Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-08-01

THE jury in the celebrated Howard libel
suit at Jackson, Tenn, found for Howard,
fixing the damages at one cent.
SECRETARY TRACY has accepted an in
vitation to visit Secretary Blaine at Bar
Harbor during the latter part of August
THE New Hampshire Supreme Court
has declared the law requiring license for
the practice of medicine and dentistry
unconstitutional
GOVERNOR RICHARDSON Of South Caro-
lima has accepted DIR. McDow's resigna-
ton as surgeon of the First Battalion Of
infantry Of that State.
AN effort was made in the Washington
Territory Constitutional convention, on
the 26th, to abolish the veto power Of the
Governor, but it failed
JAMES G. BLAINE, Jr., was fireman on
the train on which his father and party
returned to Bar Harbor from their visit
to Senator Hale, at Ellsworth, Me-, on the
23d.
WESLEY ELKINs, eleven years old, OF
Clayton County, Ia, has confessed that
he killed his father and step-mother, the
former with = gun and the latter with q
club.
ON the 2eth Scripps' League Workmen
expedition to the Paris Exposition was
heard from by means of heming pigeons.
All were WE'LL and were enjoying the
voyage.
The Columbia, q new ocean steamer.
has broken the record from the Needles"
to Sandy Hook, S.1Oo miles. Time. six
days, twenty-one hours and thirty-seyen
minutes.
AVERY heavy rain fall, on the night OF
the 22d. general throughout the State of
Colorado, wrought much damage to
crops and fences, railroad and other
property
The joint commission at Bismarck.
Oak, that is striving to arrange a salts
factory division of the property of the
Territory, practically agreed on a re-
port on the 2sth.
On the 2Sth Frank Blount, colored, was
legally hanged in the jait-yard at VAL
dosta, Ga, and Tom Bowling, also color
ed, vas executed according to law at
Baton Rouge, La.
THE two New Yerk houses which have
practically controlled the manufacture Of
bed quilts and comforters, have pooled
their issues and will advance the price
about twenty-five per cent.
CHARLEMAGNE Tower, the noted capt.
talist, mine-owner. railroad director and
lawyer, died, on the -25th, at his summer
residence in Waterville, N. Y, of paral-
ysis, at the age of eighty-one years.
ON the 23d the committee on executive
and pardoning power reported TO the
Washington Territory Constitutional
convention, among other things, pro-
viso that the Governor shall be ineligible
for the Office of Senator.
Mrs. GERTRUDE DRIaGs, wife of Nell
son briggs. the captured counterfeiter,
of Cincinnati, gave bonds, on the oath, in
the sum Of SIC. 900, for her appearance on
Augusta. Her husband was returned to
Jail. being unable to give bond.
AFTER a long discussion, on the 26th,
the Montana Constitutional convention
voted down the clause in the Suffrage bill
providing that after five years only citi-
zens shall be entitled to vote, declara-
ton of intention not to be held sufficient.
FIRE in the mammoth SKIS story build
ing of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Railroad Company in Topeka, Kas., on
the a6th, caused $1,000 damage to the
building besides a loss of valuable pa
pers, records, ETC., that can not,be esti-
mated.
MUCH Of the money required for the
projected fast steamship line from Mon
tauk Point, l. l., to Milford Haven. Wales,
will be supplied by European capitalists,
among them being the Rothschllds and
Sir lillian Allan, of the Allan line of
steamers,
THE Vienna Freie Presse believes that
z ngland's position in Delagoa bay points
to q desire to annex the whole territory
from the cape to the Congo, and recon-
mends that the matter be brought up at
the forthcoming African Congress to be
held at Brussels.
The Pail Mall Gazette prints an inter-
view with a representative of Mrs.
Maekey, refuting the statement that she
was formerly a laundry woman, boarding
house keeper, ETC., and asserting that she
was the daughter Of a highly educated
American army officer
A REPREsENrArIyE Of an English syn
dictate has been endeaSoring to secure
options on the business of Macy & Co,
Altman & CO., Stern Brothers. and Simp-
son, Crawford g. Simpson, leading dry
goods houses of New York City. but in all
cases has been refused
The German Admiralty have uncovered
q perfect nest of corruption within the
navy department. involving many high
officials. A number of naval officers were
arrested, on the oath, in Berlin and at
KEEL on the charge Of wholesale bribery
One of these on being taken into custody
shot himself dead
ZINA PITCHER KING, a lawyer and real
estate dealer of Ann Arbor, Mich, who
for twenty years has been treasurer of
the fund for superannuated profes sors
of the University Of Michigan, is an en-
bezzler to an amount estimated to be
fully $40, 600. King has turned over to the
trustees property worth 5000.
A PARTY of explorers in Nebraska uu-
earthed fifty skulls and two hundred |
headless skeletons in Chalk Bluff, about |
ten miles east of Yankton, Oak, on the |
18th, which local physicians pronounce to |
be the remains of white people. chill |
dren and adults. Indications are that |
tney nave been buried forty or fifty years. |
The Secretary Of the Treasury, on the |
25th. instructed the collector of customs |
at New Orleans to allow the twelve /
Chinese coolies detkined there under
the Chinese Exclusion act, to proceed |
via the Southern Pacific railroad. as |
tourists, in accordance with a recent |
decision rendered by the Attorney Gem
eral.
THE Ohio Prohibitionists, in convention |
at GAINESVILLE, on the 18th. nominated the |
following State ticket: j. B. Helwig for |
Lieutenant Governors; Gideon T. Stuart,
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