Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-04-26

X. 6. Dun & Co. report business Tail-
ureS for the week ending On the 31se: For
the United States, III; for Canada, 10;
total, 195. For the corresponding week
last year the failures aggregated 1919.
SECRETARY WHITNEY has decided to
modify the court-martial sentence pro-
nounced against Lieutenant Taunt DIS
missing him from the service for dis
obedience of orders so as to allow him to
resign.
CHRIsTIANA KRAFT, aged thirty-two, of
New Haven, Conn, betrayed and deserted
by her lover, committed suicide by drown
ing, on the Goth.
THE telephone agent at South Pitts
burgh, Tenn, collected all the quarterly
rents due the company, and on the 18th
left for parts unknown. He was other
wise heavily in debt.
THE recent proclamation of martial
law in Cuba has resulted in serious
emeute in the provinces of Rio, Milla
Clara, Pinar and Havana.
THE strikes prevailing in various parts
of Germany were reported, on the Goth, to
be spreading. An appeal had been issued
to all workingmen to boycott the striking
districts.
THE Ohio State League OF Republican
Clubs, which met at Dayton on the Goth,
passed a resolution strongly indorsing the
actions of the Republican State conven-
ton, held in the same city ON the 18th
and 18th, and promising a vigorous sup
port of its nominees.
IT was stated ON the goth that Mr.. JOS
eph Chamberlain would shortly accept a
position in the Salisbury Cabinet, thus
effectually severlng his connection with
the Gladstonians.
FOUR HUNDRED DEGREES of ejectment
were issued at the Galway Qreland) ses-
sions or the Goth.
A DISPATCH was sent from GAINESVILLE,
Wis, to Crow Mountain, Mich, on the
Goth, ordering thu arrest of C. Fl. VOL
happier for completely in the sensational
Search murder ON the 9th of last July.
IT was stated from Berlin on the Goth
that the whole story about the proposed
matrimonial engagement between Prince
Alexander and Princess Victoria was con-
cocted by Court enemies of the Empress
to infiame popular indignation against
her, and to prevent Alexander from visit
ing Berlin to re-enter the Prussian army.
ALL the gambling houses of Leadville,
Col, were closed by order of the Law and
Order mayor on the Goth.
NEWT. VoREE, the Deer Trail Terror,
was convicted of murder in the second de-
gree and sentenced to fourteen years in
y,
Goth, for the killing of Guy Hollingsworth
while resisting arrest.
MARY DoRNAN, who was thought to have
been the victim of the celebrated Railway
murder, has been discovered alive and
well in Scotland.
NJ. POLIKoFF, the Russian railway mag
nate, is dead. His estate is estimated at
f6,000,000.
THE Emperor of Germany has ordered
the prosecution of all newspapers guilty
of insulting the Empress.
The remarkable trial of Mrs. Emma
Farlow, for the murder of her husband,
at Crisfeld, Somerset County, Md, re-
suited in verdict of manslaughter.
THE Knights of Labor positively deter
mined, on the Goth, not to return to work
at the Edgar Thomson Steel-works.
INTEREST in the national game was in
creased at Indianapolis, on the Goth, by a
resort to fisticuffs by two of the players
during the progress of the game.
A MAN giving the name of George Per-
kins, thought by local officers to bear a
resemblance to Tascott, the Chicago MUIR
derer, was arrested at Birmin CHAM, Ala,
on the 10Th.
THE Russian press has been warned
against unfavorable criticism of the Ger
man Crown Prince.
AS A result of family negotiations,
jointure of 12,000,000 marks is secured to
the Empress Victoria of Germany, and
Prince Henry inherits 100000 marks upon
the Emperor's death.
THE latest imperial decree of amnesty
by the German Emperor removes the
disabilities of large number of officers
of the army and navy and numerous sea-
men and soldiers sentenced to punish
Esent for various civil and military of
lenses.
A BLOODY conflict occurred on the Goth,
in the Latin quarter of Paris, between
fifteen hundred students, who were noisily
denouncing Deputy Boulanger as Die
tator, and party of the latter's friends.
Numbers on both sides were seriously
injured.
GEO. II. PENDLEToN, American Minister
to Germany, suffered a slight stroke of
paralysis at Wiesbaden on the 18th.
THE Massachusetts House of Repre-
sentatives passed bill limiting to ten
hours in twelve the labor of conductors
and drivers on street cars in cities of over
100000 inhabitants.