Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-02-23

THE London Lancet saws that DIR. Mac
Ike nzie's latest report will not do much to
allay anxiety concerning the Crown
Prince. The diaa nosis has been and con-
tinues to be uncertain.
AN armed force of English cavalry has
entered the territory of Venezuela and
taken possession, in the name of. the
Queen, of the Yurna territory. on the
ground that the Venezuelan Republic
contemplated building a railroad to the
Yurna section, which road would in
frin ge upon admitted territorial rights of
the English Government.
r. G. Dun & Co. report business fail
ures for the week ending February Is:
For the United States, 236; for Canada.
81; total. 273; compared with 267 for the
corresponding week last year.
THE mulatto Cardonna. who killed
Byrnes and Teehan in a New York tene-
ment house as the result of a quarrel be-
tween his white wife and her neighbors,
was acquitted on the ind 'ctment for the
murder of Byrnes on the 18th. 1t has not
yet been decided to try him for the muir
der of Teehan.
The Free Press, of Ottawa, Ont, speaks
of the fisheries treaty as 'a complete sur
render to the Americans" and hopes that
the Canadian Parliament twill have sUf-
ficient independence to reject the treaty,
if, as appears to be the case, it involves
the surrender of Canada's rights without
compensation"
MRS. JOSEPH FRANKLIN, of Meadville.
Pa, was seriously burned and other
wise injured. on the 18th, by a natural gas
explos ion, which wrecked the house.
sick son was considerably burned on one
hand, but the other members of the fam
lily escaped without injury.
The Congressional estigation into
the Re aiding strikes was resumed on the
18th. President Corbin was again called
to the stand, and losing his temper at
what he consid cred impertinent ques-
tions, made it warm for his inquisitors at
short intervals. He fatty refused to an
swer some of the questions.
OvERTUREs looking to a termination of
the great Reading strike were made on
the 18th by Mr.. W. T. Lewis for the
strikers, to Pres ident Corbin. The answer
was favorable, and the prospects for an
early settlement of the trouble are
good.
R. G. Dun & Co.'s trade review, issued
on the 18th, says the ''causes of recent
dullness and depression in the market be-
come more visible-severe weather, pro-
longed strikes and reaction from last
years over-hopefulness being promi-
nent"
The wooden mill owned by T. L. Robert
son, at Madison Falls, South Windham,
Me-, was burned to the ground on the
morning of the 17th The loss was COW
cred by an insurance of $50, 0OO
THE steamer City of Peking, from
China and Japan, arrived at San Fran
cisco on the 18th, with several cases of
smallpox among the passengers, and
was placed in quarant inc. This is the
fifth successive steamer which has ar
rived with the smallpox. The Belgic,
which came in two weeks ago, was re-
leased from quarantine on the 18th. The
steamer Shenandoah, formerly a United
States man of war, has been fitted up as
a quarantine boat, and is now occupied
by several hundred Chinese, who have
arrived on infected vessels.
ONE of the greatest fires that ever Wis
tied Westerly, r. l., ragged for three
hours on the morning of the 18th, de-
stroying several business buildings
and causing a loss of about $3.50, 000
ANNIE HEDTKE, an orphan Polish girl
of Detroit, Mich, died recently from the
effects of brutal assault by a negro. The
fact was kept secret by the family until
the 18th.
IKE WEIR, the Belfast Spider, scored
his first failure to knock out his man in a
glove fight in his contest at Minneapolis,
Mimi, on the 18th, with Dominick Barnes,
of Toronto. The fight was accorded to
Weir, however, on points.
THE Supreme Court of the United States
adjourned on the 18th until the 10Th of
March.
THE young man captured by the Chi
cago police as an accomplish in the MUIR
der of Millionaire Smell is named VIM. B.
Tascott. The police are confident of his
conviction.
THREE rollicking railroaders who had
been making night of it among the
sporting houses of Columbus, O., on the
18th, called at late hour at a doctors
office in a drunken and demoralized con-
dition, and exhibited bleeding wounds
of the receiving of which they could give
no account. One of them will die.
AN effort was made to blow up an Irish
inspector of police on the 18th.
The German Rechstag, on the 18th,
passed the anti-Socialist bill.
FRED d. MUssEY was granted divorce
from his wife, daughter of Ex-Governor
Foster of Ohio, at Columbus on the 18th.