Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-04-14
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

tION. ABBETT OF Ne" Jersey. on the
5th. announced his disapproval of the
bill to legalize the Reading railroad
combine and filed a memorandum set
ting forth his reasons therefor. He
says there is no question OF his right to
so act on bills al any time within thirty
days after the legislatures adjourn
ment. He questions the constitutional
ty of the act.
THE will of the late John F. Winslow,
of monitor fame, was opened at Pough-
keepsie, y. V. on the 5th. The estate
is estimated to be worth between SO. 000.
900 and $4,000. 900. the bulk of which is
left to the widow. Harriet w. Winslow.
and her only daughter and an adopted
son. in trust About $500, 900 is given in
requests.
MANAGER CARLSON of the Richelieu
hotel. Chicago. has been fired by
Cardinal ii. V. Bemis. the proprietor,
for having been engaged, in connection
with professional gamblers. in plucking
wealthy guests of the hotel by means
card-games in which cheating devices
were used.
FORTY-FIvE HUNDRED men belonging
to the building trades union of New
York went On strike, on the 5th, against
the Pelham Hold Hosting Co., which is
charged with employing non-union
men.
THE circulative statement issued
monthly by the treasury department
shows the circulation of gold and silver
notes and certificates, United States
notes and national bank notes on April
/ have been s2460 per capita for the
65, los. 900 people estimated to be citi-
zens of this country. The total circu-
lation is placed at 81 COS. 641 $50, which
shows a decrease since March of S917,-
372
JOHN F. BEGGs. who obtained noto-
riety by his connection with the muir
der of DIR. Cronin in Chicago, and who
narrowly escaped conviction with the
rest of the conspirators, died in Chicago,
on the 5th. of pneumonia, contracted
while participating in the last St Pat
rick's day parade. He was senior
guardian of Camp 90. Clan-na Gael.
THE Chinese minister at Washington
is said to have informed Senator Sher-
man that if the Chinese exclusion bill
became a law China would sever all
diplomatic relations with this country.
Miss BETTE FLEIsCHMANN. daughter of
the millionaire yeast manufacturer and
distiller, Charles Fleischmann, of Gin
cinnatti. has broken her engagement
with Count Logothetti because he re-
fused to become an American citizen.
JOHN HART. known in America as
Macdonald. a notorious criminal. was
sentenced in London, on the 9Th, to one
years imprisonment for attempting to
steal box of securities from the Lon
don and Westminster bank.
RETURNS from the Rhode Island cleo
ton, on the 9Th. indicate that the choice
of governor and state officers will have
to be made by the legislature, the re-
publican ticket. while having plural
ity. failing to secure a majority over all.
There is practically no doubt that the
legislature will be republican.
In "a fire which destroyed two dwellings
at Fort Madison. Ia. on the morning of
the 9th, out of household of eleven
persons only two escaped cremation.
The unfortunates We're 5. V. Kitchen
and family and three boarders.
REV. Dr. PARKHCRsT. of New York
city. has received number of threat
ening letters warning him to desist
from his crusade against the immoral
resorts of the city on pain of personal
violence. In one letter the destruction
of his residence is threatened
THE Nebraska Columbian commission
met at Lincoln, on the eth. and deposeG
A l.. Strong, president and treasurer,
who had absented himself from meet
ings of the commission for three months,
being in Texas Repeated requests 20
make an itemized statement of receipts
and disbursements We're ignored. At
torney-General Hastings was requested
by the commission to at once proceed
against Strong and his bondsmen.
CARL AUGUST SAMPSON. the American
strong man. was found guilty in Lon
don, on the eth, CT stealing diamonds
valued at $500, the property of Mrs.
Margaret Bernstein. and was sentenced
to one year at hard labor.
COMPLETE returns from all parts of
Rhode Island show a total vote on the
state ticket of 54.146. an increase of
about 10000 over the largest vote ever
before polled-
CAPT. CHRIS RATH, who hanged Mrs.
Surratt and the other Lincoln cOnspira-
tors, in Washington, was suddenly be-
reft of reason. on the 9Th. on the run
from Grand Rapids to Jackson. Mich.
with the mail train. He has been mail
agent for twenty years He was pro-
vost marshal of Washington at the close
of the war.