Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-04-29
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

PRIMROSE day, the anniversary of the
death of Lord Beaconsfeld, was OBJ
served in London, on the 10th, with the
usual display of his favorite flower.
The decoration of the BeaconSfeld
statue surpassed all records.
THE statement of the condition of
the treasury, on the 10Th, showed:
Available cash balance, 1925. 3SS, DOS;
gold reserve, 1854, 659, $40.
On the 10th the senate agreed to vote
on the arbitration treaty on May at
p. IN.
THE statement of the condition of
the treasury, on the Goth, showed:
Available cash balance, 1924, 069, 179;
gold reserve, 1854, I'll, 1854.
THE White Squadron, under COM
mand of Rear-Admiral Bunce, arrived
at New York, on the goth, from Fort
ress Monroe, to take part in the Grant
monument dedication. The squadron
includes the New York, flagship; the
battleships Maine and Texas, the cruis-
er Raleigh and the coast defense vessels
Amplitude and Terror.
BURGLAR FRANK CoNNoRs and High
wayman Ben johnson, desperate Grim
inals, seriously and perhaps fatally
Wyandotte county Jail in Kansas City,
Kas., on the Goth, while attempting to
escape.
Gov. ADAMS of Colorado, on the Goth,
vetoed the bill regulating the manu-
ture and sale of oleomargarine. The
veto message was sensational in the
extreme. as the governor included in
his message a letter from Denver
lawyer to an oleomargarine manufac-
turer in Chicago, going to show that
the bill was passed by means of the
most open and bare-faced bribery.
SHERIFF BURR, of Los Angeles. Cal,
received telegram from the sheriff of
Hennepin county, Mimi, on the goth,
requesting him to arrest Mrs. Laura
Austin on a charge of abducting her
own child, which was awarded to the
custody of her ex-husband by the SUI
perior court at Minneapolis
The Sons of Confederate Veterans
held meeting in the Hotel Marlbor-
ough, New York city, on the Goth, and
perfected arrangements for partici-
pating in the Grant parade on the 27th.
1t is expected that there will be about
500 sons in the parade, most of them
mounted.
THE Pennsylvania board of pardons,
on the Goth, recommended commuta-
ton of the death sentence imposed up
on James B. Gentry for the murder of
Actress Madge York to imprisonment
for life. Gov. Hastings approved the
Recommendation.
THE interior department has granted
permission to Chief Joseph, the Nez
Perces warrior, to accompany Col.
Cody in his Wild West show. Chief
Joseph is the famous Nez Perces chief
captured by Generals Miles and How
ard in 1877, after pursuit of nearly
8, 200 miles toward the British frontier.
THE barlkentine City of Papeete,
which arrived at San Francisco, on the
2lst, from Tahiti, brought news con-
firming the report that Queen Namae
of Raiatea, one of the Society islands,
had been captured by the French and
sent into exile with her husband and
principal chiefs.
| FRANK EVANS, the lightweight pugil-
list, died of conclusion of the brain, on
the s2d, caused by right-hand blow
on the chin delivered by Matt Semichy
in the fourteenth round of a fight be-
fore the San Jose Gall Athletic club.
Semichy was arrested for manslaugh-
ter.
THE president, on the s1st, sent to
the senate the nomination of Charles
H. Smith, to be surveyor of customs at
the port of st. Louis.
WILLIAM HAAS and William Wylie,
Cincinnati murderers, were electro
cuted at the Ohio peniteutiary annex.
the first under this Ohio law, on the
morning of the 21st Both electrocu-
tons were completely successful, not q
hitch occurring.
I NANCY ALLISON MCKINLEY, mother
of the nations president, celebrated her
eighty-eighth birthday anniversary, on
the 22d, at her home in Canton. o.
She was in excellent health, barring
slight attacks of rheumatism.
FIRE broke out in store houses num-
Der one and two in the Washington
navy yard. on the 3sd, and caused loss
Of $4,000.