Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-06-15
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.

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A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
A JURY having been secured, the trial
Of Miss Lizzie Borden for the alleged
murder of her father and step-mothel
in August last was begun at New Bed.
ford, Mass, on the 9Th, by formal
statement of the case upon which the
prosecution relies for conviction. Al
the close of the opening speech cour,
was adjourned to allow the jury t6
visit the scene of the tragedy at Fall
River.
THE Kansas Grain & Land Co., with
Offices at Hutchinson, Kas., failed on the
5th.
By the arrival at San Francisco, on
the 9th, of the steamer Gaelic, from
Hong Kong and Yokohama, via Homo
lulu, information is received that Min
lister Blount has come heartily to ap.
prove of the revolution and proba bly,
| justifies nearly all of the acts of his
predecessor, ex-Minister Stevens, in
connection Herewith. He will not re-
store the monarchy, and the possibility
of his Recommending annexation is also
limited at.
THE Russian extradition treaty,
| which has been the subject of negotia-
ton between the contracting parties
for more than six years, which has been
amended again and again, and which
was threatened with defeat in its final
stages, has at last been formally pro-
claimed, and will henceforth be the law
of the land until it is superseded by an
other treaty.
A THUNDERSTORM of extraordinary
violence visited New York on the after
noon of the 9Th. The big guns of the
warships in the Hudson were as pop
guns compared to the crashing and
booming of the artillery of the sky,
and with every thunderclap there was
flash of lightning that extended from
one end of the city to the other. Much
damage was done to property.
THE city of Fargo, n. D., suffered
from a 100000 confagration on the
18th. The entire business portion of
the town was Quilted. and thousands of
persons were rendered homeless. Many
persons were injured.
On the 9th the directors of the
Whisky trust filed an $4,000. 600 mort
gage with the recorder of Peoria coun-
ty, Ill. 1t is whispered that the bonds,
to secure which the mortgage was Civ
en-, had already been sold at a very low
figure to intimate friends OF the direc-
tors.
PREPARATION, pecuniary and by apol-
ogy. has been asked of the department
of state by the British ambassador at
Washington for the action of the cap
tain of night inspectors in New Orleans.
on May 2, in arresting First Mate Il. E.
Maeli of the steamship Nigretia and
locking him up in the city Jail without
proper cause.
HoN. MOODY MERRILL. who for thir-
ty-four years has been connected with
the business interests of Boston as
lawyer, street railway president, legis-
latOr and agitator for public improve
ments and reforms, is missing He left
his business affairs in a very bad con-
dition.
DURING friendly scuffie in the oper-
ating room of the Western Union Tele-
graph Co. in Chicago, ON the 9TH, Thomas
Stack, who had an open poclletknife in
his hand, accidentally stabbed and
Grain. Both were messen-
ger boys. Grain made an ante-mortem
statement, declaring the stabbing &C
cidental and generating Stack from
all blame.
TIE postmaster general has formally
that disease germs, or other
things of like character, no matter
how securely put up, are of the nature
of poisons and extremely dangerous to
health, and that they are, therefore,
absolutely unavailable. Postmasters
are instructed to see that no such things
are allowed to enter into the mails.
The bodies of William G. GRAY, aged
eS, and Miss Dora A. Velsie, aged %,
the latter but partly dressed. were
found in a room over an undertaking
establishment in Grand Rapids, Mich.
on the 9Th. Both had been shot
the head, as is supposed, by
the woman.
ABOUT a dozen fine residences. most
of which were of recent construction,
were destroyed by FIRE in San Fran
cisco early on the morning of the eth
Three firemen were instantly killed by
a falling chimney, anG a fourth was
badly burned.
SAPIONE MARTELLo was executed by
in Dannemora On. I.)prison
at 11:51 a. m. on the 9th. for killing a
fellow Italian named Giovanni Parello
on March 5, 1892, in Saratoga
d. Il. MONROE. leader of the miners
in the Coal Creek (Tenn.l war last Au-
gust, was sentenced at Clinton, Tenn,
on the 9Th, to the penitentiary for seven
years The sentence is regarded by
many persons as light one.
RECENTLY Tom Curtis. the veteran
safe blower. and kid" Smith were
arrested in Detroit. Mich, in the act of
passing spurious money, with which
the city had for some time been flooded
On the Sth the police raided a house in
Dane street and arrested an old man
named jackson and his son. A
search of the house revealed a guam
tity of bogus money and good lay out
of counterfeiting apparatus
SAMOAN advices received. on the sth.
per steamer Alameda. from Apia, May
"a. says: 1t may be safely predicted
that Samoan affairs are approaching a
climax. Indeed, before this reaches
America, Malietoa and Mataafa may
have tried conclusions, and the an-im-
portant question as to which is the
stronger party may have been decided
forever.
An arrangement was perfected, on
the sth, by the representatives of the
Pennsylvania. Big Four, Chicago,
Hamilton & Dayton and Monon rail-
roads providing for cheap excursions