Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-06-28

EapaRoa WILLIAM Will personally ..e-
opel the Reichstag and Laadtay.
CHARLES GIBLIS, the murderer of Mrs.
Madeline Goelz. OF Kew York. was con-
victed of murder in the flrst degree, on
the 2ist. The jury were out only thirty
minutes.
The Cleveland co., Baseball Club, on
the 21st, released VIM. Stemmeyer, the
pitcher, who came from the Bostons OF
1887. He was given the choice of a re-
lease or a vacation without pay until he
could pitch, and he chose the former. He
has only pitched three games this season.
All were bad ones.
A FIRST mortgage bond was recorded at
Erie, Pa, on the 21st. against the Pitts !.
burgh, Chenango & Lake Erie railroad
for s., 800, 600 by the Central Trust Com
pany, New York. The bonds are to run
fifty years, at five per cent, and the pro-
ceeds are to be used in the extension of
the system north of Pittsburgh to COM
pete with the Pennsylvania Company's
lines.
COOLEY STONE, the jockey who rode Frolic
at Sheepshead bay, L. l., on the 22d, got
into a quarrel, on the 23d, with Earnest
Miller, a bartender in the st. Nicholas
Hotel at the west end of Coney Island.
about payment for drinks. Stone drew a
pistol and shot Miller dead. The MUIR
derer was arrested.
KNELL, the left handed pitcher of the
San Francisco Baseball Club, has signed
a contract to play with the Pittsburghs.
and started East ON the 22d. He comes
highly recommended as a pitcher, bats
man and base-runner.
EDITOR O'BRIEN's libel suit for $40, 600
damages against the Glasgow Herald was
settled, on the 22d, by the Herald publish
ing an apology and paying the plaintiff
the sum of 500.
AN immense meeting of Prohibitionists
was held in the Metropolitan Opera
house, in New York City, on the 22d, to
ratify the presidential nominations of
their party. General Fiske, Sam Small,
Mrs. Frances Willard and others address,
ed the meeting.
A REPORT, circulated on the 22d, that
Count De Lesseps was dead, was prompt
ly denounced as false. He was not only
alive, but in good health. The first re-
port caused the closing of the French
bourse.
AFTER a three hours debate, on the
22d, the joint committee of the Austrian
delegations unanimously voted a war
credit of 100000 forms.
MISS ENDIcoTT has quietly acquiesced
in her parents opposition to her marry
ment is therefore "off."
rath, on the 22d, Prince Bismarck laid
special stress on the peaceful character
OF the political situation, and intimated
that the government would adhere to the
principles which mad hitherto guided its
policy.
A SHIFTING engine on the Baltimore &
Ohio railroad, at Keyser, Nd, exploded,
on the 22d, killing Engineer Joseph Bell,
of Grafton, and injuring fatally John Nc
Nabb, of Winchester, the conductor, and
William Baylis, of Keyser. the fireman.
DR.. w. A. LEONARD, pastor of st. Johns
Church, Washington, has refused the po-
sition of Assistant Bishop of the Epis-
copal church in Ohio, to which he was
recently elected.
In collision at Schuylkill Haven, Pa,
on the 22d, on the Philadelphia & Reading
road, Engineer John D. Smith and man
named Frank Herschey, both of Philadel-
phia, were killed, and Charles H. Eddin-
ger, fireman, was terribly scalded. The
tracks were blocked for six hours.
LIEUTENANT-CoLoNEL JOHN j. Cop
PINGER, Eighteenth Infantry, has been de-
tailed as superintendent of the general
recruiting service, with headquarters in
New York City, for two years, beginning
October 1 next He is a son-in-law Of
James G. Blaine, and is at present sta
toned at Fl. Gibson, 1. T.
THE annual convention of the Third
Ua) district w. G. T. U. will be held in
Waterloo, on the 26th and 9th.
A MoNEY-oRDER system for the domes-
tic mail service is being prepared by the
Mexican Government.
WORK has been commenced on the
Peninsular railway from San Diego, Cal,
to Ensenada, Lower California
TEN new street cars from this country
have been received at the capital Of Mex
leo for one of the street-car lines of that
city.
THE Mexican Minister at Washington
has been authorized to negotiate treaties
of amity, commerce and navigation with
Japan and China.
A SMALL cyclone passed east Of Lyons,
Ia, on the night of the odd 1t struck the
grounds of the Shooting Society, scatter
ing the large frame shooting gallery over
the surrounding fields, and doing 81, 200
damages to the grounds. Large trees
were twisted off, and other cydonic freaks
were played