Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-02-08
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teenth and Fifteenth congressional dis
tricts of New York, on the 30th, result
ed in the election of Lemuel e. Quigg
(rep.) in the former and Isador Strauss
tdem.) in the latter. The Fourteenth
district had formerly given nearly 5000
democratic majority.
OWING to the illness of Attorney
Trude OF the prosecution and Attorney
Wade, for the defense, argument for a
new trial in the case of Patrick E.
Prendcrgast, the murderer of Mayor
Harrison of Chicago, hes been again
continued by Judge Brentano until
the 18th.
FURTHER loss of $500, 1000 in gold
was reported, on the S1st, at the treas
ury, leaving the gold balance on that
day at SG5, $50, 900, or 4 loss during the
month of January of So. 900, coo. or at
the rate of $1,000 a day.
On the 3lst Thomas Il. Ferguson, of
Maryland, was nominated by the presi-
dent to be envoy extraordinary and
minister plenipotentiary of the United
States to Sweden and Norway.
FIFTEEN cases of smallpox had, up
to the 3lst, developed at Lewisburg,
w. Va. The greatest vigilance on the
part of the authorities had failet, to
stop the spread of the disease.
ST. ROSE Catholic church in Cincin-
natl was burned on the 31st. Loss,
$50. 900; insurance. less than $4,000.
A NUMBER of striking puddlers at
Moorhead's iron mills, Sharpsburg,
Pa, made an attack on the nineteen
or twenty men who were at work in
the mill shortly before midnight on
the 30th, and drove them out of the
mill
THE directors of the Bank of En-
gland, at their regular weekly meet
ing on the LIST, reduced the banks rate
of discount from per cent to ~ per
cent.
IT was announced from ST. Peters
burg. on the 1st, that all danger to the
czar from his sickness was past.
TIE great silk stores of Favre &
LiouX, in Lyons, France, were burned
on the 1st.
THE widow of the late French paint
err Millet died in Paris on the 1st.
\ BOMB with a lighted fuse attached
was found on the first floor of the city
hall at Versailles on the I'd. The
burning fuse was extinguished, and
the bomb was turned ever to the pc
lice.
LEE SANG. Chinese highlander, was
hanged at Sar Quentin, Cal. on the
I'd. for the murder of fellow-country-
man.
THRoUGH daily train service between
vancouver. i. c., and Seattle, Wash,
has been iuaugurated.
NJ. FRANCOIS CopPE. the well-known
French litterateur. is seriously i'll
The Avondale- street railway sheds
and machine shop at Cincinnati were
burned early on the morning of the
I'd, entailing loss estimated at $751;
900: insurance, s150,000. There were
seventy-eight or eighty cars in the
sheds.
IT is announced that Rev. T. Dewitt
Talmage. the famous Brooklyn preach
err, has completed arrangements for a
tour o. the world during the coming
spring and summer.
Co3poRAL JAMES TANNER. ex-Unitcd
States commissioner of pensions, is
now a patient at the Seney hospital, in
Brooklyn, under the care of DR..
George r Fowler. 1t is said that the
the knife, and will have another inch
cut from each leg.
THERE has been considerable excite
ment in the eastern part Of Fort
Wayne, Ind. recently, over the dis
covery of an alleged case OF leprosy in
that neighborhood. The patient is Il
Polish Jew named Goldstein. who has
been canvassing the city selling linens,
notions. etc.
BURGLARS entered the post Office at
Durant, Miss, between midnight and
daylight on the morning OF the I'd.
and robbed the safe of about 500 in
money and thirty-five registered let
tiers, containing something over $780,
The burglars used tools stolen from a
neigh boring blacksmith shop.
The effort to repeal the tax on state
hank circula ton was beaten in the
committee on banking and currency,
on the I'd, by a vote of s yeas to o nays.
The friends of the measure will fight
for it on the floor OF the house.