Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-06-26


answering a summons to act as petl
juror.
CLAUS SPRECKLES, the Sugar King, ha
made formal complaint to Secretar
Window of discrimination against hin
in favor of the Sugar Trust by tn
customs officers in New York City.
THE Spanish Government, on the 18th
ordered troops to proceed to the prov
ince of Valencia and esta blish there
military Gordon about the districts il
which the cholera has made its appear
ance.
THE reduction of the rates of fare OF
the State railways of Austria has hat
the effect to increase the number O
passengers three-fold, and the facilitie
of the various roads are greatly over
taxed.
A FRENCH police official states tina
the Nihilist conspiracy recently dis
covered in Paris was fostered by Ger
man agents. The explosives were made
in North London, whence they were
sent to Paris.
wv NoME%N "CIc ChoSch
of the Board of Education of James
town, n. D., on the 18th, at the frs
general school election held under thu
State Constitution which permits WON
en- to vote on school questions
SIR EDWARD BRADFORD, the new
chief commissioner of the metropoli
tan police of London. is an intimate
of +ha Of WalnS nd ar
as chaperon to Prince Albert Victor
during the latter's tour of India.
ALL the striking switchmen at Cleve
land, O., except those formerly en-
ployed by the Valley, Nickel Plate
Cleveland & Canton and Cleveland &
Pittsburgh roads returned to work, on
the goth, and fears of a food and coal
famine vanished.
THE annual meeting of the Nicaragua
Canal Construction Company was held at
Denver. Col, on the Goth. Substantial
ly the old board of directors, including
Warner Miller (president), w. L. Scott,
Smith NJ. Weed, A. c. Cheney and a. T.
Hoyt were elected.
Mrs. HARRISON with Mrs. Mckee and
her children, arrived at Cape May, n.
j., on the 10th, where Mrs. Harrison
will remain during the summer. After
three weeks stay Mrs. Mckee will
divide her time between the various
fashionable watering places.
THE annual convention of the Mil
lers' National Associa ton at Minneapo-
lis, Mimi. was brought to conclusion,
on the 10th. amid a torrent of reSolu-
tions, the principal one being the in
dorsement of the Butterworth Anti-Op-
ton bill, which was passed unanimous
Iy.
A COLLISION occurred. on the 10Th, on
the Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council
Bluffs railroad about three miles east of
Atchison, Has, between the pay train
and freight train. L. W. Tocum, en-
gineer of the pay train, was killed, and
three others were seriously injured.
Eighteen horses were also killed.
THE police of ST. Petersburg have
discovered another plot against the life
of the Gar, and several of the conspir-
ators have been arrested. The plOtters
had undermined the Imperial Palace
at Gatschina with the intention of
blowing up the building. The guards
about the palace have been doubled.
Miss IDALENE NJ. FRISBIE, daughter
of Division Superintendent Frisbie, of
the Illinois Central railroad, was killed,
on the Goth, at Mount Carmel, Conn.,,
where she was on a visit She was
driving hay rake in the field when
she was thrown from the seat and fell
under the feet of the horses, her skull
being fractured.
ROBERT l.. WALLACE and lgnatluS Is.
Lowitz, who went to Cuba, after steal
ing $4,000 belonging to the uncle of
the former, the proprietor of Nallace's
Monthly, were arraigned in the New
York Court of General Sessions, on the
ss:h, and pleaded guilty to grand lar
ceny in the first degree. They were re-
manded for sentence.
HENRY NJ. STANLEY will sail with his
wife from England for New York on Au-
gust 30. Mr.. Stanley has concluded ar
rangements to deliver fifty lectures in
the United States during the fall and
winter. For the lectures to be deliv-
trtu III new i Ork ne Is 10 receive -,
900, and for each lecture thereafter, in
the various cities, he is to receive e200.
On the 10Th while fifteen young ladies
from the Schuylkiu Seminary at Fred
eriekSburg, Pa, We're on their way to
the railroad station at Johnstown in a
coach drawn by four horses, some of the
harness broke, and the horses becoming
unmanageable, plunged down a twenty
foot embankment, the coach and its oc-
cupants falling on top of the horses
All the ladies were injured, some of
them severely.
A. NJ. JONES, aged sixty years.
pioneer of Colorado and one of the best
Known men in that State. shot his wife
through the left lung, on the morning
of the 18th, while the family were sit
ting at the breakfast table at their
home in Denver He then threatened
to kill his daughter Emma, but her
pleading caused him to hesitate, and
without harming her he placed the re-
volver to his breast and shot himself
dead.
MADAME TSCIEBRIKovA, the woman
who wrote the remarkable letter pre-
dieting for the Car the fate of his pre-
decessors, Peter Ill, Paul l. and Alex