Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-02-25
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

RECENT rich strikes IN the mining
regions of the west would seem to indi-
cate that there are plenty of bonanzas
left in the hills Toe the lucky adven-
turers whose picks may uncover them.
1t has been wisely ordained, however.
that they shall mot allspeak at once"
THE Japanese parliament has voted
$500, for the proper representation
of that empire at the Worlds fair in
Chicago.
A PLAGUE of smallpox and typhus
fever is raging in the eastern portion
of the republic of Mexico, and many
deaths have occurred.
HENRY BLACK. of Red Bluff, Ark,
shot and instantly killed his 1s-year-old
stepdaughter, on the 18th, while she
was endeavoring to protect her mother
from a beating by Black. The MUIR
derer escaped, pursued by a'posse.
THE State Lunatic asylum, near Jack
son, Miss, was burned early on the
morning of the 10th. 1t is supposed to
have been set on fire by a lunatic
named Brown, who persisted in the
flames.
The strike at Lockwood colliery,
near Pottsville. Pa, has been settled,
and work was resumed on the 10th.
Two hundred men and boys struck
against a reduction of time.
ONE THOUSAND New Jersey clergy
men visited the capitol at Trenton, on
the 10th, to protest against the pas
sage of the race-track bill.
A DISPATCH from Coleraine, county
Londonderry, ireland, says that Mrs.
Anna Margaret Montague, daughter of
r I'D
for trial, on the 18th, on the charge of
causing the death of her daughter.
Mary Helen Montague, child only 8
years of age, by most inhuman cruelty.
THE sixth indictment against E. NJ.
Field, of the defsnct firm of Field.
Lindley, Wiechers & Co.. of New York
city, was filed on the nth. 1t charges
forgery in the second degree, and has
two counts
MOUNT ETNA is in an unusual state
of volcanic disturbance. The people of
Lagarano, a market town on the east
ern slope, have abandoned their dwell
lings in consequence of series of vio-
lent shocks.
ARCHDUCHEss MARIE VALERIE,
daughter of the emperor of Austria
and wife of Archduke Francis Salvador
of Austria and Tuscany, is danger
ously i'll with pneumonia.
IT is reported that ex-King Milan has
been offered inducements to become a
Russian subject and will accept them.
The total loss by the great fire in
New Orleans, on the night of the nth,
will not exceed 81, $50, 900, with insur-
ance covered mostly by foreign COM
panies. Local companies will lose
about 5000, 900.
The bill for consolidation of New
York, Brooklyn and other municipali-
ties bordering on New York harbor,
has been laid on the table by the New
y ork state assembly.
SIR AUGUSTUS BIRMINGHAM. Baron
Stafford, died in London, on the 18th,
of softening of the brain, at the age of
90 years.
LATE news from Brazil by way of
London indicates that serious move
ments of revolutionary character are
taking place there.
THE Pennsylvania railroad depot at
| North Elizabeth, n. j., caught fire
from a spark from a locomotive, on the
18th, and was destroyed; loss, IS,
ONE of the largest timber land sales
ever made in California has just been
closed, Is, 600 acres or thirty miles
So uare of sugar pine timber in Siskiyou
and Shasta counties being sold to Mil
Ter & Brewster. of Green Bay, Wis,
and Tatum & Rowen, of San Francisco.
The average price was SIS per acre.