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

FEHSONAI ANU 0eNERAIs
THE German emperor is a hard-work-
ing man of restless and unceasing
activity. He needs but little sleep him
self, and exacts long hours from every
one in attendance. Four or five hours
rest is all that he cares for, but his
physicians say that he is burning the
candle at both ends.
DURING a charity carnival on the
Volga river, in Russia, on the 30th, the
ice broke and twenty-eight persons
were drowned, and it is thought that
some of the rescued will die from the
effects of the shock and exposure.
IMPORTS of specie at the port of New
York for the week ended on the 3Oth,
We're s37,35s, of which s2s, SsS was
gold and sS.47O silver.
On the I'd $4,000 people in addition
to the 10000 living in Leavenworth,
Kas., celebrated the formal opening of
the new steel awbridge across the
Missouri river at that point. The pa
rade was over a mile long.
EMPRESS FREDERICK, mother of En-
peror William, gave an audience, on
the ID. to Hon. Theo. Runyon, the
American ambassador, at Berlin, and
Mrs. Runyon.
On the I'd the Roumanian senate rat
flied the Roumania- German CONNER
cial treaty. already ratified by the Ger
man reichstag.
THE Standard Plate Glass Co. of
Butler, Pa, reduced the wages of all
employees a5 per cent. on the I'd.
The New York legislature met on
the I'd.
THE net balance in the treasury, on
on the I'd, as shown by the public debt
statement, was 500, 375, 555.
On the I'd II. L. Marbach, of the Mar
bach Machine Co., Cleveland, O., was
arrested, charged with arson. Fire oc-
CURED in the building occupied by the
machine company at an early hour in
the morning. The police say waste
was placed about the room under drip
pans, and claim there was a deliberate
attempt by Marbach to burn the build
ing.
Mrs. AUGUSTA SCHMIDT, indicted for
murder in the first degree, for killing
her tenant, Oscar Walton, October 20
last, was denied bail on habeas corpus
proceedings at Kolxomo, Ind, on the I'd.
She will appeal to the supreme court
The murderess is wealthy German
lady 45 years old and the daughter of a
baroness.
The court-martial at Mare Island,
Cal, in the case of Richard Ashbridge,
passed assistant surgeon of the United
States navy, it is understood, has recon-
mended his dismissal from the service.
The charges against him were forging
the signature of the secretary of the
navy to Geographic message.
In the case of McAfee and Parkers,
the two negroes under sentence to be
hanged at Indianapolis, Ind, on the
5th, for the murder of Charles Eyster,
the supreme court, on the Cd, reversed
the decision of the trial court and
granted new trial for the men.
ORLANDO Il. POTTER, the multi-mil
lionaire and ex-congressman, died sud-
denly, on the night of the cd, on the
street in New York, from apoplexy.
IT seems probable that SuperiDtend-
ent .Byrnes' suggestion that the MEM
bers of the police and other public de-
partments of New York city give one
half of one per cent. of all salaries to a
fund for the unemployed will be acted
upon.
By break in the ice on the River
Spree, at Cottbus, Brandenburg, on the
Sd, twenty-five of a large party of
and despite the heroic efforts of res
cuers from ice and shore, five Of them
were drowned.
GEN. john L. STEVENSON died at his
residence in Boston on the Sd.
I'D. n <Nf
the Wilson line, arrived at New York,
on the Sd, ten days overdue, having
been twenty-four days out from Lon
don.
Mr.. ANDREW CARNEGIE, accompanied
by Mrs Carnegie, left New York for
Alexandria. Egypt. on the 4th, on the
steamer Columbia
THE venerable Elizabeth Peabody
died, on the 4th, at her home in ia
maica Plain, Mass, in her ninety
fourth year.
HARRY KENNEDY, the well-known
ventriloquist. died, at midnight of the
I'd. at his home in Brooklyn.
A LoNG-DIsTANCE telephone is about
to be put in operation between Berlin
and Stockholm. Sweden.
ARcHDUKE SALvAToRa of Austria
hes perfected an automatic mira
illeuse that will fire from $50 to $50 shots
a minute. Smokeless powder can be
used in all weathers. Forty thousand
rounds have been fired from one bar
rel Of one of the new guns without the
barrel showing any defect The weap-
ons cost 1000 forms each.
THE Victoria Park hospital for con-
sumptives, in London, caught fire from
defective flue in one of the attics on
the 5th. Sixty patients were hastily
removed to another ward. The fire
was extinguished before it had done
serious damage.
THE Cunard Steamship Co. has or
dered the laying down of two new
steamers, each vessel to be of 6,000
tons burden. They will be built by the
London and Glasgow Engineering and
Iron Ship Building Co