Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-01-17

toR the first time in fifteen wears TIE,
United States patent office finds its
work completed up to date. This
means that in all of its thirty three ex-
aiming divisions the work is in such
condition that a new application filed
to-day viii be acted upon on las merits
within three days and an amendment
to-day will receive attention within
two weeks.
ROBERT HENRY, the negro who tried
to wreck the train on which Senator
Hill was returning to Washington from
the south in December last, was arrest
ed at Jacksonville, Fla, on the 9Th.
The attempt at train wrecking was
made near Florence, S. C.
NJ. CHALLEMEL LACoUR was, On the
10th, reelected president of the French
senate.
BoTH houses of the California legis-
fsture assembled in Joint session, ON
the 10th, and canvassed the state re-
turns. James II. Budd was declared
governor amid great enthusiasm
THE South Dakota house and senate,
en- the 10th, suspended the rUles and
passed joint resolution offering So. 600
for the arrest and delivery of the de-
faulting treasurer, w. w. Taylor. He
is about feet g inches in height.
weighs 200 pounds, has brown hair.
small mustache, blue or gray eyes and
;forid complexion. He was last heard
of in New York.
THREE oil men were instantly killed
on the Prissr farm, three miles west
of Wapaxoneta, o., on the 10th. Frank
Logan, John Pettigrew and Nv. j. Nc
Nally endeazsored to thaw out 10C
quarts of frozen ro-glyoerine with
hot water. 1T exploded, tearing them
all into fragments, together with a
team of horses.
The post office department. on the
10th, received official notification that
Cape Colony, regarded as the most inn
portant acquisition in Africa for the
Universal Postal union owing to it's
position as the entrance fC all African
mails, had Joined the union ON Janu-
AIRY l.
A NODES vIyENDI between the United
States and Cuba has been agreed upon
at Madrid, pending only the settlement
of the question of the date upon which
it shall become operative BY the terms
of the agreement Cuba comedies the
second column tariff in return for the
Observation-Disclosures treatment.
REPORTS from the immigration au-
thorities at New York show the whole
number of immigrants arrived during
December was IL, log. Of this number
116 were debarred entrance as paupers
and SD as contract aborers, 10 We're adj
mitted on bond.
The town of Turtle Creek 10 miles
east of Pittsburgh. Pa. was badly
Quilted by fire on the night of the 10th.
The town post office, valued at $4,000,
was torn down by the citizens to pre-
vent further spread of the flames. The
damage will reach 100000.
A DISPATCH from Shanghai. on the
10th, said that severe fighting had
taken place near Jehol. Mongolia, 12C
miles northeast of Pekin. Hundreds
of wounded Chinese were reported &c
be arriving at Tien-Tsin daily.
FAILURES for the week ended on the
18th, as reported by r. G. Dun & Co..
were. for the United States, 400.
against 474 for the corresponding week
of last year: and for Canada, "a, against
81 last year.
CHESTER ALLEN, aged 70 years, for
many years prominent citizen OF
Paw Paw, Mich, died on the 18th. He
was formerly railroad man. and
helped to erect the first railroad build
ings at Detroit. He helped to con-
struct the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy road and the first works at
Pullman, Ill. He was wealthy at one
time, but died poor.
ENGINEER G. WOoLMAN was killed
and Fireman j. r. Nettles injured, or
the 18th, by a collision between g
switch engine and Wabash passen-
ger train in the Hannibal yards at
Kansas City, Mo. The passenger.
were badly shaken up.
SENSATION was sprung in the
legislature, on the 18th,
when it was announced that Gov. John
Ii. McGraw had himself entered the
race for United States senator. Nc
Graw's friends maintained that neither
Ankeny, Wilson or Allen could be
elected, and that McGraw was the only
bic candidate for the place.