Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-01-29

cot. Orvillc r. Flatt. Reps New lamp |
shire. Jacob ii. Gallinger, Rep: Penn
sylvania, J. Donald Cameron. Rep; |
OREGON. John IL. Mitchell, Rep; Wash |
ington. Watson c. Squire, Rep: Colo |
RADIO II. u. Teller, Rep; Arkansas, |
james II Jones, Dem.
ACCORDING to the Western Tobacco
Journal the production of manufact-
ured tobacco in 1890 in the thirteen
principal tobacco manufacturing dis
tricts was 20i, $40, 1870 pounds. an in
crease of about $4,000, 600 pounds. The
production of cigars in 1890 was phe
nomenal. The manufacture in the last
half of the year exceeded the first six
months by nearly 100, 000.000 The
Journal says: despite all newspaper
sensations, all acts Of legislation and
all 'reformers,' cigarettes continue to
largely increase in consumption, the
increase in 1880 being about 100000, GOO,
or about thirteen per cent"
CHIEF OF POLICE MARSH of Chicago
estimates that there are between 1000
and 5000 men in the city who are I'M
able to obtain work. Most of them are
artisans who went there in anticipation
that work on the Worlds Fair buildings
would begin ere this time. He fears
that many of them will be driven to
crime through want.
THE Farmers Alliance of Ohio, in ses-
sion at Gallon, on the 21st. adopted res
olutions demanding that the Govern
ment loan farmers money at two per
| cent, and that postage be reduced to
one cent. y proposition to unite the
State organization with the Knights OF
Labor was unfavorably received.
THE fOurtecn-ycar-old son of NJ F.
Beebc committed suicide at Denver,
| Col. on the 21st, by taking Rough on
Rats" The boy had been an invalid for
| eight years, and, becoming Respondent
| over his continued ill-health, took Il
whole box of the poison. This was his
| third attempt at sclf-dcstructiOn.
| A PRELIMINARY census report shows
| that the quantity of distilled spirits con-
sumed in the arts. manufactures and
medicine in the United States during
the wear erded December 81, 1889, was
! 1896. 81 gallons
| THEODORE NORTHW0oD. Il boss roller
| in the iron rolling-mills at BOonton. y.
j., was caught between the rollers,
while making some repairs. on the 22d.
and was drawn through, his body being
crushed ont as fat as 4 sheet of paper.
The rollers turn ont wrought-iron plates
half an inch in thickness, and North
woods body passed through this space,
his flesh and bones being crushed to
jelly.
TIE Ohio State Alliance sent Il tele-
gram to the General Assembly. on the
| DIST. asking the repeal Of the law cX-
cmptinr manufactured products from
taxation for one year after production.
| Before the House adjourned the same
evening the bill was passed with but
few dissenting votes.
The Dublin Express states that
| Ncssrs. Parnell, O'Brien. Dillon and
! Mccarthy have merely reached an
agreement i'll regard to the mainte-
nance of a status quo until the coming
| general election.
| CAPTAIN JoHN Nancy was wayiald
and murdered. on the 21st, on the road
about three miles from his home in
| Sumter County. s. c. Twonegroes have
! been arrested on suspicion.
| SURROGATE RANSOM of New York de
cidcd. on the 22d. that the marriage of
| Eva l.. Hamilton to Robert Ray llamll-
ton was void and that Eva Is still the
wife OF Joshua j. Mann.
| MEISSONrER the illustriouS French
painter, is seriously i'll with bronchitis.
The violence of the attack, added to his
advanced age, creates extreme anxiety
as to the result.
PADIEwSKI. the Polish murderer of
the Russian General Seliverskot, is sup
posed to he in Colorado.
THE tow-b0at Silas =. Coe caught fire
at Cincinnati. at / q. m, on the 23d.
from the explosion of Il stern light, and
was burned to the waters edge. The
night Waterman. Bush Carney, was
! burned to a crisp.
BRIGADIER-GENERAL CURRY, ". n.
c. photographed from Coulee City. Wash,
on the Esd. that be had had a conference
with seventy Indians, including all the
chiefs in Olianogan County. and that
they had agreed to stop dancing or
carrying arms excepting when hunting.
SARA BERvuARDr left Havre for New
| York on the steamer La Champagne
on the I'D.