Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-01-03

srn,l Cnmutp gegister
BY ELI d. AXE.
[RONTON. MISSOURI
on the oath, placing Brig. Gen. David
6. Swain on the retired list of the
army. he having reached the age of 62
years.
Rumor is current in Washington that
Assistant Postmaster-General Frank
III. Jones, of Illinois, is engaged to
Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris, Gen. Grants
daughter.
THE London physicians attending
Lord Randolph Churchill issued bull
1etin, on the evening of the 25th, say
ing that their patient was in critical
condition.
Sicily suffered from severe earth
quake shocks, on the 9th, and much
damage is reported to have been done.
Messina and Milazzo felt the shocks
most keenly.
The biggest and most successful fox
hunt IN the history of Allegheny coun-
ty, Pa, took place on Christmas day.
During the day a distance of twenty
five miles was covered. The result OF
the hunt was ten foxes.
THE presidents of the colleges of the
state, at a meeting held in 1ndianap-
oils, Ind, on the eth, decided to pro-
hibit intercollegiate football games
henceforth. Exhibition sports of any
kind only will be allowed.
THE report from Cleveland that the
Carnegie Steel Co., of Pittsburgh, Pa,
had closed deal for several thousand
acres of land at Lorain, O., on which
would be erected a large steel plant
was denied, on the 27th, by the officials
of that company.
HENRY NJ. SEELEY, aged SO years, of
Honesdale, Pa, who was presiding
Judge of the Twenty-second judicial
district of Pennsylvania, consisting of
the counties of Wayne and Pike, from
1892 to 1894, died, on the night of the
25th, of Bright's disease.
Miss VIRGINIA CHEW. l6 years of age,
daughter of Col r. P. Chew, and grand
daughter of John Augustine Washing
ton, the last private owner Of Mount
Vernon, and a great-grandniece OF
George Washington, died at Charles
town, w. Va, on the 25th.
JOHN VAsTINE. for years the Cincin-
natl Enquirer" representative at Gov
ington, KY, while romping on the
floor with his children at his home, on
the e5th, fell dead from apoplexy. He
was one of the best known and most
popular men in Kentucky.
Mr.. AND Mrs. GEORGE o. FORD, the
youthful couple who were married at
Wis, recently, without the
consent of the brides parents, Mr.. and
Mrs Thos. Wickes, received a Christ
don containing the paternal blessing.
THE Stewart syndicate, which pur-
chased the entire second bond issue of
$50, OOO, 600, for which they paid s5s,-
53s, 500 and accrued interest, had, up
to the 27th, only received $40, 00O, 900 of
the bonds. The rest were ready for
delivery, but had not yet been called
for.
The body of Mrs. William Waldorf
Astor, after being embalmed and placed
in a mahogany casket, the mountings
and plate of which are solid silver. was
inclosed in a case of lead and sent from
London to Liverpool, on the 27th, for
shipment to New York on the steamer
Aurania.
THE police authorities of Berlin is
sued orders prohibiting socialist clubs
of that city from attending the thea
tiers in a body or in considerable num-
bers during the holidays. This order
was issued with the idea of preventing
in the theaters against
anti-revolution bills.
M. BARTHoU, French minister of pub
lie works, and Jean Jaures, socialist
member of the chamber of deputies,
exchanged shots. on the 25th, on the
field of honor. Neither was hurt The
duel was the result of the violent de-
bate in the chamber, on the cath, in
which Barthou gave the lie to Jaures.
"A BOMB was exploded near the Off
cial residence of United States Am
bassador Wayne MacVeagh in Rome,
shortly after IL o'clock on the night of
the 26th. The explosion took place
while Mr.. MacVeagh's reception was
in progress, but caused little or no ex-
element among the guests No dam
age was done.
The president refused the applica-
ton for pardon in the case of the In
dian Cha Nope Huah, alias Two Sticks,
who was convicted of murder in South
Dakota and sentenced to be hanged on
the 2Sth. The Indian, with his sons
and another Indian, deliberately muir
dered four cowboys, whose hospitality
they were enjoying.