Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-04-23
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,

MARQUIS DI RUDINI, Italian prime
minister, has appraised the vatican that
the exequaturs hitherto accorded to
Italian bishops will be withheld unless
the pope permits Catholics to take part
in public elections.
THE house committee on interstate
and foreign commerce decided to post
pone indefinitely the consideration of
the bill proposing reduction of Pull
man palace car rates.
The senate committee on agricul-
ture, on the 14th, authorized Senator
Warren to make favorable report up
on the animal industry bill
THERE is probability that Gen. O.
o. Howard may be named as member
of the board of managers of soldiers
homes. to succeed Gen. Franklin.
EXPERIMENTS at London do not YER
ify the claims of Chicago doctors that
the tx" rays are destructive of the
baccili of contagious disease.
THE Potts Bros. Iron Co. posted no.
tees in its mills at Pottstown, Pa, on
the 14th, that the wages of its pud-
dlers will be increased, May I, from
2.25 to se.75 per ton. About one hun
dred and fifty men will be benefited
by the change.
w. B. PETERS and John Voney, both
engravers, were arrested by federal
officers in Chicago, on the 18th, on a
charge of making and selling counter
felt postage stamps.
An explosion took place in collie ry
at Wilmington, near Durham, England.
on the 14th. Eight miners are known
to have been killed, and it is believed
that is in all will lose their lives.
THE executive committee of the Ma
tional Association of Democratic clubs
convened at Washington, on the 14th,
and called national convention of the
clubs, to meet at ST. Louis on Septem-
Der 80.
THE organization Ola Dunkard colony
has been completed at Anderson, Ind,
taking in 25 families. They have closed
lease on 8, 200 acres of land in North
Dakota. and will move June l to their
new home.
WARRANTS were issued, on the 18th,
from the United States district at
torney's Office in Philadelphia for the
arrest of John D. Hart, owner of the
steamer Bermuda, and the ships of
| fcers, on the charges of fibustering.
JOSEPH ZLAMEL was electrocuted in
| the state prison at Clinton, n. Y. on
| the 14th. He murdered his sweet
! heart. Theresa Kamora. by cutting her
| throat at Johnstown on August 80,
| 1895
| BURGLARS blew up a safe and
! wrecked bank building at Diagonal,
! Ia, at a. m. of the 18th. Citizens
| were awakened and opened fire, and
the burglars left their tools and fled
| without booty. A bottle of unex-
| pioded nitro-glycerin was still inside
| the safe, and the bankers feared to
| open it.
G AT Central City, Col. during a case
| in court, on the 18th. Smauel Coving
| ton, a visitor charged with endeavor'
| ing to intimidate witness, denied the
assertion hotly, and being threatened
with arrest, pulled a gun and killed
| ex-Mayor Williams and mortally
wounded City Marshal Keller. Gov
| inpton while endeavoring to escape
| was shot dead by Henry Leaman.
BURGLARS looted the private bank IN
| Pioneer, O., on the night of the 18th
| They succeeded in opening the vaul'
1 without the use of explosives, and
| then, after probably taking all that il
| contained changed the combination SC
that the vault could not be opened.
| Two EXPLOSIONS of powder in one OF
the buildings of the Chicago Fireworks
| Co, near Crosse Point. Ill. on the
18th, killed three employees and in jured
. number of others. The building
was badly wrecked, and the ruins were
almost entirely destroyed by fire.
1T is said to he impossible to estimate
the numbers of the belligerent Mata'
beles in South Africa The whole
country Is now in the hands Of the
rehellious natives, and they are mass
ing In great force.