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

enumcr3LOtS were dEIeSlcus OII JIlt Ia llls
charged with fraud in the prosecution
of their work.
WILLIAM L. SCOTT Congressman from
the Twenty Pennsylvania dis
trict, was renominated at Meadville on
the 18th.
BY a recent wreck on the Chesapeake
& Ohio railroad the only witnesses
against Aero Polly, charged with hay-
ing brutality assaulted Miss Julia Hes
ter, were killed; and when the case was
called at Parkersburg, w. Va, on the
18th, Polly was discharged for want OF
testimony TO sustain the charge.
The Democratic State committee of
Maine has voted to call another con-
vention in Augusta, on July p to nomi-
nate a candidate for Governor in place
of f. w. Hill, deceased.
MARION MANOLA, of the DeWolf Hop
per Opera Company, secured temporary
injunction. on the 18th, against Mama
ger Ben Stevens and Photograp her
Henry Meyers, of New York City, to re-
strain them from making use OF pho
tographic negative of herself, taken
against her protest by the use of a flash
light, during a performance in which
she appeared in tights.
THE inspector of customs at Victoria,
B. c., has seized the schooner North
Star for infraction of the customs laws.
After having cleared regularly her
captain ran the vessel along the coast
of Vancouver Island and took on board
nineteen Cinnamon for the purpose of
smuggling them into the United States.
An attempt to burn the Cincinnati
House of Refuge By band of boy con-
spirators was frustrated by the bravery
and GOODNESS of Mike Kelley, aged
eleven years, who gave the alarm and
used the fire hose with good effect until
help arrived.
DURING a married life of twenty-four
years Thomas Butler, of Taylorville,
Pa, never failed to kiss his wife be-
fore going to work in the morning. Be-
cause he would not kiss her on leaving,
on the 18th, Mrs. Butler committed
suicide by taking paris green. She
leaves nine children.
TIE Germans are enthusiastic over
the satisfactory outcome of the negotia-
tions with England on the question of
the African territorial rights of the two
countries.
THE Attorney General of California
says that the disgraceful pugilistic ex-
hibitions that have been given under
the auspices of certain athletic clubs of
that State are felonieS under the State
law, and that he will use every means
in his power to prevent them in future.
THE authorities of the Canton of Ii
elmo, Switzerland, have been relieved
by the Grand Council from responsible
ity in connection with the recent en-
bezzlement of one million francs by the
cantonal treasurer.
A TEST vote in the Louisiana Legis-
lature, on the 10Th, developed sufficient,
anti-lottery strength to defeat the lot
terry scheme.
a MOVEMENT is on foot for the estab-
lishment of Government park on the
battlefield at Yorkto Va.
PROSPER LANAI, a prominent import
er of New Orleans, has been authorized
by a French and Belgian syndicate to
offer the State $1,000, 900 a year for
twenty-five year charter for a lottery
on the same basis as the Louisiana Lot
terry Company is operated.
TIE Court of Cessation at Sofia has
confirmed the sentences passed upon
Ma jor Panitza and the other conspira-
tors who were found guilty of attempt
ing to overthrow the Government of
Bulgaria.
COLONEL THOS. G. JONES, the Demo-
cratic nominee for Governor of Ala
bama, and Mrs. Grover Cleveland were,
on the Goth, elected honorary members
OF the Alabama Press Association.
IT is stated that a ancO-RuSSian al
lance has assumed concrete form
since the African agreement between
England and Germany.
FRANK E. BELTzHoovEE. of Carlisle,
Pa, was, on the Goth, nominated for
Congress by the Democrats of the Nine
teenth district.
THE King of Dahomey is negotiating
with France for the establishment of
peace between the two countries.
ABOUT one per cent of the returns
had been received at the Census Bureau
on the goth.