Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-10-01
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS TN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

written letter to the London Times
declaring that while certain enforce
ment of difference is essential for the
maintenance of public security, yet a
really benefcent regard is due the
worst offenders, being demanded
alike by our common humanity and by
the precept and example of the Divine
founder of the Christian religion"
The Toronto cont Mail and Empire
says that the government has passed
an order in council providing for the
opening of canals on Sundays for the
purpose of facilitating traffic.
The expected and officially predinted
Improvement in the condition of the
national treasury has not yet come to
pass. In fact, the condition is steadily
growing worse. The receipts for the
first 20 days of September were $780,
$50, 3l4 against receipts in the same
days of September, 1895. of SIS, $50, SIT.
Gov. HASTINGS of Pennsylvania, on
the 21st, pardOned John Bardsley,
formerly treasurer of Philadelphia,
who, on July 2, 1891, was sentenced to
Is years in the eastern penitentiary
for Incorporating over $500, 900 of
city and state money while occupying
his official position.
WHAT is believed to be genuine case
of leprosy was accidentally discovered
in the waiting-room at Bellevue hos
pital, New York, on the 2lst. The VIC
tim is George Fleming, 40 years old,
German baker
SPEAKER REED, Senators Frye and
Hale, and Congressman Dingley, Mil
liken and Boutelle will leave Maine to
take the stump for the republican
party in the middle and western states.
TIE London Times expresses the be-
lief that Russia and Japan have agreed
TO a joint protectorate in Corca, Rus
STA, virtually taking the position there
that China had before the war.
JOHN COINS was sentenced at Frank
lin, Ind, on the 21st, to four years i'm
prisonment in the penitentiary for lar
ceny. Coins offense was stealing five
chickens.
PRINCESS OLGA of Montenegro, niece
of Nicholas l., the reigning prince of
Montenegro. died on the 21st. She was
born at Cettinje on March 10, 1859, and
was not married.
n. A. CEAIe, city marshal of Table
Rock, Neb., was killed, on the god, by
one of two tramps whom he sought to
arrest as suspected post office burglars.
The deputy marshal tripped over the
body of his fallen chief and both
tramps escaped.
A PRIVATE telegram received in
Washington, on the I'D, by United
States Treasurer Morgan stated that
Calls Bey, husband of r. Z. Barnum's
widow, died, on the 21st, in Constan-
tinople.
The artillery department of the
Turkish war office has on exhibition
10 Armenian bombs from five to nine
inches in length, which the authori-
ties discovered in an Armenian bomb
factory in Constantincple.
The official report of the trial trip
of the cruiser Brooklyn gives the YES
sells speed at 81. OILY knots, which earns
for the Cramps, her builders, a pre-
MUM of $500
THERE was severe frost, on the |
of the 23d, all over north |
Texas and Indian territory. The top
crop of cotton was injured.
GILBERT LOUIS DUPREEz, the cele- |
brated French tenor, died at Passy |
on the 23d. He was 50 years of age.
hEAh1 di
tucket, Mass, on the I'D, and the |
storm blew away one of the arms of |
the ancient windmill, which had with
stood the gales of nearly two CEN
turtles
QUEEN VICTORIA, on the 22d, passed |
the mark which signaIized the longest |
reign of any British sovereign. She |
was the recipient of many copgratula-
tory messages.
THE boiler of a cotton, ten-wheel |
on the Big Four railroad |
burst at Pekin, ILL.,, on the 22d, hurl-
ing the enormous engine more than
100 feet, partially demolishing large |
factory, killing the fireman and break
ing nearly all the glass within quar-
ter of mile of the scene of the re-
accident. Pieces of the |
engine were picked up 1000 feet away. |
THE directors of the American Bell |
Co. met in Boston, on the |
23d, and declared the regular quarter
~ dividend of three per cent. This
makes 1913 per cent. declared so far |
this year.
A FORCE of 81 Spanish troops started |
for Calabrazar, eight miles from |
Havana on the 21st. The next morn
ing five of the 81 returned to Havana |
and reported that their companions |
had been killed by insurgents shortly |
before reaching Calabrazar.
DELEGATES from Is states to the |
American Bankers association conven-
ton at st. Louis, speaking for the |
members from their respective COM
declared that the bust |
ness depression now prevailing over |
the country is due to the free silver |
agitation.
ONE of the three tramps arrested for |
completely in the murder of |
the chief of police at Table Rock,
Neb., has confessed that he was the |
of Officer Moore in Denver in
the spring of 1895.
LOUIS GERHARD, Baron de Geer, of |
the celebrated Swedish |
statesman and politician, died in Stock |
holm, on the 24th, aged rs years.
Ex-ALDERMAN SALo ". Roth, of Chi |
cago, was indicted by the Cook county |
grand jury, on the oath, on the charge |
of embezziing $4,000 from the Ma
tional Loan and Building association. |
His bonds were fixed at SIS, 600.
JAMES CALLAHAN, of Des Moines, and |
A. Simmer, the noted philanthrOpist !
of Waverly, Ia, have united in Il dona- |
ton of $780, 900 to the home for aged |
and infiSm in Des Moines. The insti- |
tuition was started less than u year |
ago.
The Spanish government is making |
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