Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-01-11

death of George w. Savage. United
States consul at Dundee, Scotland.
SIR SAMUEL WHITE BAKER, the dis
tinguished African explorer. died at
his residence at Newton Abbott, Dew
onshire, England, on the 30th, aged ~
years
SIG. CoLAJANNI, a member of the
ITALIAN chamber of deputies, who has
visited Sicily, says it is not politics, but
real famine that has induced the
masses to revolt.
IT was reported in Tangier, on the
I'd, that the sultan of Morocco will
start two months hence from the city
of Morocco for Melilla. He will be ac-
companied by large number OF
troops
MUCH suffering has been caused
among the poor of Rome and vicinity
by the extremely cold weather prevail
ing there. The ground, on the I'd, was
covered with snow to the depth of sew
eral inches.
THREE masked men robbed the sta
ton agent and the night operator OF the
Missouri Pacific at Paola, Kas., on the
evening of the Sd. They secured two
watches and $50 in cash. The safe was
not touched.
THE municipal authorities of ST. Pc
tersburg propose to hold an interna-
tional exhibition in that city in 1908,
upon the two-hundredth anniversary
of the founding of the city, in 17O3, by
Peter the Great.
THE duchess of Marlborough, for
merly Mrs. Hammersley, of New York.
has leased for twenty-one years the
Deepdene estate of Lord Hope at Dork-
ing, 20 miles southwest of London, the
yearly rental being 81 800.
THE London Investors Review says
that unless change is made in the
Bank of England's methods of bust
ness financial crisis will be brought
about compared with which the recent
Barring failure will be as of small i'm
portance.
ANuMBER of old and very poor peo-
pie in Paris have been frozen to death
in their miserable lodgings Others,
despairing of finding relief from their
sufferings, have killed themselves, and
several have been picked up ifeless in
the streets.
THE available cash balance in the
United States treasury, on the 4th, was
500, 1874, 900; national bank notes re-
ceived for redemption, s42S, 479. Gov
eminent receipts-internal revenue,
s4O4,7 ri; customs, 1864, 200; miscella-
neous, 1882 $50.
On the 5th Secretary Carlisle APP
pointed c. E. Kemper, clerk of the
architects office; F. T. Bickford. Sec
rotary of the departmental board, and
j. c. McGuire, of the architects office,
a commission to appraise the Worlds
fair buildings at Chicago
THE commissioner of pensions has
decided, in view of the passage of the
act of December 81, 1898, declaring
pensions to be a vested right, that he
no longer has the right to withhold
the pension of Judge Long, of Michi-
gan, and has accordingly ordered that
the suspension of his pension be re-
moved.
THE revenue cutter Corwin arrived
at San Francisco, on the 5th, direct
from Honolulu, and immediately after
entering the harbor landed a boat with
cipher dispatches for the govern
ment, and again put TO sea without
giving out any reliab information as
to the situation of affairs in the Ha-
yyaiian islands.
r. X. EnBEcK. of Kingston, Ont,
has enlisted a company of capitalists
from St Louis to work anthracite coal
lands in Sonora, Mexico. The capital
will be SIC, 900. 600. The territory which
the company will acquire consists of
5000, 900 acres, and embraces all the
coal property on the Pacific coast. and
the only property which contains an.
thracite coal
THE story of the wholesale slaughter
of Roman Catholics who were attempt
ing to defend their church in Kohno,
the capital of the Russian province of
that name, by Cossacks, is confirmed.
Men, women and children were in6is-
criminately put to the sword or i'm
paled upon spears, and those who at
tempted to escape were chased into the
river and drowned.
DISPATCHES received, on the I'd, by
mercantile firms in Liverpool from the
Cameroons say that peace had been re-
stored in the colonies and the German
officials had restored to the owners all
the buildings captured by the native
mutineerS German marines drove
the natives from the English factories,
which had been seized during the mu-
tiny. Trade on the Cameroons river is
proceeding as usual
A ROBBERS roost, rich with plumber,
was found, on the Sd, beneath the
floor of the great Agricultural build
ing at the Worlds fair grounds. The
thieves escaped, but much valuable
property was recovered. The den was
sumptuously furnished with Turkish
rugs, fabrics from foreign looms, rich
draperies and comfortable divans. Fine
brandies, high-priced wines and inn
place III great profusion.
THE anti-tax riots in Sicily are as
Stunning such proportions as to give
much concern to the Italian govern
.1nent. The over-burdened populace
have taken determined stand against
the octroi, and in several cities have
enforced their demands by applying
the torch to all public buildings, caus-
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