Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-12-05
II is said the recent illness of the

IT is said the recent illness of the
pope was due to lack of vitality, which
condition is increasing.
SCHLArrER has been positively iden-
titled at Green Horn. Col, journeving
he will fast for forty days.
BOTH New York and Missouri have
laid claim to the youngest member of
congress, New York in the person of
Representative George N. Southwick.
of Albany. and Missouri. Norman A.
Mozely. of Dexter. New York. how
ever, is entitled to the distinction.
Mr.. Southwick was IS years old when
elected and Mr.. Mozely %.
THE grand jury has returned indict-
ments for bribery against Councilmen
Adam Torch and j. T.. Callahan, of
New Orleans.
THE sultan has consented to the
doubling of the number of foreign
guardships in the Bosporus-
ALEXANDRA DUMAS, the noted French
arthur, died in Paris peacefully on
the evening of the eth, surrounded
by his family. While his physicians
and friends had become convinced that
his case was hopeless and death only a
question of time, it was not expected
that the end would come so soon.
THE number of lives sacrificed in
Armenia is roughly estimated up to
November Is at 1920. In Trebizond
and vicinity 1,1OO Christians were
killed; Baiburt, 500; Gumush Hane,
Khnous, 200; Boulinak. 400; Harput,
1000; Sivas, 800; Palu, $50; Diarbekr,
5000; Albistan, 400; Erzeroum, 1000,
and Curfa, 400; or total of 5000.
WuMINGToN, Del, was thrown into
intense excitement, on the 2Sth, by the
announcement made by the police that
three well-known officials of the state
asylum for the insane at Farnhurst
had been arrested and locked up
charged with the murder of an insane
patient who had been placed under
their care for treatment
THE 2Sth was set apart at the Cotton
States exposition as Atlanta and South
Carolina day combined. Over 100, 600
visitors were present, more strangers
than were ever in Atlanta before.
South Carolina covered herself with
glory, excelling all other states that
have had special days at the fair in
the number of visitors contributed and
in the military display made.
DURING the progress of a church fair
in the City armory at Wooster, O., on
the evening of the 2sth, lamp was
overturned and the burning oil set fire
to one of the booths. The 1.5OO per-
sons in the building became panic
stricken at the sight of the flames, and
of I'd nj;
injured.
THE cruiser Minneapolis passed out
through the Chesapeake capes. on the
morning of the 2Sth, bound for Turkey.
She probably will make the trip in
about fifteen days, touching perhaps
first at Gibraltar for mail.
GEORGE w. BARNES. pioneer. drop
ped dead in the NJ. e. church at Barnes
vile, O., OH the 2Sth, while attending
services held by Rev. Sam Small
TEXAS SIFTINGs is to be removed
from New York city, where it has been
published for many years. to Dallas,
Tex.
In Sing Singh. Y. prison, where one of
the strictest rules is that silence must
at all times be preserved, the prisoners
were allowed, by special permit, to
make all the noise they desired by
singing, laughing. shouting. etc, be-
tween and o'clock on Thanksgiv-
ing afternoon. They availed them
selves of the privilege to the full.
AT Lancaster, O., on the goth, VIM.
Bloom, who was taken before Squire
Brown on complaint of his wife who
charged him with assaulting her,
threw an inkstand at the court, drove
him from the room and then struck
him with rock, inflicting probably
fatal injuries.
GRIswoLD s. GILLETr, of New York
city, agents for Charles Cammell &
Co.. of Sheffield. England, have sold
10000 tons of steel rails of English
make for use on an American road.
This is the first sale of English rails
under the Wilson tariff.
A cAvE-IN occurred at Brewster, n.
Y, on the 29th, in the lilly Foster
mine, by which eleven men were kill
ed and several injured.