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

COMPI ROLLER CAMPBELL of New York
has received an opinion from Attorney
General Rosendale holding that Erie
county is under obligations to reim-
burse the state for the payment of the
expenses of the national guard during
the recent switchmen's strike at Buff
falo. The amount involved is about
$50, 900.
Gov. RUSSELL Of Massachusetts, was
inaugurated for his third term ON the
5th. His inaugural address was de-
voted mainly To state matters, in the
course of which he pointed out the
necessity of various administrative re-
forms, notably that of the prison sys-
tenn, which, he said, is weak, irrespon-
sible and ineffective.
The St Petersburg Bourse Gazette
says that the extra expenditures
provided for in the budget of
1898 amount to $1,000, 600 roubles,
chiefly owing to the decision of the
government to add to the present rail-
way system by the construction of new
lines and the extension of old ones
No NEW cases of typhus fever were
posted at the Offices of the New York
board of health on the 5th, and DR..
Roberts said that he believed the dis
ease to be under control.
MADAM MAYER, the Switch Of Elm
Street." died in Cincinnati. on the 4th.
promptly at the stroke of IL, as she had
many times prophesied she would.
FIRE at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the night
of the 5th, destroyed buildings occupied
by P. Duff & Sons, commission mer-
chants; Cavitt & Pollock, lamps and
fancy imported goods; Booth & Finn,
contractors, and numerous offices, and
the old Werner mansion occupied by a
family. Keech's immense installment
house and the Westinghouse machine
shops were on fire several times, but
were saved. The total loss was about
$500, 600.
HARRY DEWITT, a bell boy at the
Hotel Lincoln, at Lincoln, Neb., was
arrested on the 5th for petit larceny.
In his possession were found pawn tick
cts calling for diamonds at Lincoln and
Omaha pawn-shops. Detectives found
that the diamonds were a part of those
stolen from HurSt's hotel, ST. Louis,
October Is last, when $1,000 worth of
gems was taken.
THE jury in the case of Wesley War
ner, on trial at Mount Holly, n. j., for
being out all night returned a verdict,
on the 5th, of murder in the first de-
gree. Warner, who seemed dazed when
he learned his fate, was remanded to
Jail to await the death sentence.
THE committee having in charge the
Inauguration of President Cleveland
have decided that the reception COM
mite shall consist of one senator and
one member from each state and the
delegate from each of the territories.
SMALLPOX has broken out at Home
wood, a suburb of Pittsburgh, Pa, and
the prospects for an epidemic are
alarming. Up to the 9th five cases had
The disease originated
among the Italian colonies.
MAJ. JAMES P. FROST, financial edi-
tor of the Boston Globe, and one of the
most widely-known journalists of New
died suddenly in Boston, on
the 9Th, of heart failure.
The miners at Gelsenkirchen, West
phalia, Germany, decided, at a mass
on the 9Th. to join the miners
of the Saar district in their strike.
O. B. VAIL, of the New York consoli-
dated exchange, failed on the 9th. He
was long on Reading, Chicago gas and
sugar.
The appearance of malignant diph-
liberia at Bagdad. Pa, has stricken
with terror the people of that village.
THE Panama railroad has practi-
cally passed out of the control of the
receiver of the Panama Canal Co.
Mrs. LANGTRY was reported. on the
9Th, as rapidly recovering from her Sc
we're attack of illness She still re-
NAMED in her room in her residence in
Bond street, Belgravia, but expected
shortly to be able to start on a trip on
her yacht, the White Lady, which she
recently purchased.
THE Leeds Improvement & Land Co.;
the Leeds Annex Co., and the Ameri-
can Security & Trust Co, with an ag-
gregate capital of 5000, 900. and with
headquarters at Sioux City. L., have
failed, owing to an enormous steal by
James 1. Brooks, a trusted financial