Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-06-18

WORD reached Washington, on the
9th, that Mr.. Hannis Taylor, United
States minister to Spain, had baen
taken ill in Paris. He was on his re-
turn to Madrid from England, after
sending his family home.
DELEGATE CATRoN, of New Mexico,
has reported to the house from the ter
ritories committee the bill for the adj
mission of that territory to the sister
hood of states.
THE Nuehtfeld & Haynes Piano Co.
of New York made an assignment on
the 10th. Liabilities, So, 900; nominal
assets, $31, ZOO. The company was in
corporated in 1895 with a capital stock
of $780,
On the 10th Archbishop Elder of
Cincinnati celebrated his golden jul
bilee.
Hon. ALEXANDER TERRELL, minister
to Turkey, sailed from New York. on
the 10th, on the steamer ST. PAU for
Southampton, on his way to Constan-
tinople.
The president, on the 10th, approved
the act amending the act providing
for the protection of the Alaska sal
mon fisheries.
The Grand Rapids & Indiana rail-
road was sold, on the 10th, to the Penn
sylvania Railroad Co. for $500, 900, sub
iect to first and second mortgage
bonds.
Hon. D. A. MCDONALD, ex-lieuten-
ant-governor of the PROVENCE of Que
bee, Can, died in the city of Montreal
on the 10th.
THE National sBngerfest at Pitts
burgh, Pa. closed ON the 18th. From
artistic and financial points of view it
proved more of a success than was an
ticipated by the most sanguine.
Hon. MATT w. RANSOM, United
States minister to Mexico, who is in
Washington on leave of absence, talks
encouragingly of affairs in the Next
can repu bile.
SYLVESTER RYAN, % years of age,
his brother Albert, aged "a, and Pat
rick Scigh, aged 40 years, all single
and employees of the Philadelp hia Nat
ural Gas Co. at New Kensington, Pa,
were drowned in the Allegheny river
at Logan's ferry on the 18th.
JOHN WooD and Ben McCalla, work
men engaged in removing the scat
folding from the interior of the new
big chimney of the Grand Rapids
(Mich.) street railway company's pow
erhouse, fell IS feet, on the 18th, and
were fatally injured. Both were men
of family.
THE First national bank of Larned,
Kas., capital $40. 200, closed its doors
ON the 18th.
P. C. JONES. who was minister of
finance under the Hawaiian monarchy
nd &c hor Of 1aodirrr Homo.
lulu banking house. is on his way to
New York to interest capitalists in the
refunding of the Hawaiian bonded
debt of s3,O96,o 900, drawing six per
cent. It is proposed to take up these
bonds and issue instead four per cent.
bonds.
BILL WEST, a noted Indian terc;tory
desperate and murderer of United
States Marshal Lincoln Kinney, who
recently escaped from the county
jail at Topeka, Kas., was killed in Il
linois City, l. T.. on the night of the
18th. by Thomas Carlisle. while resist
ing arrest.
WLADYsLAw SToLZMAN, charged
with the murder of Vincent Steel
eckis, on October 5, 1895, in the town
of Sedleiman, near Warsaw, in Rus
sian Poland, was arrested in Cleve-
land, O., on the 18th. The prisoner
claimed it is for political reasons he is
arrested.
The resignation is announced OF
Prof. Egbert G. Smith as president of
Andover (Mass.) Theological seminary.
after a service of 1s years. George
Harris Abbott, professor of theology.
will succeed him.
REPORTS received from Canea, Crete,
say that the Turks have pillaged and
burned 90 hamlets in the interior OF
the island.
ISAAC II. MAYNARD. ex-judge of the
New York court of appeals, dropped
dead. on the 18th, in the Hotel Ken
more at Albany, n. Y. Heart dis
ease was the cause.
The Spanish prisons at Ceuta are
filled with prisoners to their utmost
capacity, and all the prisoners de-
ported from Cuba will hereafter be
sent to the island of Fernando TO.