Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-12-08

PRESIDENT DIAz of Mexico, who was
inaugurated. on the 1st. for the fourth
term, wrote to Sub-secretary of
Foreign Affairs Afhiraz declining to
accept the resignation of the members
of the cabinet, and requesting the sub
secretary to thank the members for
their past services, and request them to
remain in Office. All of the members
consented to do so.
THE steamer Haytian Republic, from
Portland, Ore, on arrival at Seattle,
Wash, on the night of the 3Oth, ran
into Bakers wharf. entirely destroying
it, together with a large warehouse and
contents, valued at $4,000. The
steamer was not damaged.
VICE-PREsiDEST CLoUGH of the Great
Northern railroad says he expects to
have the road completed to Seattle,
Wash. by the 21st, when the business
men of St Paul will hold great dem
onstration in honor of the event
THE steamer Chilcat arrived at Seat
tie, Wash, on the LIST, from Alaska,
with $500 cases of salmon, the last
pack of the season. She reported severe
weather at Juneau, with two feet of
snow on the level
JAY GOULD, the great financier and
American railroad king. died at the
Gould mansion ON Fifth avenue, New
York city, at 9:15 a. m. ON the I'd, of
pulmonary consumption. He was in
his fifty-sixth year.
THE official count of the vote of Wis
consin has been completed, and is as
follows: Peck (dem.). for governor.
4. Doolysc
plurality. 1874.
TwENTY-FOUR new cases were re-
ceived at the smallpox hospital in Seat
tie. Wash. on the 1st.
FIRE in a tenement house in Flushing
avenue, Brooklyn. on the morning of
the I'd, resulted in the death of two
persons-father and child-and the Sc
rious injury of at least a half dozen
others
MAJ. E. HEINRICH, of the Fourth
Silesian infantry Germany, has been
sentenced by court-martial to one years
imprisonment for causing the death of
seven privates last summer. Heinrich
commanded his whole battalion to
swim the river Niesse in all their &C
coutrements, and the seven men were
drowned.
The number of arrests for post office
burglaries in the past year was 3o3. as
against 173 the preceding year; 1,10S
post offices were reported to have been
entered during the year. There was
only 6, 029 complaints of all kinds re-
ceived during the year, which is SIT
less than last year.
THE annual report of the fourth
assistant postmaster general shows
that the number of esta blishments of
new post offices during the past year
was 4. los. greater number than during
any previous year, with the exception
of 1890. when it was 4.447.
COMMODORE w. NJ. FoLGER, chief of
ordnance, returned to New York, on
the I'd. from Bethlehem, Pa, after &C.
cepting n lot of barbette armor for the
new war ships. He says the result of
the tests was in the line of general ex-
cellence which has characterized the
nickel steel arnor from the first.
JAMES STRATHER, keeper of a saloon
in Greencastle, Ind, was shot and
mortally wounded, on the night of the
list, by tramp who entered the saloon
at the hour of closing, and demanded
Strather's money. The latter reached
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could use it. The assassin escaped.
GEORGE /. BAGLEY, the 500, 600 ex-
press robber, was arraigned, on the
I'd, before Judge Charles Waterman of
the district court at Davenport. Ia,
and pleaded not guilty. AS far as
known the defense will be insanity.
Some days will elapse before the trial
begins.
A FIRE in the tenement house 319
Flushing avenue, Brooklyn, at o'clock
on the morning of the I'd, resulted in
the death of Michael Doyle. 40 years
old. and Nellie Doyle, 8 years old-fa-
ther and child-and the serious injury
of at least half dozen others.
LIZZIE BORDEN was indicted on two
counts for the murder Of her father
and step-mother, by the grand jury at
Taunton. Mass, on the I'd.
THE steamer Graystose, of London,
was wrecked at the mouth of the river
Elbe, on the I'd. and her entire crew of
twenty three persons were drowned