Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-01-18
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

RECENT unusually cold weather in
southern California has seriously dam
aged the orange and lemon crops.
THE report telegraphed from Omaha
that Mrs. NJ. E. Lease has accepted the
position of editor of a new populist
daily paper to be established in To-
pel>a. Kas., is denied by her friends.
THE general raid on anarchist'haunts
made by the police of Rome and the
large provincial towns of Italy is said
to have been productive. of very good
results.
SECRETARY GRESHAM said, on the
10th, that no further steps would be
taken by the executive branch of the
government to carry out the policy of
restoring Queen Liiiuokalani; that the
settlement of the whole Hawaiian
question was in the hands of congress-
and everything that would aid it in
arriving at a conclusion would be sub
mitted by the president.
THE trial, on the 10th, of Auguste
Valiant, the anarchist, who, on De-
cember Q last, threw the bomb which
exploded in the French chamber of
deputies, was short and decisive. The
proceedings We're purely formal with
little dramatic effect. The prisoner
was found guilty and sentenced to
death. When sentence was pronounced
he shouted give rAnarchie-'
CONSIDERATION of the house bill for
the repeal of the federal elections law
was begun in the senate on the 9th.
Its passage is only a question of time.
The Sugar trust advanced prices, on
tho orb of
grades.
Mrs. NJ. E. LEASE has formed a part
nership with Cyrus Corning, editor of
the New Era, a new paper, and will
soon begin the publication of a popu-
list daily in Topeka. Kas. The paper.
while advocating populist principles,
will wage a relentless war against Gov.
Lewelling and the entire state admin
iStration.
THE Starr piano works at Richmond.
Ind, were entirely destroyed by fire
on the 10th. The immense buildings
burned like finder. The loss is $780,.
600. with an insurance of $4,000. The
works will probably be rebuilt. One
hundred men will be rendered idle.
THE factory of the Winsted Comm
edge-tool works resumed operations on
the 9th. after being idle several months.
The Strong Manufacturing Co., the
Winstead Hosiery Co. and the Winsted
Silk Co., have also started up, after
varying periods of idleness.
On the evening of the 10th five men
held up the Hannibal & st. Joseph fast
train Eli" miles east of ST. Joseph,
Mo-, and robbed the express and mail
cars. They placed torpedoes on the
track and swung a red lantern to stop
the train. The amount secured by the
robbers was not stated.
WHEN the French chamber of dep
uties met on the 18th, it at once pro-
ceeded to the election of officers. NJ.
Dupuy, who was elected president of
the chamber at the last session in sue
cession to NJ. Casimir-Perier, who
succeeded NJ. Dupuy as prime minister,
was elected president Three hundred
and fifty-seven members voted. NJ.
Dupuy received 29O of the votes cast.
The radicals abstained from voting.
The United States commission of the
Antwerp exposition has announced
that the space reserved for the
United States exhibits, instead of be-
ing, as heretofore, distributed through
several buildings. will be consolidated
in a portion of the main building i'm
mediately adjacent to the American
building.
UNKNOWN dynamite fiends blew up
Pincus Cans tailor shop at 81 Avenue
d, New York, on the 18th. Their in
tent was evidently to blow up the
whole tenement Dynamite was found
soaked in kerosene, with powder trains
laid in the alley. One exploded bomb
is in the hands of the police.
THE Dalton gang plundered the post
office at the town of Clarkson, Okla,
on the 10th, taking all the stamps and
money and a wagon load of provisions.
A HEAVY shock of earthquake, last
ing ten seconds, was felt at several
points in the province of Quebec on
the evening of the 18th.
THE National Bank of Mexico was
robbed. on the 9th, of a bag of silver
weighing nearly seventy pounds and
containing IS. 200, which young man
walked into the bank. picked up and
carried off before the eyes of bank OFF,
Gals and employees, making good his
escape