Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-10-24
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

A NEW coalition ministry has been
formed in Norway, which is composed
OF DR.. Hagerup. rightist, president:
Messrs- Gram. OLSEN and Nielsen.
rightists, members of the last minis
try; Messrs. Engelhart, Kildal, Sme-
dal and Stauglund, leftists, and
Messrs. Sverdrug and Haugland, mod
crates
MAJ.-GEN. C. B. KNOWLES was, on
the 18th. gazetted commander of the
British troops in Egypt.
The foundation stone of the new
Deeside palace, to be erected to take
the place of Mar lodge, Braemer. Aber-
deenshire. Scotland, the highland resi-
dence of the duke of Fife. which was
burned last June, was laid by the
queen on the 18th. The site is lew
miles from BalmoraL.
HACKETT LEAHY, 10 years of age,
while playing about planning mill
near Lilly, Pa, on the 18th, fell
against large circular saw, and was
cut diagonally from the left shoulder
to the right leg. Death was instan-
taneous.
THE board of pardons has refused to
take action in the case of Dodoussat.
the New Orleans councilman convicted
of receiving a bride, and he must go to
the penitentiary to serve his sentence,
as this was his last hope.
A BOILER of a steamship lying in the
harbor of Spezzia. exploded, on the
18th, killing four stol1ers and badly in
juring one of the engineers
AMBASSADOR RUNYoN received at
Berlin, on the 10th, from President
Cleveland valuable silver cup to be
presented to Capt Alfred Krech. COM
mander of the Hamburg-American line
steamer Suevia. in recognition of Capt.
Krech's act in saving the crew of
eight men of the American schooner
Mary E. Amsden on February 90 last.
ADvICEs from Constantinople, on the
10th. stated that most serious conse-
quences were feared from the general
situation growing out of the renewed
Armenian agitation and the resump-
ton of rioting. The Intervention of
the,powers to restore order and en-
force reform was minent.
PADEREwsKI, the pianist, sailed from
Liverpool for New York, on the 10th,
on board the steamer Teutonic.
MAURICE PERKINS. a well-known
newspaper man. formerly connected
with the New York Sun, while delir-
ious, on the 10th, leaped from third
story window of the city hospital in
indianapolis, Ind. and was fatally
hurt by the fall.
THE directors of the Baltimore &
Ohio railroad have again failed to de-
clare a dividend on the common stock
of the company.
THE celebrated Hezekiah B. Smith
will case, which involves an estate of
5000. 900. and which has been in four
different courts during the past eight
years, was concluded in the court of
chancery at Trenton, n. J., on the
10th, when the will was declared in
valid and the disowned widow, Ver
ona, and the two sons of the dead
Congressman were restored to their
rights.
N. A. CARLTON, of the government
department of agriculture, has been
sent to central Kansas to make expert
ments on prairie wheat-growing. He
will plant 1000 varieties of wheat, 100
of oats and many of corn, barley and
rye, with purpose of testing their re-
sistance to rust. Also he will attempt
to secure, by crossing, a variety of
wheat that will Withstand the prairie
winds and the long droughts-
Ex-CoNGREssMAN r. w. DUNHAM
was, on the 10th. awarded $500 dam
ages by Chicago jury against Maj.
Allyn for alienation of his wife's af-
fections- Durham had asked $50. 600,
but as two of the jurors were in favor
of verdict for Allyn on the first bal
lot $4,000 was agreed upon as COM
promise.
AFTER long conference with j. r.
Colean. the defaulting cashier of the
state bank of Fort Scott, Kas., on the
10th, Vice-President ]. J. Stewart made
the startling announcement that the
amount of his defalcation would proba-
bly, exceed $50, 600.
JAMES DIXON, one of the prisoners
locked up in the Jail at Buffalo, n. Y,
on account of the tragedy at Tona-
wanda, in which Capt. Phillips and his
son were murdered, hanged himself in
his cell on the 18th.
On the 10th an explosion occurred on
a steamship near ng-Chow-Foo. The
steamship was loaded with Chinese
troops. and it is reported that 600 of
them were killed.
A BUENos AYREs dispatch of the 10th
said it was reported that Brazil had
recognized the Cuban insurgents as
belligerents.
THE new steamer st. Paul arrived at
Southampton at Sis a m. on the 18th.
She experienced bad weather most of
the way. The machinery worked
smoothly. Daily runs: 1914, 3S2, 402,
41o, 439. 324, 800. to the Needles $40.
THE North German Lloyd Steamship
Co. is said to have ordered the con-
struction of two new steamers at
Govan, Scotland. which are to be
larger than the Lucania and Cam
pania-
Mr. ]. F. LAYcocK's steam yacht
Valhalla, with Lord Dunraven on
board, passed Prawle point, on the
nth. She left Newport, r. l., on Sep
TENDER IS.
MAYOR SPANNAMAN of Reading, Pa,
has been arrested at the suit of a
farmer residing in Lower Alsace town.
ship for trepass. Other warrants are
out
SARAH LEwMAN. spinster. aged 40.
died at Jacksonville, Ind, on the
nth. About $1,000 was found hidden
about the premises. Her estate is
large.
The next annual encampment of
the Union Veteran league will be held
in Washington city.
IT was announced in Madrid, on the
18th, that IL, 600 troops would star: for
Cuba on the ed.