Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-11-29

AT Gas o'clock on the evening of the
21st several slight shocks of earth
quake We're felt at Tacoma, Wash.
The first shock was most severe, being
accompanied by rumbling noises as of
distant explosion and simultaneous
ly sheet of fame was observed in the
eastern heavens.
ALDERMAN CHARLES PARKS, of the
s'Tenderloin district" New York city,
convicted of keeping a gambling house
in the most fashionable part of AS
bury Park, n. j., was sentenced by
Judge Connover, on the ed, to pay a
fine of $500 and serve five months in
Jail.
THE trial in London of Sidney Ben
nett, the young American lawyer who,
in July last, fired revolver at Miss
Edith Andrews, a young lady of whom
he was enamored, ended, on the 22d,
in his acquittal, on the ground that
the shooting was accidental.
LAWYER j. P. HOWE, of st. Louis,
indicted for completely in the conspi-
racy against the Fidelity Mutual Life
association, arrived in Philadelphia,
on the 22d, and surrendered to the po-
lice.
EMPEROR NICHOLAS is suffering
greatly from insomnia, and is conse-
quently very much depressed in spir-
it's.
THE opinion was expressed in Wash
ington, on the ED, that the war be-
tween China and Japan will end with
the fall of Port Arthur, which point
is said by those acquainted with it tC
be superior even to Gibraltar in its
natural and artificial resources of de-
Tense.
CHARLES AND HENRY LATHROP, Otta.
wa Kas.) business men, who were out
for time on the morning of the 22d
struck the wrong house, kicking in the
door. Charley was shot dead and Henry
was seriously wounded. The coroner
gave the corpse to Undertaken Sessions,
which so enraged an opposition under
taker that he stabbed Sessions. Ses-
sions' wound is serious.
The United States Fish commission
has found it necessary to curtail the
generous and gratuitous distribution
of goldfish which has come, during the
past five years, to be large part OF the
institution. In the future goldfish will
be furnished only to state commissions,
to parks and for public use generally,
and viii not be given to private appli-
cantS.
WILLIAM 2. HAZEN, chief of the Sc
cret service of the treasury depart
Eaent, in his annual report shows that
during the year the total number of
arrests made was 637, nearly all of
which were for violations of the statutes
relating to counterfeiting United States
money.
TIE Chinese Pie-Yang squadron is
reported to have shelled the Japanese
troops marching on Port Arthur. y
desperate battle between the Chinese
and Japanese fleets is said to have fol-
lowed. The result OF the enga cement
is not known. other than that the Chi
nese battle ship Chen Yuen struck n
| torpedo and was beached.
MOsT of the English, French Rus
sian and Greek newspapers published
between November II and 10. and also
all the Berlin newspapers of November
IS, were stopped at the Turkish from
| tier and confiscated by the government,
as they contained references to the Ar
menian massacre.
Ds
| Geo. NJ. Dallas and Elbridge Gerry
| have been placed in the vice presi-
Dental inches in the senate gallery of
| the national capitol. The Aaron Burr
| statue has been placed in one of the
| gallery corridors preparatory to trans
| ferring it to it's permanent quarters in.
| side the senate chamber.
THE chief of the Chinese imperial
| customs at Tien-Tsin, De-Ting, who
was recently summoned to Pekin in or
| der to confer with the government as
| to means for raising money for the
war, has left for Japan in order to ar.
range terms of peace.
EVERY bell in Tiffin, o., at $50
o'clock on the night of the 22d, rang
out a knell, notifying all that Gen.
| William Gibson, the statesmen, soldier
and Christian citizen, had passed away.
Gen. Gibson had been ailing for some
time, but took to his bed only a few
days prior to his death. He was x
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