Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-02-08
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

ADMIRAL DA CANA, the brazilian in
surgent commander in the harbor of
Rio Janeiro now knows where he's at
He has been informed not only by Ad-
miral Benham, but by other foreign
commanders that inasmuch as belliger-
emit rights have not been conceded to
the Brazilian rebels, any act looking to
the hampering of commerce in the har-
Dor is piracy, and will be treated as
such in future.
The Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals in New York city
is moving in the matter of suppressing
the fad of the ladies in wearing So
called chamelons confined by chains as
breast pins, and shop-keepers dealing
in the reptiles have been notified to
cease their sale. The reptiles sold as
chamelons are nothing more than L
species of green lizard common along
the tributaries of the Mississippi delta.
THERE are seven hundred women
practising medicine in the Russian en-
pre- and Il new school of medicine for
women has just been started in ST.
Petersburg with four years course of
study. To the support of this school
the state contributes annually $4,000
roubles, and from one to three years
service in the hospitals for women and
children is expected of the students
before they present themselves for the
final examination.
THE car of Russia, who is supposed
to be SO relentless and wicked, is get
ting part of his punishment on earth.
He is down with the grip and can't
Danish it to Siberia.
FRED j. SKIFF, who was chief of the
department of mines and mining at the
Worlds fair. has been selected as the
permanent director-in-chief of the CO.
lum bian museum in Chicago at a salary
of $4,000 a year.
c. E. BULL. wealthy mining man,
was found dead in his room at hotel
in Grass Valley, Cal, on the 29th, hav-
ing been asphyxated with gas which he
had forgotten to turn off when retiring.
He had been there week examining
mining properties. He leaves n wife
at Tempe, Ariz.
AT Tiffin, O., on the night of the
Goth, young man named Sharp shot
and fatally wounded Miss Kittie Kless
and then killed himself. Sharp was in
love with Miss Kless, but she had re-
fused to accept his attentions because
of his bad habits.
CHARLES DREHER shot and killed Mrs.
Bertha Huneker and then attempted to
commit suicide by shooting himself in
the woman's apartments in st. Louis
on the evening of the Goth. 1t was a
case of misplaced love and jealousy.
EX-Gov. CAMPBELL, of Ohio, declares
that he is permanently out of politics.
He gives politics the credit for the
disastrous financial condition in which
he finds himself, all his speculative
| ventures having gone wrong.
Ex-Gov. THOMAS III. MOONLIGHT of
Kansas was nominated, on the Goth
| by the president as envoy eXtraordi-
nary and minister plenipotentiary to
| Bolivia.
THE university of Brussels was the
scene of riotOus demonstration on the
3Oth, growing out of the refusal of the
university authorities to allow NJ.
Jacques Ellie Reclus. the well-known
French geographer and anarchist, to
lecture within the walls OF the uni
versity.
| WILLIAM Boris was sentenced at
Toledo, O., on the goth, to imprison-
ment in the penitentiary for two years
longer than his natural life by Judge
Lemon. He was convicted of robbing
secondhand store, and life sentence
was added under the habitual criminal
| law.
TwENTY-FoUR of the rioting miners
| from Mansfield. Pa, were lodged in the
Allegheny county Jail on the 3Oth.
THE initial step looking to the con-
| version of the Ohio canals into electric
waterways was taken in the general
assembly on the Goth.
LIEUT.. LUCA IvANoFF and his broth
err Stajan were convicted, on the 3Oth,
of conspiring to murder Prince Ferdi-
i nand of Bulgaria. Luca was sen
fenced to fifteen years Imprisonment
and Stajan to three years.
THE Swedish bark Wilhelm, bound,
with coal, from Swansea for Alciente,
was wrecked on the coast of Cornwall
on the sOth. The captain of the bark
and five of her crew were dr. owned.
THERE is little proba bility that the
naval committee will report an appro-
priation for new ships at the present
session of congress.
PRINCESS MARIE LOUISE, wife of Fer
dinand. prince of Bulgaria, was ac-
couched of a son on the seth. The
prince and princess were married April
| 20, 1898.