Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-01-25

JENNIE LEGGIN, negreSS, stabbed
William Haywood, with whom she had
formerly lived, to the heart in st. Louis,
on the night of the 18th, because Hay
wood wouldn't give her fifty cents with
which to buy beer.
THE appraisenent of the Stanford
estate was filed in San Francisco on,
the 18th. The total valuation of San
Francisco property is s17.669,sis. 1t is
as follows: Stocks, S11, 3d. 1855; bonds.
So, Ss3, 100; house and effects, S113, 900;
notes and accounts, 1896, SOC: real es-
tate. SO. S9S.92 This does not include
the Palo Alto, Vina and Gridley prop
critics, which were decided to the uni
rersity.
BY a unanimous vote of the alder
men at a special meeting, on the nth,
the notorious ''muzzein'' or ''kouta-
kouta" dance, arranged to have been
performed by dancers from the Midway
plaisancc of the Worlds fair, was Off
cially declared immor&l AID banished
from Boston.
FARMERS in Porter county, Ind, are
feeding hundreds of bushels of wheat
to cattle and hogs. One farmer has fed
1,5O0 bushels, another 500 bushels.
cents per 6O-pound b1shel in the mar
kets. The farmers claim it is worth to
them 10 cents bushel to feed.
THE issue of Column bian stamps from
January 2, 1893. to December 81, the
period assigned to their distribution,
is the subject of a statement which has
been prepared by the post office de-
partment. The aggregate number is
sued to postmasters was 1899. 9S3, 200.
A DISASTROUS storm recently swept
over the Black sea. doing much damage
to shipping. A Greek steamship is
missing and ten sailing vessels are re-
ported wrecked at different places
The entire crews of two of them went
to the bottom with the vessels. The
number of lives lost and damage is not
known.
In battle with gang of thieves
who We're trying to rob the post Office
at Danville, Pa, on the morning of the
18th, Police Officer Vangilger was shot
and killed and two of the thieves
wounded. The latter escaped.
TIE Prussian budget was presented
to the landtag, on the 18th, by DIR.
MIGUEL, the finance minister. The
revenues are estimated at 1,S79, 449, 39l
marks, an increase of 43, 937, 131 marks
over the preceding fiscal year. The
deficit is estimated at 20, 200, 600 marks,
which is II. 400. 600 marks in excess of
the deficit of the preceding year.
THE United States cruiser Concord is
at Shanghai. The Baltimore, the flag
ship of the China station, is at Singa-
pore.
THE city of chihuahua, the capital
of the Mexican state of that name, was
reported, on the 10Th, to have been
captured by the rebel leader Santana
Perez
The returns issued by the Paris board
of trade, covering the year 1895, show
that imports decreased 251 $50, 600
francs as compared with those of the
preceding year. and that the exports
decreased 251, 116. GOO francs as COM
pared with those of 1892.
JUDGE BARRETT, of the New York
supreme court, has appointed Henry
Winthrop Gray receiver of the Thorn
son-Houston Electric Co. of New York.
The bond of the receiver has been fixed
at $4,000.
THE Howard plate glass works at Du-
quesne, Pa. employing over 500 men,
resumed in full on the 10Th. The plant
had been idle four months. Prospects
favor a steady run.
On the 10Th the French senate APP
proved, by Il vote of 1872 to 81, a meas
ure giving women in trade the right of
suffrage in elections for tribunals of
commerce.
GEORGE BARRETT PRESCOTT, the We'll
known electrician and author of works
on the telegraph and telephone. died in
New York, on the 18th. aged "a years.
SECRETARY CARLISLE has called for
the resignation of Mr.. Frank w. Pease.
chief of the computer's division, Office
of the supervising architect
WILLIAM CASTOR, ex-governor of
Massachusetts, died in Boston on the
18th.
THE spread of measles in New York
city is alarming, and the sanitary au-
thorities decided, on the 10Th, to adopt
stringent measures in the hope of
the contagion.