Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-06-04

The sevynth national convention OF
the prohibition party met In Pitts
burgh, Pa, on the 27th.
A SON was born to Count William
Bismarck, youngest son of Prince Bis
marck, and his wife on the Goth.
Prince Bismarck has four grand
daughters. but the child just born is
his first grandson.
CARL BAILEY HURST, United States
consul at Prague, informed the state
department, on the Goth, that an inter-
national pharmaceutical exhibition
will be held in Prague from August
Is to September Is next, and that the
attendance of persons in the United
States interested is desired.
HARRY RITrENHoUsE, IL years old,
committed suicide at Barberton, N. j.,
on the 2sth. His parents wanted him
to go to school. The boy refused to
go and hanged himself in the barn.
A NEW edict issued by Capt.-Gen.
Weyler suspends for one year all ju-
dicial proceedings against planters
with regard to their property. and
their creditors will not now be able to
secure payment of interest or be
permitted to sue in the Cuban courts
or to institute foreclosure proceedings
upon any mortgage they may hold.
AS many Cuban plantations are mort
gagged to American creditors, Secre-
tary of State Olney is expected to en-.
ter very forcible protest with the
Madrid government against the exc
cution of the decree.
WHILE Madison Square garden, New
York city, was filed, on the night of
the eth, with soldiers and other per-
sons interested in the Cuban-Ameri-
can fair, volley of stones thrown
against the side of the building shat
tered four windows. The attack was
made when the crowd was greatest by
four well-dressed Spaniards, who fled
and made their escape in a trolley car
when the Cuban guard, in uniform
and armed with machetes, rushed out
to capture them.
LAFAYETTE PARK, the pride of all
st. Louisans and gem of rustic
beauty, was reduced by the great
storm of the 27th to the condition of
a tangled jungle. Not tree or build
ing was left within the entire incios-
ure, while the beautiful residence
neighborhood surrounding it was
equally a mark for the furies of the
upper deep.
AT st. Joseph, Mo-, on the 2sth, the
temperature dropped 30 degrees in an
hour. About five o'clock low clouds
appeared from the north and east, and
the temperature fell fast. BY evening
people were shivering. There was no
precipitation. Considerab BILE wind ac-
companied the appearance of the
storm.
The only positive action taken by
the republican senatorial caucus, on
the Goth, was a vote by which it was
decided that the bill to refund the
debts of the bond-aided Pacific rail-
roads should be postponed until the
next session. 1t was the unanimous
opinion that adjournment would come
not later than June S, and possibly
earlier.
No LESS than sixteen houses of wor.
ship in the immediate neighborhood
of what was Lafayette park in st.
Louis, some of them costly and mag
nifcent edifces, were either demol-
ished or badly wrecked by the great
cyclone. 1t is estimated that more
than quarter of a million dollars will
be required to restore these churches
alone.
On the Goth, Judge Helm, of New
port, KY, overruled the motion for
new trial for Scott jackson, con-
victed of the murder of Pearl Bryan,
and sentenced to be hanged June 30.
Subsequently the court granted a mo-
ton for a stay of execution for 60 days
to enable the defendant to take the
case before the court of appeals.
PLANS are maturing in ST. Louis by
which, it is hoped, loans may be made
to persons who have lost their homes,
the result of years of savings. These
loans, without interest for period Of
years, would enable such at once to
rebuild their dwellings.
THE treasury gold reserve at the
close of business on the Goth, stood at
SlO7, 4O3, 434. The Withdrawals for the
day were 1919. 700 in gold, and there
was deposited in gold by banks in az
change for currency 100000