Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-01-30

THE twenty-eighth annual conven.
ton of the National Woman Suffrage
association met in Washington, on the.
23d, with 100 delegates in attendance,
including the most prominent leaders
in the movement from nearly every
state in the Union.
On the cad the porte gave out the
improbable story that two Armenians,
believed to be members of the Armen-
ian revolutionary committee, had muir
dered the Armenian bishop of Boghos.
BILLS have been introduced in the
supreme council of Bombay abolish
ing all duties on yarns, and reducing
to 81 per cent. the duties on woven
goods.
IN opening the New York state as
sembly at Albany with prayer, on the
a3d, Rev. K. NJ Kerwin asked for the
success of the Cuban revolution and
the maintenance of the Monroe doc
trine.
In the senate, on the 23d, Mr.. McMil-
lin made favorable report on the bill
providing for additional revenue cut
tiers: two for the great lakes, two for
the Pacific coast, and one each for the
gulf and New York.
THE silver conference held in Wash
ington, on the 23d, issued a call for
national convention of silver men to
meet in st. Louis, July 90 next.
WILLIAM w. UPTON, who was ap-
pointed justice of the supreme court OF
Oregon in 1857, and subsequently be-
came chief justice, died at his residence
in Washington. D. c., on the 23d, aged
70 years. A widow and five sons sur.
vive him.
The republican silver senator's, on
the 23d, signed a declaration which is
intended to be used in the coming cam
paign as the demand which the silver
men will make for a plank in the ma
tional convention.
PRESIDENT AND Mrs. CLEVELAND gave
their annual reception, on the night of
the 23d, to congress and the judiciary.
The drenching rain and wind storm
that prevailed seriously interferred
with the attendance.
The postmaster general has decided
to estab lish house-to-house collections
of mail in cities having the free deliv-
cry system. A beginning will be made
with % of the larger cities.
Mrs. EMMA WORKMAN. the wife of the
principal owner of Outing" commit
ted suicide, on the evening of the 23d.
Worry over the condition of her invalid
son is thought to have unsettled her
mind and led to the rash act.
CONGRESSMAN MONEY, of Mississippi,
was nominated, on the 23d, as the sue
cessor to United States Senator George,
of that state.
SECRETARY OF WAR HERBERT. on the
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sen. He deducted for delays $4,000
from the contract price 100000.
AN explosion of chemicals in the lab
oratory of the Swanson Rheumatic
Cure Co., on the second floor of the old
stock exchange, Dearborn and Mon
roe streets, Chicago, on the oath,
wrecked the contents of the offices on
that floor, frightened into panic, hys-
terics or insensibility the occupants of
the building, caused injury to three
persons and a property loss OF $4,000
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS MALONEY of
Illinois, brought quo warranto pro-
ceedings in the circuit court of Cook
county, or the 25th. against the Illinois
Steel Co. for the purpose of having it's
charter revoked for an alleged unlaw-
full expansion of it's capital stock and
for dealing in real estate contrary to
its charter
ALLEN DAVIS was instantly killed
near Three Oaks, Ind, on the 9th, by
the bursting of a huge iron fiy-wheel.
His body was literally torn to pieces,
one fragment of metal completely dis
enboweling him
THE American line steamer st. Pau
went ashore on the outer bar off Long
Branch, \. j., at 1870 a. N. of the 18th.
during dense fog. At last accounts
she was resting easily, and assistance
was sent to her: Another steamer,
to be the Campania, narrow
~ missed going ashore too.
DISPATCHES from Paris, on the 25th,
stated that very serious accident had
occurred there in the course of the
trial of the machinery of the new
transatlantic steamship France, just
at ST. Nazaire. A number
Of persons were reported killed.