Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-03-21
JUDGE L.. E. MCKIsICK, acting as


special counsel for the government, on
the 18th, fled his claim, involving S15,-
600. 900, in the case of the government
against Jane L. Stanford, executrix of
the last viii of the late Senator Stan
ford, to recover from the estate the
pro rata of taxes due the United States
from the Central Pacific Railway Co.
THE women of Orange, N. j., will is
sue, on April 1, an extra edition of the
Orange Chronicle for the benefit of the
Orange free library. Preparations for
this edition are being made on a very
extensive scale and it IL expected that
this sample of purely svomen's work
will be one of the mos. unique of its
kind.
THE failures in the United States,
for the week ended on the 18th, as re-
ported by Z. G. Dun & Co., were 266,
against 264 for the corresponding
week last year. For Canada the fail
ures numbered 81, against SIS last year.
ALoIs FoIDL killed himself on Logan
avenue, fashionable thoroughfare in
Denver, Col, on the 18th, by exploding
a dynamite cartridge about an inch
and half in diameter and four inches
long. The entire left side of his body
was blown into fragments.
QUEEN VICTORIA arrived at Nice,
Italy, on the 18th, and was received
with a great display of ceremony by
the mayor and other municipal author
tiles
THE Red Star line steamer Fries
land, Capt. Nichols, having on board
$50 American excursionists, arrived at
Smyrna on the 14th.
THE California senate, on the 18th,
defeated the woman suffrage bill,
which had already passed the assem-
bly,.
On the 18th the Nebraska senate
passed the Watkins bill, abolishing
capital punishment. which had already
passed the house.
SECRETARY GRESHAM, in spite of his
sickness sand the inclemency of the
weather, resumed duty at the state de-
partment on the 18th.
Ii HUNG CHANG, China's peace en-
voy, sailed from Shanghai, on the 18th,
for Japan, with his suite of forty per-
sons.
The Hygiene sanitarium at Kalama-
zoo, Mich, owned by stock company,
of which DIR. c. A. Fletcher is president
and chief owner, caught fire, on the
18th, from a defective flue, and was
completely destroyed. The fire depart
ment could got no water within thou
sand feet. The patients were all re-
moved. Loss, $4,000; insurance, about
$1,000.
SECRETARY HERBERT has finally de-
cided that he will recognize and con-
firm the nominations of naval cadets
received by him from outgoing men,
bers of congress under the special pro-
vision contained in the naval appro-
pria ton in those cases, numbering six
teen, which were handed into the de-
partment before noon on March 4 last.
The trial of Deputy Marshal Nc
Evan, arrested at Meridian, Miss, on a
charge of ''eXtortion in Office" came up
in the United States court on the 18th.
The prisoner pleaded guilty to the
charge and received sentence of six
months in the Lauderdale county Jail
and a fine of 500 and costs.
A SPECIAL train of 100 farmers and
all their belongings left Clyde, kas.,
on the 10th, for Edmonton, British Co.
1umbia, where all will settle. The
emigrants are French colonists, who
located IN Kansas many years ago. A
small colony left last year and all now
follow. Some are very wealthy.
The body of an unknown man was
found on Fourteen-Mile creek, IL miles
northwest of Tahlequah, l. T., recent
ly. Hogs were devouring it when dis
covered. Parties from there think the
body is that of Peddler Haggerty, who
is missing and is thought was muir
dered for his money.
THOMAS DARRAS. son of a wealthy
steamboat owner of st. Louis, died at
San Antonio, Tex, on the 18th, of con-
sumption. He was a very eccentric
man throughout life and spent about
81. 900 month over gaming tables.
JAMES LANCASTER brother of Stat
Senator Il. ID. Lancaster, committed
suicide at his home in st. Louis, on
the night of the 18th, by taking dose
of s'Rough on Rats" He died in terri
BILE agony, after suffering fully eight
hours.