Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-02-18

THE senate in Secret session, on tn,
10th. confirmed the nomination of
William M. Grinnell. of New York, to
be third assistant secretary of state.
Col. JAMES AUGUSTUS GRANT, C. B.,
c. S. l., the African traveller, died at
NS.irn, Sceta and, on the 18th.
Two MEX held up Fresno (Cal street
car at q hate hour on the night of the
10th, asd robbed the driver of all his
change, amounting to about five dollars.
A passenger who put his head put of a
wsn&ow TO see what was goin@ BON, was
shot and probably fatally wounded by
one of the robbers.
THE trial of ex-Mayor Pearson. OF AL
eegheny City, Pa. on the charge of en-
bezzlement Of commitment fees, ended
abruptly, On the 18th, the prosecution
being unable to produce the necessary
evidence TO prove their case. The jury,
after few minutes deliberation, re-
turned 4 verdict of mot guilty." the
county go pay the costs.
DESPITE the refusal of Mai. and
Mrs Hargreaves to prosecute Mrs Os-
borne, the Bow-street Uondon) magis-
trate, 'on the 18th, committed her for
trial ON charge of perjury.
CoH- PETER Ii. ALLABAcH, of Wash
ington. chief of the capitol police. and
hero of both the Mexican war and
the war of the rebellion, died on the
night of the 18th.
URUGUAY has not been affected by
the disturbance on the Brazilian from
tier. The report of the revolt of gar
rison at Montevideo is wholly I'M
founded.
The presidency of the New York
Life Insurance Co. was offered to eX-
President Cleveland and declined.
THE attempt to negotiate treaty of
commerce between Italy and Switzer-
land has failed.
A BOMB was exploded in front of the
Spanish consulate in Lisbon on the
18th. No damage was done, but the
shock caused much alarm in the city.
The outrage is attributed to sympa-
thizers with the Spanish anarchists.
THERE is a rumor in Paris that the
reported to have committed suicide at
the Hotel du Louvre. recently, was
really shot by nihilists.
AT Brightwood, a suburb of indian
apolis, Rev. David Caudell, Is years
old, was married. on the 18th, to Mrs.
Eliza Willis 50 years old. 1t was Mr..
Caudell's third marriage. The cere-
mony was performed by the bride
groom's son, who is also a minister,
and who was married by his father
twenty years ago.
LARGE numbers of boomers and set
tiers are going into the Cherokee strip
all along the line and making. prepare
tions to settle at Arkansas City, Cald.
well, Hennessy, Kiowa. Orlando, Guth-
RE and other places. The boomers are
organizing to move into the strip in a
body of 90, 900 on March 90, unless con-
gress takes action toward opening it
before that time.
IT is alleged that there is a shortage
in the accounts of the trustee of Polk
township, Monroe county, Ind, of ST.
500 or more. Elijah Todd, the officer,
died recently. A hurried examination
of the books shows the condition as
above. 1t is thought the deficit, in part,
extends back tor several years.
THE indictment against Ludwig Full
graf, the New York Doodle alderman of
the board of 1884, was dismissed on
the 18th. Fulgraf. who is said to be
prospecting in St Paul, Mimi, is the
last of the boodlers. 1t was he who,
with Michael Duffy. turned states evil
dence and thereby escaped trial.
On the 18th a plot was discovered by
which number of soldiers of the late
war were to attempt the rescue of a fell
low soldier named Edward Mcmillan
from the county Jail at Wilkesbarre, Pa
Mcmillan is under sentence to be hanged
next month.
Mrs. MINToN, of Flushing, T.. L., Sc
cured some one to mail postal card to
her husband every day for ninety days
from a summer resort, where she
claimed to be sojourning. In fact, she
was in Sioux Falls, S. D., gaining her
ninety day residence to secure di-
vorce.
JAMES G. FAIR. JR., eldest son of ex-
Senator Fair, died suddenly, on the 18th,
of heart disease. The death of young
Fair is attributed by his doctors direct
ly to bichloride of gold treatment,
which he underwent some time ago.