Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-05-11
As aresuls of the unmerciful hammer.

As result of the unmerciful hammer
ing it had received for few days in
Wall street the National Cordage Co.
(Cordage trust) was, on the evening OF
the 4th, forced into the hands of receiv-
ers and its president, James NJ. Water
bury. placed in a position where per-
sonal assignment seemed inevitable.
SIR FRANCIS JEUNE, president OF the
London court of probate, has declined
to interfere in the case of the dowager
duchess of Sutherland, imprisoned in
Holloway Jail on a charge of contempt
of court. whose application for, release
was made on the ground of ill-health.
A Twc-MAsTED schooner, supposed to
be the Brave, of Deer Isle, Me-. went
ashore near the Knobs life-saving ssta-
ton, Plum's island, on the 18th. Four
men. supposed to be all there were on
board. were drowned.
A REVOLUTION has broken out in
Nicaragua. Ex-President Savala. the
leader of the insurgent forces. has sue
ceeded in capturing the important city
of Granada, owing to treachery on the
part of the garrison.
THE case of the Ohio Wesleyan uni
versity hazers at Delaware, o., which
has attracted attention throughout the
country, has been settled and with
drawn from the courts.
ACTING SECRETARY HAMLIN has de-
cided that drawback duties must be
paid at the port of export, and at no
other.
EDWARD w. LECoMPTE, secretary OF
the state of Maryland, died at Cam
bridge, Md, on the 5th.
IN reply to Lord Hammer, one of the
British Behring sea arbitrators, on the
5th, Mr.. Coudert, of the American coun-
sci, prefaced his explanation of the
management of the seal islands with
an argument in which he contended
that the arbitrator could not make
any regulations as to Behring sea con-
ditional as to what should be done on
the islands owned by the United States.
The United States would not allow
anybody to interfere with the manage
ment of the property of the United
States.
CAPT. IDA BENNETT, of the Salvation
army, was murdered, on the 5th. by her
lover, Daniel w. Haskins, at Spokane,
Wash. He fired two shots into her
heart, and then turned his gun and
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less than three minutes after the quar-
rel started both lay on the floor of the
barracks dead.
SECRETARY HERBERT attended the
cabinet meeting on the 5th and ex.
pressed himself as much gratified at the
fine showing which the United States
navy made at the review. ''We did not
have any ship there to equal the Blake,
said he. ''but we soon shall have one
that will be just as good or better-the
New York.
Gov. OSBORNE of Wyoming has issued
a proclamation offering a reward OF
$3.50 for the apprehension of Charles E.
Gale, the defaulting city treasurer of
Laramie. This is in addition to $500
posted by the bondsmen. Gale handled
$50, 900 while in Office year, and was
short $4,000. Pictures and descriptions
have been scattered broadcast.
ANTONIO MARTINEZ, Antonio Jose
Barelas and Victoriano Aragon, muir
derers confined in the Los Lunas IN.
NJ Jail, We're taken out of their cells
by masked men, on the night of the
4th, and hanged to cottonwood tree
THREE typewriter girls at the Worlds
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on the 5th. They ate steak, some
stewed potatoes and had two cups OF
tea and one cup of coffee, and were re
turned a check for IS, which they
paid under protest and concluded te
postpone their next meal for few
days.
THE body of ). J. O'Brien, of Chicago
was found at the side of the Lake Shore
track at Goshen. Ind, on the 5th. The
death is a mysterious one. as there were
no marks of violence on the body.
ELLA MITCHELL, aged 1S, while stand
ing in the yard of her home in Rich
mond, Ind, on the 5th, was struck by
lightning and instantly killed, hole
being bored through the top of hel
head.
A LETTER from Chilli received in Sal
Francisco tells of the killing of Franl
Matthewson. an American railroad sur
veyor, by mob of Gillian half-breeds
near Conception.