Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-03-30
BY ELI ID. AXE.

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BY ELL ID. AXE.
Ex-UNTTED STATES SENATOR ELI
SALISBURY died at Wilmington. Del,
on the ed. He had been unconscious
for many hours.
A BILL granting to women the priv
ilege of voting at all state, county and
municipal elections passed the Mime
sofa senate on the 21st-
The university of Cambridge. En-
gland. has conferred the degree of doc
tor of science on Prof Rudolph vir-
chow, the celebrated pathologist and
anthropologist
CHAs. THOMAS. the engineer who
pulled the first train over the Niagara
Falls division of the New York Cen
trail road, died at Rochester, N. Y, on
the Esd. aged SO years
POPE LEO gave a ceremonial audi
ence, on the Esd, to the princess of
Wales, her daughters, Princesses Vic
toria and Maud, and her son, Prince
George, the duke of York
THE Blaine family will leave Wash
ington early in May and go abroad for
q years residence. The Bar Harbor
place will be leased, and the Washing
ton mansion will probably be sold.
IT is said that the jury convicted
Charles de Lesseps by bare legal ma
jority of two. and suspicion is growing
that the government is concealing the
real list of Panama canal offenders.
The Princess Kaiulani. her guard
fans, Mr.. and Mrs. Davies, their daugh-
ter and Miss Whatopp, were passen-
gers on the steamer Majestic, which
sailed from New York on the 22d, for
Europe.
The two Columbus caravels, the Pinta
and Nina, have arrived at Havana under
the escort of the two United States war
ships Newark and Bennington, on the
way to take part in the great Columbus
naval review at New York.
Mrs. PICKETT, widow of the confed
crate general, and Mrs Custer, widow
of the great cavalry leader, were given
a reception by the Southern society of
New York city, on the evening of the
oath, at the society's club rooms
THE bureau of statistics reports that
during the month of February last, the
balance of trade against the United
Tod 10 nm mn For
the twelve months ended on February
% the balance of trade against us was
So, 600, 900.
THE portraits of the secretaries of
state, which form a part of the furnish
ings of the diplomatic parlor in the de-
partment of state, are being packed for
shipment to Chicago as a part of the
exhibit of the department at the
Worlds fair.
ANDREW MOSES. Strickling. Tex,
Norton r. Darrough, Watseka, Ill;
Charles Dostin, Marion, Kas.; Henry
Abbott, Hillsboro, Ill, and William D.
Connor, Clinton, Ia, were among re-
cent appointments to- the West Point
military academy.
WILLIAM BRoraERHEAD, of Philadel-
phia, aged SO years. an author of some
note, the holder of the largest and most
valuable collection of autographs, en-
cravings and prints in America, and
also of a circulating library OF $4,000
volumes, died on the ED.
UNITED STATES SENATOR MORGAN, one
of the arbitrators on the part of the
United States in the BeEring sea mat
ter, who had been i'll in Southampton for
some time, having recovered, proceeded
to Paris, on the 21st, to take part in the
deliberations OF the court of arbitra
ton.
PASSENGERS and trainmen on the
Valley train. which arrived at New Or
leans, on the oath, say that the tor
nado played havoc at Tunica, Miss,
but the damage was confined princi-
pally to that town, So far as those on
the train were able to learn, and no
lives were lost
THE business failures occurring
throughout the country during the
seven days ended on the Gath, number,
for the United States GIT, and for Can
ada, 26: or a total of 243, as compared
with total of 900 the previous week
For the corresponding week of last
year the figures were 200.
Pope LEO has informed the French
government of his decision to crown
his episcopal jubilee by the beatitica-
ton of the French heroine. Joan de
Arc, who was burned by the English
rs a sorceress and hereto, May 80,
1881, and was formally pronounced to
have been innocent in 1456.
CHARLES DE LEssEPs, accused of cor
rupting the minister of public works,
NJ. Baihut, to support the Panama lot.
terry bonds bill, was, on the 21st, found
guilty. Baihut, who confessed his guilt
in open court, and Blondin, who acted
as go-between in the bribery of Baihut.
were also found guilty. All the other
prisoners were acquitted.
Col. ELLIOTT F. SHEPARD. editor and
proprietor of the New York Mail
and Express, for many years prac-
ticing lawyer of New York city.
an active agent in organizing and
eauiping troops for the Union army,
and the founder of the New York Bar
association, died suddenly at his home
in New York, on the cath, from the eff
fects OF ether administered by his ply
sicians preparatory to performing an
operation for gravel.
THE Prussian government having is
.a ~, <,v,3ar obihitiup Russian and