Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-02-04

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| Tangier. From this it is concluded
that the Morocco affair is not likely to
cause any further trouble in the near
| future.
BETWEEN and o'clock on the morn
| ing of the 27th the Union bank of Will
| ton, Ia, was robbed of S4, 900. The
| bank is in the center of the town, but
though the noise of the safe blowing
was heard by one man, the nature was
| not suspected.
Mrs. BETSY BURGESS, weighing near
| ly 400 pounds. died of the grip and was
buried at Mitchell, Ind, on the 27th.
| She was one of the largest women in
that part of the state.
| IT is the opinion among naval officers
| in New York that the Gillian affair,
even if there is not any war, will be the
| best thing that could have happened
| for the navy. The result. they say,will
| be that the number of war vessels will
soon be doubled, and within few years
| the United States will be what she
ought to be-a formidab BILE maritime
power.
THE oueensware store of West & Tice,
in Cincin natl, was destroyed by fire on
the night of the 27th, causing loss of
500, 900. Knoel Bros, notion and toy
dealers, lost $50. OOO The building, be-
longing to H. F. West, was damaged
$40. 900. The losses are fairly well COW
cred by insurance.
THERE is an almost unanimous ex-
preston of satisfaction among senators
and representatives in congress over
the peaceable ending of the threatened
hostilities with Chilli. Congressman
generally, irrespective of party, COM
mend the course of President Harrison
and Secretary Blaine, and treat the
matter as settled thing.
ANDREW STEPHENSON, the colored
man who was driving on the night of
the terrible Sarah-street sleigh-ride
slaughter in St. Louis, is becoming in
sane by reason of brooding over the
terrible accident.
TIE New York senate, on the 2Sth,
passed the Worlds fair bill, appropri-
ating $500, 900 and appointing twenty
four state Worlds fair commissioners.
For the tenth time within the past
year an attempt was made, on the 27th
to set fire to the city of Burlington,
Ia In one or two cases the incen-
diaries have been successful in Destroy
ing property.
LEE GIBSON, colored youth, 20 years
old, was taken out of Jail at Owen
ton, Ky, on the night of the 27th, by
Frank Leggerns.
SUCCI, the faster, who was attempt
ing fifty-two days fast at the Royal
Aquarium, London, broke down, on the
2Sth, and commenced eating oranges
4 L.,
was that he was seized with a violent
attack of sickness, and was said to be
in critical condition. He had reached
the forty fifth day of his fast.
JOSEPH j. AsHFoRTH, who was ar
rested in London for embezzling funds
of the Royal Arcanum building and
Loan association, of Brooklyn, n. Y,
was taken before the court of queens
bench. on the Goth, on a decree nisi and
released on a writ of habeas corpus.
Miss CLARA BARTON. president of
the Red Cross, issued an appeal, on the
Goth, to theAmerican people to contrib
ute funds to carry donations of grain
to the starving people of Russia.
Gov. MCKINLEY of Ohio was confined
to h is bed, on the goth, by serious at
tack of neuralgia.
THE steamship Polaria, from Stettin,
arrived at New York on the 10Th.
This is the steamer which 1T was
thought might be the burning vessel
sighted at sea by the Egyptian Mon
arch.
THE house committee on military af
fairs, at its meeting, on the Goth, ordered
favora BILE report on the house bill in
troduced by Mr. Newberry, of Illinois,
authorizing the secretary of war to de-
tail army officers in connection with
the Worlds fair.
r. j. CoRTIs, agent for the Hum burg
American steamship line, has been in
dicted by the United States grand jury
at Trenton. n. j.. four true bills hav-
ing been brought in against him. He
is charged with having allowed four
Russian Jews to escape from the
steamer Normandie, who had been de-
barred from landing on the ground that
they were contract laborers,