Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-03-22
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

18th, by President Struckman of the
| board of Cook county commissioners
on the city of Chicago, to vacate the
city hall. The next move on the part
of the county will be an ejectment
suit. which the city will defend.
AT the expiration of the fortv-eight-
hours notice given by the Brazilian
government, active operations against
the rebels at Rio were begun at noon
of the 18th. Their fire was not re-
turned by the insurgent ships, and
when the government fleet entered the
harbor they found forts Villegaignon
and Cobras abandoned by their garri-
sons. The terms of capitulation Of
fered by Admiral da CANA were re-
jected, and unconditional surrender
was demanded by President Peixoto.
THE London Times after making
allowance for the difficulties which
Lord Rosebery had to encounter, says
1.-The general feeling is that his debut
as premier was distinctly disappoint-
ing"
IN the trial of suits instituted by
Chancellor Won Caprivi and Finance
Minister DIR. Miguel against the writ
ers Plack and Schweinhagen and Book
SELECT III DcEllu JI1c
18th, for having issued a pamphlet en-
titled ''Pharisees and Hypocrites,'' the
defense set up was that the charges
are true.
THE new antidote for laudanum
poisoning was successfully admins
tered in the Homeopathic hospital at
Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 14th, to a man
vino had swallowed five ounces of the
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upon whom all the ordinary means of
resuscitation had been used without
avail.
A NUMBER of participants in the late
revolt at Costa Rico have taken steam
er from Port Limon for New Orleans.
Twenty-three of the prisoners taken
were shot.
RICHARD PURYEAR, who murdered
Christian Ehlers, near Tannersville,
Pa, escaped from Jail at. Stroudsburg
on the 18th. He was pursued by citi-
zens, captured and hanged to a tree.
THE conflict of authority between
Gov. Waite of Colorado. and the board
of fire and police of Denver, supported
by the sheriff of Arapahoe county, cul-
minated, on the 18th, in the governor
calling out several companies of mi
litia to take forcible possession of
the city hall, in which the sheriff
with over 100 special deputies
and the city police were intrenched.
Both sides were obdurate, and blood
shed would have followed had not Gen.
McCook, with United States troops
from Fort Logan, appeared on the
scene as peacemaker.
On the 18th United States Ambassa-
dor Bayard had an interview of nearly
an hours duration with the earl of
Kimb e-ly, British secretary of state
for foreign affairs. 1t is understood
the interview had reference to the re-
cent interference on the part of Capt.
A. 6. Cuzon-Howe of the British war
ship Cleopatra in the matter of the
seizure of the Mosquito reservation in
Central America by the Nicaraguans-
THE weekly statement of the Bank
of France, issued on the 18th, showed
an increase of 1850, 900 francs gold and
decrease of 900, 900 francs silver.
For the first time in the history of
the United States a Japanese has ap-
piled for naturalization papers in Bos-
ton. His name is Shebato Saito, aged
90. He is graduate of the State school
Oh SOuIH duu Ike
academy in Maine, and also attended
the Georgetown university at Wash
ington. He married an American
woman. The case will be decided on
the 22d.
A MITE of baby is thriving in an
incubator in New York, and though
she weighed scant two pounds when
she was born on February "a. on the
18th she tipped the beam at five and
one-half pounds and was as fat as a
butter roll. So she promises to be a
credit to her mechanical foster moth
er, the incu bator. She is the daughter
of E. Clarence and Florence Ii. G.
Haight.
ELEVEN survivors of the company of
800 which left Pittsburgh, Pa, for Cali
fornia during the gold excitement of
1S49 met in that city, on the night of
the 18th, to celebrate the forty.fifth
anniversary of their departure. After
brief business meeting and the re-
election of the old officers 1.-The 49ers'
sat down to an elaborate banquet
FALSE teeth sold at one cent per set,
gold watches at $3.50 each, and seal
sacques at AZ cents apiece, at the sale
of unidentified property held by the
lost and found department of the
Worlds fair in Chicago on the 18th.
Other lost goods were sold at equally
low prices, and not over $500 was real
lied by the Exposition managers