Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-01-11

ADvICEs from Apia. capital of Sa-
moa, via Auckland, n. H., show that
since the departure of the war ships
from the islands the natives have again
become restless, and further trouble is
feared.
AUTOGRAPH letters on the religious
situation have been exchanged by the
car and the pope. The disposition on
the part of both to re-establish a relig-
ious entente is apparently frmer than
ever.
SECRETARY HoKE SMITH has disbarred
Wesley Flanagan, CT jamestown, KY.
from practice as attorney before the
interior department for demanding an
Illegal pension fee.
The sultan of Turkey has conferred
the grand cross OF the imperial order
of the Medjidie upon Mr.. Maxim, the
inventor of the quick-fring gun bear
ing his name.
On the Isle of Wight the mercury,
on the 5th, registered Q dogs. above zero
(Fahrenheit), which is the lowest
point reached there in 100 years.
DIR. IRMER, the new German governor
of the Marshall islands, will sail for
his post at .Ialuit on February 20.
AT o'clock on the morning of the
5th three masked men bound and
gagged Village Marshal C. Says, of
Delavan, Wis. and then blew open the
post-office safe, taking 5000, mostly in
stamps. They then went to Hollister &
Callins' livery sta bic, ordered a double
rig. bound and gagged the stableman
and drove away. The rig was found
four miles from town.
ELDER REUBEN A: WEBSTER died at
his home in Brazil. Ind, on the night
of the 4th. When making preparations
for burial, on the 5th, large sums of
money and government bonds were
found on his person sewed up in sacks
-greenbaclSs and gold to the amount
of $4,000 and government bonds to the
extent of $4,000. The deceased's wealth
is estimated at $4,000.
THE special grand jury called to in
vestigate the assassination of Lawyer
Haiti, at Sullivan, Ind, returned an
indictment, on the 5th, against eX-
Sheriff Lem III. Willis for murder in
the first degree, finding that the assas-
sination was premeditated and with
malice. The date for the trial has not
been set.
EDWARD III. JONES was convicted at
Georgetown, o., on the 5th, of murder
in the first degree for killing his son.
Jones was previously convicted twice
at Batavia. A fourth trial, with an
other change of venue, will be sought.
on the ground of Prosecutor Griffith
addressing the jury while viewing the
scene of the murder at Olive Branch.
THE business failures in the United
States for the seven days ended on the
5th numbered sill, and in Canada ~,
against PSI and Il respectively for the
corresponding period last year.
THE hours of labor in the British
ordnance service are to be reduced to
forty-eight hours per week without
curtailment of stipend. The ,change
will first be made in the Woolwich
dock-yard.
THE newspapers of Berlin state that
the recent massacre of Catholics at
Krosche, Russia, by Cossacl1s, was due
to the express order of Gen. kakhanof,
governor of Vitra. The papers declare
that sixty persons were killed and 100
injured by the Cossaclks.
SECRETARY HEsTER'S weekly New Or
leans cotton exchange statement, is
sued before the close of business on
the sth. shows an excess in the move
men. of cotton into sight of As, 565, or
nearly p per cent. over the seven days
ending January >, 1898, and a deficit of
62,s5S, or 20 per cent, under the same
seven days of 1892.
ONE OF the Central Coal and Coke
Co.'S powder houses at shaft No 5, Weir
City, kas., was blown up, on the 5th,
and the powder man, James Turney,
was fatally burned. The house was
frame building and had about twenty
kegs of powder in it.
The Latin & Rand powder mill at
Rifton, n. Y. blew up. on the morning
of the 9th. and it was reported that
four men had been killed.
THE Central Relief association of
Chicago has issued an appeal to the
wage-workers of the city asking that
all contribute one days earnings Or
income to the relief of the city's des-
titute. s,+ g. ass