Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-02-05

DR.. SULLIVAN WHITSEY. the hrSt
American physician to manufacture
homeopathic remedies, died at Newton
vile, Mass, on the 2Sth, aged eighty
three,
OVER one hundred people lost thCir
lives in floods following terrific storm
on the island of Massowah, Egypt, on
the 2Sth. and the loss of property was
enormous.
The North Carolina House of Repre-
sentatives, on the 10Th. passed the reso-
luton declining to make an appropri-
alton for the Worlds Fair in the event
of the passage of the Elections bill.
similar resolution had already been
passed by the Senate.
II is said that Senator Quay is about
to break his long silence by a speech in
the Senate in reply to the various
charges of corruption and criminality
which have been SO freely made against
him
]. ii. BUTLER, the night elevator man
in the Omaha (Neb.) Bee building, was
found dead in the elevator, on the Goth,
having been crushed in the shaft.
THE Paris Rappel announced. onsthe
Goth, that the committee on pardons
had pronounced in favor of committing
the sentence of death passed upon
Michael Eyraud. the murderer of Goutfe,
to one OF imprisonment for life.
NEWS reached Columbus. Ind. on the
Goth, of the Wholesale poisoning of the
family of Nicholas Miller near Edin-
| burg, from eating head-cheese. Eight
mem bers of the family We're taken vio-
lently sick two hours after eating it,
III n
! aid.
CHARLES MILLER, a clerk in the mail
| ing division of the st. Louis post-otfice,
was arrested. on the evening of the
Goth. by Inspectors Dice, Freeman and
Williams, on charge of rihing letters.
| He had been connected with the de-
partmcnt for three years.
BRIGADIER GENERAL MERRITT re
| ceived dispatch at st. Louis. on the
| 10Th, from the commander at Fort Sill.
| |. T.. stating that the kiOwaS had been
| informed by message from their Sioux
| friends in the Northwest that the Mes
siah was false prophet. and that the
| Indians of that region had ceased to
| have faith in him.
SUIT has been begun in the Jennings
| County und.) Circuit Court against ".
| IL. Shucll. eX-county treasurer. to re-
| cover II. 209. the amount of his alleged
| shortage after deducting $1,000 paid
| over by him on demand.
| CONSTABLE RIORDAN, of Bean Bios
| som, Ind. has got himself in Il queer
| legal predicament. In serving war
rant Lowing on a horse owned by man
named Parsely he took the horse first
| and made levy by serving the warrant
| afterNard. and now Parsely has had
him arrested for stealing the horse.
T. y. MANN, leading citizen of Min
den. Ncb.. is fugitive from a mob on
| account of terribly manning cow
which he owned. The animal injured
his little boy. and in his rage he placed
| the animal in a closed sta BILE and sawed
her legs off. y crowd of angry citizens
/ chased the man from the town and Off
GERS of the law are looking for him.
THE business failures occurring
throughout the country during the
seven days ended on the a0th, number
for the United State. 21S, and for Can
| ada. A. or total of $40, as compared
with a total of $50 the previous week.
For the corresponding week of last
year the figures We're 291, representing
246 failures in the United States and 10
| in the Dominion of Canada.
The announcement of Secretary Win
dom death caused deep sorrow in the
American colony in London. Flags on
! the Legation building were displayed at
| half-mast.
TWELVE THOUSAND CHILEAN troops
sent against the insurgents have gone
over to the enemy.
THE wife of the American sculptor
Ball died in Florence, Italy, on the
30th.
y FINANCIAL panic prevails in Bnenos
Ayres.
Two MASKED men entered a San Fran
cisco grocery store. on the 30th, and
with drawn revolvers ordered the four
occupants to throw up their hands.
The command was obeyed, and one Ot
the robbers took about $500 from the
till, with which they made their es'
cape.