Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-11-12

ScottsburE, Scott county, Ind. ceie-
brated their golden wedding on the 5th.
Upwards of p 900 people participated in
the notable event, and two beeves, five
fatted calves, besides number of sheep
and swine, were killed and roasted in
honor thereof
IT was announced on the 5th that
President Da Fonseca of Brazil had
called an election of the people to choose
new congress. Rio Janeiro is pro-
claimed in a state of siege. The opinion
in Europe is that a revolution is in
progress All cablegrams are closely
scrutinized before transmission from
Brazil.
THE Leavenworth (Kas.) Coal Co. has
been sued by the United States to make
an accounting for all the coal mined by
| them on the military reservation since
1865.
DR. H. NJ. SNYDER, of Nashville,
Tenn, who was supposed to have been
| drowned three years ago, has been
heard from in Denver, Col. He will
shortly return to his old home.
| JULIO CAMPO, who says he is a gen.
eral in the Colomb ian army, is under
arrest at New York for having robbed
the body of his dead landlady of $500
and valuabies. He confessed and most
of the property has been returned.
| JOSE VERA and Juan Bazan, two Of
the men recently executed in Mexico
| by order of Gen. Garcia, were American
citizens
| Mrs. MoCHEL, an insane woman in
Buffalo, n. Y, kept her mothers corpse
1 in the house two months, waiting for
it to wake up"
/ A GOVERNMENT survey has estab-
lished the fact that the true line, as de-
clared when Ohio was organized into a
state, commences IL miles west of the
present boundry line at the north, and
runs directly south to the present line
between Ohio and Indiana, thus MAX
i ing a strip 200 miles long and of an
average width of miles, 200 square
milessto which the state of Ohio lays
4 claim. The strip described includes
the cities of Fort Wayne, Richmond
and Union City, and population alto
Egether'of about 100000
/ SEVERAL Chinese have been be-
headed at Wuchang, by order Of the
I,viceroy, for posting placards melting to
violence. Ever since the captain of
the British gunboat Aspie notified the
viceroy that in case of further attacks
upon foreign residents. the gunboat
would shell his excellency's palace,
comparative order has been main
tanned.
WHILE Mrs. Robare, a Woodworking
widow. was absent from her home in
Lyon Mountain, n. Y. on the 9th, the
children set fire to the house, and the
youngest, aged 8, was burned to death.
Two men who were boarding with the
woman lost $7O0 cash, which they had
saved and laid away in their trunks.
AT Sassari. in Sardinia, discharged
convict named Derosas, actuated by a
desire for revenge, shot and killed DR..
Usini and a male and female peasant,
all of whom had been witnesses
against him in the trial at which lac
had been convicted.
ADMIRAL MONT has been unani-
mously elected president of Chilli, and
has accepted on the condition that he
be free from partisan obligations He
considers his acceptance as a personal
sacrifice to the wishes of the country.
ACTING SECRETARY SPAULDING has
instructed collectors of customs to adj
NIT free of duty (under certain eondi
tions) until July l. 1892, all machinery
intended for use in producing sugar
from beets.
THE steamer Washington, which had
been given up as lost, put into Seattle,
Wash. on the 9Th. badly disabled.
PRESIDENT DEoDoR DA FoNsEcA has
been proclaimed dictator of Brazil.
A DISPATCH from Buenos Ayres
states that the senate of the Argentine
republic has passed the bill repeating
the tax levied upon private bank de-
posits.
A PROMINENT banker of Boston is
quoted as saying that he himself tele-
graphed to Comptroller Lacey at Wash
ington six months ago that the Maver-
ick bank was in a shaky condition; that
he received reply that he 1.-THE comp.
troller) knew it, but advising him (the
banker) to withhold any report in the
hope that the bank might recover and
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