Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-11-20
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

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state of siege. President Bogran was
surrounded by insurgents and in every
way the situation looked exceedingly
critical.
ADvICEs from Santiago de Cuba ay
that the famous bandit, Velasquez, has
been killed by government troops and
that his whole band, numbering thirty
four men, with their arms and ammu-
milton, have surrendered to the authori-
ties.
On the 10th Governor Campbell of
Ohio was reported seriously i'll, being in
high fever and threatened with ty-
phoid pneumonia.
GENERAL HENRY w. SLOCUM, Henry
o. Havemeyer and s " White have
been appointed receivers of the Sugar
Trust. Their bonds are for $500, 600
each with two sureties.
FERRYBOAT, overloaded with men,
wagons and horses, capsized while cross
ing the river near Brititz, Hungary, on
the 18th, and fifty-fve peasants were
drowned.
JOHN c. BRosI, who is held at Sand
witch, Ont, charged with forgery COM
mitted in Pittsburgh, Pa, is to be ex-
tradited.
a STRANGER, giving the name of
William FOntaine, is under arrest at
Birmingham, Ala, for swindling 1000
school children out of ten cents EACH
collected as admission fees to bogus
show. When the children refused to
leave the hall Fontaine raised cry of
fire, and in the panic which ensued
many of his little victims were trampled
under foot and severely injured. A
woman accompanying the swindler was
also arrested.
ALEXANDER HEXTER, senior member
of the firm of Hexter e Bros, clothing
manufacturers, of Philadelphia, was
completely decapitated by being caught
between the elevator and ceiling in his
place of business on the 10th.
THERE is imminent danger of great
grain blockade in the Red River val
ley. The railroads are carrying $50
carloads daily but it is feared they
will prove unequal to the movement of
the wheat crop of 81, 900, 900 bushels
awaiting shipment in the twelve coun-
ties of the valley.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS MILLER decides,
in effect that the Anti-Lottery law does
not apply to newspaper guessing con-
ItS - VI OIiltI OIitIS VI pIIZcS VI Dicull-
ums made in good faith, and not de-
pendant on lot or chance, the intent Of
the law being to prevent, as far as may
be done by general enactment, tie Use
of the mails by certain well-known and
widespread agencies of evil.
COLONEL 7. c. DAWSON, of Green
vile. Ala, was fatally shot at the con-
clusion of a race on the Columbus (Ga.)
Fair Grounds, Oh the 18th, in the pres
ence of an immense throng, by r. VI.
Howard and Richard Howard. of Column
bus, and James Bickerstaff, of Seal, Ala.
Dawson was the husband of sister Of
the Towards, and family troubles are
said to have led to the tragedy.
a SPECIAL train with passengers from
the steamer Norham Castle. just ar
rived from the Cape of Good Hope, col
lided with freight train on the Great
Western railway in England. on the
18th. while running at the rate of fifty
miles an hour. Ten persons were killed
and eight injured, most of the former
being burned up in the wreck.
a NUMBER of letter-carriers in New
York City have been discovered violat-
ing the postal regulations in relation to
the delivery of mail matter to known
swindlers, the particular cases involved
being green goods" men, in whose
pay the offending carriers were found
to be.
SUPERINTENDENT PORTER OF the Cen
sus Bureau says that as soon as Con-
gresS meets in December the necessary
figures, in the most convenient form,
will be provided on which to base the
new apportionme mt of Representatives
CHARLES NJ. WHITNEY, Frank NJ.
Larcher and Edwin S. Larcher, the
three members of the New York broker
age firm of c. NJ. Whitney & Co., which
assigned, on the 10th, have filed sepa-
rate assignments TO George Ii. Quintard,
who is also assignee of the firm.
ENGLAND is about to secure q surren-
der by France of her claim to any part
of the Newfoundland coast by the ces-
sion of one of her colonies in West
Africa, possibly Gambia.
GEORGE w. MARTIN, a Brooklyn car
penter, confined in Jail on charge Of
grand larceny, stabbed himself to the
heart with 4 pen-knife, on the 18th, and
fell dead in his cell.
THE Alabama Legislature met at
Montgomery, on the 18th, and effected
d teiu pOFdTy OISdHIZdGIOu.
THE final liabilities of the defunct
Societe des Mettaux, of Paris. ere esti-
mated at Ill, 900, 600 francs, an. its as
sets at So, 900, 600 francs.
The court-m artial proceedings atthe
recent trial of First-Lieutenant George
NJ. Turner, Adjutant of the Eighteenth
Infantry at Fort Clark, Tex, on the
charge of embezzlement of band funds,
have been made public. Lieutenant
Turner was found guilty and sentenced
to dishonorable dismissal from the army.
EMPEROR WILLIAM has consented to
the marriage of his sister, Princess Mar
garet to the Prince of Naples, the heir
to the Italian throne. The marriage
will take place within year. Princess
Margaret will become Catholic.
CAPTAIN WILLIAM z. HALL and Mrs.
Therese Steward, daughter of Senator
Blackburn. of Kentucky, were married
in Washington on the 18th.
AT meeting of the board of man
ayers of the Adams Express Company
in New York City, on the 18th, reso-
luton was adopted making the regula-
tions of the Post-Office Department in
regard to the enforcement of the Anti
Lottery law applicable to its employees.
THE Treasury Department has de-
cided that fish caught in fresh water
can be imported into the United States
free of duty. provided the nets and boats
used in the catch are owned by citizens
of the United States