Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-12-31

The Crescentpottcry, At Trenton, N.
J., covering five acres and employing
over 500 men, was burned on the Esd.
Estimated loss, $4,000. The owners are
Cook & Hancock.
In court at Reading, Pa, on the 23d,
Reuben Rhodes, night Waterman in the
Berks county Jail, who pleaded guilty
to gross negligence in helping in the
release of two prisoners, was sentenced
to one years imprisonment and $500
fine; and Warden Henech, under whose
administration it was alleged the Jail
has been the scene of some gross irreg-
ularities, in which the female prisoners
played prominent part, was removed
from Office.
A DISPATCH to the London Times
from it's correspondent at Santiago de
Chile says that Gen. Campo, with a
force of $50 men, has attacked the town
of Santa Victoria in the province of Rio
Grande do Sui.
MYSTERY is connected with the APP
pearance of a freight car which is car
ried between Manchester and Ports
mouth, N. H., and which arrived in
Portsmouth on the Esd. The outside of
the car near the door was spattered
with blood, and inside the car were
found two large pools of blood and a
handker: chief and mans hat covered
with blood stains, and piece of pipe
with blood stains on it.
A ToDDI.ING babe of w. T. Rudolph,
of McCracken county, KY, fell into a
kettle of boiling water. on the evening
of the ed, and was scalded SO that it
died in a few moments. The child in
its agony rolled from the pot, or it
would have been boiled to death, it be-
ing alone.
PURSUANT to the directions embraced
in letter from the president to the
head of each department, dated Deem
Der 4. 1891, the secretary of the treas
ury has completed plan, which will
take effect ON the 1st, under which all
promotions in the treasury department
will hereafter be made on a basis of
merit only, and as the result Of compel
tive examinations
WHILE skating on the bay at Ash
land. Wis, on the 25tb, Joseph Slosson,
senior at the Faribault (Minn.l acad-
envy. and Mabel Shores, of Ashland,
broke through the ice, and the former
was drowned. He sustained his COM
panion until help reached them. but
was himself SO exhausted that he fell
back and floated under the ice.
WARNED of the approach of burglars,
Mrs Willard w. Searle, of Lansing
burg, n. Y, ran into her room, caught
up box of jewels containing several
Thousand dollars worth of diamonds,
and opening a window jumped 16 feet
to the ground, breaking her arm. but
saving her stones.
THE receiver of the Maverick ma
tional bank of Boston has now on de-
posit with the subtreasury in that city
S. $50, 362. The cases against the Nav
erick directors will be presented to the
grand jury when it assemblies on Feb
ruary 2, and will then have precedence
THE funeral of the late Senator
Plumb, of Kansas, took place at EN-
poria on the Gath. All places of bust
ness were closed and business houses
and residences were alike draped with
EN- blems of mourning.
A DISPATCH from Buenos Ayres says
that Gen. Roca has reiterated his de-
cision not to be candidate for the
presidency of the Argentine Republic
in the coming presidential campaign.
Mrs. MAY HELEN BAIRD, the widow
of the late Spencer f. Baird. the dis
tinguished secretary of the Smithson-
ian institute, died in Washington city,
on the 23d. aged II.
PROMINENT naval officer is author
ity for the statement that the United
States government will soon take steps
to bring the Gillian matter to crisis.
Mr. GLADSTONE and Mr.. Morley have
been unanimously elected members of
the English club of Biarritz, France.
Mr. R. P. Foss. the owner of the
Clinton dynamite works which ex-
ploded at Haverstraw, n. Y, a few
weeks'ago. gave Christmas present of
81, 900 each to the four widows who lost
their husbands in the disaster.
LowENTHAL, LIVINGSTONE & Co., of
San Francisco. have failed, with liza bill
ties of about $500, 900, which is nearly
all due to English firms A fall in the
price of shipping and in the value of
salmon is said to have caused the fail
ure.