Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-05-02
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Mr. Robert r HITT, representative
in congress from Illinois, who had been
dangerously ill at his residence in
| Washington, was somewhat better, ON
the 22d, but not yet ont of danger.
PUBLICATION of Kate Fields Wash
ington. weekly paper established by
Miss Field in 1890. will be suspended
until winter, owing to nl-health of its
owner.
Ar 1 o'clock ON the morning of the
23d furniture wagon in which party
OF young amateur actors were return
ing to Providence, R. L. from the town
OF Pontiac, was run into and demol-
ished by an electric car, and five of the
party were injured, one of them, it was
thought. fatally.
THE Nicaraguan government was
advised, on the 23d, of the arrival of
three British war ships at Corinto to
enforce the British ultimatum. Presi-
dent Seelaya cabled to Lord Kimberly,
British secretary of state for foreign
Affairs, asking time. Much surprise
lean war vessel at Corinto.
JULIA Gross, aged 16, whose parents
intended to send her to the House of
the Good Shepherd, jumped from a
fourth-story window of her home in
New York. on the Esd, and killed her.
self.
CATHERINE SCOTT, the oldest woman
in Brooklyn, died, on the 23d, at the
advanced age of 103 years. She was
born in Ireland and came to Brooklyn
seventy years ago.
OSCAR WILDE's valuable collection
of prints, Moorish pottery and bric-a-
brac was sold at auction on the oath.
The articles sold included Carlisle's
writing table.
AT the London foreign Office it was
officially stated, on the oath, that the
three British war ships in the harbor
of Corinto, Nicaragua, were there for
the purpose of enforcing the demands
of Great Britain, set forth in the Brit
ish ultimatum.
RECIPROCITY between the United
States and Hawaii in shipping regu-
lations has recently been brought
about oy the action of the treasury
department in giving to Hawaiian
merchant vessels the same advantages
enjoyed by American ships.
PETITIONS for a rehearing of the in
come tax cases will be heard in the
United States supreme court on May 6,
when, it is thought, Associate Justice
Jackson will be present and break the
tie.
INSTEAD of few thousand dollars,
as at first supposed, the defalcation of
the late Paul Schultz, who was land
agent of the Northern Pacific railroad
at Tacoma, Wash, will amount to
v,l he b.
600, according to the report of the ex-
perts who are engaged in examining
the accounts of the deceased. This
shortage and disappointment in love
are believed to have led to his suicide.
SIX TONS of nitro-glycerine in the
factory of the Ohio and Indiana Tor
pedo Co. at Lima, O., exploded, on the
oath. doing considerable damage in the
neighborhood. No lives were lost
On the Gath the president made the
following appointments in the army:
Brig. Gen. Wesley Merritt, to be major
general; Col. S. E. Bliss, Twenty-fourth
infantry, to be brigadier-general; Col.
John j. Coppinger, Twenty-third in
fantry, to be brigadier-generaL
SECRETARY GRESHAM, on the cath, re-
ceived a dispatch from Mr.. Hannis
Taylor, United States minister at Mad
rid, assuring him that Spain would ac-
cede to the demands of the United
States in the Alliance affair, and that
the commander of the Condo Venadito
would be put on trial for his offense
for firing at an American vessel outside
the zone.
FIRE at Sylvania, O., on the cath,
destroyed seven buildings and at one
time threatened to sweep the whole
town. Toledo's fire department went
to the rescue and saved the town from
destruction.
Mrs. ANN NJ. STANLEY, wife of Gen.
d. s. Stanley, governor of the soldiers
home at Washington, d. c., died at
the Johns Hopkins hospital, Baltimore,
on the 23d, after long illness, in the
presence of her husband and daughter.
A. RESOLUTION, presented by Mr.. o.
Grady, was adopted by the New York
house of representatives, on the Gath,
favoring the annexation of the Domin-
ion of Canada to the United States and
inviting the Canadian people to cast in
their lot with US.
co factory. in Herlga. a suburb of
Montreal. the largest of its kind in
Canada. on the o5th, a large number
of girls employed therein were COM
peeled to jump for their lives from the
upper floors. None were killed out
right, but dozen received fatal
wounds, and many were less severely
injured. Loss, about $500. 900; no in
surance.
A DISPATCH from Vienna says that
the Russian government has expelled
Mime. Modjeska, the well-known ac-
tress, from Warsaw, owing to a violent
speech she made against Russia in Chi
cago. Mime. Modjeska has also been
notified that she may not again appear
on the Russian stage.
MRS. VIRGINIA MARSHALL Brown
has been granted a divorce from Archi-
bald Dixon Brown, at Louisville, Ky.
The defendant is Gov. John Young
Browns SON and secretary, and the
plaintiff is a member of one of the
most prominent families in the state.
WHILE trying to escape from pursu-
ing officers at Buckhannon, w. Va,
on the 25th, Everett Miller. green
goods man, jumped into the river and
was drowned. His partner, C. d. Lew
is, was arrested.
of the New York fire department, COM
mitted suicide in the Milholland club
rooms. New York city, on the 25th,
by shooting himselfi in the right temple
with revolver.
THE Nicaragua canal board met at
the war department, on the 25th, and