Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-02-17
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Porch climbers entered the home of
w. w. Norton, in ST. Louis, on the 18th,
while the family were at supper, and
stole diamonds and jewelry to the
value of $1,000, the property of Mrs.
James o. West, society woman of
New York, and an aunt of Mr.. Norton.
THE Barton estate vineyard, near
Fresno, Cal, one of the largest in the
country, has been fined S15,24O by the
United States government for irregu-
larities in the matter of distilling, and
Mr.. Lamplzin, the United States gauger
at Fresno, has been first suspended and
then dismissed.
A DISPATCH from Madrid, on the Sth,
said: THE Spanish government has de-
cided to send the Spanish cruiser Almi-
rante Oquendo to Havana and thence
to New York.
On the 9th Senior Enrique Dupuy de
LONE cabled his resignation to Madrid
as minister plenipotentiary and envoy
extraordinary to the United States.
De Lome's action was in anticipation of
his recall, which he knew to be inevi-
table after the publication of his criti-
cism of President Mckinley and his
THE department of state has received
the report of Consul General Lee upon
the killing of Nestor Aranguren in
Cuba. If the report could be made pub
lie it might bring a crisis in hurry.
A PROCLAMATION of the chief mayor of
Cologne against American hams is the
latest act of German unfriendliness to-
ward the products of this country.
Consul Barnes has forwarded copy to
the state department.
PRESIDENT Dole of Hawaii and party
arrived at Cleveland, o., on the Sth,
where the president and his wife spent
the day at the home of Mr.. Charles
Cate, Mrs. Dole'S brother. The two had
not met for many years.
THE fourth session of the fourteenth
parliament of Queen Victoria and the
twenty-sixth of the United Kingdom,
was opened, by commission, on the Sth,
at p. m, with the customary cere-
monies.
GEO. LORD, the oldest mason in the
United States, and probably in the
world, and also the oldest odd fellow
in America, died at San Bernardino,
Cal, on the 9th, the victim of a para
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York city, June ~, 1900, and first went
to California in 1S49.
IT was denied in Vienna. on the 9th.
that there was any question at present
of restricting the importation of Ameri-
can fruits into Austria.
FIVE persons are known to have per-
ished and a large number We're injured
in a fire which, on the night of the
9th, destroyed the plant of the Chau-
lauqua Ice Co., at Twelfth and Pike
streets, Pittsburgh, Pa, and several
nearby buildings.
THE Kansas State Editors associa-
ton, which met in annual convention in
Kansas City. Kas., on the 9th, unani-
mously adopted resolution favOring a
great fair and exposition to be held IN
that city, in 1903, to commemorate the
centennial anniversary of the Louisiana
purchase.
A LETTER has been sent to Lady
Henry Somerset, signed by all the Ma
tional w. C. T. U. officers, assuring her
of their loyalty and love, expressing
much sympathy in her illness, and urg-
ing her to come to America as soon as
her health and strength will permit.
ALEXIS CI.AREMoNT, who carried
Uncle SANS mail on foot from Green
Bay to Chicago &C years ago, died in
De Pere, Wis, on the 9Th, aged 81. He
repeated the trip during the Worlds
fam. He was born at st. Ignace and
served in the Black Hawk war in 1882.