Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-12-13
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

BIDS We're opened at the post office
department in Washington, on the 5th,
for the mail contracts for star and
steamboat service in the states of Ohio,
Indiana. Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin,
Minnesota. Iowa and Missouri. Alarge
number of bids had been received, and
it will be several weeks before the con-
tracts are awarded.
The case of John r. TAFT, paying
teller of the Chemical national bank of
New York city, an alleged defaulter to
the amount of S15, 1000. was laid before
the United States grand jury, on the
4th, all efforts to settle having failed.
MICHAEL EPPLEY, farmer IS years
of age, living near Elyria, O.. was
found dead in his bed on the 5th. A
post-mortem examination was held and
disclosed the fact that his heart had
burst, the pericardium being filled
with fragments of the organ.
THE six-story building at SAT Broad
way, New York, used as an emporium
for fancy goods. haberdashery and
feathers, and Immediately adjoining
the lofty structure of Charles Broad
way Rouss, was Quilted by fire on the
evening of the 4th. The building was
crowded by working girls. several of
whom sustained slight injuries, but
all got out of the burning building in
safety. The loss is s225.OO0.
THE safe of the missing treasurer of
San Augustine county, Tex. was
opened, on the Sd, and found to con-
tain S1.45.
r. f. KoLB, on the 4th, completed n
message to the Alabama legislature,
which he signs as governor. The mes
sage is also addressed to the people of
Alabama, and is long and in many
respects revolutionary document, as it
recommends that his followers do not
pay their taxes for awhile.
THE department of state has been
notified, through its consular repre-
sentative at Bremen, of a proposed
change in the German customs tariff
by which the duty on cotton seed oil
will be increased $50 per cent. over the
present rates. This is done in further
retaliation against our discriminating
duty on German beet sugar imposed by
the new tariff law.
OWING to the closing down of the
coal mines operated by the Sunday
Creek Coal Co., at buckingham, O.. 800
miners have been thrown out of en-
ployment, and, with their families, are
in destitute condition. A committee
was sent to Columbus, on the 5th, to
secure aid.
On the 4th ex-Gov. Oden Bowie died
at his home, "Fairview," in which he
was born November 10, 1896, at Bowie,
Md. The end came peacefully while
| the ex-governor was surrounded by the
members of the family.
On the 5th Senator Quay introduced
an amendment to the sugar bill as
passed by the house and reported to
the senate, which provides for striking
out the one-eighth of one cent per
pound differential on sugar.
In the senate. on the 5th, bill was
t introduced by Mr.. Hoar, of Massachu-
sets, and referred to the committee
| on pensions, grantinga pension of 500
| a month to the widow of Gen. n. 7.
Ba nks.
! GERMANY's new reichstag building
in Berlin was opened with imposing
| ceremonies on the 5th.
NJ. FERDINAND DE LESsEPs was re-
ported seriously i'll on the 5th.
| MAJ. HAM3RoUGH, father of Lieut..
| Marlborough, for whose murder Alfred
Al
| last year and discharged on the Scotch
| verdict of mot proven" some time
since instituted suit against the Mu-
| tual Life Insurance Co. of London to
recover e20, 600 insurance on his sons
| life. The jury in the case returned q
verdict, on the 5th, for the defendants.
| H. A. CHAPLIN, aged 81, the mill
| lionaire mine owner of Niles, Mich,
was taken suddenly and critically ill
on the 5th. He owns the big Chaplin
mine in the northern peninsula of
| Michigan, and is reputed to be the
wealthiest man in southwestern Mich
Igan.
! The official count in Tennessee gives
Evans (rep.), for governor, SAL plu-
| rality.
The bill of Representative Knight to
punish usurpers of state Offices was
passed by strictly party vote in the
Ala bama legislature on the 5th.