Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-02-23

THE gold medal awarded by Post.
master-General Wanamaker to the rail,
way postal clerk making the best rec.
ord in the Fifth division in 1892 was
awarded at Cincinnati, on the evening
of the 14th, to ]. C. Edgerton, o.
Athens, o.
In the tax suit contempt cases in
South Carolina, where the sheriffs, act
ing under Gov. Tillman's instructions,
seized railroad property in charge of
receivers appointed by the federal
courts, for taxes. decision was rem.
dered, on the 10th, against the state,
receivers and the sheriffs found guilty
of contempt and fined $500.
ONE of the articles of the annexation
treaty with Hawaii, made public on
the 18th. provides for an annual pen
sion of SEQ. 900 to ex-Queen Liliuokalani
during her life and the payment of
the lump sum of $50, 900 to Princess
Kaiaulani, the deposed queens niece
and heiress presumptive to the Ha-
waiian throne.
The Chicago and California express
on the Santa Fe road, running at the
rate of fifty miles an hour, was
wrecked, on the 10th, a mile east of
Rutledge, Mo-, by spreading rails. The
chair, tourists, three sleeping and a
dining car were thrown from the track.
Several persons were injured, but none
killed.
bids women from publishing newspa-
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81 years of age.
IT is stated that Gen. Roeliff Brin-
kerhoff. of Mansfield, O., will succeed
the late Rutherford B. Hayes as presi-
dent of the National Prisoners Aid as
ISOLATION.
THE situation at Topeka, Kas., up to
the morning of the 18th, was that of an
armed truce, the populist governor hav-
ing been checkmated in his endeavor to
use the military force of the state to
fight political battle.
THE jury in the Mcdonald will case,
at Danville, Ind, after being out
all night, returned n verdict, on the
18th, for the plaintiffs, Malcolm Nc
Donald and other heirs of the late Sem
ator Joseph E. Mcdonald. The practi-
cal effect of the verdict is to declare
that the will fled for probate by Mrs.
Mcdonald is forgery.
THE United States revenue steamer
Hudson was launched from the ship
yard of John II. Dialogue & Son, Cam
used as boarding vessel in New York
harbor in place of the Manhattan. Her
bows are strengthened with two heavy
plates made to resist ice.
MARsEILLEs newspapers of the 18th
declare that there is not the least trace
of sickness bearing a suspicion of chol-
era in that city, and they protest against
the esta blishment of a quarantine in
foreign ports against vessels from Mar
settles.
THE Philadelphia common council,
on the 18th, by a vote of 20 to 2, passed
an ordinance prohibiting the employ
ment by contractors on municipal works
of other than American citizens
JUDGE GRESHAM will resign from the
bench in time to be present at Mr..
Inauguration.
On the 10th martial law was declared
off by the provisional government of
Hawaii. Every body was anxiously
news from the United States,
and the sentiment in favor of annexa-
ton was steadily growing.
L. NJ. DAMON. minister of finance in
the late Thurston cabinet. has been APP
pointed vice-president of the Hawaiian
provisional government by the execu-
tive and advisory councils. Mr.. Da-
mon is one of the commissioners now
in Washington.
THE United States steamer Mohican,
which sailed from Mare Island navy
yard January 90, arrived at Honolulu
on the 10th, but there was apparently
no need for any increase of naval force.
Gov. MCKINLEY of Ohio is said to be
ruined, every dollars worth
of property he owned being swept
away by the failure of Robert L.
Walker, a banker of Youngstown, O.,
whose paper Gov. Mckinley had in.
dorsed to the extent Of $50, 900.
Hon. E. BARKsDALE, ex-congressman
from Mississippi, died on his planta-
ton in Yazoo county, Miss, on the
18th. lie assisted in drafting the con-
federate constitution in 1861.