Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-01-10
DrspArcHEs from Belpiu,a. on the cd.

DISPATCHES from Belgium, on the cd.
announced that the Belgian govern
ment had prohibited the Importation
of American cattle, alleging the preva-
lence of pleuro-pneumonia in the
United States as the reason. DIR. Sal
mon, chief of the bureau of animal in
dustry, says there has been no pleuro-
pneumonia in the United States for
two years.
THE census Office made public re-
port, on the I'd, showing that the own
ers of farms and homes, regarded as
substantially the land owners Of the
United States, own more than 90 per
cent. of the wealth of the country.
HAMILTON FISH was, on the I'd, elect
ed speaker of the New York state as
sembly.
GUARD TEMPLE, who recently shot
and killed Convict O'Day in the Ohio
penitentiary was, on the Sd, exon
verdict of justifable homicide.
THE United States cruiser Detroit
arrived at Port Said, Egypt, on the Sd,
on her way from Naples to China.
ALExANER BIDA, the French artist,
died in Paris On the Sd.
Mrs. MARY T. LATHRAP. president of
the Michigan w. c. 7. o.. died at her
home in jackson, on the Sd, of acute
neuralgia. aged Sc years. She had
been ill about year.
ROBERT BRUCE, the head of Chi
cago detective agency and one of the
best-posted men in the country on
criminals, was found dead in his Office
on the Sd. He had been drinking
heavily.
FRANK p. MOORE was arrested at
Savannah, Ga, on the 4th, for using
the United States mails for fraudulent
purposes in sending clairvoyant circu-
lars through the post Office. He is said
to be wanted in Cincinnati for similar
offenses.
A WARRANT was sworn out, on the
4th. for the arres of ex-City Treasurer
George Swartzlopf. of Valparaiso, Ind.
on the charge of embezzling city funds
to the amount of S1S. $50 during his two
years service as city treasurer.
AN enormous crowd gathered at the
state house in Denver, Col, on the 4th,
to listen to Gov. Yates final message.
AN Austrian polar expedition will
leave Bremerhaven in June, 1896.
Julius Prayer will be in charge of it.
Snow fell in Nice. France, on the
4th, to the unprecedented depth of five
inches.
MICHAEL BERBICK and his two chill
dren, John and Michael, aged and
years, respectively, were smothered to
death in the burning of their home in
New York on the 4th.
On the night of the 4th fire destroyed
the upper stories of the Iron block in
Milwaukee and ali of the building adj
joining, owned by the Martin estate.
The loss on the Iron block is $50, 200.
and that of Delorme & Quentin, the oc-
cupants, is S65, 900 on stock. The Mar
tin estate loss is $40, 900.
A. w. HILL, superintendent of the
Wabash Und.) paper mill, dropped dead
of heart disease at Marion, Ind, on the
evening of the 4th. He was at the Big
Four station awaiting a freight train,
to return home, when he fell dead on
the platform.
The secretary of war has written a
letter to congress recommending the
appropriation of S15,774 to pay the
damage done by the explosion of ar
ammunition chest in the streets of Chi
cago last July.
On the accommodation of Postmas-
ter-General Bissell the president, on
the 4th. issued an order extending the
civil-service regulations to all superin-
tendents of stations in the post offices
of the United States The order takes
effect Immediately on its PRONUNCIATION.
SECRETARY HERBERT has decided to
send naval attache to the United
States legation at Toxic, and has Sc
lected for the post Commander Francis
NJ. Barber.
IT is practically settled that the
naval appropriation bill, as reported
to the house, will contain provisions
for two and possibly three battleships,
at cost of about S4,000,O00.
THE United States post office de-
tectives made most important arrest
at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 4th, when
they captured M. P. Strayer, a sub
letter carrier, in the very act of rifinp
{. letter containing money.