Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-03-26

Cuba, in an interview published in
Madrid, is quoted as saying that the
difficulties he has encountered may
compel him to resign.
A MAN who is said to be Ira Terrell.
ex-member of the Oklahoma legisla-
ture, who murdered his opponent at
Guthrie three years ago, and escaped
from jail last fall, while under SEN
tence to hang, was arrested at Fort
Scott, Kas-, ION the 18th, while en-
route east with a woman believed to
be his wife. The man says that his
name is Wells and that he lives at Rich
Hill, Mo.
IT was reported in Athens, on the
10th, that King Alexander of Servia
had been betrothed to Princess Marie
of Greece.
ROBBERS blew open the safe of Whit
lock & Fields private bank at Ladora.
Ia. at 2 a. M, on the 10th, and secured
81 600 in cash and notes.
Two OFFICERS were shot and train
robber, named Daniel McCole, was
killed during an attempt to hold up
the south-bound New Orleans express
near Tulare, CAL, on the morning OF
the 10th. The attempted robbery
might have succeeded if it had not
been for the perfidy of one of the rob-
bers.
EX-CoNsUL WALLER, who has been
liberated from the French prison, will
sail for New York on April 4. He will
appear before a congressional COM
mittee, which will investigate the evil
dence whereby the state department
came to the conclusion that Waller had
no case and accepted his discharge,
with no claims for damages against
the French government.
SENATOR CHANDLER, on the 10th, gave
notice of his intention to offer an
amendment to the resolutions for the
election of senators by direct vote of
the people, SO as to include the presi-
dent, vice-president, justices of the
federal courts, postmasters and collec-
tors of internal revenue.
A DISPATCH from Massowah to the
Rome Tribuna says: Prisoners who
have escaped from the Abyssinian
camp declare that the prisoners there
are ill-treated and badly fed. and that
numbers of them have been garroted.
THE gross receipts at the 80 largest
post offices in the country in February
Increased S344, tag. The total receipts
| were So, 722, 1877, against S2,377, AS for
February, 1898.
Gov. THORNTON of New Mexico and
Col. Gildersleeve, of that territory, on
the Goth, addressed the house commit
tee on territories in opposition to the
amendment offered by Senator Brice to
the statehood bill. regarding the issue
of bonds Col. Hale, of New York
city, appeared in support Of the amend
ment.
THE war ship Cordova reached Colon
Oh the Goth. Her arrival caused great
rejoicing among Colombians. The Cor
dova was formerly the American steam
err Neptune. She was recently pur-
| chased by the Colombian government
| and refitted at Perth Amboy for use as
| a war vessel
FIVE men were burned, two of them
| fatally, on the Goth, in foundry at
| Ashland and Archer avenue, Chicago.
The cupola in the converting shed fell
from it's supports, hurting the molten
metal on every side. The men who
were injured were working near by
and could not escape.
| THOMAS A. EDISON has discovered, in
| connection with his Y ray experiments,
a substance SO sensitive to the rays
that by using plates coated with it he
can see through the human hand at a
| distance of Is feet. The substance is
tungstate of calcium.
FAILURES throughout the United
| States during the week ended the Goth.
as reported by r. G. Dun & Co., were
281, against 27s for the corresponding
week last year. For Canada the fail.
ures were AZ, against 35 last year.
ALEXANDER MCLACHLAN.w who was one
| of the best known of Canadian poets,
and who has been called 1.-The Burns OF
Canada" died at his residence in
| Orangeville, Ont, on the Goth, at an
| advanced age.
THE Central Methodist Episcopal
conference at Williamsport, Pa, on the
Goth, by a vote of 152 to SO, voted to adj
NIT women as lay delegates to the gem
eral conference