Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-02-13

SINCE Secretary of Agriculture Nor
ton discon tinued sending seeds to
farmers at the request of congressman,
he has been persona non grata at the
capitol On the 5th Senator Vest paid
srespects to the secretary and mauled
him numerically.
HARRY j. c. Gust, editor of the Pail
Mall Gazette, London, and Mr.. Muller,
his assistant editor. having declined to
resign their positions, Mr.. Astor, on
the 5th, summariiy dismissed them.
They announce that they will immedi-
ately publish statement of the rea-
sous for the action. The editorial
staff, upon learning of the action of
the chief. resigned in q body.
An earthquake shock of an alarming
nature was experienced, on the hth, at
Santa Cruz del Sur, province of Puerto
Principe, Cuba. Houses rocked and
furniture was thrown about, causing
the people of the city and vicinity to
run in terror into the streets and fall
OF, their knees in prayer for mercy.
AssEMBLYMAN RoBINsoN's resolution
providing for an investigation by the
Encouragement of the alleged coal
trust, was passed by the New York as
sembly, on the 9th. by vote of 80 to AZ.
THE British government received a
dispatch, on the 9th, stating that the
British had won two victories over the
slave traders in central Africa, and
that IA Arab chiefs had been taken
prisoners.
By the collapse of a bridge over the
Pequabuck river at Bristol, Mass, on
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trying to save the damaged structure,
were precipitated into the water, and
IA of them were drowned.
THE examination of the prisoners
arrested at johannesburg and taken
to Pretoria for trial was formally OPP
ened on the 5th.
HOG cholera has broken out in Okla
homa, and is causing great loss to
many farmers.
A REPORT from Bound Brook. n. j..
on the 9th, said that 100 lives had been
lost by food. followed by fire, the
people being driven from their burn.
houses only to be drowned by the
flood.
THE Catron anti-prize-fght bill, pro-
hibiting bull and prize fights in the
territories of the United States and
in the District of Columbia. passed the
senate, on the 9th, and was sent to the
president for his signature.
THE body of the woman found MUIR
dered and decapitated near Fort
Thomas, KY. proved to be that of Pearl
Bryan. of Greencastle, Ind. and Scott
jackson and Alonzo Walling, dental
students at Cincinnati. and William
Wood, son OF Rev. d. a. Wood, of Green
cestle, Ind, have been arrested for
participation in the crime.
GEN. JOHN GIBBoN. the famous In
dian fighter, died at his home in Balti-
more, Nd. on the 9th, at the age of 6S
years. His death was caused by pneu-
monia.
Miss CLARA BARTON, president of the
American Red Cross society, with her
party. started from Paris for Geneva,
On the 18th: thence to Vienna, and di-
rect to Constantinople.
SENATOR HALE, OF Maine. in troduced
in the senate, OF the 18th. bill making
February IL, President Lincoln's birth
day anniversary, q national holiday.
A DISPATCH from Accra says that
Gov. Maxwell of the Gold Coast colony
has issued a proclamation declaring a
pEOIcClOIdlc over 1As>Ildhltc-
WHILE rendering lard at her home in
Marion county, Kas., Mrs Grant Car
ter seized the kettle, which had caught
fire, and in attempting to throw it out
doors threw the boiling grease into the
face of her three-year-old daughter,
who was just approaching. fatally
burning her.
FRAKS Brown, a hunter was decapitat-
ed by the wheels OF Hannibal Sc St. .Jo-
seph train on the bridge across the
Mississippi, at Quincy, Ill. on the 7th.
the head of the victim falling into the
river.
THE British steamer Laurestina.
Capt. J. Gavin. which sailed from Bal
timore. Md, on December 6. for Sligo,
Ireland, was officially posted at Lloyds,
on the 18th. as missing. 1t is believed
she went down with all on board.
HARRY HOWARD, famous as the CHIEF
of New York city's volunteer fire de-
partment half century ago, died, on
the 9Th, of pneumonia.