Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-01-05

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CASES of cholera still occur in st.
Petersburg, and it Is feared that the
seeds of death sown last summer will
yield q fruitful harvest in the spring.
The funeral of Detective Synnott,
who lost his life in the explosion in
Dublin, was held on the 2sth, and was
one of the largest funerals held in that
city In many years
LABOR COMMISSIONERS PECK of New
York will seek vindication through
suits for libel against various news
papers which criticised his course in
the last campaign
GEN. JOSEPH KARG, professor of con-
tinental languages in Princeton univer-
sity, died suddenly, on the 27th, Of
heart disease in New York city. He
was q distinguished scholar and q brave
soldier.
The famine in north Finland is in
creasing, and there is a movement in
Sweden to renew the subscriptions OF
last year for the aid of the starving
people. An exodus to some part OF
North America is expected in the
spring.
GEORGE ]. GOULD. Helen NJ. Gould
and Howard Gould appeared before
Probate Clerk Finney of New York
city, on the Goth, and qualified. by talk
ing the customary oath, as executors OF
the will of their father, the late Jay
Gould.
HENRY C. PAYNE. vice-president and
manager of the Milwaukee Street Rail-
way Co, has made a written statement,
based on the testimony of employees, in
which he admits that the fire in the
company's barns, on the 2Sth, was not
incendiary.
THE corner stone of the cathedral
church of St John the Divine, at West
One Hundred and Tenth street, near
Amsterdam avenue. New York city,
was laid, on the 27th, by Rt Rev. Henry
C. Potter. d. D., d. C. L., of the Episco-
pal church of New York.
ANXIETY gave way to fear on the
of the Goth, for the safety of
the Cunarder Umbria, which with her
$40 passengers was five days overdue.
She sailed from Queenstown December
10. and under ordinary circumstances
should have reached New York on the
25th.
THE first and final accounting of the
estate of the late Congressman Samuel
J. Randall. of Pennsylvania, fled in
Philadelphia on the 2sth, shows that
he left property valued at $1s9. "a,
while the fees of undertakes and ply
sicians who attended him were s1,-
194.15.
Mrs. MARY ANN BRANDETH, wife of
DIR. George Brandeth, of Rockaway
Beach, l. L, was found dead in bed on
the morning of the 27th. She was ap-
parently well and enjoying the Christ
mas festivities the previous night She
was about so years old and died of
heart disease.
ORDERS have been given to German
army officers not to supply septries
with ball cartridges after the end of
the present year. This step is taken in
view of the much too frequent ARRAYS
between civilians and soldiers, in which
the latter usually use their firearms
with fatal effect
A REPORT from the White House, on
the 2sth, said no material change had
occurred in the condition of Martina
the presidents fever-stricken
and the family were SAN
guine that the patient would safely
pass the various stages of the disease
10 ultimate recovery.
A REPORT was current at New Lare-
do. Tex, on the 21th, that battle had
taken place near Los Animos, Mexico,
east of Guerrero, between 800 Mexican
troops and $50 revolutionists, in which
thirteen soldiers were killed and many
several of the revolutionists
being also killed and wounded.
ADvICEs from Lancashire, England,
state that the loclzed-out employees in the
cotton manufacturing districts had a
hungry holiday. thousands of them
being dependent upon charity for sub
sistence. Many are wandering about
begging. and it is feared that the severe
weather will cause the loss of many
lives.
A BOOK has been discovered in the
Offices of the Panama Canal Co, in
Paris, containing copies of letters COM
a large number of senator's
1t contains the most valuable evidence
that has yet fallen into the hands of
the government, and will result in a
large number of additional prosecu-
tons.
The many destructive fires that have
occurred in Milwaukee lately have led
to much speculation as to their origin,
but Chief Jansen of the police depart
ment believes the only firebugs at
work there are dishonest owners of
property who have taken advantage of
excessive insurance to burn their build
ings for the insurance.
The White House at Washington was
still, on the eth, in a state of quaran-
tine, and babe fair to remain so for at
least three weeks to come Red cards
saying Scarlet fever within" were con-