Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-04-26

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BY ELI D. AXE.
IRONTON. MISSOURI
The betrothal of Grand Duke Nicho-
las, czarowitz of Russia, to Princess
Alix of Hesse, youngest sister of Grand
Duke Louis, was announced on the
20th.
IN the British house of lords, on the
18th, the amendment to the Behring
sea bill submitted by Lord Kimberly
was accepted, and the bill, as amend
ed, passed its third and final reading.
Mrs. JEFF GULLET, the wife of a
prominent farmer of Magoffin county,
KY, has been arrested and placed in
jail at Salyrsville, charged with hav-
ing strangled to death her 1l-year-old
stepson.
IT is stated that Mrs. Nellie Grant
Sartoris, has finally decided to make
Washington her permanent home.
She enjoys an income from the prop
erty left her by her father-in-law OF
$4,000 yearly.
CONGRESSMAN ]. B. BROWN, of In
diana, who has been suffering for some
months from a cancerous growth on
the lower lip, is greatly Frustrated,
and his condition is regarded as ex-
ceedingly serious
CENTRAL and southern Kansas and
the Cherokee strip were visited by
damaging hail-storm, followed by
heavy rains, on the night of the nth.
doing much damage to growing crops
and other property.
The supreme court of the state of
South Carolina has declared the dis
pensary law unconstitutional Chief
Justice McIver delivered the opinion,
on the 18th, Justice MCGOWAN assent
ing. Justice Pope dissents-
REAR-ADMIRAL A. E. X. BENHAM. re-
tired, arrived at New York, on the
18th, on the Red ''D'' steamer Phila-
delphia, from Curacao, West Indies.
where he left the United States steam
ship San Francisco on April s.
REPRESENTATIVE JERRY SIMPSON,
who has suffered with kidney trouble
and rheumatism for weeks past, is not
making much progress toward recov-
cry. His physician does not. however,
think the result will be fatal.
On the 10th the son of President
Rodriguez of Costa RIGA, who was a
student in the polytechnic institute at
Carlsruhe, Germany, sta bbed a fellow
student named Mather in the breast
with a poniard, infiicting a mortal
wound.
THERE is the best authority for the
statement that the negotiations be-
tween the managers of the transatlan-
tic steamship lines looking to the estab-
lishment of a uniform rate of passage
have been broken off, and will not be
revived.
THE testimony in the Maney-Hed-
berg murder case, on trial in Chicago,
was all in on the 10Th, and the adj
dresses of counsel to the jury began on
the Goth. In his testimony Lieut. Nancy
claimed that he shot Capt. Hedberg in
self-defense.
THE imports of dry goods at the port
of New York for the week ended on
the Goth were s1.5O3. $50, and the
amount marketed, 81, 554, 264. For the
corresponding week in 1898. the inn
ports were 50, 5s6, 1898, and the amount
marketed 81, 534, $40.
WITH the assent of the king of Italy
I'd ha Of cf,rso
William asked the car to convoke a
congress of the powers with view to
a general reduction of their military
footing; but the GEAR refused to par
ticipate in any movement of the kind.
LIEUT.. CON- RAFAEL GARCIA MAN
zILLA. naval attache and acting secre-
tary of the Argentine legation, who
was thrown from his horse and fatally
injured, dying on the 18th, was buried
from st. Matthew's church, Washing
ton, with military honors on the Goth.
On the 18th the lower house of the
Hungarian diet voted to accept the
civil marriage bill without further
discussion. Great enthusiasm pre-
vailed when the decision was an
nounced, which assured the passing of
the measure practically as it was intro
duced.
OFFICIAL notification has been re-
ceived at the agricultural department
in Washington of a meeting of the
Friends of Trees to be held in Paris
next month to organize for a warfare
against deforestation and for the pro-
motion of individual effort toward
planting and propagating trees
THE annual convention of the Amer
lean Meteorological society was opened
at the Columbian university, Washing
ton, on the Goth. Papers were read by
prominent scientists from all parts OF
the country, and especial attention was
paid to the work accomplished by the
United States weather bureau during
the past year.
UPON conclusion of the evidence in
the disbarment proceedings against
Cyrus Huling at Columbus, o., on the
Goth, the prosecution moved to dismiss
the case as the evidence had not con.
nected the accused with the alleged
jury fixing. This the court did, en-
tirely exonerating MIR. Huling in q
formal decision.
OFFICIAL figures obtained at the
treasury, on the 10th, show that fol
the nine months and a half of the
,,rasanA fiscal wear expenditures have