Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-02-19

THE correspondent OF the ilos,tion
Chronicle at st. Petersburg tclegraphs
that paper that the only effect of the
memorial sent by the Guild Hall meet
ing to the Car, asking him to extend
protection to the prosecuted Jews of
Russia has been to redouble those per-
secutions.
Mr.. STANLEY denies the story that
he proposes giving away the many pres
ents he has received from the crowned
heads of Europe and others.
GOVERNOR BYRD of the Chickasaw
Nation is organizing the militia to eject
all intruders. The Government will
assist. 1t is estimated that there are
at least 10000 intruders.
THE entire plant of the Tri-State Can
Company at Keol<uk, Ia, was complete
ly destroyed by fire on the 10th. How
the fire originated is a mystery. The
loss to the company is placed at about
Sos, 900, but the plant was fully insured.
The fire will be a severe blow to the 200
persons who were employed by the COM
pany.
HORRIBLE reports of depredations by
wolves have been received from Szandu,
Hungary. On Baron Woodlaur's estate
voured by the ravenous beasts. The
government authorities are organizing
a party of hunters which will under
take the determination of the wolves.
W. +. WHARTON. Assistant Secretary
of State, and Miss Susan Lay were
quietly married in Washington on the
10th. Rev. DR.. McKim, rector of Epiph-
any Episcopal Church of that city, per-
formed the ceremony.
THE commission of experts appointed
by the court to examine into the ques-
ton of the sanity of James NJ. Dough-
| erty. who imagineS that Mary Ander-
son is in love with him, and who shot
and killed Dr.. Lloyd at the Flatbush
| On. " Insane Asylum last fall, re-
! ported. on the 18th, that Dougherty is a
| monomaniac. and is las dangerous d
| lunatic as it has ever been the lot of
the commission to encounter" Dough-
| ertv will be sent to the asylum for in
sane criminals.
| BAsIIIo ROMERO. a citizen of Calls
| teo, y. NJ. was shot and killed, on the
night of the 9th. in his bedroom by
some unknown assassin. 1t is claimed
by many that it is another political muir
| der. Romero having been q strong Re-
publican.
| A FAVORABLE report has been ordered
on the bill for the erection of 4 new
| custom-house in New York City, at a
cost not to exceed 1000, 900.
THE Iowa Assembly of the Knights
OF Labor convened in annual session at
| DeS MOineS on the 18th.
| WILLIAM MARCUS MORTON. eX-Chief
Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme
Court, died at Andover, on the 10th,
after lingering illness. He was sew
| enty-two years old.
A SCORE of lives We're lost, on the
18th, by the explosion of the boiler in
the Quebec Cam worsteds factory.
| For some cause the machinery was not
started that morning, and most of the
800 employees had been dismissed and
had departed for their homes.
GENERAL f. E. BRAGG, of Fond du
| Lac. Wis, has received $500 from the
| St Paul Railroad Company for injuries
received by Mrs. Bragg in railroad
accident about five years ago.
w. II. ADAMS, a former janitor. per
petratcd a bold robbery of the Citizens
Bank of Minneapolis, Mimi, on the
18th, but was pursued, overtalzen,
knocked down and jailed.
FIVE persons We're seriously-some OF
them fatally-burned. at four o'clock
OF the morning of the 18th, at West La
Fayette, Ind, by terrific natural gas
explosion. which completely wrecked
the building in which it occurred, which,
together with an adjoining building,
was destroyed by fire.
| FRANK SMITH, the nineteen-year-Old
train robber who held up train IN
Ohio and robbed the Adams Express
ear last October, confessed his crime
and pleaded guilty at Urbana, O.. on
the 18th. Smith has agreed to reveal
the names of his accomplices. and his
sentence will be made lighter in conse-
quence.
II is the intention Of the Czarina to
90 to Athens to meet her son. the
Grand Duke George, who was injured
while travelling in India. The Grand
Duke will remain in Athens until con.
valescent.