Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-02-16

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By ELI ID. AXE.
TON. MISSOURI
N Pennsylvania house, ON the 7th
vote OF $50 TO Is, passed q bill tc
on1bit the manufacture and sale OF
arettes within the commonwealth.
8HN- p. @. T. BEAuRKGARD is very Ill
NJ his residence in New York, and while
{ &4ere seems to be no immediate cause
1or alarm, report has it that he cannot
recover.
AHunconhrmed report was circulated
p0 the 6th, to the effect that Sir John
Abbott ex.premier of Canada, had died
IN Italy, whittier he went some months
0go In search of health.
Tn Jury in the case of Asa p. Potter
ex-president Of the bankrupt Maverick
Aank -of Boston, charged with false
sterilization Of checks, rendered . YER
diet of guilty on the 9TH
TIE demurrer in the libel suit OF
Col Robert g. Ingersoll against Rev.
a. c. Dixon. before Judge InRrsham in
the supreme court of New York, was
On the 9th, stricken on the calendar.
Four THOUSAND people in Concordia
and CatAhoula parishes, in the northern
portion of Louisiana, are on the verge
of starvation. and unless relief il
promptly given them many deaths will
result
TIE amendment made by the United
States senate, on the It'll, to the Rus
sian treaty makes an attempt to assas-
sinate the car or members OF the
royal family an extraditable offense,
regardless of motive.
THE widow of Frank Leslie has cast
Oh her husband Willie Wilde, SON OF
Lady Jane Wilde. of London. and de-
manded a separation or divorce. The
lady has grown tired of supporting so
worthless a luxury.
SYMPArnIzERs with the striking
street car employees of Wheeling, W..
Va, drove non-union men from the cars,
ON the 7th. and beat them. mashed car
windows and blockaded the track, de-
spite the presence OF large force of po-
lice.
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WITHIN four days, ended on the 9TH,
Fifty persons died in Marseilles of a
choleraic disease. The sanitary coun-
Gil of Paris sent DR.. Thoinot, an
authority on cholera, to Marseilles to
ascertain exactly the nature OF the
disease.
OK the Merrimac river at Lowell,
Mass. on the 9Th. Frank Looney beat
the worlds amateur record for run
ming jump ON skates. clearing 16 feet
inch. The best previous record, Is
feet inches, was made by S. d. Seaton,
ON Command lake, N. Y, January II,
1855.
PHnIpC. HANNA. United States con-
sui at Laguayra, Venezuela, and Miss
Lula Cornick, of Liverpool, Ia, were
married Mt the latter place on the night
Of the sth. Mr.. and Mrs. Hanna will
make wedding trip through the east
and be at home ut Laguayra after
April
CAPT. SANTOS CADKNA, a prominent
member of Garza's band, and his SON.
Apolonia Cadena, surrendered, on the
eoA, to Lieut.. Slocum and United States
Deputy Marshall O'Donnen, and were
taken into Rio Grande City, Tex. and
put under bond to appear at the next
term of court
MEssRs. CHASE & SANRoRN, of Boston,
have been awarded the contract for
used inside the grounds during the off,
cial run Of the Worlds fair. It is the
largest contract ever awarded for high
grade roasted coffee, amounting, as it
will, to about 700, 600 pounds
BIZ the burning Of the Continental
hotel at Centerville, Ia, on the morn
ing of the 9th. Mrs. Mckee. of Center
vile, received injuries, from which she
soon after died, by jumping from the
third story, and Samuel Lewis, of Gree
ley, Ia, was burned to death. Two
other persons were seriously injured.
A WORLDS FAIR delegation appeared
before the senate committee on appro-
priations, on the 10th. and stated'reasons
Ehy congress should make additional
appropriations for the government end
OF the Columbian exposition. Amounts
axgregating e9S7. 765 were asked, and
other requests remained to be pre-
6erred.
WITH . view of keeping Canadian
pleuro-pneumonia out of the United
States the secretary of the treasury has
instructed collectors of customs on the
northern frontier that neat cattle can
only enter the United States from
Canada az Buffalo, N. Y, after passing
the inspection prescribed by the score
tary Of agriculture.
Ex-SKcKErARy THOMPSON, of Terre
Haute, Ind. has been positively forbid
den by his physician to leave his room.
When last outside the house, few
weeks ago, he tainted in his carriage,
and was taken home in an apparently
diving condition. Hisdoctor fears pneu-
snonia, and says II it occurs it will al
most certainly prove fatal.