Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-02-25

AN Italian giving his name as Ira
Matchus, but who tallies with the pic
ture and description of John AburZEo,
one of the three ''satchel workers,
who confidenced New Orleans jew
e1er out of $40. 900 worth of diamonds,
was arrested in Chicago on the 10th.
THE Ottoman government issued an
order, on the 18th. for the mobilization
of the Turkish feet with the least
possible delay.
THE Cologne Gazette confirms the
report that most of the great European
powers concur in the proposal of Ger
many that the powers blockade the
Piraeus.
WHILE a force of workmen were
engaged in lowering a boiler into the
new Spanish cruiser Princess of As
turia, which is being fitted out at the
naval yards at Cadiz, the taclkling
gave way and the boiler fell into the
gathering of men below, killing six
of them and seriously injuriug ten
others.
THE bill granting women the right
of suffrage in Oklahoma territory was
defeated in the house, on the 18th, by
a vote of II to Is. 1t was believed the
bill for an educational qualification
would carry.
COMPTROLLER ECKELs, on the 18th,
appointed j. D. Miller receiver of the
First national bank of Franklin, o.;
John E. Pendricks, receiver of the
First national bank of Griswold, Ia, ,
and n. A. Phillips receiver of the
First national bank of Olympia, Wash.
THE nomination of ]. Fl. Munger, of
Nebraska, to be district judge of Ne
braska, was confirmed by the United
States senate, on the 18th, without OPP
position.
The general deficiency bill, pre-.
scented in the house of representatives,
on the 18th, carries an appropriation
of SIS, 44s, 937.
The Spanish government has agreed
to release Julio SanguiIly, the Ameri-
can citizen who was arrested in Cuba
two years ago.
THE Bermuda, which has gained a
worldwide celebrity, because of ban
fiibustering expeditions, passed out
from the Delaware breakwater, on the
18th, and steamed seward, ostensibly
for the Bermudas. 1t is reported that
Gen. Carlos Rolof was on board.
JOHN l. BAKER, the Usage of Essex"
an abolitionist, and one of the found.
ers of the republican party, died at
Beverly, Mass, on the 18th, at the age
of IS years. He was born in Beverly,
August IL, 1912, and always lived there.
A DISPATCH from Key West, Fla, of
the 18th, said: Private information
has been received in this city of the
whereab bouts of Gen. Gomez He has
succeeded in slipping by Gen. Weyler
and is Eow between him and Havana.
The break came in the senatorship
deadlock at Pierre, S. D., on the 18th.
when Senator Kyle was reelected, the
repu blicans of the house voting solidIy
for him, having dropped Picker.
PRESIDENT ELECT MCKINLEY has
ended his search for the New York
member of his cabinet. He has def
nitely settled upon Col. ohm ]. McCook
for attorney-general.
AN attempt was made, on the night
of the 18th, to wreck a Big Four train
near Berea, o., on a bridge rs feet
high. The distractions were discov-
cred by track walker shortly before
the east-bound fast freight was due,
about $50, and horrible wreck was
averted.
THE last day of the first session of
the national convention of mothers, at
Washington, was marked by so many
diversifedGtopics to be discussed and
such pronounced manifestations of
general interest that the congress
had to divide itself into three or four
separate conventions.
FIRE in the Everett school at the
corner of Northampton and fremont
streets, Boston, on the 10Th, caused
stampede among the pupils, and in the
rush to leave the building ten or
twelve children were crushed and
bruised, but not seriously injured.
ALL of the officers and men of the
French navy who were absent on leave
from Brest station were, on the 10Th,
ordered to rejoin their vessels without
delay.
On the 10th the president pardoned
Thomas PrindivilIe, sentenced to ten
months Imprisonment in California
for contempt of court