Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-01-21
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

THE dowager empress Asako, mother
of Emperor Mutsuhito of Japan, died
on the 18th. She was born in Toxic,
January %, 1884.
JOHN R. TANNER was inaugurated
governor of Illinois on the 18th. Fiji
ty thousand strangers are said to have
visited Springfield to witness the in
auguration ceremonies.
AT last the fatal chunk which divid-
ed the Missouri river and the famous
fishing resort, Lake Quinnebaugh, in
Nebraska, has dropped into the river,
and what was once a body of inland
water next summer will be nothing
but a barren piece of land.
A BOARD of naval officers has COM
menced Investigations looking to the
rehabilitation of the Notifications or
the Dry Tortugas, the key to the gulf
Of Mexico, and the establishment Of a
naval supply station there.
WHILE returning from church ut
West Branch, Ia, on the 10th, Mary j.
Hawley,s an aged woman, and a pio-
neer of that community, suddenly
dropped dead on the sidewalk from
heart failure.
THE conference of gold standard
democrats, held at the auditorium in
Chicago, on the 9th, declared for con-
tinued opposition to the tenets of the
free silver wing of the party and for
a continuance of the party organiza-
ton.
WITH more ceremony than ever be-
ore known on such an occasion in
jefferson City, and in the presence of
the largest and most brilliant assem-
blage ever gathered there, Lon V.
Stephens was, on the 18th, inaugurated
governor of Missouri.
The United States supreme court,
in an opinion by Justice Gray, on the
18th, held that an application for an
injunction against an executive officer
of the government was vacated by his
death or resignation.
THE sum of $500, oOe, 900 is the total
amount of SPANS expenditures in
Cuba in the year, not yet ended, of
Capt. zen. Weyler's misgovernment.
THE final paper in the Du-rant muir
der case was filed, on the 18th, in the
office of the clerk of the supreme
court of California. No further legal
proceedings can be taken in this cele-
brated case until the supreme court
renders its opinion in decision of it.
WILL s. EAMs. of St Louis, has been
appointed architect to draw plans for
the new military prison at Fort LeaE-
aenworth, Kas. The new prison is to
cost $500, 900.
LATE dispatches say that copious
rains have fallen in most of the fam
ine-stricken districts of India, but a
great deal more rain is needed. The
bubonic plague is increasing at Kara
chi.
The Anglo-An1erican general arbi-
tration treaty was signed in the diplo-
matte parlor of the state department,
In Washington, on the 18th, at 1920 p.
M, by Secretary Olney and Sir Julian
Pauncefote.
TUE United States steamship Mont
gomery, which sailed, on the 18th, for
Florida waters on flibustering duty,
returned to the Brooklyn navy yard, on
! the i5th, having met with an accident
before she got clear of the harbor
which necessitated her going into the
dry dock Immediately.
AT o:k5 a. m. on the 18th the tank
house of the Columbia Powder Co, To-
Gated in q hollow midway between the
boroughs of Sheusetown and Shano-
D1Ds de- &GGW uPs ~AA- ehO
proprietor of the works, and his two
daughters were killed Mr.. P. Nc
KIukey was fatally and Walter Crane
very seriously injured.
The national monetary conference.
which had been in session in Indian
apolis, Ind, two days, on the 18th.
adopted declaration of what legisla-
tion. in its opiaion, is needed upon
the subject by q practically unanimous
vote This declaration included a de-
mand for the maintenance of the gold
standard and the retirement of the
demand obligations OF the government
The conference then adj Ourned sine
die
The Colorado Potato trust has gone
to pieces, and Texas consumers, who
take almost loo. 600 bushels a year of
| mountain tubers, can glost over the
prospect OF q potato war.