Iron County register., 1894-03-29
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Senator Colquitt's bowels were par
alyzed, and his physicians reluctantly
admitted that his death was but maj
ter of hours The absent members CT
the senator's family were telegraphed
for.
PRINCESS MAUD, the youngest dAugh-
ter of the prince of Wales. and Prime
Minister Rosebery will shortly be mar
ried. An official announcement of the
engagement will be made within few
days. The princess is the prettiest and
most vivacious member of the royal
family. She is "a years old and is a
general favorite.
The residence of Eli Clark, 6 miles
south of Hartford City, Ind, was de-
stroyed by an explosion of natural gas,
on the 21st. and an infant child was SO
badly burned that it died. Six other
persons We're seriously burned.
DR.. a. j. HoUsER. of Indianapolis,
| Ind. who some weeks ago directed a
message to ex-Queen Liliuokalani ask
ing her royal highness to accompany
him on Il lecture tour through the
United States, claims to have informa-
tion Indirectly from the queen through
| a Washington friend that she has de-
cided to accept his offer.
Hon. ANDREW ID. WHITE is about to
retire from the Russian mission. The
mission will soon be raised to the rank
| of an bassy, and Levi Il. Letter. the
| Chicago millionaire, it is said, will be
made am bassador to the court Of st.
| Petersburg.
DURING quarrel over some pasture
| land at Lebanon, Ind, on the 21st, Sey-
mour Thompson drew revolver and
attempted to shoot his father-in-iaw,
Hartley Smith. but the latter was too
quick for him and Thompson received
a blow on the head which may prove
| fatal.
THE coronor's jury at Troy, n. Y, or
| the 21st, in the case of Robert Ross,
| who was killed at the riot at the polls
on election day, rendered a verdict that
the murder was committed by Barthol-
omew Shea.
On the 21st Sweet Perry, a negro boy,
aged 16, was found guilty at Guthrie,
Okla, of murder and sentenced to the
penitentiary for life for the stoning to
death of j. w. Cham blish, i cowboy,
about six months ago.
REV. THOMAS SPURGEoN was, on the
ia abernacle. No mention was made of
Rev. DIR. Arthur p. Pierson, the Amer
lean minister, who was a candidate for
the place.
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE NEWTON, of
Brooklyn, was, on the 22d, sentenced
to nine months imprisonment and to
pay a fine of $500 for completely in the
Gravesend election frauds. He then
withdrew his appeal IN the contempt
of court case and received an addi-
tional sentence of thirty days impris-
onment in Raymond-stree Jail and a
fine of $3.50 in that case.
SENIOR IDIAET BoRBET has been
elected president of Uruguay and will
assume the duties Of the office at once
He belongs to the official party and
was elected by n narrow majority.
FIVE members OF a wealthy Jewish
family residing in Smorgoni, Russian
Poland. We're murdered, on the 21st,
by peasants. whose motive was rob-
berry.
On the ed the Sc nate confirmed the
nomination of Marshal Ii. Williams to
be associate justice of the supreme
court of Arizona.
Mrs. SIDNEY SCHULZ, ofMuncie, Ind,
aged - years. while attending the
funeral of nei@hbcr, on the 23d, be-
came greatly grieved, was attacked
with a fit of coughing, and died in
few minutes.
Mrs. GEO. MC0MBER. of Chicago,
claims to have been guided by her
spirit mother to dependence, Mo-,
where she located her runaway hus-
band, who left her 4 year ago in COM
pany with Mrs. Il. ID. Brown.
COMMODORE KIRKLAND has been as
signed to succeed Admiral Benham
in command of the South Atlantic sta
tiOn.
An application made to Judge
O'Brien, OF New York, on the Esd, for
writ of habeas corpus for John Y.
Mckane, was denied.
TIE body of James Kingdom, the
fifth of the victims of the Gaylord mine
disaster at Plymouth, Pa, was taken
from the mine on che night of the ed