Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-02-08

gruu County gegister
By ELL d. AXE.
A LATE dispatch from Buenos Avres
said the Brazilian insurgents were pre-
pairing to make a vigorous attack upon
Santos.
1T was reported in Buenos Ayres, on
the 1st, that the town of Nictheroy,
on Rio Janeiro bay, had surrendered to
the insurgents
The custom committee of the French
chamber of deputies has decided to in
crease the corn tax to eight francs
with a sliding scale,
A CONSCIENCE contribution of IS:
from an unnamed man in Delaware
county. O.. has been received at the
treasury department..
THERE We're "a. $40 paid admissions tt
the Mid-Winter fair at San Francisco
on the 27th, the opening day, and $50,
2z0 was taken in at the gates.
THE appellate court at Chicago ha:
reversed the decision of Judge Stein
rendered last summer, finding the
Worlds Fair directors guilty of con
tempt.
A DISPATCH received at the French
ministry of marine from Gen. Dodds
the French commander i'll Dahomey
said that King Behanzin had surren
<lered and would be sent to Senegal.
WAYNE MCVEAGH, recently ap
pointed ambassador to Italy, sailed
from New York. on the 31st, on the
American liner Paris for Southampton.
He was accompanied by his wife and
daughter.
ALL of the furniture factories in
Grand Rapids, Mich, are now running
on either full or part time, having or.
fers enough to keep them busy until
July, when the next semi-annual FUR
niture sale opens
On the Goth 'sMr. and Mrs. \. III. Rub
man, of Boston" were elected from the
Imperial hotel, New York city, as soon
as their identity as leila Nicolaus and
Gal" Ruhman. her guardian" came to
the knowledge OF the managers OF the
house.
THE senate committee on territories
having under consideration the bill adj
hitting Arizona as state of the Union
gave a hearing, on the I'd, to delega-
ton in behalf of the bill, headed by
Wiley E. Jones, district attorney OF
Graham county, Ariz.
Hon. WILLIAM POTTER, American
minister to Italy, and Mrs. Potter,
were present at the state ball given by
King Humbert and his queen at the
quirinal on the night Of the 30th. Mrs.
Potter was one of those who danced in
the cuadrille d'honneur.
THE United States grand jury at San
Francisco has been engaged for the
past month investigating the immense
customhouse frauds in connection with
the importation of Sumatra tobacco by
Liebes Bros. and D. NJ. Cashin, former
THE official statement of the govern
ment receipts and expenditures, issued
on the 31st, shows in round figures that
the expenditures for the seven months
of the current year exceeded the fiscal
receipts by s46,UOO,Oo0, the figures
standing: Receipts, s175,0o0.OO0; ex-
penditures, 1921 ZOO, 900.
A DISPATCH from Pernambuco, Bra
zil, on the 29th, announced the arrival
there of President Peixoto's five tor
pedo boats. which were recently pur.
chased in Europe for the Brazilian gov
ernment- These boats are said to have
suffered no damage during their long
trip across the Atlantic.
JUDGE WIN. Il. HORNBLowER, who
was recently rejected by the senate as
a candidate for the vacancy. on the
United States supreme bench, was
married in New York, on the 31st, to
Mrs Emily S. Nelson, the widow OF
Lieut.. Col. a. d. Nelson, and a sister OF
Mr.. Hornbiower's deceased wife.
SECRETARY HERBERr sent cable
message to Admiral Benham, on the
ISL. te1llng OF tue receipt Oh MluiSIei
Thompson's report and indorsing, in
the name of this government. the adj
mirals action in protecting American
interests, and informing him that the
future is intrusted to his discretion.
BURGLARS forced an entrance into
the American legation at Rome, on the
night of the 2sth, by breaking the
locks. They broke open the safe and
desks of the minister and consul-gen
eral, and then set fire to all the papers
in the office. A number of the ar
chives were completely destroyed ant
others were partially burned.
Hon. SAM PARKER, who was premier
of Hawaii under the deposed queen
Just prior to sailing from San Francisco
for the islands, on the 31st, gave on
an open letter purporting to give thu
royalist version of the revolution, il
which he claims that Hawaii, unde
the deposed queen, had better govern
ment than any other country on earth
GEO. w. CHILDs, publisher of the Phil
adelphia Public Ledger, whose world
wide philanthropy was his most dis