Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-04-20

hlNG hCMBERT, accompanied Oy Sig.
Benedito Brini, minister of foreign af-
fairs, and by the royal suite. arrived at
Florence, on the 18th, on visit to
Queen Victoria, who is spending several
weeks at the Villa Palmieri, near Flor
ence.
MRS. E. C. THOMAS, of Dubuque, Ia,
q demented woman 80 years old. satu-
rated her clothes with kerosene .and
set fire to them. She was fatally
burned. She male q similar attempt
sixteen years ago.
The town of Saline, of I. 400 popula-
ton, in Washtenaw county, Mich,
was entirely wiped out by tornado on
the night of the 18th.
CLEARINGHOUSE returns for seventy
five principal cities of the United
States, as reported by Bradstreet's, for
the week ended on the list, aggregated
sl,21O, 9Ol, 1872; of which New York
shows 1886, 76s, 93s, Boston, sos. 964, 1873;
Chicago, s10s. 4O1, 402; Philadelphia, s69,-
GIG. 267, and ST. Louis, s27, 52s. AS.
THE Western Michigan Lumber Co. 3
yards at Diamond Lake, Mich, were
destroyed by fire on the 14th. Several
million feet of lumber, 500, 600 bundles
each of shingles and laths, and ten
freight cars were burned. The loss
will reach 500, O0O The fire was caueed
by a spark from an engine.
Two POLICE officers in the employ Of
the Milwaukee Railroad Co.. at Du-
buque, Ia, were shot dead at s o'clock
on the morning of the 18th by tramps,
who had taken up quarters in car for
the night.
The town of Kudrynee, in Galicia, il
cholera. Eight cases and six deaths
occurred there during the week ended
on the 18th.
PETER PENCE, of Arizona, killed his
fifth Mexican in ten days. on the 18th,
all claimed to he in self-defense.
HAWAIIAN MINISTER S. Mort SMITH
is quoted as saying that the provisional
government of Hawaii will now appeal
to England or Germany for support,
and that each of these nations stands
ready to respond to any overtures-
ALEX. w. QUARRIER, a son of the late
Hon. w. A. Quarter. went boat riding
at Charleston, w. Va, on the night of
the 18th. with Miss Ella Young, of Mis-
souri,, who has been visiting there for
some time. They did not return, and
the presumption is that both were
drowned.
SECRETARY SMITH has requested Sec
rotary Lamont to send sufficient force
of troops to compel Frank C. Ross and
his workmen to leave the Puyallup
reservation in Washington, across which
they have commenced to build a rail-
road contrary to law.
DR. FRANCIS L. FLANDERS, a practic-
ing physician whose wealth is esti-
mated ut 5000, 900. was, on the 14th. in
the criminal'court at Kansas City, Mo-,
convicted of fraudulently securing the
signatures of Ludwig and Henrietta
Goetz, husband and wife, to war
ranty deed to certain valuable property,
and sentenced to three years in the
penitentiary.
WIN. BOND, colored, was hanged at
Rock Vile, Nd, on the 14th. for the
mu rder of Margaret Cephas, November
%, 1891. The crime was a brutal one.
Bond was convicted entirely on circum-
stantial evidence, and persistently as
serted his innocence to the end.
The buildings occupied by the L. NJ.
Rumsey Manufacturing Co. at Nos
SOC. sos, $40 and sl2 North Second
street, st. Louis, were partially de-
stroyed by fire on the morning of the
14th, the damage amounting to 500, 0Oc
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, the novel
ist, who, it was reported, would arrive
on the Mariposa from Sydney on his
way to London, stopped off at Samoa
on account of ill health, and has given
up his proposed trip.
JOHN HILL, colored lad of 10 years,
was hanged at Camden, n. j., on the
i4th. He shot and killed Joseph Dod-
son, aged 81, also colored, on October 16
last. Hill and Dodson had quarreled
over politics.
A LETTER from Tippoo Tbs son, re-
ceived at Zanzibar. confirms the report
of the massacre of Emin Pasha and all
his people.
SECRETARY GRESHAM, on the 14th,
wired Gov. Peck of Wisconsin, that
Peter Dyrnde, wanted for theft of funds
while treasurer of Rock county, Wis,
is under arrest at Stockholm, Sweden.