Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-03-20

Street New York City Jail, indicted
| for bribery, resigned his office, on the
18th, in letter in which he declares
his innocence. and asks for suspension
| of public opinion.
THE Dolph committee investigating
secret-session leakages. on the 18th,
examined Z. w. Halford, private secre-
tary of the President: o. L. Pruden,
executive clerk of the President: Thomas
w. Cridler, chief of the Diplomatic Bu-
reau of the State Departments: Julian
Taylor and James w. Phillip, clerks in
the State Department. but without much
success in the matter of securing infor-
nation.
TIE Spanish Government will be rep
resented at the Berlin labor conference
by Senior Moret and two experts.
SECRETARY OF TIE TREASURY WIN
DOM, Solicitor Hepburn and Special
Agent Dixie, who made the investiga-
ton of Castle Garden year ago, APP
peared at joint meeting of the House
and Senate committees on immigration,
on the 18th. and explained the reason for
the transfer of the immigrant station
from Castle Garden to BedlOe's island.
GENERAL ELPHINsTONE, the comp
trcler of the Duke of Connaught's house
hold, was washed overheard from the
deck of a steamship off Teneriffe on
the 18th. His body was not recovered.
FoR striking an old squaw in the head
with an axe and cracking her skull,
while drunk, a Sioux buck named
Dirty Foot was seized by crowd and
thrown into fire. and repeatedly
pushed back when he tried to escape,
ho 1,,r,nn2 TO nriC
THE water in the Mississippi river
overfowed the levee in front of New
Orleans, on the 18th, and for awhile
threatened great damage to the Crescent
City.
AN adverse report was made to the
House committee on banking and cur
rency, on the 18th, by subcommittee
on the various bills for the issue of frac
tiOnal paper currency.
THREE persons who had participated
in the recent anti-governmeat demon
stration at Johannesburg, in the Trans
vaal, and in hauling down the flag OF
the republic, have been sent TO Pretoria
on charge of treason. As a conse-
quence great excitement prevails
throughout the republic.
TIE French Government has deter
mined to occupy the Dahomian province
OF Whydah on the African slave coast.
7. T. BARNUM. sailed from South
hampton for New York on the 18th.
THE Gar is very unpleasantly reflect
ed upon by the continental press for the
persecution of the Princess Dolgourika,
the morganatic wife of his late father.
TIE number of miners who persisted
in the recent Morsa mine disaster at
Glamorgan, Wales, is definitely placed
at eighty.
TWENTY THOUSAND men employed as
engineers in Northeastern England have
organized strike for shorter hours.
THE striking weavers at GablOng,
Bohemia, became riotous on the 18th.
The local police were powerless to with
stand them and the military was sum-
moned.
HOLDERS of ninety-five per cont. of
the Indebtedness of Henry 5. Ives &
Co, have consented to settle for five
cents on the dollar. 1t is expected that
the consent of the five per cent will
soon be secured.
SEVEN men, part of gang engaged
in removing an obstruction from the
track of the West Virginia Central rail
road in cut between Chatfee and
Blaine, on the 18th, were buried alive
by great land slide, and four of their
number were taken out dead.
ALEXANDER DOYLE, of New York, was
the successful competitor for the design
for the monument to Henry W. Grady,
to be erected a Atlanta, GA.
TIE late VIM. Bucknell, of Philadel-
phia, left his entire estate of several
million dollars to his children. 1t was
expected there would be large requests
to charities.
TIE General Term of the Supreme
Court of New York decided, on the 14th,
that pool-selling on races was legalized
by act of the Legislature in 1887.
KING IIUMBERT has donated the sum
of $500, 600 for the purpose of erecting
monument to the memory of the Italian
patriot Giuseppe Mazzini.
MENoTTI GARIBALDI has resigned as
a member of the Italian Chamber of
Deputies.