Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-05-08

archy with the young Duke OF Orleans
as King.
JOHN MCMANUs. who had been on
trial in Philadelphia for the murder OF
his friend McGinnis, was. on the I'd,
found guilty of murder in the first de-
gree.
GOVERNOR BEAVER of Pennsylvania
has called for a special election, on the
goth, TO fill the vacancy caused by the
death of Congressman Samuel j. Ran
dali.
JACKSON & Co. 5 mills at Nashua, n.
H., were started up on the 18th Nearly
eight hundred men returned to work at
the same prices that existed before the
strike.
Two more judgments were docketed
against Ex-Governor Cornell. of New
York, on the I'd. One was for S5,OSS, and
the other for 81, 12S. The Garfield Ma
tional Bank was plaintiff in both cases.
TIE Gloucester City On. J. National
Bank closed its doors on the 1st. The
suspension is supposed to be due to the
failure, the day previous, of the Bank
of America in Philadelphia, with which
it had dealings.
IT was announced, on the I'd, that the
Big Four (the Cleveland, Chicago, Gin
cinnati & St. Louis Railroad Company
is to purchase the st. Louis, Alton &
Terre Haute railroad at the rumored
price of $4,000, 900.
TIE amended SaXton Ballot Reform
bill was passed by the New York State
Assembly on the 30th. 1t is a COM
promise measure, the official ballot be-
ing dropped out in order to meet the
Governors objection.
THE General Assembly of Rhode
Island adjourned sine die on the ID.
Several important matters, including
the application of the Ballot-Reform
law to municipal elections, were con-
tinued to the May session.
SUPERINTENDENT PIERCE, of the New
York Brush Electric Light Company,
was acquitted. on the 10Th, of the
charge of causing the death of Henry
Harris, who was killed by coming in
contact with an electric lamp.
EX-PoLICE JUDGE LAIDLOw, of Oak
land, Cal, who short time ago fined
himself $50 for drunkenness, spent the
night of the 2Sth in cell for creating
disturbance in the streets. He had
been recently removed from office.
S
THE New York City grand jury, on
the 3Oth, found indictments for GRIM
inal libel against Joseph Pulitzer, John
A Cockerill, Julius Chambers and James
+. Graham, of the World, for publish
ing statements regarding eX-Judge Hill
ton.
THE German Government will not
present its Army bill in the Reichstag
before the coming winter, and only a
nominal credit will be demanded, the
government having abandoned its in
tention to ask for seven years credit
for the maintenance of the army.
EX-PRESIDENT CLEVELAND appeared
in the Supreme Court, on the I'd, to
argue the case in which he is of coun
sci: but although the case was reached,
the court determined that in the time
eft it could not be disposed of, and so
it went over until the October term.
THE May-Day labor demonstrations
throughout Europe and America proved
a surprise to the authorities and 4 graf
ification 10 the participants and their
sympatnizers. Ey reason of their gener
ally peaceable and quiet character.
Conflicts with the authorities were few
and unimportant.
THE National convention of colorcd
men in session in Washington, on the
4th perfected a permanent organization
by the election of Rev. j. c. Price, of
North Carolina, as president, and w. c.
Chase, of Washington, secretary. a list
OF honorary vice-presidents, one from
each State represented in the conven-
ton, was also selected.
IN the case of William Kemmler, sem
fenced to suffer death by electricity in
the New York State prison at Auburn,
a writ of habeas corpus was served on
Warden Durston, on the Goth, COM
manding him to produce kemmler in
the United States Circuit Court at
Canandaigua, y. Y, on the third
Tuesday of June, 1890, thus indefinite
ly postponing the death of the con-
demned murderer.
TwENTY-SIN Cinnamon, one Portu-
eueSe and the captain of the sloop BE
nIcia Boy" are awaiting trial at San
Diego, Cal. for viola tions of the Chinese
Exclusion act. The captain of the Be-
nicia BOY confessed that he was Sm-
ployed by parties in San Francisco. and
that regular contracts are entered into
in China by which, for safe delivery in
the United States, the contracting par
ties are to receive $40 per head for
Cinnamon.
THE brake rod of an engine attached
to an express train on the Chesapeake
& Ohio road broke, at three o'clock on
the morning of the 2Sth, as the train
was descending a heavy grade, and it
dashed into Staunton, Va, at the rate
of eighty miles an hour, when the Pull
man sleeper, containing the members of
the Pearl of Pekin' Opera Company.
left the track and was wrecked. Miss
Myrtle Knox died of her injuries, and
several others were more or less severely
hurt
A WONDERFUL meteor was seen in
Iowa, on the I'd, of such intense brill
iancy as to illuminate the heavens" at
half-past five o'clock in the afternoon. 1t
resem bled large ball of blazing fire, and
descended with lightning-like rapidity,
leaving in its path beautiful wreath