Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-03-16

BRYCE e. WHITE, assistant cashier of
the Wallabout bank, Brooklyn, was ar
rested, on the night of the 9th, on a
charge of embezzlement
On the 10th the governor of Califor-
MIA signed the bill prohibiting prize
fighting in that state.
Gov. MCGRAw of Washington has APP
pointed John b. Allen United States
senator.
WATSON S. PERRY. minister to Per-
STA, has informed the state department
that an exhibit of Persian goods has
been prepared for the Columb iar, expo
sition at Chicago, and part of it is now
en- route. The exhibit was prepared
under the direct authority of the shah.
A SPECIAL to the Duluth Mimi
News-Tribune, on the night of the
10th, said that the town of New st.
Louis was burning, and at the time Of
sending word several buildings had ale
ready been destroyed. New st. Louis
is a manufacturing town about 30 miles
from Duluth.
UNITED STATES TREASURER NEBE-
KER's resignation is in the hands of the
president, and he has received q note
from President Cleveland that he will
accept it at the first possible moment.
The new treasurer will be required to
give q bond of e3, 000, 900.
AT Centre. Ala< on the 10th. Sherman
Arp, colored. was hanged for the murder
of George Pogue, an old white man, two
years 1go. On the scaffold he confessed,
saying two white men had paid him to
commit the crime and threatened to kill
him if he failed.
A REPUBLICAN senator, who has taken
a prominent part in most of the discus
sions in the senate in recent years that
have touched upon foreign relations.
remarked, on the 10th, that he had re-
ceived an intimation that the president
was DESTROYS of modifying the Hawaiian
treaty, and that it would ultimately be
returned to the senate.
A RANCHMAN on the Laramie river in
Wyoming set four wolf traps in his
pasture on the 5th. Next morning the
traps were gone. and he and his sons
instituted search for them. On the
10th they came upon one of the con-
trivances in the hills. 1t was being
dragged by she wolf, and following
her were eleven whelps. The hunters
killed the entire herd and will get 500
in bounty money.
REV. DR.. ANDREW PEABODY. for thir-
ty-two years connected with the fac
ulty ,of Harvard college, died on the
10th, after several weeks illness, re-
sulting from a fall. DIR. Peabody was
probably more widely known and
loved by graduates of Harvard than
any other man connected with that in
stitution.
Gov. TURNEY of Tennessee is greatly
improved, and if the weather continues
favorable he will soon be at the capi-
tai. A gentleman called on the gov
ernor on the 10th. and informed him
of the report circulated that he was
dead. Mr.. Turney replied that he had
heard of the report, and added: 81
knew it was a lie as soon as heard it -
SEVERAL additional offers of gold for
small treasury notes were made to
Secretary Carlisle on the 10th. Cincin-
natl bankers offered 81, 600, 900, of which
5000, coo was accepted. Other offers in
small quantities came from bankers in
Kentucky, Illinois and Missouri Treas
urer Nebeker was much pleased with
the turn affairs have taken.
No MOVEMENT in the line of progress
and development in the south has re-
ceived such hearty cooperation and in
dorsement as Gov. Fishback's ARK
call for convention of southern gov
ernors to meet in Richmond, Va, April
~ next Every executive of the south
has responded.
SECRETARY GRESHAM had brief in
terview, on the 10th, with Messrs.
Thurston and Castle, of the Hawaiian
commission, at the state department.
The secretary told the commissioners
the treaty had been withdrawn for
consideration, and intimated that he
might desire some information from
the commissioners regarding the situa-
ton in Hawaii.
THE Baptist missionary conference at
Milwaukee ended on the 10th. The con-
ference was one of number arranged
by the Baptist missionary board. which
has undertaken to raise a special fund
of 81 ZOO. 600. which will be used princi-
pally to extend missionary work in tina
Congo region of Africa.