Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-01-26

HUI OHlt lIctttu uuuOI VI SLY,
ma, but many with good claims have been
deprived of pensions.
THE bill introduced by Representa-
tive Browne of Indiana for the issue and ex-
change of fractional treasury notes author
ICES the Secretary Of the Treasury to issue
treasury notes payable to bearer on demand,
to be in denomination of 5, 10, 25 and so
cents, and the aggregate sum to be 81, 000,-
900, the notes to be exchangeable at par in
sums of 500 or any multiple thereof for
treasury notes, national bank-notes, silver
certificates, or gold or silver coin of the
United States. These fractional treasury
notes are to be legal tender for all debts not
exceeding S..
Foreign: English cotton operatives
are striking for higher wages. Ireland is
disturbed by the usual conflicts between
peasants and constabulary; dynamite, arms
and ammunition have been seized in several
places. In France recent elections give the
Republicans majority considered impreg-
nable; Victor Hugo and De Freycinct were
chosen for the Department of the Seine and
neen Say for VersaillA--o~-->anyh has made
certain demands on Holland in regard to
navigation of the Rhine, which were coldly
received, and Minister Won Canitz was re-
called for want of firmless. Crown Prince
Frederick William is to be proclaimed
Regent on the Emperor's eighty-fifth BIRTH
day-March 22d. The Italian Government
has been invited to leave Rome to the Pope,
who will go to NJ ilta if he finds it impossible
to remain in that city. Port au Prince, st.
Marie and Jacmel, Hayti, have been de-
clared in a state of siege. Two persons
were killed and thirty wounded by torpe-
do explosion in Constantinople. Over $50
lives were lost by the recent earthquake at
Kanchou, China. In a duel between Lieu
tenants Ambertin and Demard, at Saigon,
the former was shot through the body.
Ringleaders OF revolutionary party of
Coreans have been executed. Fifteen per-
sons were drowned by the sinking of a
Swedish steamer in Calmar Sound.
GUITEAU'S counsel ,on the 14th, asked
If the prisoner would be allowed to speak in
his own defense. Judge Cox replied: 81
should be 10th in capital case to deny any
man the proper opportunity to be heard,
even If he is represented by counsel; but in
this case it is safe to assume that the prison
er will abuse the privilege,as he has done all
through the trial, and that what he would
say would be highly improper to go before
the jury. shall, therefore, deny him the
privilege. As I said yesterday, however, if
his counsel desire to read from his manu-
script anything which they deem proper to
lay before the jury, they can do 500 Gui-
teau protested. He said that he appeared
as his own counsel, and claimed the right of
an American citizen to be heard in his own
defense. Judge Cox made no reply, but
simply nodded to Reed to begin his argu-
ment. Reed then arose to address the jury,
arguing at some length to demonstrate the
insanity of the prisoner. cit does not re-
quire an expert to pronounce him insane.
You have seen him day after day shutting in
before you. You have seen that strange,
unnatural look of his eyes, and it requires
no expert to convince you that this is not the
appearance of a sane man, In conclusion,
Mr.. Reed said: ''The conviction of this
man to the gallows and execution would be
an infamy beyond description, an indelible
stain upon American Jurisprudence and
American juries." ScoviIle addressed the jury
on the 10Th. He said he was not familiar with
modes of practice in criminal cases. All the
defense asked for was a fair, candid, impair
tial weighing Of the evidence by fair and
candid men. Counsel would attempt no
oratory, because he was not equal to it, and
because he would not do it if he could. 81
do not care to complain, although do not
think as counsel in the conduct of this case
/ have been treated with fairness. Per-
sonaly / care nothing for it, but when it
Injuries the cause in which my efforts are
enlisted, then 1 must complain.
I hold i'm my hand an Indictment
for conspiracy which have framed in my
own mind, and the object of this conspiracy
was to hang the prisoner. He then named
as conspirators the District Attorney, Judge
Porter, Mr.. Davidge and five of the Gov
ernment experts, namely, Drs. Gray, Ham
ilton, Kempster, Med 1nald and Webster.
There are twenty counts in the indictment,
first of which was perversion of law in in
Producing the Davis decision, which deci-
sion counsel in severe language denounced
"a an eytra judicial act