Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-06-20
sERsoNAL AND GENERAL

FRANCIS JAMES, who was caught in the
cellar of a prominent citizen of Bowling
Green, O., ON the night of the 18th, with
q dynamite cartridge ready to blow up
the building, was, on the morning of the
18th, found hanging in Jail by his sus-
peuders dead.
FoRrY-oNE business houses, compris-
ing nearly all of the business portion of
the town of Grinnell. Ia, were burned on
the 18th. Seven years ago the town was
devastated by cyclone, by which seven
ty-five houses were blown down and
forty persons were killed.
AT meeting in San Francisco, on the
18th, of contributors to the Johnstown re-
lief fund it was voted to send to Seattle,
W. T., $4,000 of the money collected.
Over 200 has been raised in San Fran
cisco for the two places.
A PLOT has been discovered in the royal
palace at the Servian capital to dethrone
Alexander and proclaim the pretender,
Prince Peter Karageorgievitch, son-in-
law OF the Prince of Montenegro. King Of
Servia.
E. II. SHOOK, of Detroit, was, on the
18th, appointed superintendent of sup
plies in the Office Of the First Assistant
Postmaster General.
THE Republican central State commit
ton to meet in Des Moines, August IA.
The convention will consist of LAS dele
gates.
LATEST estimates place the loss caused
by the Seattle CIV. To fire at SIS, 900. 900.
WHILE crossing the Fort Wayne track
at Louisville, near Canton, O., on the
18th, Lawrence and Edward Streb, Can
ton business men, and two Catholic orr
phans named Seifert, whom the Strebs
had adopted, were struck by the limited
express, and all were instantly killed.
CALVIN s. BRICE, of Ohio, has been
elected chairman of the National Demo-
cratic committee.
NEWS has been received at the Depart
ment Of State which would seem to in
dictate somewhat serious state of affairs
at Port-au-Prince, Hayti. The Boston
has been ordered to sail for that port
Immediately.
ALEXANDER SULLIVAN, arrested in Chi
cago for alleged completely in the Cronin
murder. applied for habeas corpus on the
18th. Judge Tuley reserved decision.
On the 18th the Bell Telephone Com
pany declared a quarterly dividend of
three per cent, and recommended the is
suing of =, SOC, 900 additional stock.
THE steamer City of Sidney arrived at
San Francisco on the 18th, bringing the
Intelligence that the inland city of Lu
Chow, China, was visited by a disastrous
fire not long since in which ten thousand
lives were lost.
A LONDON dispatch of the 18th stated
that the Berlin correspondent of the
Times was informed that Germany had
withdrawn her insistence upon the pun
ishment of Mataafa. and that the path
was thus smoothed for American ratifica-
ton of the agreement.
A NEGRO named Caffee has been ar
rested in Princess Anne County, Va,
charged with setting fire to the residence
of Rev. F. G. Clarke, near London
Bridge, several weeks ago, causing the
loss of five lives.
A ZANZIBAR dispatch states that let
ter has been received from Stanley dated
December , He was then at Uriva and
was soon to return to Victoria Nyanza.
Sickness and lack of provisions had
greatly reduced his forces.
THE Cut Nail Association met at Wheel
ing, W. Va, on the 18th, but could arrive
at no decision.
STEPS are being taken in the City of
Mexico to raise funds for the relief of the
Johnstown (Pa.) sufferers.
Bob YOUNGER, the celebrated Missouri
outlaw, is said to be slowly dying in the
State prison at Saltwater. Mimi.
THE trial of the eight-inch carriage,
built for the Navy Department by the
Gun carriage andPowder Com
pany of Washington at the South Boston
Iron Works, was made on The 18th. The
test proved satisfactory.
FOREST fires northeast of Duluth, Mimi,
in the Vermillion Iron Range country,
are again fiercely burning.
JAMES MCGRADY, a brakeman on the
New Jersey Central railroad, was found
dead, on the morning of the 18th, at the
foot of the railroad embankment near the
station in Scranton, Pa. He was twenty
two years old.
THE Comtoir d'Escompte has been fully
in Paris, and NJ. De Norman
die elected president.
IT was reported in Berlin, on the 18th,
that the German Governments will not
break off diplomatic relations with Swift
erland on account of the expulsion from
that country of the German police in
spector Wohigemuth. 1t was the con-
census of opinion that the incident is
closed, but that Germany may perhaps
apply yexatiouS measures in regard to
frontier regulations.
LIEUTENANT HEATH, of the United States
ship Vandalia, died at Mare Island Ma
tional Hospital, in San Francisco, on the
18th, of pneumonia, the result of a cold
contracted during the Samoan disaster.
THE striking seamen on the River Clyde,
On the 18th, seized aud burned a van en-
route to the Anchor Line Company's
sheds containing provisions for the i'm
ported laborers at work there. Strikers
to the number of 5000 congregated
around the harbor.
FRANK TEMPLEMAN, who was convicted
in New York City recently OF felony in
accusing Inspector Byrnes and District
Attorney Fellows of being in cons piracy
to defraud the city treasury, was, on the
18th. sentenced to State prison for three
years and nine months.
A LONDON dispatch of the 18th stated
that it had been learned there that the
members of the Clan ma Gael who signed
the majority report finding DR.. Cronin
guilty of treason and sentencing him TO
be removed" were James j. Rogers, of
P. A. O'Boyle, of Pittsburgh,
Pa; Christopher F. Brynes, of Saxson-
Vile, Mass; John D. Mcmahon, Of Rome,
N. Y.
A MORA (Minn.) dispatch of the 18th
stated that an Indian outbreak had oc-
Cured at Millie Lac Lake, in that State.
Six settlers we're believed to have been
killed. The Indians are Chippewas, who
assembled to hold an annual war-dance.
State and Government troops will be hur-
ried to the scene. The last census gives
the number of Indians on the reserva-
ton at 2, 800.
STEVE BROWN, a Vermillion County
(Ind.) farmer, pleaded guilty to man
slaughter, on the 18th, and was sentenced
to seven years in the penitentiary. Brown
afterward attempted to commit suicide by
the pulverized powder OF
looking glass with the quicksilver. He
killed a tramp in cold blood.