Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-02-25

the 18th.
JEFFERSON BARRACKS at st. Louis is
to be reconstructed as a military post
capab BILE of accommodating a full regi-
ment, or twelve troops of cavalry. Or
ders have been received from Quarter
master-General Batcheller to begin the
expenditure of the $50, 600 already ap-
propriated for this purpose.
DIPHTHERIA is raging in Pleasant
view, suburb. of Blackriver Falls,
Wis. Several deaths have occurred
from the disease. The school has been
closed. and the citizens are greatly
alarmed. Efforts are being made to
| check the progress of the disease.
MRS. E. FL. SQUIRE died at Clyde, O.,
on the 18th, aged % years Mrs. Squire
was the mother of United States Sena-
tor Watson c. Squire, of Seattle, Wash.
LEE A. BAssETT, a child, was choked
to death at Keokuk, Ia, on the 18th,
while eating an apple. A piece lodged
in the little ones throat and death en-
sued before it could be removed.
BETWEEN fifteen and twenty wolves
have made their appearance in West
Seneca, suburb of Buffalo, N. Y,
and women and children are afraid to
go out of doors. They appear in the
village at night and escape to the
woods about mile away. Several old
hunters are following the trail well
armed.
The United Workmen of Canada, in
session at Ottawa, have discussed at
great length a proposal to secede from
the supreme court of the United States.
The feeling of the convention was OPP
posed to any such severance, and the
proposition was rejected.
THE dry goods store of the E. NJ. Nc
Gillin Co.. at Cleveland. O., was burned
on the night of the 18th, involving a
loss of at least $500. 600: probably COW
cred by insurance. The building was
fve-story brick block on the corner Of
Superior and Seneca streets, and ex-
tending back to Long street.
On the morning of the 10th sudden
darkness overspread st. Louis about
$50, and the city at once became dark
as midnight, causing an almost COM
plete suspension of business for time.
A MIDDLE-AGED man registering as
John E. Dye, Somerset, KY, was found
dead in bed at the Phoenix hotel, Lex
ington, Ky, on the 18th. The gas had
DCCll OIo"h ouC anu hIlCtt tiC ioohl.
Dye belonged to the Knights of Pythias,
and accompanied the Somerset delega-
ton to the anniversary celeb alton.
IN the Wyoming supreme court, on
the 18th. the application for a new
trial made on behalf of Charles Miller,
the notorious boy double murderer,
was denied, and he was for the second
time sentenced to be hanged Friday,
April %, was fixed as the execution
day.
r. w LoUTER, Il bookkeeper for an
insurance company i'll Chicago. met
horrible death III one of the elevators
of the Rialto building on the 18th. He
was about to step off, when the ele-
vator shot up and he was caught be-
tween the top of the door and the ele-
vator frame and crushed to death. 1t
took half an hour to release his man.
gled body,
III. A. BRUINS, president of the Mer
chants bank of Moorhead, Mimi, had
preliminary examination, on the 18th,
on a charge of embezzling $1,000. He
was discharged on the grounds that the
state supreme court has ruled that
IN cases of copartnership like this, the
complaint as stated did not charge a
crime Bruins is now free from all
legal charges.
CHARLES FOSTER, secretary of the
treasury will leave for Europe, on the
gath. on an extensive tour for his
health. Gen. John i. Hamilton, sur
geon of the marine hospital service, will
accompany him.
CASES of yellow fever are still occur
ring in Caracas, Venezuela, despite
every effort made by the sanitary au-
thorities to stamp out the disease.
ANOTHER big strike of silver is re-
ported from Cripple Creek, Col. The
rush for the rich mining field continues.
CHIEF ENGINEER BROOKS, L. S. n,
has been placed on the retired list. to
date from March 1.
LETTERS from st. Luce, Fla, report
that Senator Quay, who is staying
there, is threatened with pneumonia
His health has not been improved by
the change of climate.
LATE NEWS ITEMS.
JUAN ANTONIO tLoREs has been ar
rested in San Antonio. Tex, by a
deputy marshal and placed in Jail
charged with violation of the neutrality
laws. He is said by the officers to be
Catarino Garza's chief lieutenant, and
is one of the wealthiest ranchmen of
the Rio Grande. Juan Antonio
Flores" is the name signed to the fiery
revolutionary proclamations which
were scattered through the troubled
districts.
A MEETING looking to a monetary
conference was held at Secretary Fos-
ter's residence in Washington on the
ED. Secretary Foster, Senator Teller,
Senator Aldrich and other prominent
public men, representing both sides of
the silver question, attended.
PRINCE ALEXANDER of Battenberg,
now more generally known as Count
Hartenau, has made formal application
to the emperor ofiAustria for permits
sion to accept a pension of so. 900 francs
a year recently voted him by the
sobranje of Bulgaria.
AARON HAMACHER, a keeper in the
state prison at Jackson, Mich, convict
ed of furnishing clothing to several
prisoners and assisting them to escape,
has been sentenced to seven years i'm
prisonment-the full limit of the law.