Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-04-09

TIM trial ut Philadelnhia of James
S. Gentry, the actor. for the murder of
Margaret w. Drysdale (Madge York;.
the actress, which had already been
postponed several times, was again
continued. on the LIST. because the wit
nesses in the case are mostly in the
theatrical profession and are at pres
ent scattered all over the country. Nc
time for the trial has been set.
Coz A. NAFF and party of eight
who went north to investigate alleged
Canadian timber depredations in the
Rainy lake country are said to have
been drowned in Rainy Lake river by
the giving away of the ice.
1T was learned from several sources.
on the 1st, that King Menelik and all
of his chiefs except the ras of Tigre,
had retreated, their provisions having
given out.
THE debt statement, issued on the
1st. showed net increase in the pub
lie debt, less cash in the treasury. dur
ing March, of IS, ga, $50. Total cash
in the treasury, 1874. 96s, 957.
A DISPATCH from Colon, on the I'd:
said the American schooner w. Whit
ford, of New York, had been seized by
the gunboat Cordova, six miles off
Manzanillo. The schooner was with
out cargo, but the captain of the gun
ting an officer on board conveyed her
to Colon, accusing her of having con-
travened the customs law.
E. MANUEL NINGER was arrested in
New York. on the night of the 1st, and
confined in Ludlow Street jail in de-
fault of SIC, 600 bail. In his arrest the
secret service agents of the federal
government believe that they have a
counterfeiter who has baffied all their
efforts for II years.
THE Ohio senate passed the Fosdick
anti-theater hat bill, on the I'd, and it
is now a law.
Mrs. FREEMAN. the wife of farm er
living east of Shoals, Ind, on the I'd.
saved a train from running through a
burning trestle by tagging it with her
petticoat, in the absence of any other
available article.
The law just enacted in Ohio pro-
vides that any manager permitting
any person to wear a hat or other head
gear in a theater, obstructing the view,
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and
shall be fined $40.
THE conference of the Dominion and
Manitoba commissioners at Winnipeg
on the school question was unproduct-
i've of results, the Manitoba people
schools.
A LIFE-slzED statue of Thomas JEFF
ferson, to cost s75. 900, is to be erected
in New York city. The monument is
to be typical of the life, achievements
and person of the great Virginian.
III. FL. HOLMES, the condemned MUIR
derer of B. F. Pitezel, is setting his af-
fairs in order preparatory to his eXecu-
tion in Philadelphia May Z.
4 JOHN TURNER, who has been a reeog-
nized leader in the anarchistic move
ment in England, has come to this.
country to teach the doctrine.
A NEW YORK city dispatch says:
''Brick" Pomeroy. the noted printer,
editor and promoter, is dying of dropsy
at Blythebourne, L. /.
DURING the last quarter the tota l
number of vessels built and document
ITO tons, as compared with 12s vessels
of 29,336 tons for the previous quar-
ter. OF these 65 were sailing and SO
steam vessels.
REPRESENTATIVE BENNETT, of New
York. laid before the house commerce
at their meeting. on the Cd.
a substitute for the various Hawaiian
cable bills already introduced, provid.
ing that the cable shall extend from
San Francisco to Honolulu, thence to
the Midway islands and to China and
Japan The government is to pay
of S16O,OOO for 20 years. fo-
which government business is to be
carried free of cost for ali time.
THE house committee on buildings
and grounds, on the Sd, unanimously
favorable report to be made
on Representative Quigg's bill to build
q 81, OOO, 600 customhouse in New York
city, on the site of the present building.
The shaft of the monument to mark
the birthplace of George Washington
was placed in position. on the sd. at
Westmoreland county, Va