Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-02-04

IEE senate committee On commerce.
on the 2sth, agreed upon and reported
favorably to the senate Mr.. Caffery's
bill appropriating $3.50, 600 to close the
crevasse in the Mississippi river at
Pass a Loutre. The committee exc
pressed no opinion as to the liability
of the Eads heirs in the matter.
MURAvIEFF, the rewIy-appointed
head of the Russian foreign office, ar
rived in Paris on the 2Sth. A large
crowd of persons assembled at the
station to await his coming, and
greeted him with cheers and cries of
''Vive Russie" as he made his appear
ance.
A TELEGRAM from Port Eads, La,
says the steamer Albert Dumers ran
down and sunk the steam yacht Argo
on the 2sth. Two reporters of the
New Orleans Picayune, who were on
the Argo, are missing.
THE fishing schooner Hattie Rebecca
Carter, from Atlantic City, went ashore
two miles northeast of Sea Isle City,
n. j.. on the 2Sth, during thick snow
storm. Her crew of six men were
saved.
The Italian war Office has ordered
six battalions of troops to get in read
mess to start for Massowah.
AT Jackson, o., on the goth, Alice
Hill, blind woman. aged As, while
cropping her way across room in the
house in which she lived, came in con-
tact with a stove. Her clothes were
set on fire and she was bur ned to
death. Her mother, aged 72, also
| nearly blind, was fatally burned try
ing to save her daughter.
TIE northb bound train on the South
ern Pacific railroad, which left San
Francisco, on the 2sth, for Portland,
Ore, was held up near RoseburR, Ore,
on the 29th, by two or three men.
Two small safes in the express car
were blown open and looted. The ex-
press car then took fire and the car
and contents were destroyed.
THE house committee on the library,
on the goth, recommended favorably
the bill appropriating $4,000 for the
erection of an equestrian statue in
Washington city to Maj.-Gen. Henry
W. SIocum.
THE business portion of Caledonia,
O., was burned at an early hour on the
Goth.
AT Cleveland, O., on the goth, Will
| lard Cotton, As years old, shot and al
most instantly killed his wife, Claris-
sa, aged az, and then shot himself in
the head and died in half an hour.
The tragedy was the outcome of a do
mestic quarrel.
GEN. RUSSELL A ALGEB, of Michi
gan, was, on the 29th, after a confer
ence with Maj. Mckinley at Canton,
o., rendered the portfolio of secretary
of war in the Mckinley cabinet, and
signifed his acceptance.
THIRTY-sIx years ago Wash Morgan,
of Leslie county, KY, babe his wife
and nine children good-by and told
them he was going to Covington, Ky.
He returned recently, having been in
California. He found SO grandchildren
and seven great-grandchildren
The West Point cadets may yet at
tend the Inauguration of President
Mckinley. The item of expense has
been one of the chief obstacles in the
way of their trip. H. c. Burch, man
ager of the Ebbitt house, Washington,
at which the president-elect will stop
prior to his Inauguration, has offered
to entertain the cadets free of charge.
MINISTER TAYLOR, at Madrid, notified
the state department, on the goth, that
he had been :given assurances by the
Spanish government that the Competi-
torsprisoners would be released from
confinement in Havana within ten
days, Internationally.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND paid a flying
visit to New York city, on the 10Th,
and attended the semi-centenuial of
the Academy of Medicine at Carnegie
hall, before whom he delivered an in
teresting address. Later ne held a
brief reception.
Hon. w. j. BRYAN delivered his lee
ture at San Antonio, Tex, on
the evening of the goth, on 1.-The
Lessons of the Campaign" to a
fashionable audience, and was given a
| warm welcome. After leaving the
platform Mr.. Bryan announced to his
| friends that the lecture just delivered
was the last under the auspices of the
present management.