Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-03-22
AFTER the shore batteries at Rio had

AFTER the shore batteries at Rio had
fired upon the insurgent ships for
thirty minutes, on the 18th, the latter
surrendered Internationally, Admiral
Da CANA having previously gone
aboard the Frenchman-of-war.
CHUNG MING SEE, treasurer of the
company of Chinese merchants which
owned and operated the Chinese thea
ter and village on the Worlds fair
grounds, is locked up in Chicago,
charged with embezzling nearly $50, 900
of the company's funds. He was arrest
ed by Chinese detective. Lem Dong,
who brought the alleged embezzler
back from China.
DISPATCHES received at Lisbon, on
the 18th. from Rio de Janeiro said that
Admiral Saldanha da CANA, with 500
of the insurgent sailors and marines,
was on board the Portuguese corvette
Mindello. 1t was added that the refu-
gees would be brought to Portugal by
the Mindello and by the Alfonso de
Albuquerque.
alarming everybody in Rio Janeiro.
The number of deaths amount to sixty
daily. All sorts of rumors are in circu-
lation. One of them is that the Aauida-
ban, one of the vessels seized by de
Mello when he sought to set up gov
eminent on his own account, has been
found abandoned in southern waters.
CAPT. FRANK BROwNELL, who shed
the first southern blood in the war on
Virginia soil, shooting and killing
Jackson who had the moment before
killed Col Ellsworth, after the latter
had torn down the confederate flag
from Jacllson's hotel in Alexandria,
died in Washington on the 18th.
On the 1ath the Bland seigniorage
silver coinage bill was passed by the
senate by Majority of thirteen, the
vote being: Ayes, A: nays, 81. The bill
was passed exactly as received from the
house.
ADvIcEs from Miller, IS. D., on the
18th were to the effect that the country
was being swept by a fearful prairie
fire, which had burned much timber,
two or three schoolhouses and farm
buildings in several places.
CHEvALIER MoLARoNI, for twenty
years an official in the department of
public works at Rome, died, on the
10th, from the effects of injuries re-
ceived on the occasion of the explosion
of a bomb in front of the chamber of
deputies on March s.
THE coroner's jury in the case of the
lynching of the negro Richard Pur-
year, at Stroudsburgh. Pa. returned n
verdict, on the 18th, finding that the
murderer came to his death by being
hung by parties not known to the jury.
THE Floyd brothers, on trial at Min
nearol;s, Mimi, were each sentenced,
on the 18th. to five years imprisonment
in the penitentiary for completely in
the Minneapolis bank ENLIGHTENMENT.
ERASMUS w. PAYNE. who claimed to
be the oldest odd fellow in the state
of Michigan. drop ed dead at his home
in Adairn on the 10th. He was SIS
years old.
BY the explosion of boiler in the
province of Yekaterinoslav, Russia.
on the 10th, fifteen men We're killed
and many others badly injured.
JOHN WEST. the leader of Il notorious
gang of burglars. was arrested in Sid
ney, O., on the 10th.
THE reichstag passed the Russo-Ger-
man commercial treaty on the 10th.
EARLY on the morning of the 10th
fire started in the stable of H. A.
fOlnpQeSIre, near the race track, South
of Leavenworth, Kas., and burned it to
the ground. Two valuable horses were
cremated. One of them, Altitude, was
a noted stallion with fast record. He
was recently purchased for $4,000.
There was an insurance of Sc, 900, which
nearly covers the loss.
A TRAMP, whose name is unknown,
was found hanging from a limb of a
tree by piece of barbed fencing wire
in the outskirts of Wabash, Ind, on
the 10th. He had evidently walked up
the trunk of a leaning tree, fastened
the wire to limb, adjusted the moose
around his neck and jumped off, his
death resulting from strangulation.
COMMODORE WILLIAM ID. WHITING, re-
tired. of the United States navy, was
reported. on the 10th, rs lying at the
point CT death at his home in New York
city. His illness resulted from an acct
dent which befell him several weeks
ago. Commodore Whiting is blind.