser's
eccentricities are attracting more and
more attention every day. In some re-
spects he seems to be initiating the mad
King Louis of Bavaria, by taking I'M
expected trips here and there, and APP
pearing where he is little looked for.
JAMES REDPATH. the famous Irish
Nationalist, journalist and lecturer. and
vice-president of the Anti-Poverty Soci-
ETY., who was run down by horse-car
opposite the New York City post-otfice
one day recently. died at st. Luke 5
Hospital. on the 10th, from the effect OF
his injuries.
On the 18th. the First National and
North Middlesex savings banks of Aver,
Mass. closed their doors, and ugly
rumors are afioat concerning them. III.
E. Spaulding, cashier of the National
institution, is missing. The officers are
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all right. An investigation is in prog
reSS.
THE Supreme Court of New York
upon application of counsel for Matt
Allen. the well-knOwn hOrSe-tralner
has granted an attachment against the
the property in that State of Senator
George Hearst. Allen is suing the Sen
ator for 50. 595 for services in training
his running horses and commissions or
winnings.
J. F. FLETT, agent of the Northwest
ern Elevator Company at Arthur, n
d.. was found murdered in the hay-mOv
of the elevator on the 18th. \ bulle
hole in the back of his head showed
that he had been shot from behind
The crime is supposed to have beer
committed by a man who is said to have
sold n load of stolen wheat to Flett thu
day before.
THE rapid spread of diphtheria AM
tonsilitis has become a serious matte
in the village of Ableman, Wis :
number of deaths have occurred
About thirty serious cases are reported
and it is said that several of these cal
not recover The schools and churche
have been closed, and mothers are TAX
inc their children to neighboring town
- oeo,ra the rOrtaUlOn.