Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-03-23
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


es DANIEL NELSON, once a member
id the German emperor's body guard al
I'd veteran of the Mexican war. w,
found hanging dead from a rafter
the garnet OF his ramshackle home ,
l. fresh-Pond, n. Y, on the morning ,
10 the 18th. His throat was cut from ca
IT TO ear and there was a long cash O
], the back OF his neck which had appa
% emily been made with a razor.
HE order of Judge Kicks based O
the interstate commerce act had its il
nuence ON both managers and striker
!. IN the Ann Arbor railroad trouble
u Neither side seemed anxious to tax
any step In direct opposition to the Law
as set forth in the order of the court
and the adjustment Of their difference
was the result.
Hoe ISLAND Opposite the mouth O
, the Patuxent river), where Mr.. Cleve
, land passed a duck-shooting vacatio,
after the campaign, is to be taken pos
!. session OF by the government for a quar-
antine station.
CHARLES WELLS, otherwise known a,
Monte Carlo Wells. on trial in London
was, on the 18th, sentenced to penal
servitude for eight years on conviction
of extensive frauds in having obtained
large sums of money from Miss Cath.
crime Phillimore and others under false
pretenses.
THE Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co.
will not be taken by surprise if a strike
Is declared during the rush of the
Worlds fair traffic. Detectives are
watching the men closely at all points.
/ and
| strike will be promptly reported.
ACTING under telegraphic instruc-
tions the indianapolis lind police, on
the 14th. arrested A. j. Caffey. said to
be an ex-treasurer of Comanche couu-
~ lex, charged with being a de-
faulter.
The Countess Conan, a member of
one of the old grandee families of
Spain, narrowly escaped assassination.
on the 14th, at the hands of trusted
man-servant, who. after wounding both
mistress and maid, turned the weapon
upon himself with deadly effect. The
countess and her maid may recover
The court of appeals of Maryland has
decided that tax upon land alone for |
the support of the government of that |
state or any part of it, or the govern
ment of any county or municipality in
1t, is not in accordance with the pro- |
visions OF the state constitution, and
can not. therefore, be enforced.
HE Colorado state senate, on the
18th, passed bill. which it is thought
will also pass the house and which
the governor is known to favor, sub
stituting life imprisonment for hang
ing as punishment for murder in the
hrst degree.
THE Egyptian cotton seed which was
purchased by Secretary Rusk through
The United States consulgeneral at
;airo, Egypt, arrived at the depart
nent OF agriculture ON the 18th.
The Belgian anti-slavery society has
written an urgent protest against sup
'lying arms to Arab slave trad
RS England and Germany are held
esponsible for the traffic.
A. +. STURrEvANT died at his home in .
Norwich, Conn.,, on the 14th. He was
me OF the largest manufacturers in =
he country. and owned s., 900, 900 worth g
t property in New York, including the
turtevant house. 9
THE French police arrested in Brus- 81
els, on the 18th. two brothers named O
choupp on suspicion of Matching an
narchist dynamite plot in connection
18th the notorious French anarchist.
[athieu. il,
A STORMY scene in the New York leg "
lature followed the introduction, on &c
lie 18th, of the bill appropriatinp n,
700. 600 additional for the Worlds fair, lii
,rtain members wanting informa- T
on as to what had been done with the Ii
oney already appropriated before in
'ting for any further sum.
The jury appointed by the United S,
tates circuit court on the condemna- RI
ON ofproperty between Sixth, Seventh, te
'alnut and SAMSON streets, Philadel- S,
lia. for use as q site for the new mint I'll
ed its report. on the 10th, awarding la
so, 100 to property holders, and to ten
! is 81, 945. ..
Two HUNDRED villages around the a,
ty of Warsaw and the town of Are ri
Ell, Russia, were inundated, on the +,
tn, by a sudden thaw, resulting in br
eat distress to the Inhabitants and ho
illions of roubles' damage. =,
IRWIN has been de- =,
ched from command of the Mare Is
nd navy yard and ordered to the COM -
and of the Asiatic station, relieving r.
lmiral Harmony, who returns home 40
retire.
II has been decided to name the new 90,
litary post to be esta blished near CHI
sex junction, VT, Fort Ethan Allen, of
honor of the revolutionary hero who a.
one time owned the land where the .
st is now situated. 10,
;. A. PALMER, of Grinnell, To-, is the D.
inner of the 500 prize offered last CO,
miner by the Nicaragua canal con- ~,
ntion at St. Louis for the best ESSAY ,
the advantage of the speedy compile mr.
n OF the canal to the United States. Al
especially to the north central -.
ties. r
l snK-wEAvING company in Shalir, STE
pan, which employed 1900 hands n.
/ manufactured q. 600 worth of silk W.
'rics daily, has gone into liquidation. 4
1oUIs B. MArHENY, now under ar. alta
t at San Francisco for a series of on
rglaries in Oakland. CAL, was iden- Yea
ed, on the 10th. rs the chief man A
o robbed the paymaster of the JUDI nea
powder works last year Of SIS. oo0 inp
the Berkeley train. Matheny is . 81
of DIR. 7. ]. Matheny, Of Auburn, pro
rem
|. C. Fox, collector for the First r
ional bank OF Chicago. was held mp sur,
loooe0 OF I.sOO on one OF the fire
rways of the Chicago courthouse 1T 8,
q ON the 18th. The robber choked III.