Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-04-19

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By ELI d. AXE.
IRoNTON. MISSOURI
NEWS AND NOTES,
A Summary Of Important Events.
THE Hotel Marengo, at Pasadena, Cal.
was burned on the 18th.
THE dispute between the United States
and Morocco, it is stated, has been set
tied On terms honorable to the former.
SENATOR STANFORD, of California, has
decided to let his friends present his name
as a presidential candidate before the
Republican National convention.
THE second daughter of General Booth,
the head of the Salvation army, was mar
ried in London, on the 10th, to an ex-In-
dian CivilService officer, named Fakeer
Tucker.
DURING the month of March several
great fires occurred in China At Sap
pore, $50 houses were destroyed; at Ikes-
himura Nakagora, is, and at kashiwasaki
Basue, $40.
THE Michigan Greenback State conven-
ton has been called to meet at Lansing,
May 8, to select delegates to the National
convention, which meets at Cincinnati one
week later.
SENIOR CALINDEz, a wealthy Cuban mer-
chant, has been kidnapped at his estate in
Santa Rita, by bandits. 1t is reported
that two planters have been kidnapped at
Remedies.
THE people of Georgetown, D. c., cele-
brated the inauguration of free-bridge
communication with Washington, on the
10th. with speech making and civil and
military parade.
On the 9th Empress Victoria and Prin-
cesses Victoria, Sophie and Margaret
visited Posen, Prussia, to inquire as to the
and offer them relief.
The race for f1,O0O between the yawl
Atlantic and the ketch Bridesmaid, from
Southampton to Funchatl, Madeira, was
finished on the 18th, the Bridesmaid COM
ing in seven miles ahead.
In the Court of Oyer and Terminer, New
York City, on the 18th, District-Attorney
Fellows moved that the trial of Thomas
j. Kerr, for bribery, be set for the Goth,
and the motion was granted.
UNITED STATES MARSHAL w. H. CHAP
MAN was wounded in the arm in fight
with moonshiners in Lauderdale County,
Ga. on the 9th. Eight of the lawbreak-
ers were captured, and the distillery de-
stroyed.
On the 18th Nine. Diss De Bar, her hus-
band, General Diss De Bar, DR.. Benz.
Lawrence and his son Frank We're ar
raigned in the Tombs court, New York
City, charged with conspiring to defraud
Lawyer Marsh.
MARKAu, commander of the Roumanian
iotilla, has been tried by court-martial
on the charge of embezzlement, convicted,
and degraded from his rank and sem
fenced to ten months Imprisonment and
to pay costs.
MAYOR HEWITT of New York City has
vetoed the ordinance by which the au-
thority to display flags on city buildings
is vested in the Mayor unless otherwise
ordered by the board, denouncing it as
clumsy subterfuge.
THE first annual banquet of the Unita-
rian Club of New York City was held on
the 10th. Among those present were Geo.
VIM. Curtis, Dorman B. Eaton, ex-Gov-
ernor Chamberlain, Robt. Collyer and
Jno. B. Woodward.
In the New York Assembly the Woman
Suffrage bill was killed summarily. Mrs.
Lille Devereux Blake, president of the
State Woman's Suffrage Association, has
called an indignation meeting at Albany
to consider the matter.
On the 9th the Comptroller of the Cur
rency declared a second dividend-ffteen
per cent.-in favor of the creditors of the
Fifth National Bank of st. Louis, making
in all sixty-five per cent. on the claims
presented, aggregating $951,592.
ON the night of the 18th James b. Mills
(colored), of Stamford, Conn, reported to
the police that party of oystermen had
killed his wife and brutality beaten him,
and was promptly arrested on suspicion
of having done the murder himself.
On the 18th Senate bill appropriating
So, 900 for making survey and estimating
the cost of removing Smiths, Perry's and
Windmill islands from the Delaware river
between Philadelphia and Camden, was
favorably reported in the Senate.
COMMANDER McCALLA of the United
States ship Enterprise thinks that our
Government is at a disadvantage with
Morocco, because it has only a Consul
there, while all the Powers except Sweden
are represented by ministers resident
IT was stated on the 10th that Prince
postponement of the betrothal of Prince
Alexander and Princess Victoria. The
Chancellor has lost public favor by his
rough and bullying procedure in this mat
ter.
CoNsUL-GENERAL PHELAN is of the
opinion that the Americans are very
foolish in opposing the Fisheries treaty,
as it secures for US more than could have
been hoped. The people of Nova Scotia,
with more reason, are all opposed to the
treaty.
MRS. DEGRAssIE BULKLEY, the young
woman who, while engaged to w. L. Tren-
holm, son of the Comptroller of the Cur
rency, eloped with and was married to
young Buckley, ended her existence with
poison, at her home in Washington, on
the 18th.
On the 9th the bark Reindeer, which ar