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

THE Behring sea treaty, sent in by
the president, was considered in secret
session by the senate on the 9th.
THE London Daily News, referring
to the Behring sea case. says: THE dis
pute seems to be case for professors of
natural history rather than for diplo-
mates. The disputants must be care
full not to imperil arbitration in their
anxiety to snatch a paltry advantage"
A MOB of masked men entered the
jail at Memphis, Tenn, on the morn
ing of the 9th, by means of ruse, ram
sacked it from top to bottom, and took
out three of the negro leaders in the
recent riot and shot them to death.
Bob MUsGRAvE, the life insurance
swindler, was taken into the circuit
court at Terre Haute, Ind, on the 9th.
and Judge Taylor overruled his motion
for a new trial and sentenced him to the
states prison for ten years.
A LETTER was received by the sheriff
at Chicago. on the 9th, from Juneau,
Alaska, from j. Fl. Howard, of that
place, informing him that w. B. Tas-
colt, the alleged murderer of Millionaire
Smell, is now in the Yukon river coun-
try, 500 miles northwest of Juneau, and
is expected to return in August.
THE pulp mill of the Rochester On.
" Paper Co. fell, on the 9th, killing
Albert Gaut, an employe. and seriously
injuring the engineer, John Shelk.
Gaut was crushed to atoms.
IT is said to be the intention of Attor-
ney-General Casgrain of Canada to
swear out warrants for the arrest of
MERCER and all minor boobies and
prosecute them. MERCER will be ex-
peeled from the house of commons.
JOHN ANDERSON, the Dane whose
fame as polygamist is as wide as the
country, is wanted in Germany. He
ing $1,000 from his latest dupe, Mrs.
Ellen Purcell. of ST. Louis.
The blizzard which swept down from
the northwest, on the 9th and 10th, was
the most severe of the season, and in
Minnesota and Dakota ragged with a
fury almost appalling, causing much
suffering in exposed localities.
The engineers engaged in making
the preliminary survey for the rapid
transit electric road between St Louis
and Chicago, are pushing their work
with due diligence, and were last heard
from in the vicinity of Illiopolis. Ill.
WALDO ADAMS, manager of the
Adams Express Co., died in Boston on
the evening of the 9th.
JOHN f. WINsLow, of Poughkeepsie,
one of the leading iron manufacturers
of New York, died on the 10th. He
built the Monitor at his works in Troy.
n. Y, and with Erastus Corning and
John A. Griswold. introduced besse-
mer steel into the United States.
AT the meeting of the state encamp-
ment of the-Grand Army of the Repub-
lie at Fresno, Cal, on the 10th, j. 3.
Fuller. of Marysville, was unanimously
elected department commander.
A SALE of few of the effects of the
port. Il. l., on the 10th. The extensive
not included in the sale.
II is reported in Paris that the pope
wishes to revise the concordat in order
to establish better relations between
France and the vatican.
PATENT COMMISSIONER SIMMONDs has
accepted the Craftsmanship of the adj
visory council of the division of intel
lectual property in the department of
the government in the Worlds Con-
gress auxiliary of the Worlds fair at
Chicago.
THE court martial convened at Here's.
Spain, to try the remaining prisoners
captured in the raid upon the town in
January last delivered judgment Of
acquittal on the 10th.
THE New York assembly has con-
Cured in the senate amendments to the
anti-Pinkerton bill.
The United States steamer Ranger
has been ordered into commission for
service in the Behring sea, under Com
mander p. E. Nichols.
THE foot and mouth disease is spread
ing among the cattle of Belgium.
CARDINAL GIBBONS of Baltimore,
Md. has received letter from Bishop
Beffi, of Cartagena, Colombia, in
which the bishop promises to send
bell 7SS years old, which has long been
one of the curiosities of
Cartagena, for exhibition at the
Worlds fair