Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-03-05

1HE house committee on post offices
and post roads. on the 26th. ordered a
favorable report on the joint resolution
introduced by Mr.. Flower, asking that
commission be appointed to see if in
creased postal facilities are needed in
New York City.
PACIFIC MAIL went up two points, re-
Gently. on the strength of a report that
Maj. Mckinley had bought 1000 shares
knowing that the subsidy bill would
pass. The purchaser proved to be an
other Mckinley.
The body of Miss Gertrude HickoX,
young society belle of Milwaukee,
Wis, who had been missing from the
home of her parents since early on the
evening of the 18th, was found in the
lake. near the Northwestern depot, on
the Goth.
GREAT throngs of people gathered at
Portsmouth. England, on the Goth, to
see the royal pageant accompanying
the launching of the new war ships,
the Royal Arthur and the Royal Sover-
eign. The queen otficiated at the cere-
mony.
THE ceremony of the baptism of the
infant daughter of Count and Countess
Pappenheim. nee Wheelock, which took
place in Berlin, on the Goth, was quite
a society event. Count SchOuvalOff, the
Russian ambassador, and Mr.. Phelps,
the United States minister, were the
godfathers.
GEN. DA FoNsECA took the oath of of
flee as president of Brazil, on the 26th,
in the presence of the two houses of
congress. The president received the
individual congratulations of the men,
bers and afterward reviewed the troops.
On the Goth a fire broke out in the
lower hold of the British steamer Tri-
poll. Capt. Dunn, of Liverpool, from
Galveston, at Liverpool, and before the
flames could be quenched 500 bales of
cotton were damaged by fire and water.
Mrs. MATILDA VosE, aged nearly 103,
died, on the 18th, in Hyde Park, Mass,
from the effects of a recent fall. She
had been in good health and was about
the house as usual until few days be-
fore her death. when she slipped from
chair while replacing a curtain fixture
and broke her hip.
EX-COUNTY CLERK HART of Ashland
county, Wis, was eXonerated of the
charge of being defaulter by the coun-
ty board on the Goth. Supervisor Fisher
was censured for making the report
charging Hart with embezzlement.
Hart had simply made clerical error
of SIS, 900 in his accounts.
THEODORE HUMPERT, of Milan, Ind,
told his wife, on the night of the 25th,
that he was going out to lie down upon
the railway track and let the cars run
over him. She told him to go and sober
up A few moments afterward he heard
train coming. and laid down as he
threatened, and was instantly killed.
CAPT. JOHN w. MARKLE, one of the
early settlers of Dubuque, Ia, died on
the Goth, aged "a. He settled in Du-
buque in 1888, with the few pioneers
who crossed the river at the close of
the Black Hawk war. He commenced
business as a miner, and afterward en-
gagged in SteambOating as captain of
the old line steamboats,. He was lieu
tenant of Company F of the Thirty-sev-
enth Iowa infantry.
WHILE three men We're returning
from work on a handcar at Santa Cruz,
Cal, on the 27th, the car jumped the
track and passed over their bodies, kill
ing all three instantly.
1T was announced on the 27th that
United States Treasurer Huston had
resigned. and that j. A. Lemcke, eX-
state treasurer of Indiana, would be his
successor.
SENATOR BLAIR, of New Hampshire,
was, on the 27th, appointed minister to
China, and the appointment was prompt
ly confirmed by the senate on the same
day.
THE report that the men in the
Spring Hill On. s. mine secretly used
open lamps while at work in the breasts
is to be investigated.
DR.. BLANC, chief sanitary inspector
of the Louisiana state board of health,
has announced that there are in the
city of New Orleans twenty-five fully
developed cases of leprosy, and that no
steps can be taken for the care of the
afflicted people, as no provision has
been made by the city or state govern
ments to look after them and prevent
the spread of the terrible disease.