Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-01-04

BY ELI d. AXE.
IRONTON. MISSOURI
THE license of the Monmouth Park
Racing association at Trenton, n. j.,
has been revoked.
THE Nictheroy sailed, on the 25th,
from Pernambuco, Brazil, for the south.
Her destination was not KIN own to any
of her crew except her commander.
AT its meeting, on the Goth, the
Omaha (Neb.) Commercial club started
a movement for the circulation of a
petition to congress for penny postage.
TIE foreign ministers at Rio de jan
Giro met, on the Goth, and decided
against recommending that the in
surgents be accorded bclligerent rights.
WHEN the majority of the committee
on ways and means come together
again it is said that a decision will be
reached as to what kind of an income
tax will be agreed upon.
The New York s. Northern railroad
was sold at auction at Yonkers. n. Y,
on the 2sth, to J. Pierpont Morgan.
representing the New York Central
Railroad Co., for 81, OoO,O 600.
An expedition will soon start from
Cairo to the Soudan to iberate the
Austrian merchant, Herr Neufelder,
and Stating Bey, who have long been
held as slaves by the Mahdists.
JAMES NORRIS, commonly known as
James Rice, a former slave, died in
Lyons, n. Y, on the Gath, aged lei.
He was born on the Rice plantation in
Virginia, near Roanoke, on June Is,
1772.
THE Pennsylvania Railroad Co. will
go out of the year 1898 without any
floating debt, and with nothing but the
ordinary obligations growing out of its
traffic and current relations with other
companies
MAJ. FORBES, commanding the field
forces of the British South Africa Co.,
saws that the Matabeles have been COM
pletely subjugated, and that King Lo-
bengula has fled, and apparently has
no intention of returning.
COUNT WILLIAM BISMARCK, youngest
Son of Prince Bismarck, received a let
ter, on the 2Sth, in which the writer
threatened to blow up the counts house
with dynamite. Measures have been
taken to -rotect the house.
HUGO LoEwEY, the Berlin banker who
was recently convicted of fraudulent
bankruptcy, has been convicted of fur
Their swindling and sentenced to five
years penal servitude and six years
deprivation of his civil rights
REAR-ADMIRAL STANTON will leave
New London, Conn.,, on the Sd, to go
to Port.au-Prince, Hayti, where he will
meet the Kearsarge, upon which he
will hoist his flag and proceed to the
scene of the trouble in San Domingo.
WARREN LADD, one of the best
known citizens of New Bedford, Mass,
and father of ex-Gov. Ladd, of Rhode
Island, had the privilege of reading his
own obituary, to the extent of a col
umn, published, on the 2sth, by mis-
take.
To AVOID the payment of ten cents
fare, on the Goth, Bub Togue, a coal
miner of GAINESVILLE, O., swung around
the end of a Cincinnati & Muskingum
Valley passenger car, to hide from the
conductor. He was knocked off by a |
bridge and killed.
AFTER being out for twelve hours
the jury in the Annie Wagner murder |
trial at Indianapolis, Ind, brought in |
a verdict, on the 2Sth, of not guilty. |
The court room was crowded, and the |
of the verdict was re-
ceived with cheer after cheer.
THE Albanians have severed all COM
with Montenegro, and are
prepared to make an organized attack
upon the principality. Montenegro
has declared that she will hold Turkey
for any overt act made
against her by the Albanians.
THE MahommedanS have again been |
expelled from Uganda. Africa, and it is
thought their power in that country is
ended. 1t is predicted, however, that |
a war between the Christians and Ma
is probable, and that I'm
yoro will be the scene of the conflict.
A NUMBER of friends of Ravachol, the
French anarchist who was guillo-
tined some time ago for causing bomb
explosion in the restaurant of NJ. Very,
in the Boulevard Menga, intend to pub
lish, in the spring, a story of Rava-
chols career of crime as written by
himself.
WRITTEN threats to destroy various
public buildings in Paris and else-
where in France, continue to be made
by anarchists. The latest buildings
are the stations of the East
ern railway, and every precaution has
been taken to prevent the threats be-
ing put into execution.
By the aid of friends on the outside, |
and after shooting and severely wound
ing an officer, Chris Evans, the motor
ious train robber and outlaw, who |
killed SO many men before his cap
ture, broke Jail at Fresno, Cal. on the |
2Sth, and made good his escape. A |
number of armed posses were organ |