Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-04-02

NICOLA TESLA, the well-known cleo
trician. says he is satisfied that he has
q machine which, when perfected, win
enable him 90 make practical expert
ments in distributing electric waves
about the earth so that messages may
be conducted to all parts of the globe
sim uitaneously.
EDUARD d. REMENYI, the renowned
violinist, has had to cancel his concert
engagements, and may never be able
to make another concert tour, should
he recover from his present serious ILL.,
ness While guest at the home of
Henry Sartorius, an old-time friend, in
Davenport, Ia, he went into a general
collapse, due to heart failure and in
cipient dropsy.
f. 81. CAsTLEMAINE, aged 80. died in
New York city, on the night of the
25th, from an overdose of morphine,
taken, it is believed. with suicidal in
tent. He was the husband of one of
the Sutherland sisters, and had only
been in the city few days, having
recently left Georgia.
Four men were run down by train
on the Central railroad in the freight
yards at Elizabeth, N. j., on the Goth.
Two were killed instantly and one was
fatally injured. They were stealing
ride, and in alighting from one train
ran in front of another.
JUDaE DIcKEY. of the supreme court
Of New York, on the 26th, granted a Ger
tificate of reasonable doubt in the case
of ex-Police Inspector VIM. w. Nc
Laughlin, recently convicted of brib-
cry and sentenced to Sing Sing.
A TERRIBLE explosion of fire damp
took place in mine at Brunnerton,
New Zealand, on the Goth. Five persons
were killed outright and 60 more en-
tombed with no hope of rescue.
SENATOR LExow's greater New York
bill passed the assembly, on the Goth,
by vote of ayes, 81, noes, SO, and
went to Gov. Morton for his approval.
On the 27th Sir Hercules Robinson,
governor of Cape Colony, telegraphed
from Cape Town to Mr.. Joseph Cham
berlain, British secretary of state for
the colonies, that in the revolt of the
Matabeles in the Inseza and Filabusti
districts seven whites were killed with
knives and four were wounded.
FAILURES throughout the United
States for the week ended on the 27th,
as reported by r. g. Dun & Co., were
259, as against 234 for the correspond
ing week of last year. For Canada the
failures were 80, against AZ for the
same week last year.
THE funeral service over the remains
of the late Gen. Thomas L. Casey, o.
8. A., took place, on the eth, at the
70 IN ty-
COUNT MoRTERA. leader of the Cuban
reform party in Madrid, died on the
27th.
THE cut-down in few of the smaller
Rhode Island cotton mills is not to be
general. The large corporations deny
that general reduction of wages is
contemplated.
THE senate committee on public
buildings and grounds, on the 27th.
ordered favorable reports on bills au-
thorizing public buildings at Oakland,
Cal, to cost $3.50, 900, and at Indianapo-
lis, Ind, to cost So, 100000
THE schooner Matte l.. Ford was
capsized and sunk in the C0hnansey
river, near Bridgeton, N. j., during
squall ON the eth. Two of the crew.
Newell Dutch and Frank Moore, were
drowned.
PRESIDENT KURGER, of the Transvaal
has issued an official denial of the re-
ports, which have found currency in
England, that a strained condition of
relations exists between himself and
Colonial Secretary Chamberlain. Presi-
dent Kruger says further that he has
not declined to visit England.
A HANDSOME woman committed sui
eide by shooting, on the night of the
27th, near the Seventy-second street
entrance to Central park, New York
city. Her clothing was of exception.
ally rich quality, and the police be-
lieve that her position in society was
above the commonplace. She appeared
to be % years old.
CHIEF OF POLICE CoNLIN, of New
York city, has issued some instructions
about enforcing the Raines liquor tax
law. The chief concluded to give sa-
loon-keepers a few days grace befor
putting the new law into operation.