Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-04-12

4 FREE-FOR-AIL. Eight between about
thirty-fve tramr.S on one side and rail-
road trainmen, under the leadership of
Detective Graday. occurred as the west
bound mail train pulled out OF Leb-
anon, Ind, on the 4th. Two of the
tramps We're seriously hurt.
Ex-SHERIFF LEONARD TREssEL, re-
Gently convicted at Mansfield, O., of
embezzlement on the first of several
indictments found against him, was,
on the 4th, sentenced to trso years inn
prisonment in the penitensiary.
PAUL J. SoRG, of Middleton, was
nominated by the Third CO., district
democratic convention, on the 4th, as
its candidate for congress to succeed
the late George w. Houk.
THE pope had fainting fit, on the
Sd. which lasted half an hour, He
rallied, however, and showed no signs
of weakness thereafter.
THERE is a deficit of S125,000 in the
Kentucky state treasury.
BY the caviRgin of one of the shafts
of the koscheleu mine, near Breslau,
on the 5th, eleven men were killed and
large number injured The killed
were nearly all buried beneath the
falling earth and debris
IT leaked out, on the 5th, that the
Exchange national bank of Eldorado,
Kas, had been robbed some days be-
fore of SIS, roo. The robbery was kept
a secret in the hope of catching the
thieves
CARDINAL JOSEPH BENEDICT DU SMET
archbishop of Cantania, died on the
5th. He was born in 1918, and was
created cardinal in 1889.
THE execution of Prendergast, the
Chicago assassin, has been further
postponed until July 2.
TAFF's grain wharf at Woolwich.
England, was burned, on the 5th; loss,
$3.50, 600.
THE United States cruiser Lancaster
arrived at Suez on the 5th.
THE president, on the 9th, sent to the
senate the nomination of Lycurgus Il.
Woodward. of California, to be com
missioner in and Tor the district of
Alaska, to reside at Ounalaslla.
ABOUT 200 of the striking carpenters
at indianapolis, Ind. went to work,
on the 9th. at the union scale.
KING HUMBERT, accompanied by Sig.
Buselli, minister of commerce, in
dustry and agriculture, left Rome on
the 9Th, for Venice, to meet the Ger.
man emperor.
FRANK P. SLAvIS, the pugilist, has
been formally adjudged a bankrupt
by the London courts. His liabilities
are E100. and his assets nothing.
THE siXty-fourth annual conference
of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter
Day Saints convened in the Tabernacle
at salt Lake city on the 9th. The
prominent leaders of the church occu.
plying the stand were: MILFORD Wood,
ruff. George @. Cannon, Joseph +.
Smith. Lorenzo Snow and others.
IN a lecture in Chic ago, on the nigh
of the 9th, Theodore Westmarl1,
young Scandinavian who made two eX.
plora tions of the Congo state in Central
Africa under the auspices of King
Leopold H., of Belgium, accused Henry
NJ. Stanley of having lunched on hu.
man Aesh to satisfy a morbid curiosity.
WILLIAM II. WILSON. son of Chair.
man Wilson of the house ways anc
means committee, writes that his father
has progressed SO we'll that he is in bet.
ter condition than he was when he left
w
FRANK SARGENT, grand master of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen.
has consented to the use of his name
before the republican convention for
the nomination for congress from the
Eighth district of Indiana.
ATTORNEY-G ENERAL OLNEY has suS
tanned the recent opinion of Assistant
Acknowledgement Thomas of the post
Office department, holding that the
Toatine Savings Co., of Minneapolis, is
Il lottery concern. The first opinion
was rendered several months ago, and
an application for the opinion of the
Encouragement was at once fled by
the company.
The president, on the 9th, received
the bill to carry into effect the report
of the Behring sea arbitration commits
sion and Immediately affixed his sigma
ture to it. The bill has been forwarded
to the state department and a procla-
nation setting forth its provisions will
probably be issued forthwith.