Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-10-30

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effectual effort was made to detain
them.
THE total catch of the twenty-seven
sealing schooners that left Victoria, g.
c., this year for Behring sea and the
Northwest coast was $3.50, making a
value of about $500, 900.
A UNITED STATES JUDGE ia the State
of Washington has decided that tide
lands are not subject to ownership, and
that the line of high tide is the bound
airy between land and water.
Mr.. BALFOUR is in ireland, receiving
and examining reports in relation to the
potato crop, with view to strengthen
ing his contention that the situation is
not as bad as it is represented to be.
A BILL was introduced in the Yer
mont Legislature, ON the 2tst, incor-
porating the so-called Vermont Medical
College at Rutland, which is character
lied as fraud by regular physicians.
IN the Common Pleas Court of Provi-
dence, Il. l.. on the -22d. Jerome Sweet
was found guilty of the murder of his
wife by saturating her body with kero-
sene and firing it. He was sentenced
to prison for life.
As a result of heavy importations of
American cattle into Belgium a royal
decree has been issued directing that
the 'dura ton of quarantine be governed
circumstances. Heretofore the quar-
anufne period was ten days.
TT is stated that Prince Macmillan
of Baden and the Princess Victoria
Louisa of Schleswig- Holstein-Sonder-
burg-Augustenburg, whose approaching
betrothal has been announced, Will
spend the honeymoon in making tour
of Egypt and India.
THE Alaska Commercial Company has
commenced suit against the North
American Commercial Company to re-
cover 500, GOO, the value of 1000 seal
skins recently discharged by the rev.
enue-cutter Rush, and which were
claimed by both companies.
THE Navy Department is engaged in
obtaining and compiling all possible in
formation in regard to nickel ore or
matte before awarding contracts for ore
for which Congress appropriated 81, 000
GOO, to be expended in the discre ton
of the Secretary of the Navy.
JUST prior to the running of the race
Tor the Cambridgeshire stakes at the
Houghton meeting at Newmarket, En-
gland, on the 22d, the police raided the
betting clubs of Liverpool. Three hun
bred persons, including a number of
private citizens, were arrested.
OF the eleven vessels appropriated
for by Congress during 1SS9-9O but two
remain to be disposed of by the Navy
Department. These are the Thomas
submerged monitor, and the dynamite
cruiser, the first of which will proba-
bly, and the other possibly never be
built.
THE Sultan of Nitu has refused to
submit to British authority or make rep
araJion for the late massacre Instead
of that, the Sultan is perfecting prep
arations for renewing hostilities. He
is being joined by hundreds of natives
from neighboring tribes, and q contest
is unavoidable.
EX-GovRENOR Il. G.. NOBLE, of Wis
consin, was stricken with apoplexy at
the residence of relatives in Williams
burg, n. Y. on the Esd. He was stricken
while going upstairs, and was badly in
iured by the fall. He is seventy-four
years old, and is not expected to re-
cover from the blow.
THE long distance telephone now ex-
tending between Erie, Pa, and New
York City was tested by General Man
ager Easterbrook on the 22d. The test
was success, and New York was easily
talked to over the long wire. The dis
lance must have been at least 500 miles,
even by the shortest route.
FIRE in q Brooklyn tenement house
at l:S0 q. M. on the 23d, which rapidly
spread to two other crowded tenements
created panic among the occupants,
many OF whom were rescued with diff
Guilty. Policeman McCann, of the res
cuing party, was so severely burned
that he was sent to a hospital.
MAYOR PATRICK JEROME GLEASON of
Long island City, n. ", who was con-
victed of assault in the third degree for
pounding and kicking Reporter George
r. Crowley in Miller's Hotel, a few
weeks ago, was, on the 2lSt, sentenced
to five days Imprisonment in the Long
Island County Jail, ant to pay fine of
$3.50.
GOVERNOR HILL of New York has
removed from office the sheriff of Mad
ison County, Leander w. Burroughs.
upon charges flied alleging the presen-
tation to the Board of Supervisors of
false, fraudulent and illegal charges
against the county of Madison for
moneys not disbursed and for illegal
fees exacted.
THE report sent from Manistee. Mich,
to Dun's Commercial Agency states the
direct liabilities of z. G. Peters, the
lumber merchant, as being between
$3.50, eco and SS9e. 600, and the indirect
about the same, bringing the indebted
ness to 81, 600, 9eo The assets are over
$1,000, 600, and when settled, will leave
Mr.. Peters q millionaire.
IT has been privately intimated TO
the Servian Government by the Gar
that he is not DESTROYS of change in
the ruling dynasty of Servi2. This is
interpreted as an intimation TO the fol-
lowers of Prince Nicholas of Monte
negro and Prince Karageorgevitch that
intrigues in behalf of either will not be
tolerated by the Russian Government