Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-04-23

| IHE cODlmlllce OF DdnhCGS VINO nave,
at the request of the Brazilian govern
ment, been investigating the financial
| situation of that country, report that
no danger of a financial crisis exists
| there.
THE Irish steamer Glamorgan, from
| Antwerp for Cardiff, was sunk in the
| English channel, on the night of the
| 18th, by a collision with the Dutch
steamship P. Calend. No lives were
| lost.
THREE men were killed and two seri-
| ously injured in an accident on the
| Maryland Central road near Fallston,
| Md, on the 10th.
THE directors of the Boston & Maine
| railroad have declared a dividend of
| $3.50 per share on common stock, pay
able on May Is.
AN artillery company for service
! against Italy has been formed at High
| land Falls, n. Y.
The Northwestern Baseball league
was organized at Grand Rapids, Mich,
on the 18th.
IL political circles in Rome, Mr..
| Blaine's last note causes disappoint-
| ment. 1t is spoken of as vague and in
| conclusive and as leaving the matter in
| statu quo.
REV. JAMES ASHTON, who was for
years chaplain and moral instructor in
| the eastern Pennsylvania penitentiary,
| has submitted long statement to the
| legislative committee in which he
| charges Warden Cassidy and the keep
ers of that institution with the practice
i of horrible brutality. Specific details
are given in the statement.
| A NoN-PARTIsAN society, known as the
Friends of Law and Order, has been
formed in Schleswig- with the
object of combating socialism. 1t pro-
poses to raise the condition of the work.
ing classes to a higher plane by moral
| and economical means, retaining the
present social system. 1t has made eX-
| tensive progress throughout the prov
| inceS.
| THE trial, at Elmira NY, of William
E. Decker for the murder of Miss Nellie
| Foster, formerly of Brooklyn, n. Y,
| ended, on the 18th, in a verdict of MUIR
der in the second degree. Decker was
| sentenced to Auburn prison for life.
| The defense was insanity.
| WILLIAM GREEN, negro, was hanged
| in New Orleans, on the nth, for the
| brutal murder of Joseph Parker, on jan
uary G, 1890. Green did not deny the
| killing, but held that it was done in self
| defense.
THE statement that the barrier raised
by France against hog products from
| the United States applied also to Can
| ada is officially denied.
GEN. O. III. ENOCHS. member of con-
| gress from Ironton, o., was danger
ously injured, on the 18th, by runa-
way team.
THERE is much speculation in Wash
| ington regarding the ordering of the
| squadron of evolution, commanded by
| Admiral Walker, from Key West to
| Hayti and the expected presence there
of all the vessels of the North Atlantic
| squadron in few days. The St. Mich
olas mole question is thought to be in
some way involved.
MAJ.-GEN. CHARLES S. HAMILTON, Z.
S. A, retired, died at his home in Mil
waukee on the 18th. Gen. Hamilton
| was born in the town of Western. Onei-
da county, n. Y, in 1922. and took a
conspicuous part in the Mexican and
| civil wars. He was q classmate of Gen.
Grant at West Point.
THE draft of the new commercial
treaty DelNeeH opdiIl anu Tic Culttu
States looking toward partial reciproc-
| ity of trade with Cuba, was concluded
at Madrid on the nth. 1t is understood
that the treaty fixes very low duties on
| -four and other articles exported from
the United States to the Antilles.
THERE was great excitement in the
Minnesota house, on the afternoon OF
the 18th, over the discovery that the
Australian ballot bill had been stolen.
The bill had been passed by the senate
| and house, and sent to the engrossing
committee.
REV. w. J. HERsHA, pastor of the
First Presbyterian church of Omaha,
Neb., and editor of the Central West,
| the official organ of the church in the
west, is declared by Rev. A. J. Mont
gomery, associate editor, to have
brought the publishing company to the
verge of bankruptcy by his peculiar
| financial transactions.