Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-12-04

vocate measures calculated to loosen
the stringency in money matters
TEN Houses were blown down and sew
enteen persons were drowned at kahla.
Germany. on the 25th- Disastrous
gales and foods, with loss of life and
property also occurred at Jena, Gosch-
witt and other places in Germany.
John X BEICE brother of the Sena-
tor-elect, denies the published report
that his brother lost So 900 900 in the
present financial furry He says it is
true he has lost several hundred thou
sand dollars, but nothing approaching
the sum reported.
G.. ". GII.EEET. Il former scout with
Buffalo Bill. and q wcli-knOwn citizen.
Of Salem, Mass. on the Goth, thrashed
w. Cochran, editor of the Salem Call,
on the street for publishing an article
rejecting on an enterprise with which
Gilbert is connected.
THE managing director of the Paris
Banque d Etat, NJ Raynau1, who IS re
ported to have abscondcd and then
committed suicide, took with him one
million francs which had been sub
scribed for a loan to be issued by the
municipality of Macon.
REPRESENTATIVE RoWEI.T.. Of Illinois.
chairman of the House committe on
elections and one of the trainers of the
Federal Election bill, said in an inter
view published in Washington. on the
2Sth, that the Election bill must and
would be passed by the present Con-
grEsS.
PARNELL's manifesto which made its
appearance on the 2Sth. IS Il document
o. great length, in which the Irish
leader boldly defies his enemies and ap-
peals to the people of Ireland to sus-
tain him in no half-hearted way in the
great emergency which confronts them
and him.
THE accounts of the postmaster at
New Orleans for the first twenty-five
DAYS of November have been received
at the Post Office Department. They
show that the receipts for the period
were 81, 124, against S:I3 553 for the first
twenty-five days last year, when the
Lottery law was not in force.
IN Z ptutuilS VI AitiiACl+aSt pa tNslAAn al
Fuuenll1irchen, Hungary. One thou
sand persons in the place are suffering
from the disease. The medical officer
has summoned conference of the doc
tors to decide what course to follow.
Many cases OF the disease resemble ty
phus fever, while others are attended
with copious hemorrhage from the in
teStineS.
CONGRESSMAN BoWpFN of the Second
district of Virginia has notified the
House committee on elections that he
will contest the election of John W.
Lawson. his Democratic opponent to
the Fifty-second Congress, on the
ground that voters in Republican pre-
cints were prevented from voting by
dilatory tactics practised by Demo
cratic election officers.
QUEEN REGENT EMMA has issued 4
proclamation declaring Princess Will
helmina Queen of the Netherlands. The
Queen Regent says: May her throne
find the solid support, fidelity and de-
votion of her people. | accept the re-
gency during her minority, confiding in
God and praying that my task shall be
so fulfilled as to assure the welfare of
the country and the consolidation of the
Kingdom
CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER. in the SUI
preme Court of the United States, on
She 9th, announced the decision of the
court in the case of Jugigo, the Japan
csc sailor, under sentence of death by
electricity at Sing Sing, \. y. The
court sustainS the decision below. 1t
decides that the New York Electrocu-
ton law is constitutional, on the
grounds taken by it deciding the case of
VIM. Kemmlcr.
Mrs. JANE GRANT GILMoR HOWARD,
widow of the late General Benz. c.
Howard, died in Baltimore, Md, on the
25th. She was conspicuously identified
with social life and charitable work.
She was for years president Of the
great Southern Relief Association, and
in 1885 inaUgurated fair in Baltimore
which Melted nearly 5000 600 for the
Southern civil-war sufferers Her life
was one long career of good works
THE three Navassa rioters and muir
dercrs. George Singleton Key, Edward
Smith and Henry Jones, who are in Jail
at Baltimore. Md, under sentence of
death, when told of the decision handed
down IN th-ir case in the United States
Supreme Court, on the 24th, expressed
no surprise and were apparently uncon-
cerned- They are hopeful that the
President will commute their sentences.
Should he not do SO, they are, they say,
ready to march to the gallows.
Two HUNGARIANs, Mike Hordurick
and Dennis Chesna, were arrested for
attempting to wreck train on the
Delaware. Lackawanna & Western
road, near Plymouth, Pa, on the Goth.
The Hungarians were seen trying to
fasten two large coupling-pins to the
main track, by the fireman and engineer
OF n coal .rain, who took them to the
lookup As the express train was
nearly due, an awful calamity was prob
ably averted by the timely discovery
OF the obstruction on the track. The
men were held in $40. 900 bail for trial.