Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-03-19

THE alleged filibustering steamer
Commodore, loaded with arms and mu-
nitions of war, went to sea from
Charleston. 6. c.. on the 18th.
THE Massachusetts, senate, on the
18th, by vote of sixteen to nine,
adopted resolutions affirming the prin-
ciples of the Monroe doctrine.
EX-SENATOR ABBOTT, of Morgan
county, O., was found guilty by jury
at Columbus, on the 10th, of bribery
in connection with the pharmacy legis-
lative bill.
LExow's greater New York bill
passed the state senate at Albany. on
the 18th, without amendment, by a
vote of 3S to 8, and was sent to the as
sembly for concurrence.
CoNcERNINa the visit to Berlin of
Count Goluckowski, Austrian minister
OF foreign affairs, the Paris Figaro
suggests that Austria may wish the
kaiser to explain his Russophile lean
ings.
The emperor and empress of Ger
many with the two eldest of the inn
peria1 princes, will spend the Easter
holidays in Rome incognito. Prince
Henry of Prussia and his wife, Princess
Irene, will also be of the party.
Mr.. JAMES B. PACE, the millionaire
president of the Planters national
bank of Richmond, Va, who made an
assignment several months ago, will
pay off every dollar of his debt, and
have comforta BILE fortune left.
FAILURES throughout the United
States for the week ended on the 18th.
as reported by z. G. DUN & Co., were
300, against 266 for the corresponding
week last year. For Canada the fail
ures were 60. against 81 last year.
SECRETARY LAMONT, ON the 1ath,
sent to the house the report of the
corps of engineers on survey of
Manitowoc harbor, with a view to es-
tablishing a channel 20 feet deep. The
cost of this work is estimated at S44,-
$40.
On the 18th, Geo. Sweet. we'll
known citizen OF Indianapolis, Ind,
took big dose of morphine, wrote
his will and then laid down to die.
He was a corpse in three hours He
had been gambling, and had lost much
money.
HENRY II. HOWE, the aged actor who
came to this country with Henry 1rv-
ing, was found dead in his apartment
at the Burnett house in Cincinnati on
the 9Th. Mr.. Howe was 81 years OF
age and the oldest actor on the stage.
He was schoolmate of John Bright.
THE contract for the auditorium for
the holding of the republican national
convention in st. Louis, was signed
on the nth, and work will be begun at
once. 1t will be the largest auditorium
ever specially erected for a national
convention, and will comfortably hold
Il, OGO people.
THE Ohio state senate, on the 18th,
by a vote of II TO Is, defeated the bill
appropriating $4,000 to pay the per-
sonaI expenses of Col. A. B. Colt and
his attorneys fees, in his recent trial
for alleged murder in suppressing the
Washington Courthouse riot with the
state militia.
The Spanish cabinet. in the face of
Gen. Weyler's recent dispatch that no
more troops were needed in Cuba, de-
cided, on the 10th, to call to the colors
60, 900 more reserves, SO that they msy
be in readiness for dispatch to the is
land or elsewhere if their services
should be required
THE funeral of the late Archbishop
Kenrick took place in st. Louis on the
1lth. The ceremonies in the old Wal
nut street cathedral were very beau
fifu1 and impressive. Arch bishop Ryan
of Philadelphia, formerly coadjutor to
the archbishop of of st. Louis, preached
the funeral sermon.
THE official reports, made public on
the 9th, of the battle fought ON the
LIST, between the Italians and Abyssin-
ians at Adowa, confirm the previous re-
ports of heavy losses on both sides,
those of the Abyssinians having been
enormous Gen. Arimondi was wound
ed and taken prisoner.
THE bureau of statistics states that
the amount of breadstuffs exported
during February was S13. OF, 40S, an in
crease over February, 1895, of nearly
400 per cent For the eight months
ended February 90. the exports of
breadstutfs amounted to ST. ,279, 2s3 for
the same period of last year.
LATER and more definite statist les
about the losses in the late battle at
Adowa, in Abyssinia, show that the
Italians lost about twelve thousand
five hundred killed and wounded and
in prisoners, while the Abyssinians
had from ten to fifteen thousand men
placed hors du combat 1t took three
days to bury the dead.
Miss NELLIE NJ. REED, who holds the
Cornell travelling scholarship at the
American classical school in Athens,
Greece, writes that E. p. Andrews, also
an American student there, has sue
ceeded in interpreting the inscription
ON the arehitrave of the east front OF
the Parthenon, which hitherto has
been an unsolved problem.
BIZ decision in the United States
circuit court of appeals for New York
Harriet Monroe was, on the 18th,
awarded $1,000 damages against
the New York World for unlawfully
Publishing poem written by the
plaintiff to be delivered on tho occa-
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