Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-01-31
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


by the supreme court of the United
States. on the a1st. is one determining
the century old question:: Are juries
judges of the law as we'll as of facts in
criminal cases?" 1t was decided in the
negative with two dissenting opinions,
by Justices Gray and Shiras.
THE supreme court of the United
States, on the 21st, decided the case of
the United States VS.. The E. C. Knight
Company ct al, denying the constitu-
tionality and validity of the Sherman
antitrust law of 1890. as affecting the
transfer of the stock, etc, of several
refining companies to the Sugar trust.
MORE excitement than the depart
ment has had in years was created
among the rank and file of the New
York police department, on the 21st,
when it became known that a great
number of indictments, probably fifty
two, had been found by the oyer and
terminer grand jury.
AFTER one of the most bitter fights
ever waged for the United States sem
ate in Kansas, Lucien Baker, state
senator for Leavenworth county, re-
ceived the caucus nomination, on the
night of the 21st, on the ninth ballot.
THE Volksblatt, an anti-Semite
journal circulating in Mannheim,
Heidelberg and Frankfort, has been
confiscated by the authorities, owing
to its having published an article en-
titled ''Ode to ADAM" which was re-
garded as a parody on Emperor Will
liam's ''Song to Ageir.'
THE trolley-car mems strike in
Brooklyn assumed serious aspect, on
the 21st. and there were numerous col
lisions between the mobs and police
and with the military, the latter, after
much provocation, firing on their as
sailants. The known casualties for
the day numbered twenty, besides sew
eral wounded rioters who were spirited
away by friends.
AFTER lingering between life and
death for four weeks, Lizzie Morton.
the second victim of the shanty boat
tragedy of Christmas day, in St Louis,
for which Noble Shepard is in Jail, died
on the night of the 21st. She carries
with her to the grave the story of the
double murder, which will probably
never be known unless Shepard tills it.
In the Nebraska house. on the 21st,
resolutions were unanimously adopted
denouncing the murder of Barrett
Scott as dastardly and unwarranted,
and calling upon the governor to i'm
mediately offer a reward for the arrest
of his murderers.
Hon. GEORGE A. BINGHAM. ex-justice
of the supreme court of New Hamp-
shire, died at his home in Littleton on
the ED. Judge Bingham was born in
Concord. VT. April a5, 1926.
REPORTS received at the state depsrt-
ment in Washington up to the 21st
place the Japanese in position be-
fortress of Wei-Hai-Wei on the east.
made by land and sea upon the latter
place, just as at Port Arthur.
On the 21st Judge A. J. Kicks, of
Cleveland, O., accompanied by his coun-
sci, arrived in Washington to appear
before the judiciary committee of the
house of representatives to answer the
charges preferred against him by the
Central Labor union of Cleveland.
SENATOR OWENS has introduced bill
in the New York legislature the pur-
pose of which is to correct a complaint
by the striking railway operatives of
Brooklyn. 1t provides that days
labor of ten hours shall begin the mo-
ment an employee reports for duty and
be continuous, except for an interval
for a meal.
A. r. HAY died at his home in Bur
lington, Ia, on the ed, aged 60. He
was the inventor of the celebrated
Hay steel, and built the first all-steel
bridge i'm the world across the Missouri
river at Glasgow, Mo. He was the
builder of the best and newest suspen-
sion bridge at and across the Niagara
river. Immediately below the falls. and
thousands of miles of his steel II In ON
various railroads.