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

oN Inc 'Iu Cue King oI COfcd pro-
ceeded to the ancestral temple, and
there formally declared the independ-
ence of Corea. He was accompanied
by the members of the cabinet and the
other high functionaries of the gov
eminent, escorted by body of SOL
diers armed and equipped in modern
style.
HEAVY snowstorms have prevailed
throughout northern Spain, blocking
railways, prostrating telegraph wires
and otherwise impeding. travel and
damaging property.
AFTER the French chamber of depu-
ties had been called to order, on the
Sth, for the session of 1895. NJ. Henri
Brisson was reelected president of the
body by a vote of 272 out of 80.
WILLIAM GROSS CLEMENTS, the IA
year-old son of Cortland c. Clements, a
well-known citizen of Washington
city, was almost instantly killed, on
the 9th, by the accidental discharge of
a revolver. The casualty happened in
the boys room at Judge Clements resi-
dence.
THOUGH two more bodies were re-
covered from the ruins of the Delavan
HouSt dG hlDdHy, ou tuC JtH IL
was definitely settled that but eight
bodies in all had been found, instead
of ten, as previously stated.
CHARLES F. WARWICK. city solicitor,
was nominated for mayor of Phila
delphia by the repu blican convention
on the 9th.
THE special agent of the agricultural
department who has been investigat-
ing the American dressed meat trade
with Germany, has made his report to
Secretary Morton. 1t shows, as a re-
suit of careful inquiry on the part of
the consignees, butchers and even some
of the veterinarians themselves, that
both the dressed beef and the cattle re-
ceived from this country were of ex-
ceptionally good quality.
A PARIS newspaper, on the 9Th, an
nounced the death, at Nice, of Frank
lin johnson, son of the cashier of the
First national bank of Boonville, n. Y.
The young man, it would seem, had
arrived at Nice about two weeks pre-
he was piled with wine, drugged and
robbed of over 5000.
SEVERAL big German societies and
many of Pittsburgh's pa leading Ger
mans are mourning the disappearance
of Bruno Wall, who, for year or more,
has been editor of the Freiheits Freund,
the best German paper of the city.
Wall seems to have improved his time,
as when he disappeared he left the
town several thousands poorer.
VICE-PREsIDENT STEvENsoN's family
are all at Asheville, n. c., at the bed
side of Miss Stevenson. except the son,
Lewis G. Stevenson. who is unable to
leave the bedside of his wife, also dam
gerously Ill. in Bloomington, ILL.,, and
whose recovery has been despaired of.
THE Carlisle substitute currency bill
was given a decidedly knockout blow
in the house, on the 9th, when that
body refused to adopt a rule to bring
the measure to a vote. There was
ma jority of five against the rule.
THE house committee on public build
ings and grounds, on the 10th. ordered
favorably reported bill appropriating
S26s, 900 for the purchase of a site for
government printing office at Wash
ington. ID. c.
Gov. UPHAM's message was delivered
and read in both houses of the Wis
consin legislature on the 10th. II con-
tains about 1000 words, and is consid-
cred an able and business-like docu-
ment.
A CONCURRENT resolution was intro
duced in the Kansas house of repre-
sentatives. on the 10th. giving to the
settlers of western Kan
sas all of the surplus coal at the state |
mines at Lansing.