Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-01-23
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

TIE two branches of the general as
sembly of Ohio voted separately. on
the 18th, for United States senator
to succeed Senator Brice. The votes
indicated the election of eX.-Gov. For
aker on the first joint ballot.
THE battleship Indiana sailed from
Newport, r. l., on the 18th, for Hamp-
ton Roads. Va, where Admiral Bunce's
squadron of evolution was still wait
ing orders
CHIEF-JUsTICE JOHN NJ. ROBINSON of
the Maryland court of appeals, died
suddenly of heart disease. at Annapo-
lis on the 18th. He had been judge for
35 years.
THE Spanish steamer Oscar, from
Hamburg for Spanish ports, was sunk,
on the 18th. near Calais, France. by
collision with an unknown ship. All
on board the Oscar were saved except
the captain, mate and one passenger.
The ship proceeded on her way.
Rev. REGINALD WINDSOR SACKvILLE,
seventh earl Delaware. died in London,
on the 18th. He was 30 years of age.
The Indiana state convention of the
Good Citizens league met in Indian
apolis on the 18th. Assemblyman
Nicholson, author of the famous anti
saloon bill that bears his name, pre-
sided
CHANCELLOR VON HoHENLOHE, on be-
half of the king, opened the Prussian
landtag, on the 18th. without any spe-
cial ceremony. Two hundred members
of the body were present.
ST. MART's Catholic church at An
derson, Ind, which cost $50, 1000 and is
the third finest in the state, was dam
aged by fire to the amount of s., 500 on
| the 14th.
UNITED STATES CoNsUL-GENERAL DE-
| KAY, at Berlin, reports to the state de-
pxrtment that he has secured an allot-
| ment of room in the international art
| exhibition, to be held in Berlin from
May ito October next, for American
| astists, and promise from the presi-
dent of the exhibition committee that
| American artists shall have the same
| privileges as artists in London and
Paris
SUPT CHARLTON of the reform school
| for boys at Plainfield, Ind, on the 18th b,
notified Secretary Metcalf of the state
board of health, asking that the insti-
tuition be placed under quarantine i'm
mediately, as scarlet fever had broken
out among the boys The disease, he
| says, vas communicated through a let
| ter received by one of the boys
| NEAR jacques store, south of Fort
Holmes, SO miles southeast of Okla
homa City, Okla. on the 18th, a vigi-
| lance committee, composed of farmers
and ranchmen, captured and hanged
! three desperadoes-Tom Foley, man
known as Wild Horse and haIf-breed
Choctaw named Marina.
| JOHN ]. BANNINGAN, general manager
| of the United States Rubber Co, gave
| orders, on the 18th, for the indefinite
| closing of the United States Rubber
| Co. S works at Millv;lle, E. 1. The or
der went into immediate effect, and
| 900 men were thrown out of work.
| PROF. JAMES BRYCE, who has just re,
| turned from a trip to South Africa, in
addressing the Edinburgh chamber OF
commerce, on the 18th. said that there
was no doubt that Mashonaland and
| Matabeleland would prove 10 be
wealthy, but railways were necessary
| to develop them.
| IT is learned that the German kaiser
| will grant amnesty to large number
| of political offenders now serving sen
tence in German prisons 1t is believed
that nearly all the editors and social
lists who have lately been convicted
md sentenced for lese majestic viii ~
released at the quarter centennial OF
| the birth of the empire
| THE announcement was made, on
| the 10th, that the liabilities of kenn
| Sutterlee & Co.. leather dealers and
importers, of Philadelphia, who failed
recently. will reach, if they do not ex'
coed 81, 100000.
A SENSATION was created IN st.
Johns, Y. F., on the 10th, by a state
ment in the official organ of the gov
eminent that 1000 families In st.
Johns were without food. fuel OF
clothing.