Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-01-12
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Aoout tWenty-uve pf1VSte Pousion ou4s We1e
passed.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
THE cashier of the bank of Laurens,
Ia, was held up by two men, on the I'd.
while alone in the bank. The robbers
got $500 that was on the counter, but
did not wait to unlock the safe.
The treasury statement, issued on
the Sd. shows that within ten days the
net gold in the treasury increased
nearly $1,000, 900. being 1921, 266, 662.
L. C. MARTINDALE, the well-known
scientist. who was connected with
many learned societies of the country,
died in Camden, n. J., on the Sd.
THE customs receipts at the port of
New York for December were $40. 070,
OO1, an increase of more than 81, 000, 900
over December 1891.
THE public debt statement for De-
cember, owing to the intervening of a
Sunday and a holiday, was not issued
from the treasury department until the
3D. It shows that in the last month of
the year there was a net increase of the
debt of the United States to the amount
of S51S, 2S3.
HENRY COOPER, a cologed man. said to
be 102 years old, died at the home of
his son-in-law eight miles northeast of
Oklahoma, on the Sd.
DAVID MILLER, of East Providence,
r. l., found petrified cat in the tim
bers of an old barn while demolishing
it ON the Sd.
THE armature or arc department of
the Fort Wayne Qnd.) Electric Co. 8
works was damaged by fire and water
to the extent of $50, 900 or s75, 200 on
the evening of the Sd. The insurance
on the plant is $500, SOC, and as the main
shops are intact the company will not
suspend operations longer than q few
days.
Or the 700 Hungarian laborers en-
ployed in the works of the Phoenix Iron
Co., at Phenixville. Pa, about three
fourths are preparing to leave rather
than work for ninety cents a day. Re-
Gently a reduction of 10 per cent. in the
wages was made.
Mr. DILLON made an earnest plea be-
fore the evieted tenants commission in
Dublin, on the 4th, in behalf of the re-
instatement of evicted tenants, AMI
produced statistics showing the num-
Der of good settlements made through
the plan of campaign between land
lords and tenants.
On the 4th the petrified body of q
man was dug up in the western part of
Salt Lake City. Utah. The figure, which
is perfect, was found four feet below
the surface. Its weight is about 700
pounds
Gov. NELSON was formally inaugur-
ated as tho chief executive of Mime
sofa, on the 4th. in the presence of four
the aged war governor,
Ramsey, being one of the number.
THE upper floors of st. Thomas col
lege at Scranton, Pa, were burned. on
the 4th, and the lower floors We're
badly damaged by water.
The transatlantic oil steamer Bear
Creek, lost in mid-ocean, was owned by
the Bear Creek Oil Co., of Pittsburgh,
Pa She was a new 3,5OO-ton single
screw iron steamer. The crew were
rescued and returned to Queenstown.
She cost 5000, 900 and had %, 600 barrels
of oil aboard.
SENATOR CHANDLER thinks that he
has hit upon perfectly legitimate
means for stopping further operations
by the Pinkertons, and, on the 4th, in
troduced in the senate short bill with
this end in view. 1t may also be inter-
esting to note that the bill, if passed,
will destroy the semi-military anarchist
A BLACK eagle, measuring seven feet
from tip TO tip, was captured near Brick
Chapel, Ind, on the 4th. 1t attacked a
dog belonging to W. II. Cox. and was
winged by a shot from Mr.. Cox's rifle.
REPRESENTATIVE OUrHwAITE, of Ohio,
has taken up, and, i'll view of the dam
ger of cholera invasion, will press
vigorously at this session of congress
proposition for the frequent exchange
of soiled paper money for new notes.
A DISPATCH from Petchitza, Russia,
on the Dn;eper, of the 4th. stated that
fifteen men were killed by a mine ex-
plosion there. Four men severely in
jured were brought up shortly after
the explosion.
FRIENDS of President Harrison who
have had occasion to see and talk with
him of late are very much concerned
about his condition, and express the
fear that his health will break down
before the close of his administration.
The suit against James A. Lopez, ex-
treasurer of Atchison county, Kas., and
his bondsmen for 5000, Loper's short
age. has been settled for $4,000. The
case has been in the courts eight years.
EDWARD LANGswoRrHY died at Du-
buque, Ia, on the ath, aged IS years.
He settled there in 1881. He took part
in the Black Hawk war, and after its
close built the first house erected in
Iowa and helped establish the sfrst
bank.
PASSENGERS on the Hamburg-Ameri-
can steamer Bohemia, which arrived
at Hamburg on the 5th. were unani-
nous in denying the report that the
hawser used in the attempt to tow the
disabled Cunard liner Umbria was cut
ON board the Bohemia, the crew of
which boat would have all been inter
ested in the salvage had the attempt
been successful
COMMISSIONERS GRrNLNroN, Of the
Chicago Worlds fair, has been honored
with public banquet in Colombo,
Ceylon. which was attended by leading
officials and . number Of prominsnt
civilians