Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-03-24

The supreme court OF Indiana de-
cided, on the 18th, in the Gibson county
case of Parvin VS.. Winberg. that the
legislature has power to enact laws
regulating the mode of voting. The
decision affirrns the constitutionality
of the Australian ballot law The full
bench concurred.
MRS. SHADDINGER, of Cincinnati,
died as the result of fright cause by the
discovery of fire among some bales of
cotton on the steamer Guiding Star, on
which she was a passenger on the 18th.
FRANK SCHNEIDER, the murderer of
servant girls, was gibbeted at Vienna
on the 18th. He was lifted to a spike
in IA post. and the back of his neck was
held close to it. Then a cord was
passed around his neck, fastening it
tightly to the spike, and he was
strangled to death.
ROBERT. MELRosE, of Nashville.
Tenn, aged 10, is under arrest, charged
with poisoning his mother, his brother
and two sisters by putting arsenic in
their coffee on the nth. Two girls,
aged IA and II respectively, died on
the 18th. Mrs. Melrose. David, the
youngest son, and Robert himself, who
also drank of the coffee, were made
very i'll.
THREE-sToRY house in st. Peters
burg, on which large number of
workmen were employed, collapsed, on
the 18th, and thirteen of them were
killed by falling walls.
THERE were thirteen inches of snow
at Newark, n. j., on the 18th.
THE English Miners Federation con-
ference has concluded to work only five
days a week until further notice.
YELLOW FEVER is raging at Rio ia
metro, Brazil. There were IT'S deaths
from the disease within fortnight
THE great stallion race booked for
the August meeting at Grand Rapids,
Mich, is declared off. word having been
received from c. w. Williams, owner of
Allerton, declining to enter the race.
He says he is afraid that should he take
Allerton there and enter him in the
race with Axtell against him, the other
horses would crowd him in favor of AK
tell. He will therefore not take Aller-
ton away from home until he has met
Axtell alone.
IT is reported that the Palmers, one
of the largest naval shipping firms in
the United kingdom, is arranging to
transfer their plant of works at New
castle-on-Tyne to a certain port in the
United States. where they will conduct
their business in future. Mr.. Rookie
Teller. of the Standard Oil Co., will. it is
said. join the enterprise. controlling
$40, 900, 600, and use his influence to Sc
cure government contracts for war
ships
The siXtieth anniversary of the we'd
ding of Mr.. Eduard Hanstein and AL
muth NJ. Hanstein was celebrated at
the residence of the venerable couple
in ST. Louis on the 10Th. A reception
was given to friends and invited guests
from 10 q. m. to p. m, and a large
num- Der called and presented congratu-
latiOns.
CHANCELLOR Won CAPRIvI offered his
resignation at the cabinet meeting in
Berlin, on the 18th, as the result of the
protracted contest on the educational
bill, which the chancellor, as Prussian
premier has championed from the first.
There is no definite information yet as
to the action of the kaiser.
THE renegade Apaches infesting the
White mountains of Arizona have been
dut CdptuTcu n HuHl OSI VI tuSul
were shot by the soldiers and the others
surrendered to Lieut.. Beane, of the
Second cavalry. The only ones out now
are Mast and 1.-The Kid"
jim CALHOUN, an aged pioneer and a
''squaw man." was jailed at Cheyenne,
Wyo.. on the 18th, from Big Piney,
Vinta county. He was postmaster, and
for months has been using stamps for
buying anything and every
thing with them.
UNITED STATES officials at the ports
of entry at Pembina, Neche and other
points along the international boundary
have been instructed to vigorously en-
force the alien contract labor act.
Farmers there have been importing
cheap Canadian labor.
THE receipts from internal revenue
during the first eight months of the ifs
cal year ending June 80, 1892, were
$780, 667 233, an increase of So, 1000
over the receipts during the CORE
spending period of last year.