Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-02-27

ball at San Tarem, Portugal, and in the
ensuing panic many lives were lost.
Forty dead bodies were recovered.
The grand lodge of Kansas has de-
cided to establish Masonic home in
that state. The location has not been
fixed.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND in denying
pardon, ON the goth, to F. NJ. o. Hol-
ston, convicted of forgery in pension
case, said he was decidedly in favor of
strict punishment sin a case like this
which involves the swindling of the
poor and needy veteran and prostitu-
ton of the benevolent intentions of
the government as embodied in its
pension law
An expedition b ound for the interior
of Labrador will leave Philadelphia, in
June. for the purpose of studying the
Esquimeaux and collecting specimens
of the fora and fauna of that region.
Prof. Frank Russell, curator of the
University of Iowa, will accompany
the expedition as archeologist.
On the Goth the president signed the
act to extend the mineral land laws
of the United States to lands en-
braced in the north half of the Col
vile Indian reservation.
THE secretary of the in terior, on the
Goth. approved school indemnity selec-
tions embracing 1878 acres of land
inuring to the state of Minnesota, sit
uated in the Marshal, ST. Cloud and
Duluth land districts.
DETAILS of the dynamite explosion at
Viedendorp, Transvaal, show that
thousands of persons have been rem
dered homeless by the terrible calamity
of the 10Th: 100 persons are believed to
have been killed, 200 men, women and
children severely wounded. and many
others have been more or less injured.
EUGENE FATE, a noted band-instru-
ment maker, living at Elkhart, Ind,
while intoxicated, on the 10Th, lay
down in his front yard and, his wife
covered until the morning of the Goth.
when he was found to be so badly
frozen that he will die.
A. LEEMAN, of Wilkesbarre, Pa.
claims to be the owner of Martin
Luther's wedding ring. Leeman says
the valuable relic came into the pos
session of the family 40 years ago. 1t
was purchased IN Europe.
ALBERT I. FOSTER. for five years tax
collector at Concord, n. H., was ar
rested, on the 21st. on two complaints
charging him with the embezzlenent
of $4,000 of the funds received by
him. He admitted his guilt, and said
he lost the money in a bucketshop in
Boston.
FAILURES throughout the United
States for the week ended On the 21st,
as reported by r. G. Dun & Co., were
$50, as against 3O2 for the correspond
ing week last year. For Canada the
failures were &c, againt 30 last year.
THE treasury gold reserve became
intact, ON the 21st, for the first time
since September last, standing at
S1O5. O92, SAB.
On the 21st the associated banks OF
New York city held S2s, scr ,O5O in ex-
cess of the requirement of the 25-per-
cent. rule.
IVAN koYLEY. Russian ex-convict
| who escaped from the penal settlement
| on Saghalien island three years ago,
was hanged at Folsom prison. Col, for
the murder of F. L. II. Weber and
Mrs. Weber, at Sacramento, Deem
| Der 30, 1894.
L
| which arrived on the Havel, on the
21st, will rest temporarily in a vault at
Newark. n. J., and will be finally in
tered when Mrs. Runyon and family
return from Europe.
i AT the close of an exciting meeting
in New York city, on the a1st, Balling-
| ton Booth was dismissed from the Sal
| vation army by Col. Nicols, Gen. Booths
representative from England, for in
subordination.
SENATOR SQUIRE will report from the
committee on coast defense his bill for
Notifications. 1t appropriates SS7.00O,-
OOO, the whole or any part to be imme-
diately available on order of the presi-
dent.
FOLLOWING Immediately the news of
the death of her son, Christopher c.
Waite, at Columbus, o., on the 21st, the
widow of the late Cnief-Justice Waite
| died at Washington, aged IS years.