Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-03-17

aruu County gegister.
By ELI d. AXE.
IRONTON. MISSOURI
MRS. SARAH ALTHEA TERRY was ad-
judged insane at San Francisco. on the
10th, and committed to the Stockton
(Cal.) insane asylum.
RICHARD FREDERICK CAvENDIsH, a
nephew of the duke of Devonshire.
aged 81 years. was fined forty shil-
lings, on the 18th. for swearing in the
streets of Cambridge.
The president, on the 9th, nomi-
mated j. c. Clements, of Georgia, to be
interstate commerce commissioner,
vice Walter Bragg, deceased, and Will
lam Lindsay, declined.
GIUSEPPE CIvo, held for trial in New
York, has revealed the fact that there
exists in that city desperate gang of
Sicilian robbers, under oath to steal
Civo confessed that he was one of the
gang.
Mr. HATCH, of Missouri. introduced
a bill in the house of representatives,
on the 9th, appropriating $50, 900 for
the erection of a statue in Washington
to the memory of the late Samuel j.
Randall.
THE bark Liberia sailed from New
York for Liberia, on the 10th, with
fifty-eight colored emigrants from Ar
kansas, who are sent out by the Amer
lean Colonization society. They seemed
happy and confident.
THE cabinet was only in session
about thirty minutes on the 18th. No
communication having been received
from the British government on the
Behring sea matter. there was nothing
of Importance to be discussed
GEORGE WoODYAT HASTINGS, union
ist member of parliament for East
Worcestershire, was sentenced, on the
18th, to five years at hard labor for
embezzling Els. 900 from the estate of
John Brown, OF which he was trustee.
Mrs. FLORENCE Ethel. OSBORNE was
sentenced, on the 9th, in the Central
criminal court of London to nine
months imprisonment at hard labor
for perjury and larceny in connection
with the theft of jewels from her
cousin, Mrs Hargreaves.
THE Austrian monetary commission
has nearly reached the conclusion of
its labors. A majority of the members
favor a gold standard. They consider
that the half-florin should be the unit
and that other silver coinage should be
limited in amount to $50. 900, 900 fiorins.
PRINCE ERNEST of SaXe-Meiningen,
brother-in-law of the emperor, is en-
gagged to marry Mary, daughter of the
German poet William Jansen. 1t is
love match. and the couple are in Rome
safe from any interference on the part
of the kaiser on the reigning prince of
Sake einingen.
THE business failures occurring
throu ghout the country, during the
seven days ended on the 18th, number,
for the United States, 233, and for
Canada &c. or a total of $50; as COM
Will StU 1oi "CCh.
For the corresponding week of last year
the figures were 273.
Mrs. POTTER PALMER, president of
the board of lady managers of the
Worlds Columbian exposition, made an
argument, on the 18th, before the
Worlds fair committee in favor of the
additional appropriation of $4,000 to
h1,4 no
women's department.
WILLIAM RANDALL CREMER, NJ. p.
for Shoreditch, has written letter
stating that petitions will shortly be
presented to parliament, signed by I,
200, 900 members of industrial organiza-
tions and others, in favor of the arbi-
tration of all disputes between Great
Britain and the United States.
LORD MAYOR EVANS presided at a
large meeting of London merchants
and others in the Mansion house, on
the 11th, to discuss the question of
English representation at the Chicago
Worlds fair No formal motions were
made, but the consensus of opinion was
that England should be worthily repre-
sented.
A FRIGHTFUL colliery disaster oc-
CURED at Anderlues, Belgium, on the
18th. Three hundred miners were en-
tombed in the pit, very few of whom
could be reached by volunteers from
the outside. At latest accounts, it
was estimated that from $50 to 200 of
the miners, many of whom are women,
were dead
LORD MAYOR EVANS of London has
issued an appeal to the public in behalf
of the suffering people of Newfound-
land. Owing to the severity of the
winter, the storms which have inter-
fered with the fisheries and other
causes, there is widespread restitution
on the island, and many families are
without the necessaries of life.
THE Canadian government has intro |
duced into the house of commons bill
providing for the modus vivendi grant |
ing licenses to American vessels to en-
gage in the in-shore Atlantic fisheries.
A feature of the bill is that it is pro-
posed to empower the government to
renew these licenses from year to year
without applying to parliament for au-
thority.
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