Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-12-24


MRS. AMELIA SPIEss, young woman
OF Lancaster, Pa, quarreled with her
husband, on the 18th, and on her
| mother threatening to eject the hus-
band from the house the young wife
ran up stairs and blew out her brains
| with pistol.
THE city of Cordoba, Argentine Re-
| public. is threatened with inundation
| owing to breaks in the levees along the
Rio de la Plata
CITY COUNCILMAN NJ. T. PAGE, of
| Richmond, Va, was arrested, on the
18th, for engaging in turkey raff1 e.
| He was trying his luck in crowd
| when a policeman ordered the party
| to desist- Page declined and was ar
| rested.
CONTROLLER LACEY has declared a
dividend of 40 per cent. in favor of the
creditors of the Maverick national bank
| of Boston.
On the night of the 18th thirty
masked men alighted from train at
| Live Oak, Fla, ran over to the resi-
dence of Sheriff Potstamer, covered
him with rifles and compelled him to sur
render the keys to the Jail. Going to
the Jail they took out two negroes
charged with numbering II. D. Para
more, of Valdosta- Ga, at New Bran
| ford, Fla, hanged them to a tree and
riddled their bodies with bullets.
THE United States steamship Balti-
more left Callao for San Francisco on
| the 18th. All on board are unreserved
| in their expression of indignation over
their treatment at Valparaiso, and ex-
press the hope that congress will sup
port the president in his demand for
proper reparation.
THE following list is said to consti-
tute the new Quebec cabinet: Senator
De Boucherville, premier; Hon. L. o.
Taillon, G. A. Nantael, j. S. Hall, J. I.
Mcintosh, Thomas Chase Casgrain and
Chas. Fitzpatrick The new cabinet
does not promise to have a long life.
THE first issue of the Irish Independ-
emit, the new organ of the Parnellite
party, appeared in Dublin, on the 18th.
and found rapid sale.
The supreme court of the United
States adjourned, on the 18th, for the
Christmas holidays. 1t meets again on
January T.
IT is rumored in Valparaiso that
President-elect Montt will be assassin
ated on the Goth, the day of his inau-
guration.
GEN. PATRICK E. Common, the noted
Indian fighter. died at Salt Lake City,
Utah, on the nth.
NEITHER the senate nor the house
were in session on the 18th.
THE New York grand jury found an
Indictment for forgery in the second de-
gree against E. NJ. Field on the 18th.
1t is undertood his forgeries amount to
$500, 600.
ADvICEs received from the state of
Rio Grande do Sui, Brazil. confirm the
reports of renewal of the revolt there.
1t is said that the new revolution
threatens to assume even larger pro-
portions than was at first expected.
Rival military chiefs are engaged in the
strife.
JIMMY DUNLAP, the notorious bank
burglar. who with six others robbed
the Northampton Mass national bank
Of nearly So, 0OO 900 in 1876, will soon be
released from state prison, where he
has been serving a twenty-year SEN
tence on account of that crime. He has
served only fourteen years, but earned
clemency by revealing the whereabouts
of a large portion of the stolen securi-
ties.
DIR. IRA RICHMOND, of Brocton, Mass,
formerly of Brooklyn, N. Y, and New
Jersey, pleaded guilty, on the 18th, to
having in his possession molds for MAX
ing counterfeit $40 gold pieces and 81
silver pieces. He was fined 500 and
sentenced to two years hard labor in
state prison. His alleged accomplice,
Mrs. Mary Blauvelt. was discharged.
Gov. WINANs of Michigan has ap-
pointed commission, consisting of ex-
Mayor Donovan, Judge Q. A. Smith and
Deputy Secretary of State Rowley, all
of Lansing, to thoroughly investigate
the charges against Secretary of State
Soper, who resigned under pressure.
MRS. CoRNELIA CHANDLER,
relict of the late Rear Admiral Ralph
Chandler, United States navy, and
daughter of the late H. J. Redfeld. at
one time collector of the port of New
York, died in Washington, on the 18th,
of pneumonia, after an illness of two
days.