Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-02-02
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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pector at Gulsvine bay, Alaska, has re-
| turned from there. He says that the
Innuit Indians, to the number of 500,
along Fish river, are in q starving con.
dition.
TwENTY-THoUsAND people visited the
Bridgeport Comm lighthouse over the
ice, miles off Seaside park, on Long
Island sound. on the ED. The ice
cracked and a score or more of women
fell in, but they were rescued.
FUNDS of the state Of Nebraska to
the amount of $685., 600 were deposited
in the suspended Capitol bank of Lin
coin, Gov. Crounse having approved the
bonds of the president and cashier Of
the bank. thus relieving the bondsmen
of the state treasurer of responsibility
for the loss, if any is sustained, and for
this reason articles of impeachment of
the governor were introduced irf the
house OF representatives of that state
on the 24th.
A SLEIGH with party of six was
struck by an Erie locomotive at the
Morrow crossing in Passaic, N. j., at
1890 q M. of the oath. Mamie Ryan,
90 years old, was killed instantly; Mag
gle Splain, 81, was SO badly injured
that she died few hours later, and
two others were fatally injured.
CARDINAL JOSEPH ALFRED FoULoN,
arch bishop of Lyons, died on the cath,
aged 60.
THE police of Pittsburgh have been
requested by the Austrian government
to suppress the Amerikansko Slovenske
Noviny, a Hungarian weekly paper is
sued there. Copies have found their
way into Austria, and have been seized
and burned as revolutionary and Sc
ditious. The paper, of course, could
not be suppressed.
THE house committee on the Worlds
Colum bian exposition wrestled for two
opening proposition, and when it ad-
journed to attend the meeting of the
house neither the Sunday openers nor
the Sunday closers had secured de-
cided advantage.
EIGHTY Bohemian miners met instant
death by an explosion in the Fort
schritt mine at Dux, in Bohemia, on
the gath, and scores of others were ia
tally injured.
ROBERT F. BEATTY was placed CT
trial in the criminal court at Pitts
burgh, Pa, on the 2+th. charged with
completely in the Homestead poison
ings.
The senate and house of representa-
tives adjourned, on the cath, as a mark
of respect to the memory of the late
Associate Justice Lamar. of Mississippi.
THE eighteenth annual session of the
National Marine Engineers Benevolent
association met in Chicago on the
gath. Forty-four delegates, represent
ing 10, 600 licensed engineers, were in
attendance
1T is confidently asserted by promi-
nent officers in a position to know that
in case of an instruction in Egypt the
native troops will prove true to their
British officers.
THE Grandview hotel at Fort Hamil-
ton, N. Y, large wooden structure
built on a high bluff overlooking the
narrows, and a popular summer resort
for New York and Brooklyn people,
was burned to. the ground at l o'clock
on the morning of the 25th. All the
guests escaped without injury.
FIRE, the result of two fighting cats
upsetting lamp in the basement,
caused 81, 500 damage to the Actors
clubhouse in New York on the aath.
IT is estimated that the estate of the
late Bishop Brooks. who died intestate.
will not fall far short of $3.50. ZOO.
A FINANCIAL crisis is imminent in
Nicaragua. Banks in Greytown, Rivas.
Massaya and Chindega have closed their
doors. The bank of Nicaragua is in
process of liquidation
FIRE broke out in the main shaft OF
the Conception mine at Atorce, San
Luis Potosi, Mexico, on the 25th. The
shaft caved in causing a heavy loss OF
life. Thirteen corpses were recovered.
The fire still ragged under ground. and
at latest advs.es other workings had
collapsed and further subsistence was
momentarily expected. The loss to the
company will be upwards of $1,000, 600.
THE senate. on the 25th, while in ex-
ecutive session, confirmed the nominal
ton of Elijah w. Halford. the presi-
dents private secretary. to be major
and paymaster in the United States
army.
The ST. Petersburg government has
declined to grant the request of the
Russian railway companies that they
be allowed to bay material abroad.
The funeral of the late Bishop Phil
lips Brooks took place in Boston, on
the a6th, the remains being inferred in
Mount Auburn cemetery.