Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-04-21
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

4 SEVERE shock of earthquake was
felt between 11:1O and 11:3O a. m, on
the 18th. throughout the Adirondacks
and all of northern New York. 1t was
felt in Warrensburg. Glen Falls. Johns
town, Gloversville, Little Falls. Oneida
and other places throughout the terri
tory in which those towns are located.
DEFINING, the Australian and Liver
pool wife murderer, was in Halifax, y.
s. a few years ago on alleged gold
mining business. He showed a letter
he had received from Kate l.. Edowes.
one of the women who was subse-
quently murdered in Whitechapel,
London. The letter revealed motive
for the murder of the girl.
THERE was almost riot at the stage
entrance of the opera house in Harris
burg, Pa, on the 18th, while the dem
ocratic state convention was in session.
The dOorkeeper struck a ticket-holder
in the face, thinking he was an in
truder. Pistols were drawn. and there
was an exciting scene until the police
restored order.
THE well-known sculptor Natter
died in Vienna on the 18th. He exc
cuted the famous statue of Zwingle,
and was the author of many other
works of art, some of which earned
worldwide approval.
THE senate bill which was reported,
on the 18th, as a substitute for the
Geary bill, continues for ten years all
laws now in force prohibiting and regu-
lating the coming into this country of
Chinese.
THE press and corning mills of the
Moosic pa. Powder Co. were blown up,
on the 18th, killing five men and inj ur-
ing twenty others. two of them fatally.
JAMES w. COOPER, one of the colored
men who served on the jury in the
Schneider murder trial in Washington.
ID. c., died, ON the 18th. as a result of
that service, leaving his family desti-
tute.
WHILE the life-saving crew at Bandon,
Ore, were practicing on the 18th, their
boat capsized and Capt Nelson and
three of the crew of eight were drowned.
EMPEROR WILLIAM has signifed his
approval of Princess Frederick Charles
assuming the patronage of the German
female department of the Chicago Co
umbian fair
SECRETARY ELKIys, on the 18th, di-
Louis to send Immediately 300 tents to
the mayor of Columbus, Miss, for the
benefit of the sufferers from the recent
floods.
GRANT THOMAS was convicted at
Louisville. KY, on the 18th, of the muir
der of BERTHE Coleman and sentenced to
be hanged. Thomas killed the girl by
strangling her with a sash that had
been worn around her waist.
THE president has removed from Office
Charles f. Stott, assistant appraiser OF
the port of New York.
c. w. WILLIAMS. of Independence. Ia.
has sold to the Cloverdale stock farm,
Philadelphia. Can't Tell, a full sister to
Axtel1, and five head of well-bred trot-
| tiers. Price private.
| DR. EDWARD CAMPBELL, professor of
chemistry at the Michigan university at
| Ann Arbor, while making investigations
| in quantitive analysis, lost both eyes by
the explosion of two bottles filed with
gas
REPLIES received from every portion
of the southwest show an average de-
crease in cotton acreage of % per cent
| The farmers are putting the land in
corn and other cereals. The planting
is ten days later than last season. The
cold weather of the middle of March
destroyed many plants, which were re-
planted.
THE vessels which will comprise the
Behring sea feet during the coming
sealing season are the Mohican. now at
Esquimault; the Adams, the Ranger
and the Yorktown. two revenue cut
tiers, the Corwin and the Rush. and the
fish commissioners steamer, the Alba
tross. England. it is understood, will
send three gunboats to assist in police
duty.
OFFICIAL announcement has been
made that the diplomatic differences
between the United States and Italy,
growing out of the massacre at New Or
leans last year, have been amicably adj
justed, and that the money for the rela-
tives of the victims of that affair has
been paid. The amount is t25. 900.