Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-03-21

WALTER TOWNSEND, prominent altos
ney of Lakewood, n. j., died suddenly,
on tine 18th, of heart failure, aged sixty
four years.
AUGUST TRANTo, Of Holt, Mich. has been
sentenced to prison for life for the MUIR
der Of old Mrs. Stochal.
THE Cabinet met at half-past twelve
O'Clock, on the 18th, and was in session for
two hours.
PEKHAMs & KUENZEL'S immense wool
en- mill at New Bremen, o., was burned
on the 18th. Thirty men were thrown out
of employment. Loss, $4,000; partly in
sured.
QUEEN NATALIE will shortly make ap-
plication to have the divorce obtained
from her by her husband through Metro
politan Theodosius annulled.
RUSSELL HARRISON is said to be a can
didate for the United States Senate from
the new State of Montana. He will leave
for Montana as soon as all important
Montana appointments have been made.
PHELPS, the youth who robbed the Nor
wood IN. " Bank recently, has been de-
clared insane by the physicians appointed
to examine him, and taken to the Utica
asylum.
S. V. MCDCFFIE, who is contesting the
election of Lewis W. Turpin in the Fourth
Congressional district of Alabama, was
waited upon by three men in Camden,
Wilcox County. where he was taking evil
dence. and warned to leave within forty
eight hours or suffer violence. The local
Democracy would not guarantee his safe
ty. and he left. The affair has created in
tense excitement
II. DE FREYCINET, French Minister Of
War, has assumed the Office of Minister
of Marine. made vacant by the death of
NJ Il or will
retain the position until new Minister is
appointed
DISASTROUS floods are prevalent
throughout Galicia. Several towns and
many villages are submerged.
IT is reported that Justice Matthews, Of
the Supreme Court of the United States,
will resign from the Supreme Bench, and
that Judge Gresham will be appointed his
successor before the present term of
court expires in May. The report, how
ever. can not be verified
AN explosion OF fre-damp took place in
a colliery near Mines, France, on the 18th,
by which eleven persons were killed and
six wounded.
THE assertion that Austria is preparing
to make war upon Servia is officially de-
MED.
EX-PREsIDENT CLEVELAND denies hav-
ing applied for mem bership in the Buffa-
10 IN. " Athletic Club
ARTHUR CYPRED, of Peru, Ind, was IA
tally shot by the discharge OF his own
gun while hunting, on the 18th.
UNDER the new law of Louisiana, the
members of the police force of New Or
leans hold Office for life, or during good
behavior.
The Inman Line steamer City of New
York made her last trip from Liverpool
in six days, fourteen hours and six min
uteS.
THE Barrett boys, under sentence to
hang March - for the murd err of Toilet
son, the Minneapolis (Minn.) street-car
driver, have confessed.
THE War Department has given a large
order for munitions OF war at the Alle-
gheny (Pa.) Arsenal.
Hon. JOHN BRENNAN, of Sioux City, Ia,
has been offered and declined the Office
OF Consul at Barcelona, Spain.
A YOUNG colored woman named Cora
Hawkins was stabbed and almost instant
" killed in Washington, on the 18th, by
her husband, Benjamin Hawkins. The
murder is said to have been inspired by
jealousy. Hawkins was arrested.
AN open switch caused collision be-
tween east and bound freightS on
the Manitoba road on the 18th. Twelve
cars of wheat were wrecked and the en-
glnes damaged. The engineers and fire.
men saved themselves by jumping.
AT the election in the Remington divi-
sion of Lambeth, England, which took
place on the 18th, Mr.. HI. Mark Beauty, the
GIadstonian candidate, received 1909
votes, and Mr.. Hope, Conservative, 3,439.
The Gladstonians regard this as the most
important victory their party has yet
achieved, as the Irish issue was the only
one brought forward in the canvass.
YOUNG & CoLBURN's planning mills, at
Pokomoke, Nd, were burned on the 18th.
Loss, So, 900; fully insured.
FEARS of hostilities between Austria
and Servia have had a dampening effect
on the London Stock Exchange.
WIN. KRULIsCH, the young boy who was
indicted by the New York City grand
jury, on the 14th, for murder in the first
degree in killing Drug Clerk "eschring,
pleaded not guilty, on the 10Th, and was
remanded for trial.
THE ship Governor ROBBIE, from Japan
for Portland, Me-, stranded near Bidde-
ford Pool, was fioated, on the Is tn, and
proceeded in tow for Portland.